Sunday Sinema: A Fish Called Wanda

Can't Touch This!
John Cleese

And now for something politically incorrect in every little way...Yes!

A Fish Called Wanda [Blu-ray] (10/3)

In 1988, John Cleese, former Python and the mastermind behind Fawlty Towers, teamed up with the veteran Ealing Comedy director Charles Crichton (The Lavender Hill Mob) to produce another classic of British comedy.

Cleese plays Archie Leach, a weak-willed barrister who finds himself embroiled with a quartet of ill-matched jewel thieves - two American con artists played by Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Kline, Michael Palin's animal-loving hitman and London gangster Tom Georgeson - when Georgeson is arrested. Only he and Palin know the whereabouts of the diamonds, prompting plenty of farce and in-fighting as well as some embarrassing nudity and the unfortunate demise of some innocent pooches...

Wanda/Fish/Wanda/Fish
Jamie Lee Curtis 

Nominated for three Academy Awards and winning one for Kline's outstanding supporting turn as the psychopathic Otto, A Fish Called Wanda has stood the test of time, earning its rightful place among its creators' remarkable comedy pedigree.

Features

- Brand-new 4K restoration from the original negative, produced by Arrow Films exclusively for this release

- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation

- Original English mono audio (uncompressed LPCM)

- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

- Commentary by writer and star John Cleese

- Brand-new appreciation by Vic Pratt of the BFI National Archive

- Brand-new interviews with composer John Du Prez, production designer Roger Murray Leach, executive producer Steve Abbott and makeup supervisor Paul Engelen

- John Cleese's Final Farewell Performance, a 1988 documentary on the making of A Fish Called Wanda featuring interviews with actors Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Palin, Kevin Kline and director Charles Crichton

- Something Fishy, a 15th anniversary retrospective documentary featuring interviews with Cleese, Curtis, Kline and Palin, executive producer Steve Abbott and director of photography Alan Hume

- Fish You Were Here, a documentary on the film's locations hosted by Robert Powell

- 24 deleted/alternative scenes with introductions by Cleese

- A Message from John Cleese, a tongue-in-cheek introduction recorded for the film's original release

- Gallery

- Trivia track

- Theatrical trailer

FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Booklet featuring writing on the film by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Pre-order at MVDshop.com or on Amazon 

Just Because...Supermodels

Smile & Say Versace!
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Claudia Schiffer, Donatella Versace, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Helena Christensen 

Just Because it's nostalgic, Just Because they all still look amazing & Just Because they are legends - Here are the four of the biggest Supermodels ever: Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford & Helena Christensen with designer Donatella Versace.

What brought the four women together you may ask? They were at Milan Fashion Week to strut on the catwalk for, what else? Versace, I am sure Donatella's presence must have tipped you off to that one, if it didn't...

Rumor has it these four stole the show. But of course they did sweetie darling. They were from an era when being a Supermodel was like being a Movie Star, and emanating the like qualities of one.

Not like modeling is today. What's that? You want me to go there? I'm not in the mood to write a dissertation about that nor do I care enough to do so. This being stated I am sure you can fill in the blank without me telling you what's going through my mind.

Anyway, this image is one for the Entertain Me books.

You'd better werk!

Versace on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/search/versace

Film Buff Friday: Children of the Corn

Just in time for Halloween and to catch the hype of that other Stephen King work "IT" comes...

Children Of The Corn [Blu-ray] (9/26)

From the mind of celebrated horror author Stephen King, the man behind such classic terror tales as The Shining, Carrie and It, comes one of his most chilling offerings yet - Children of the Corn.

A young couple on a road trip find themselves lost in the backroads of rural Nebraska, eventually winding up in the seemingly abandoned town of Gatlin. But the town is far from empty - as the pair soon discover, it's inhabited by a twisted cult of murderous children thirsty for another blood sacrifice...

Adapted from King's eponymous short story first published in 1977 and starring Linda Hamilton (The Terminator), Children of the Corn has gone on to spawn one of the most enduring horror franchises of all time. 

Features

- Brand new 2K restoration from the original camera negative 

- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation

- Original stereo and 5.1 DTS-HD MA audio options 

- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

- Brand new audio commentary with horror journalist Justin Beahm and Children of the Cornhistorian John Sullivan 

- Audio commentary with director Fritz Kiersch, producer Terrence Kirby and actors John Franklin and Courtney Gains 

- Harvesting Horror - retrospective documentary featuring interviews with Fritz Kiersch, John Franklin and Courtney Gains 

- It Was the Eighties! - an interview with actress Linda Hamilton 

- ...And a Child Shall Lead Them - a brand new interview with actors Julie Maddalena and John Philbin 

- Field of Nightmares - a brand new interview with writer George Goldsmith 

- Stephen King on a Shoestring - an interview with producer Donald P. Borchers 

- Welcome to Gatlin: The Sights & Sounds of Children of the Corn - interviews with production designer Craig Stearns and composer Jonathan Elias 

- Return to Gatlin - a look back at the iconic filming locations in Iowa with host John Sullivan 

- Cut From the Cornfield - an interview with actor Rich Kleinberg on the infamous "lost" Blue Man Scene 

- Disciples Of the Crow - 1983 short film adaptation of Stephen King's story 

- Storyboard gallery 

- Original theatrical trailer 

- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gary Pullin

FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Fully illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by John Sullivan and Lee Gambin

Pre-order at MVDshop.com or on Amazon

Michael's Musings

Macho Bear
Michael Shinafelt

Do you remember the days of September? Why actually I remember them quite well...and today was one of the lovelier ones. After I clocked in the to my daily work routine and took some meetings. I then came home, ate lunch caught up on American Horror Story: Cult while devouring a delish shrimp salad I made.

Then off to West Hollywood to meet up with my talented buddy Jay Jacobson @ Marix. What was verbally exchanged? Perhaps you will find out, or not. Read on minions...

Jay Jacobson is hard at work on his upcoming CD Travelogue - a margarita told me so

Are you watching Growing Up Supermodel? If you are you now know what Ricky Schroeder would look like transgender

It's not OK to rub boogers on your sister, would you want boogers rubbed on you?!?!

Nicole Kidman complained on The Emmy's that there are few good roles for women in Hollywood. That's partly because she takes them all.

There is a shortage of Latino foreskin happening

Deborah Gibson should duet with Yolanda Foster on a f/u to Shake Your Love called Shake Your Lyme

It's all about the bears, of which I am one, at MisterH.shop who featured me on their site. My personal favorite item from them? The unicorn bear T-Shirt. Get one at:
https://www.facebook.com/Misterh.shop/ or https://www.instagram.com/misterh.shop/

Gay Roaches, the threat is real

Yes, I liked Mother! If you disagree, I'm down with that!

Congrats to spin class dynamo Toni Trucks on the premiere of Seal Team this coming Wednesday on CBS - beep, beep!

I heard what you did for a Klondike Bar, call me...

Catching a dance performance piece Daedalus' Daughter with Maresa Wickham tonight at the Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles. It examines bipolar disorder. Come on get happy!

You should always feel like somebody's watching you, because, they are!

Follow me, but not too close at:

https://www.instagram.com/michaelshinafelt/?hl=en
https://twitter.com/MShinafelt    

Hump Day & Chill: Justin Hartley

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Bicycle! Bicycle!

I Want To Ride...
Zac Efron

"I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike, I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride it where I like" - Bicycle Race, Queen

See Zac Efron. See him ride his bicycle. See him...fill in your own blank. 

You've heard of Portugal The Man? I hereby decree all shall now refer to Zac Efron as Efron The Man. 

Check out my boy werking it on a bike during a triathlon in Malibu. 

Is there anything this guy can't do other than give birth? I think not.

Come to Daddy, Zac.

Zac on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/zacefron/?hl=en  

"I'll Have What She's Having" Jane Fonda

9 to 5 Plastic Surgeons Pick Jane Fonda
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Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton & Jane Fonda 

What a flashback to my Freshman year in High School thrill it was to see the three stars on 9 to 5 - Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton & Jane Fonda reunited at the 2017 Emmy Awards last night!

Oh, those were the days my friend, I'd thought they'd never end...well they really haven't especially for Jane.

Lily always the earth mother looks good for her age, Dolly the bigger than life glamour puss looked very Dolly. Jane on the other hand was a whole different story. At 79 years young she showed up looking like she hadn't even hit puberty. Yet still looked like a wonderfully aged star!

All kidding aside denizens of Hollywood, if you are going to go under the knife, please bend it like Jane. Don't look like a science fiction experiment, or a freakish version of who you once were.

Be like Jane. Look crazy young, and like yourself. Don't distort what the public has liked about you all these years. Nip, tuck and whatever else you have done gracefully, not grotesquely.

Who cares if you have work, everyone in Hollywood does it. All the popular people do it. But you'd better know how to get work, that werks!

In need of a good plastic surgeon? Who you gonna call? Jane Fonda!

 9 to 5 on IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080319/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1