Recommended Note: images are from promotional sources and do not reflect the quality of the Blu Ray under review. The Movie: You take the good, you take the bad, you take two unhappily married people stranded in Acapulco and whatta you have? 1960's The Facts of Life was the result, the third onscreen teaming for comedy legends Bob Hope and Lucille Ball.
Recommended THE FILM: After getting shot by a Richard Nixon-masked bank robber during a heist, LAPD officer Dennis Meechum (Brian Dennehy) turns his account of the events into a bestselling novel. Years later, Meechum is a successful detective looking for a hit follow-up novel but lacking inspiration
Recommended THE FILM: Robert Duvall gives a highly underrated performance as Soll Gautier, a senile plantation farmer, in Peter Masterson's Convicts , which is based on a play by Horton Foote. A young Lukas Haas plays thirteen-year-old Horace Robedaux, who comes to Gautier's plantation to earn the $12.50 he needs to pay for a headstone on his father's grave. Dementia takes a heavy toll on the …
Skip It The Movie: Directed by Belgian filmmaker Emmanuel Kervyn and picked up and distributed domestically by Troma, 1989's Rabid Grannies is as goofy and as dumb as you'd expect a movie titled Rabid Grannies to be.
Recommended Without a Clue (1988), a comedy suggesting Dr. Watson was the real brains behind Sherlock Holmes's crime-solving, should be totally delightful but just isn't. The picture has everything going for it: a strong cast, handsome production values, a score by Henry Mancini, and a screenplay written by Holmes experts with obvious affection.
Rent It Genshiken Second Generation Blu-ray Review Genshiken Second Generation is actually asequelseries to the Genshiken anime production. While it's officiallyconsidered a “second season” it's actually the third season producedand there's even an OVA spin-off which preceded it as well. (The seriesevenmakes a referential joke to this odd fact in one of the episodepreviews.) Â It's a …
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are to release a DVD of their 2014 show in Paris. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Live In Paris is issued on May 4th in the UK and May 12th in North America
Despite the ubiquity of online fitness offerings from pilates videos on YouTube to indoor-cycling smartphone apps, fitness experts say ageing boomers reluctant to go with the streaming flow want their home exercise in a DVD format.
Highly Recommended “When I start out to make a fool of myself there's very little can stop me.” – Michael O'Hara I've seen Orson Welles's The Lady from Shanghai (1947) five or six times through the years, and still half the time I don't know what the hell is going on. Howard Hawks's The Big Sleep (1946) is a model of comprehensive linear storytelling by comparison. The Lady from Shanghai isn't …
Joe Bonamassa has just unleashed a Les Paul-laden preview of his forthcoming live album and DVD tribute to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, in the form of the Waters classic 'You Shook Me.'