Nashville: The Complete First Season
September 30, 2013
Nashville is a television show stacked with pedigree. Created by Callie Khouri (Thelma & Louise), this night-time soap chronicles the turbulent lives of two competing country musicians played by Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights) and Hayden Panettiere...
La Cage aux Folles: Criterion Collection
September 17, 2013
La Cage aux Folles (1978) began as a very successful French play that ran for almost 1,800 performances at Paris’ Theatre du Palais-Royal from 1973 to 1978. Written by actor/playwright Jean Poiret, it was an outrageous farce that saw a flamboyant gay...
Slacker: Criterion Collection
September 10, 2013
Even though I know they came out years apart, I always associate Beck’s hit song “Loser” with Richard Linklater’s film Slacker (1990). The former came out in 1993 and the latter had its premiere three years prior, but both took their time finding...
To Be Or Not To Be: Criterion Collection
September 5, 2013
Released on the eve of the United States entering World War II, To Be or Not To Be (1942) was scorned by critics and underperformed with movie-going audiences of the day. Perhaps the razor-sharp satire that saw popular comedian Jack Benny up against Nazis...
