“Up your nose with a rubber hose!†“Off my case, toilet-face!†Now you can watch all of Vinnie Barbarino’s (John Travolta) rhyming insults. The complete series of Welcome Back, Kotter is now available on DVD.
Rent It The Movie: The pleasant, straightforward Burt's Buzz documents a few weeks in the life of Burt Shavitz, otherwise known as the scraggly-bearded man pictured on those Burt's Bees skin care products stocked in drug stores everywhere. Like Kentucky Fried Chicken's Colonel Sanders, it can be disarming to think that there's a real person behind the merchandise. Just as one couldn't picture …
Rent It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. I'll admit, sometimes the deck is stacked.
Highly Recommended Where's the love for Stanley Kramer? Dismissed for half a century as a minimally talented producer-director of “message pictures,” Kramer is long overdue for a major reappraisal. As a producer he made some of the finest films of the late 1940s through the mid- 50s: Champion , Home of the Brave (both 1949), The Men (1950), High Noon (1952), The Wild One (1953), The Caine Mutiny …
Recommended On My Way ( Elle s'en va , 2013) is an engrossing French humanist drama starring Catherine Deneuve as a 60-something former beauty queen forced to confront estranged family relationships and her own general unhappiness when on a whim she abandons her livelihood and takes to the road. Directed by actress Emmanuelle Bercot ( Cl ment ) the deliberately paced film proves an ideal vehicle …
Recommended The Movie: Written and directed by Ti West (he of House Of The Devil and The Innkeepers fame) and very clearly influenced by the Jim Jones/People's Temple mass murder, 2013's The Sacrament introduces us to Patrick (Kentucker Audley), a photographer. His sister, Caroline (Amy Seimetz), had some drug addiction issues in the past but since getting out of rehab has found a new start at …
Highly Recommended Muppets Most Wanted Blu-ray Review The world is abetter place because of The Muppets .These characters are ones that bring smiles, joy, and wonderment to theworld throughthese imaginative, fun, and energetic characters. For a while it seemedas thoughthe series and the wonderful characters that make it so awesome weregoing to disappearoff the charts as it had been so many years …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from an earlier DVD release, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Often, well-meaning films that deal with issues important to their time lose their bite over the years.
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Even on TV, Pixar's breakout hit is outstanding Reviewer's Bias* Loves: Toy Story , Pixar films Likes: Animated shorts Dislikes: Unnecessary sequels Hates: Most made-for-TV sequels The Movie Toy Story has one of the more interesting runs in movie trilogy history. The first film was a work of genius that required no sequel.
Following the success of his first-ever all Spanish-language album Corazón, Santana will release a live CD/DVD package titled Corazón, Live From…