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(Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.) The Film: The Hot Rock Where You Can Stream It: The Criterion Channel The Pitch: Robert Redford plays a talented thief who gets out of jail and is immediately roped into participating in the heist […]

In Conversation With Jeffrey Lyon, Author, Journalist, Film historian, Film critic From:   Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest Jeffrey Lyons. Jeffrey has reviewed more than 15,000movies, 900 Broadway and off-Broadway plays. He has interviewed over500 actors, co hosted ...

The 40 Best Comedies on HBO Max Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. Photo: Orion Pictures This article is updated frequently as titles leave and enter HBO and HBO Max. *New additions are indicated with an asterisk. Don’t have HBO Max yet?  HBO Max has one of the deepest and most impressive catalogs of any streaming service in the world, and their selection of comedies reflects the dense quality of their catalog overall. There’s a little bit of something for anyone looking f...

Region: A MSRP: $29.95 The Production: 4/5 Washed-up Broadway producer Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) has been taking advantage of little old ladies (to put it politely) to fund his failing productions and lifestyle for several years. When a by-the-book accountant, Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder), finds a $2,000 discrepancy in Bialystock’s latest flop (he raised more than he spent), Max convinces Leo to “cook the books” and plug the money in somewhere. This leads Leo to think aloud that, o...

Mel Brooks Delivers a Blockbuster Flop With Our Pick of the Week Plus 8 more new releases to watch at home this week on Blu-ray/DVD! Streaming might be the future, but physical media is still the present. It’s also awesome, depending on the title, the label, and the release, so each week we take a look at the new Blu-rays and DVDs making their way into the world. Welcome to this week in  This week’s home video selection includes two Mel Brooks classics, a surfer flick, and more. Check out ...

"A Midwinters Tale" may not sound like a cheery title for a comedy, but reflect that when I saw the film the first time, at the Venice Film Festival, it was titled "In the Bleak Midwinter." Nor is the subject matter promising: A poverty-stricken group of has-been and would-be British actors band together to put on a Christmas play in a cold, drafty old church. The play they choose is, somehow inevitably, "Hamlet." And yet this is the kind of movie you can settle down with. Populated mostly with...

Blu-ray Review – The Producers Special Edition (1968) Directed by Mel Brooks. Starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn, Kenneth Mars, Estelle Winwood, Lee Meredith, Christopher Hewett, Andréas Voutsinas, and Renée Taylor. SYNOPSIS: Mel Brooks’ debut madcap satire The Producers has been restored in 4K by Kino Lorber for this new Special Edition Blu-ray. They’ve also ported over most of the bonus features from previous releases and have tossed in a new commentary track with filmmake...

Originally divided by an interval, the second act brings only tragedy for Tevye, who faces the loss of his home to tsarist persecution and his two daughters to a new world. Indeed, it is Hodel’s farewell to “Far from the Home I Love” that moved Topol most. “She doesn’t speak, she just sings the song, and he understands every single feeling that she has. And he knows he won’t see her anymore.” As the film’s emotional fulcrum, Topol’s portrayal of the pious milkman has led peopl...

hen the film adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof opened, revered critic Roger Ebert gave it three out of four stars and said director Norman Jewison “has made as good a film as can be made from the material”. Ebert, now deceased, thought the storyline was “quite simply boring”, which decried the work of its original author, Sholem Aleichem, and raised doubts about Ebert’s Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.  With global acclaim from all other reviewers, three Oscars, multiple nominations (i...