Cimarron made its way onto Blu-ray through the Warner Archive Collection but the Best Picture winner did not age well at all. There are a few things to be said about this film. It is a film of its era. As such, there is a good amount of language that we don’t use today. Not to mention the racist stereotypes. But again, this is a film that was released back in 1931. Even not taking…
"Cimarron: 1931 Oscar Winner Did Not Age Well"Category: Movie Reviews
Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music tells the story of one of the pioneering composers in developing the Hollywood sound. “Steiner is the individual who seemed to convince all of Hollywood that films needed scoring.” – Leonard Maltin Steiner was both a master of the leitmotif, melodic themes, and an ability to musically catch the action as it happens on screen. This is what people refer in the industry as Mickey Mousing. He is credited…
"Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music"
Elia Kazan is an Oscar-winning filmmaker but nothing here is able to save this adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Last Tycoon. In releasing the film on Blu-ray, it comes from a brand new HD master from a 4K scan of the original 35mm camera negative. The film’s release in 1976 came over two decades after Kazan’s second Oscar for directing and 13 years after his final directing nomination. Unfortunately, Kazan just wasn’t the same…
"The Last Tycoon: Elia Kazan’s 1976 Film Is On Blu-ray"
Mean Girls (2024) is not going to replace Mean Girls but the musical adaptation keeps the spirit of the classic 2004 comedy. There is a universe where the film is going straight to Paramount+. Thankfully, the studio also came to their senses and is giving it a theatrical release. This is a film that audiences should see in a theater. It may be a musical but it still remains a comedy at heart. In my…
"Mean Girls: The Musical Offers As Much Fun As The 2004 Classic"
The Monuments Men sees George Clooney and company tasked with tracking down artwork stolen by the Nazis during World War II. After 2008’s Leatherheads, Clooney took a brief break from period films to write, direct and star in The Ides of March. After that, he went back to the past for another period piece. This time around, he gathered an ensemble cast to hunt stolen artwork in a film that is based on a true…
"The Monuments Men – A George Clooney Retrospective"
George Clooney follows up two very strong films by taking it to the gridiron with a screwball romance in Leatherheads. A romantic comedy in football’s early days is probably not the first thing I’d think of when it comes to following up Good Night, and Good Luck. I’m not sure anyone expected Clooney to go in this direction. It’s certainly an interesting choice and he does a solid job with storytelling. The film probably offers…
"Leatherheads – A George Clooney Retrospective"
The Oscar-nominated Good Night, and Good Luck stands out as being the best film that George Clooney has directed to date. Clooney’s second film sees the actor-filmmaker back in the TV world. His second outing focuses not on game shows but on the world of news. This is a world that the filmmaker is all too familiar with as his father, Nick Clooney, was a TV journalist and anchorman for many years. The elder Clooney…
"Good Night, and Good Luck – A George Clooney Retrospective"
After a number of years acting in front of the camera, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind marked George Clooney’s directorial debut. Going into the early 2000s, the Kentucky native had never planned to direct a film. Everything changed upon reading Charlie Kaufman’s screenplay. He put in the work when it came to directing and as we all know, it wasn’t a fluke. Clooney had a vision of what sort of film he wanted to make…
"Confessions of a Dangerous Mind – A George Clooney Retrospective"
It’s taken many years since its 2006 premiere but The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold is finally available to watch on Blu-ray. Outside of optional subtitles, there are no bonus features accompanying the Blu-ray release. The film was the first of four sequels to 1992’s The Cutting Edge. Not surprisingly, it also retcons the earlier film as it takes place just over 20 years after the first film. This puts Kate Moseley (Stepfanie Kramer)…
"The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold Is On Blu-ray"
The Big Store was supposed to be the final Marx Brothers movie but they would make a come back five years later in another film. This was the final film of the five films that the Marx Brothers made for MGM. It was also one of the three films produced there after Irving Thalberg’s tragic death. Say what you will about Louis B. Mayer but he was no Thalberg. Thalberg had been one of their…
"The Big Store – A Marx Brothers Retrospective"