Flickchart Daily: Matchup of The Day and the Week’s DVD/Blu-ray Releases
Flickchart Matchup of the Day
Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee Neil Sedaka turns 73 today. In his honor, we have two films that feature his music:
Sextette vs. Sting of Death
Sextette is the last movie Mae West ever appeared in. It came eight years after her role in the legendary 1970 Hollywood fiasco Myra Breckinridge. Before that, she hadn’t been in a film since The Heat’s On back in 1943. By the time West starred in Sextette, which was based on a play that she wrote, the saucy actress was 85 years old. Future Bond Timothy Dalton, who was 34 at the time, co-stars as her new husband.
Neil Sedaka originally released the song “Love Will Keep Us Together” in 1973. It attained its greatest popularity when Captain & Tennille covered it two years later. In Sextette, Dalton and West sing it together as a duet on their wedding night. When it comes to actors who played James Bond ruining a good song, Dalton’s attempt at “Love Will Keep Us Together” is almost as alarming as Pierce Brosnan‘s butchery of “S.O.S.” in Mamma Mia!:
This is Captain & Tennille’s version, for the sake of comparison:
Sting of Death is about a half-man/half-jellyfish monster. Sedaka performs the song “Do the Jellyfish”, to which the cast members pull off some impressive dance moves. I would rather listen to this than Dalton or Brosnan:
New Blu-ray and DVD Releases
Melancholia
The Adventures of Tintin
The Three Musketeers
My Week with Marilyn
The Descendants
Stephen King’s Bag of Bones
Killer’s Moon
Absentia
Paranormal Incident
House of Pleasures
The Women on the 6th Floor
My Joy
Neverland
Loosies
Young Adult
The Swell Season
Turner Classic Movies is releasing several collections on DVD:
TCM Greatest Classic Legends Collection – Doris Day
Please Don’t Eat the Daisies (1960)
Romance on the High Seas (1948)
TCM Greatest Classic Legends Collection – Katharine Hepburn
TCM Greatest Gangster Films Collection – Edward G. Robinson
Alpha Video is putting out quite a few films from a bygone era this week:
From Broadway to Cheyenne (1932)
