4K UHD Review: The Mirror Crack’d
With the success of Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile, it’s no surprise that the same group of producers would forge ahead with another tale by Agatha Christie, this one featuring Miss Marple. Based on the 1962 novel The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side, 1980’s The Mirror Crack’d stars Angela […]
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: Captain Newman, MD.
Arizona, 1944, Colfax Army Air Force Base. Josiah Newman, MD (Gregory Peck) needs help, space, and time. As head of the hospital’s psyche ward he has six weeks to either cure, ship back, or ship out his ever-growing number of patients all suffering from varying degrees of “Combat Fatigue.” Newman turns to an opportunistic orderly […]
Blu-ray Review: Some Like It Hot (Criterion Collection)
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Blu-ray Review: Trapeze
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Operation Petticoat (Blu-ray)
A late career vehicle for Cary Grant, the light service comedy Operation Petticoat isn’t one of the versatile actor’s best pictures, but it did give him a chance to work with Tony Curtis, who had offered up his own very funny, parodistic “Cary Grant” turn in Billy Wilder’s Some Like it Hot earlier that same […]
DVD Review: Vega$ – The Third Season, Volume Two
On the way back from a few days in Las Vegas this past January, my family and I stopped at the Fashion Outlets of Las Vegas, on the Nevada/California border in Primm. My sister wanted to see what the Williams-Sonoma outlet store had for cheap, and I wanted to go to the Viva Vegas souvenir […]
DVD Review: Vega$ – The Third Season, Volume One
It becomes a mantra: “It’s an Aaron Spelling show. It’s an Aaron Spelling show. I’ve got to remember that it’s an Aaron Spelling show.” Strange to have to do that, what with being a fan of The Love Boat since watching reruns in childhood in the early ‘90s, harboring a first TV crush on Jill […]
Blu-ray Review: Some Like It Hot
Marilyn Monroe had a keen understanding of how to use her face, body and voice to make her sex appeal permeate through the screen. In Billy Wilder’s 1959 comedy Some Like It Hot, Monroe was at the height of her allure, draping herself over Tony Curtis’ deceitful character, kissing him with a soft, but deliberate […]
Blu-ray Review: Insignificance
Written and directed by Nicolas Roeg, and adapted from a Terry Johnson play, Insignificance satirizes some of pop culture’s brightest stars of the 1950’s. The year is 1954. It’s a hot and steamy night in New York City, and Marilyn Monroe, Sen. Joe McCarthy, Joe DiMaggio and Albert Einstein all cross paths in a hotel […]