There have been several releases of Grease's Rockin' Rydell Edition. This one, like earlier releases, comes packaged in a special DVD letter sweater. If you love the movie and don't already own it (which is unlikely at this point!), or if you have to have the new special features, this is a thorough collector's edition.  What can be said about Grease that hasn't already been repeated, adnauseam? T...[Read More]

 Busby Berkeley was known in the early days of Hollywood forhis lavish musicals featuring lots and lots of leggy girls (mostly blondes),silly story lines, and dialogue with all sorts of sexual innuendo.  A new Busby Berkeley musical was causefor great audience enthusiasm.Warner has gathered four of Berkeley’s films from the late1930s for this collection.  All arein black and white (although, inter...[Read More]

Snow Angels is a deeply sad film about people’s lives imploding.  Set in a small town somewhere in the north (you know it’s in the north because it snows a lot), Snow Angels begins with a high school marching band practicing its half-time routine.  The song they’re working on is “Sledgehammer”; as the movie unfolds, it’s obvious why that song was chosen.Snow Angels features three dysfunctional cou...[Read More]

 “I deal in human fulfillment.”  Remember that great line of Tom Cruise’s from Risky Business?  This is one movie that holds up perfectly 25 years later.  (Eeps … how old must we all be if Risky Business is celebrating 25 years?)For those who haven’t seen this somewhere along the line, this is arguably the movie that really launched Tom Cruise as a star.  Cruise plays Joel Goodsen, a high school s...[Read More]

Myers has been a comedic genius for nearly all of his films.  Lately he seems to be tapering off on what he wants to do and this type of in-decision may have affected his latest comedy, The Love Guru. Read on...Bad KarmaFirst, the story. Guru Pitka is a famous man who helps to straighten out the lives of individuals who desperately need to work out bad vibes.  When Darren Roanoke, a very popular M...[Read More]

Cool Hand Luke was released in theatres in 1967, and other than the opening credits, which are very, very 60s, it holds up extremely well today.Cool Hand Luke takes place primarily at a prison work farm, focusing on the men jailed there and particularly on Luke, a recent arrival (sent up for taking the tops off parking meters while under the influence).  Luke, played magnificently by Paul Newman, ...[Read More]

A dirty, cursing show about four losers living in one of the worst parts of Philadelphia, running a run-down bar, contributing nothing to anyone in this lifetime!? Sounds like an FX show!Why, it is. The title may not be sunny, but the show sure has some bright spotsI took a taste of this show around three seasons ago and found it to be incredibly childish, offensive and funny as hell.   It's a sim...[Read More]

One of the most creative and memorable movies of the 1980s, Beetlejuice continues to hold its charm 20 years later.Tim Burton, now famous for such dark classics as Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Corpse Bride, was just getting his start in Hollywood when he directed this off-the-wall ghost story about a recently deceased couple trying to evict a pair of New York art-world ...[Read More]

“Hi, I’m Chucky. Wanna Play?” Essential viewing for fans of the horror genre? Not quite. However, I would recommend that parents of young children view this film on Black Friday before heading to the malls and kicking off the Christmas shopping season. You may think twice about shelling out big bucks for the latest hot item, or at least will spray it down with Lysol before wrapping it up. “Child’s...[Read More]

Who amongst us hasn’t run up a flight of steps and then jumped around, cheering like an imbecile and challenging Apollo to a rematch? For those of you who would prefer to army crawl from your cubicles to the copy machine just to keep things interesting, set Pop-rocks-and-Coke landmines in the restrooms and doodle dragon slayers on the backs of TPS reports, this film captures that air of free...[Read More]

Ah, the Stooges. This bungling trio has brought side-splitting laughter to people (okay, mostly men) for decades. After a long seven month wait between the release of volume one and two, Sony has picked up the pace putting this third volume out just three months after volume two, and volume four scheduled for release early in October. Volume three brings us another batch of twenty-three shorts fro...[Read More]

In 1993, Tim Burton’s vision of a bizarre and unusual take on the Nightmare Before Christmas story came to life on the big screen just in time for Halloween. This wonderfully creative and musical tale of Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween, won several industry awards and has won over the hearts of millions of fans who have seen it. I actually hadn’t seen the film before this two disc ...[Read More]