Recommended An above-average Danny Kaye comedy, Knock on Wood (1954) was written, produced, and directed by the team of Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, who were also responsible for Kaye’s best film, The Court Jester (1956) and his biggest hit, White Christmas (1954).
DVD Talk Collector Series THE SERIES: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. I didn’t have the time to stay current with The Walking Dead during its third season while I studied for the bar exam. It was with great anticipation that I unwrapped last week the package containing The Walking Dead: The Complete Third Season Blu-ray set, as I’d been pining to catch up with …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. You gotta love a good bummer, and there’s no bummer quite as good the 1941 tearjerker Penny Serenade
Highly Recommended I don’t know why it takes me so long to follow certain TV shows (other than not having cable, of course). Season One of The Walking Dead sat unwrapped on my shelf for close to a year before I finally cracked it open, thanks to my consistent lack of free time and standard reviewing obligations. It didn’t take me long to tear through all six episodes and I quickly snapped up …
DVD Talk Collector Series The Blu-ray of the fifth and final season of The Dick Van Dyke Show (1965-66) brings to a close individual season sets previously available only as part of a complete series Blu-ray boxed set, released late last fall.
Recommended The Movie: For a while there in the late ’70s and very early ’80s, American pop culture was in the grips of deja vu: the cinemas offered Grease and The Buddy Holly Story , Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley had us in stitches, and seemingly every other song on the radio was a smoothed-out Golden Oldie (thanks for nothing, Linda Ronstadt). Somehow lost in this poodle-skirted shuffle was …
Highly Recommended Twentieth Century-Fox completely reinvented itself during 1953-54. Prior to 1953, Fox was famous for classy, first-rate movies like All About Eve , Broken Arrow , The Gunfighter (all 1950), The Day the Earth Stood Still , The House on Telegraph Hill , The Desert Fox (1951), Viva Zapata! (1952), Gentleman Prefer Blondes , Titanic , and Pickup on South Street (1953)
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are stills provided by Cinema Guild and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. “Even the embers went out.” Anything resembling conventional narrative is dispensed with quickly and tersely, at the very beginning of Hungarian film maestro B la Tarr’s superlative The Turin Horse
Highly Recommended The Product: When Alex Cox was fired from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , paving the way for Terry Gilliam to take over, it was seen as yet another example of the elusive nature of Hunter S.
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from the 2003 standard-definition DVD edition , not the Blu-ray edition under review. It’s strange to be speaking of Adaptation in the past tense; I vividly remember rushing right out to see it upon its release nearly a decade ago.