Pirate Radio recalls American teen exploitation films of the 1950s, in which square authority figures wanted to keep rock ‘n’ roll’s corrupting influence from children, who just wanted to dance. Though set in 1966 Great Britain, this high-spirited comedy will strike a resonant chord in anyone who ever snuck their transistor radio under their pillow at night to have their world rocked. Musically, 1966 was the best of times (the killer soundtrack spins a Who’s Who of vintage vinyl Read more…
Katherine Heigl further cements her reputation as one of film’s most dazzling, and go-to, romantic comedy heroines. In The Ugly Truth she brings her deft comic timing and true vulnerability to a film that avoids clichés, successfully, all the way until the surprising, quiet end. Heigl’s partner in crime–and at first, in pure hatred–is the rakishly charming Gerard Butler. Heigl plays Abby, a career-bound TV producer, and Butler is Mike, an outrageous dude’s dude whose public a Read more…
Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau team up after their ’90s career-making hit, Swingers, to write and costar in Couples Retreat, a romantic comedy that’s heavy on the satire, but is also knowing and wry, as Swingers is at its best. Vaughn and Favreau are joined in the top-notch cast by the always engaging Kristin Bell (whose appearance with Vaughn, in a romantic tropical setting, may remind viewers of Forgetting Sarah Marshall), Jason Bateman, Kristin Davis (Sex and the City), Faizon Read more…
Yo GABBA GABBA! is a live-action program for preschoolers that uses upbeat music to highlight simple life lessons and universal experiences in the lives of preschoolers. DJ Lance Rock hosts and brings to life four friendly monsters and one robot in a colorful land full of music and laughter. Muno, the red Cyclops, Foofa the pink flower bubble, Brobee the green little one, Toodee the blue cat-dragon, and Plex the robot are ready to sing, play and dance whenever preschoolers are r Read more…
The movie that made Humphrey Bogart Humphrey Bogart anchors this second DVD box devoted to the mighty star. The Maltese Falcon gets–and merits–the deluxe three-disc treatment, and the other Bogie movies collected here are solid vehicles from his early 1940s Warner Bros. heyday. The essence of Bogart’s world-weary yet mysteriously romantic aura is on luscious display, even if most of these films fall just short of classic status. Bogart’s letter-perfect incarnation as Sam Spad Read more…
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It’s hard not to watch This Is It without feeling a mixture of sorrow and elation. When he passed away in the summer of 2009, Michael Jackson was in the midst of rehearsals for his final tour, an ambitious 50-date engagement. In editing 120 hours of rehearsal footage together, Jackson producer Kenny Ortega proves that it would’ve been an event for the ages. Michael performs material that spans his career, from a Motown medley to multi-platinum hits from Off the Wall, Thriller, a Read more…
Based on the original Goth cartoons by Charles “Chas” Addams that ran for decades in the New Yorker magazine, The Addams Family television sitcom portrayed a monster family whose moribund physical appearances were counteracted by each family member’s exuberance for passion and adventure. This Volume Two DVD contains twenty-one episodes, including the last of season one and the whole of season two, plus commentaries, and a featurette about the cinematic impact The Addams Family h Read more…
Boy, the way the Beaver played. Ricky Nelson made the hit parade. Voices they were seldom raised. Those were the days. And then, on January 12, 1971, America met the Bunkers, and sitcoms would never be the same. The Bunkers were TV’s first dysfunctional family: blue-collar bigot Archie (the late Carroll O’Connor in his iconic role), his long-suffering but loving wife Edith (Jean Stapleton), “little goil” Gloria (Sally Struthers), and her liberal husband “Meathead” Mike (Rob Rein Read more…
