Remember that time that Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny lead the most ridiculous rag-tag team of basketball players in a game for the fate of the world? It’s hard to believe it’s been twenty-five years since Jordan and the Looney Tunes joined forces to defeat the? Nerdlucks-turned-Monstars in a game of basketball for the fate…
I?ll be perfectly honest with you. These last few weeks, or even months, have been challenging for me mentally, as I am sure they may have been for many of you. There seems to be so much pointlessness in the world. A virus that ravages the world without reason or discrimination. A seemingly pointless death…
Ron Shelton once teamed with Kevin Costner to deliver one of the top-10 sports films of all time (and the second-best baseball film to star Costner) with Bull Durham. As a one-time minor league baseball player, Shelton was hardwired to tell that story, but he wasn’t done. He also wrote (and directed or produced) White…
Disney World is closed. So is Disneyland. Indeed, all theme parks and even most major studios are shut down for the foreseeable future. However, that doesn?t mean you still can?t take a tour of Walt Disney?s animation studios from the comfort of your living room. At least, their studio from the 1940s. For that is…
Following the relative lack of box office success of Fantasia and Pinocchio and with the country on the verge of entering a World War, Disney needed to churn out something inexpensive and much shorter.? That little movie turned out to be the story of a young elephant with big ears who learns to fly.? I?ll…
In a bold move, Walt Disney?s 3rd animated film is a mostly silent concert feature, with several animated shorts or segments inspired by and featuring the music of prominent classical composers such as Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and the like.? The movie is considered a high point in animation history and rightfully so.? However, I don?t want…
I read the original Adventures of Pinocchio by Italian author Carlo Collodi when I was young at my grandmother?s house and remember being struck by how dark and surprisingly violent it is (fun fact: the first thing Pinocchio does to the Talking Cricket upon meeting him is squashing him dead with his shoe). Indeed, the…
With the release of Tim Story’s Shaft from Kenya Barris’ (Blackish) script, fans of the legendary crimefighter can see what three generations of the first black hero on screen with Richard Roundtree, Samuel L. Jackson, and Jessie Usher. Just in time, Warner Bros. Archives has released the triple feature of Roundtree’s original three Shaft films…
Michael Cimino, of?The Deer Hunter?fame and?Heaven’s Gate?notoriety, shoots the gap between his Oscar wins for the first and the derision of his work for the second in Mickey Rourke’s?The Year of the Dragon. While Rourke had collaborations with Steven Spielberg (1941), Lawrence Kasdan (Body Heat), Barry Levinson (Diner), and Francis Ford Coppola (Rumble Fish) under…
Before?SWAT, Hawaii Five-O, MacGuyver, Lethal Weapon,?and?Magnum P.I.?were remade as television dramas, studios seemed fascinated with remaking old television shows into slightly more offbeat films. In between films like I, Spy,?and later films like?The A-Team?and?21 Jump Street,?Starsky & Hutch?took the old 1970s buddy cop show and twisted it, hard. Thanks to Warner Archive Collection, the Blu-ray…
