The rampant male chauvinism in A Girl in Every Port might be hard for contemporary
audiences to stomach, but fans of director Howard Hawks will be delighted. Victor McLaglen and Robert Armstrong play Spike and Salami, two sailors who become ...
Katharine Hepburn stars as Booth Tarkington's would-be society belle Alice Adams. The product of a
family of modest means, Alice nonetheless dreams of being accepted by the better people. Luck of luck, she meets well-to-do young Fred MacMurray at a ...
Woody Allen's greatest popular and critical success gets a by-the-numbers DVD release from MGM. Excluding
the film's theatrical trailer, there aren't any extras to speak of, but at least Annie Hall has been intelligently divided into digital chapters for easy ...
Forty-year-old Guy Trilby (Jason Bateman, starring in his feature directorial debut) discovers a loophole in
the National Spelling Bee rules that allows him to compete against the pre-teen participants, and he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a 10-year-old misfit ...
Master of disguise Sacha Baron Cohen hits the road to explore America as the crude
Kazakstani reporter Borat in a feature mockumentary that brings one of the Da Ali G Show star's most popular characters to life on the big ...
Bridget Jones, now a fortysomething news producer, discovers that she's pregnant. However, she isn't sure
if the baby's father is Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), her on-and-off boyfriend, or Jack Qwant (Patrick Dempsey), her new American love interest. Sharon Maguire, who ...
John Cleese's knack for mining hilarity from the growing frustration of a dignified gentleman is
fully exploited in the British comedy Clockwise. Cleese portrays Brian Stimpson, a perfectionist English headmaster who has been selected to make an important presentation before ...
This release from Criterion brings together every film, both features and shorts, directed by the
lesser-known French comedian Pierre Etaix, who specialized in the kind of physical comedy associated with more celebrated auteurs like Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton. Included ...
