Highly Recommended The Movie: 1975's Love and Death is probably the oddest film of Woody Allen's “early funny ones,” but, pound for pound, it is also probably the funniest. Set in Russia during the Napoleonic Wars, Love and Death features a smorgasbord of smarty-pants riffs on philosophy, literature, and cinema, Marxian (as in Groucho) double-talk, and slapstick setpieces that rival the work of …
Recommended The Movie: Directed by Roger Corman in 1962 after finding some serious box office success with earlier Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, Tales Of Terror takes on three of the renowned author's short stories.
Recommended Muscle Beach Party (1964) was the second of seven official American International Pictures-produced “Beach Party” movies. (The others were: Beach Party [1963], Bikini Beach , Pajama Party [1964], Beach Blanket Bingo , and How to Stuff a Wild Bikini [1965]).
Recommended The Movie: Robert Englund has had a storied career in film, and has the star power still to carry a movie, in horror circles at least. So it's too bad that one of his recent ventures, Fear Clinic , is only a fair horror film. Englund deserves greatness.
Recommended NOTE: This Blu-ray is available exclusively at Best Buy until May 5th, but can be pre-ordered at Amazon and other outlets. Based on George Jonas' 1984 book Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team (much like the 1986 made-for-TV movie Sword of Gideon ), Steven Spielberg's Munich (2005) is a fictional account of the…
Highly Recommended The Movies: Before developing The Walking Dead into successful TV show and after co-writing A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors , Frank Darabont enjoyed a career as the prestigious writer/director of Stephen King dramas, as well as the director of a Frank Capra send-off that bombed at the box office. But hey, being the talent behind the #1 movie on IMDB pretty much …
Highly Recommended Nurse Jackie returns for its sixth and penultimate season. (The seventh and final season premieres on April 12th
Recommended When Caveman , a spoof of prehistoric action melodramas, was released in April 1981, audiences were pleasantly surprised. The movie, if memory serves, opened with virtually no advance publicity; it just sort of turned up.
Highly Recommended Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the DVD portion of Cartoon Roots .