Blu-ray Review: The Last Tycoon
Based on the unfinished F. Scott Fitzgerald novel of the same name, 1976’s The Last Tycoon marks the first time Robert De Niro played an even remotely likable character. Set in the 1930’s, the film follows Monroe Stahr (De Niro, a thinly veiled Irving Thalberg) a young Hollywood mogul as he navigates studio politics as […]
Blu-ray Review: Secret Ceremony
Adapted from a short story by Argentinian Marco Denevi, Secret Ceremony was a critical and commercial failure upon its release in 1968. An odd psychological thriller, Mia Farrow hot off her star turn in Rosemary’s Baby, plays Cenci a regressive 22-year-old, who while on a London bus, mistakes Leonora (Elizabeth Taylor, Cat on a Hot […]
Blu-ray Review: Scrooged
The youngest network president in television history, IBC’s Francis “Frank” Xavier Cross (Bill Murray) will stop at nothing to “own” Christmas in the Nielsen ratings. His holiday lineup features shows like “The Night the Reindeer Died” (in which a far-from-defenseless Santa and his elves are attacked by terrorists) and “Bob Goulet’s Cajun Christmas.” In his […]