“Bolero” is a pretty strange movie. Bo Derek’s husband John directed her in a sophomoric sex comedy that feels like an excuse to get her disrobed. The MGM Blu-ray is pretty lousy overall, even for fans.
Philip Roth considered Larry Peerce’s adaptation of “Goodbye, Columbus” to be the best adaptation of his work. Fun City Editions has done a great job of bringing it to Blu-ray.
“Honey Don’t!” is the second collaboration between Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke in their Lesbian B-movie trilogy. The film failed critically and commercially, but it still has its moments and strong turns from its cast.
“Detroit Rock City” is probably just a bit too juvenile to appeal to the masses, but fans of the picture will be excited to see that Sony has given their 2015 Blu-ray a re-release.
Warner Archive has given the 2005 romantic-comedy “Just Friends” a Blu-ray release. The film is much funnier than I remembered it being twenty years ago, with solid turns from Ryan Reynolds, Anna Faris, Chris Klein, and Amy Smart.
Steven Soderbergh’s 2009 film “The Informant!” tells the true story of F.B.I. informant Mark Whitacre, and the crimes he simultaneously hid from the F.B.I., with an eye towards the darkly comedic aspects of the story. Matt Damon and Scott Bakula shine. Warner’s 4K is a solid upgrade.
Shane Black’s “The Nice Guys” is one of my favorite movies of the last decade. Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe have great chemistry as mismatched partners working a case. Warner has released a 4K UHD.
Despite a solid premise, “Amos & Andrew” doesn’t quite develop into the clever satire it could have been. MGM has given the film a Blu-ray re-release.
“A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy“ is a whimsical comedy by Woody Allen that benefits from Gordon Willis’s beautiful cinematography. MGM has given it a re-release on Bly-ray.
