Director Frank Oz‘s well-received toe-tappin’ big-screen adaptation of the 1982 off-Broadway musical (which itself was a reimaging of the original 1960 film) about loveable loser Seymour Krelborn’s (Rick Moranis) relationship to a carnivorous plant from outer space (voiced by Levi Stubbs) comes to 4K for the first time.
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Released 40 years ago, director Ivan Reitman‘s Legal Eagles is a little of everything. Part romance, part legal drama, part thriller, and part comedy, Reitman and screenwriters Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr. throw basically everything into the blender. The result is an entertaining, if a bit tonally Frankensteinish, movie that never quite clicked with audiences or critics.
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The first big-screen adaptation of West Side Story stars Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer as the star-crossed lovers in the musical adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Winning 10 Academy Awards (still a record for a musical), the film was released to universal acclaim (even if Wood’s casting at the supposedly Puerto Rican Maria is still a bit cringeworthy in terms of classic Hollywood whitewashing).
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Written and directed by Robert Towne, 1988’s neo-noir Tequila Sunrise gives us a love triangle between longtime friends in a former drug dealer (Mel Gibson) attempting to go straight, a narcotics cop (Kurt Russell) who fears busting his friend, and restaurant owner (Michelle Pfeiffer) who both fall for. Never quite willing to get bleak or tragic enough to enter true noir territory (partly due to studio interference), the film still makes the most of its stars (even if if this one wouldn’t rank among the best on any of their filmographies).
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Starting off with clever meet-cute of the awkward Owen (Spike Fearn) falling for Emily (Sadie Soverall) on the dance floor where he works as a sound technician, Finding Emily begins in earnest when Owen discovers he’s missing one-digit from her phone number. With only her name to go by, his search begins.
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