R.I.P. Ray Bradbury
The world has lost another visionary this week with the passing of Ray Bradbury. The legendary science-fiction author died peacefully on Tuesday at the age of 91.
The world has lost another visionary this week with the passing of Ray Bradbury. The legendary science-fiction author died peacefully on Tuesday at the age of 91.
The creative arts felt another significant loss over the weekend with the passing of Ralph McQuarrie, the famed production illustrator who helped conceive much of the look of the original ‘Star Wars’ trilogy. He was 82...
Davy Jones, lead singer of ’60s pop group/parody band The Monkees, passed away yesterday at age 66. Did you realize that Jones and the whole Monkees troupe already have a movie available on Blu-ray, from the vaunted Criterio...
As you’ve no doubt heard by now, famed singer and occasional actress Whitney Houston passed away over the weekend. She was only 48-years-old. Although the exact cause of death has not yet been released at the time of this wr...
With news that iconoclastic British filmmaker Ken Russell has died, I decided to use this week’s VUDU update to see if the streaming service has any of his movies in its catalog. Indeed, I found one. Since this is a slow wee...
Beloved character actor Peter Falk passed away late last week at the age of 83. Although best remembered for his long-running role as the absent-minded detective Columbo on television, Falk also appeared in numerous feature films ...
Truth be told, I’m a sucker for ‘Jackass‘. Childish, stupid and disgusting as the show’s (and movies’) pranks and stunts may be, I find them side-splittingly hilarious. ‘Jackass’ is one of...
We’ve lost another cinema legend. Director Sidney Lumet passed away over the weekend at the age of 86. Although not very many of the prolific filmmaker’s movies are yet available on Blu-ray, two of his greatest masterp...
After years poor health (and vehement denials of that poor health), Elizabeth Taylor passed away from congestive heart failure yesterday at the age of 79. The actress was twice an Oscar winner (nominated three times more) and, in ...
2011 has barely started, and already we’ve lost an acting great. British character actor with the difficult-to-spell name Pete Postlethwaite passed away yesterday at age 64. Let’s celebrate his career by watching some ...
News from Japan has revealed that Satoshi Kon, director of such landmark anime films as ‘Perfect Blue’, ‘Tokyo Godfathers’, and (most recently) ‘Paprika’, passed away this week. He was only 46-y...