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Supertrain
Something that we, as a society, often overlook is that YouTube, the website that makes stars out of people talking in their bedrooms, is one of the finest archives for television. Countless hours of obscure, rare, and what would otherwise have been lost to time material is on the service. From soap operas to commercials, […]
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The Pits
There’s a lot of random things burned into the deep recesses of my mind. A bunch of it stems from watching too much TV as a kid. There was a time in the mid-’90s when I was fascinated by infomercials. Those half-hour ads for various wonder products that once were used to fill many a […]
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Ziegfeld Lightning
A pair of new to blu-ray June releases from Warner Archive is what I have for you this week. The studio was kind enough to once again send me some titles to give a gander to. This month they bring to HD 1945’s “Ziegfeld Follies,” a dazzling MGM technicolor musical variety show. Plus, one of […]
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Timely Insomnia
For the last two weeks, I’ve been waking up on time every day like a champ. My body has become a precision alarm clock. I become awake and alert at the exact same time every morning. The only problem is this time is 3:30 in the morning, I would rather sleep for another three to […]
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There Can Be Only One
As more and more of my immediate family are becoming fully vaccinated, we have begun to have family gatherings like we once did before. These are dinners together, nothing too big or too fancy, but sometimes come with that always to be expected level of stress that happens when you entertain people. It’s nice to […]
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Exterior Cleaning
With the warmer weather arriving and it has been a long cold winter thanks to the pandemic, I thought it might be a good idea to clean all the exterior windows on my home. Ideally, as Summer rolls around, I’ll be having more and more fully vaccinated friends over for cookouts, game nights, and the […]
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Mr. Blandings and More
You may have noticed there’s been nothing but movie talk this month in my column. This is all thanks to there being a large number of releases this month, and most of them getting sent across my desk to talk about. I’ve got a trio of new blu-ray Comedies this week from your favorite physical […]
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Merrily we go to Fast Times
This week the Criterion collection brings two new movies to their library, one of which is a wonderful pre-code movie that’s been pretty rare to see until now, the other is one of the most iconic films of the 1980s. Both are movies directed by women. First, there’s Amy Heckerling’s “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” […]
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History is Made at Night
Earlier this year when Criterion announced they would be releasing director Frank Borzage’s 1937 movie “History is Made at Night” on blu-ray, the reaction online was one of overwhelming joy. Seemingly every classic movie fan I follow on Twitter was ecstatic about the news. The movie, having been long out of print on home video […]
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A Slew of Movies
The kind folks at Warner Archive have sent me almost every blu-ray they’re putting out this month, I talked about their wonderful new restored disc of 1932’s “Doctor X” two weeks ago. This week I have three movies from them all making their HD debuts in brand new scans. From 1939 we have MGM’s “Another […]
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Doctor X
One of the most celebrated blu-ray releases last year was Warner Archive’s blu-ray of “Mystery of the Wax Museum,” the once thought lost pre-code horror movie was presented in a stunning new restoration undertaken by the UCLA Film and Television Archive, in association with The Film Foundation, with funding from the Lucas Family Foundation. “Wax […]
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Doctor X
One of the most celebrated blu-ray releases last year was Warner Archive’s blu-ray of “Mystery of the Wax Museum,” the once thought lost pre-code horror movie was presented in a stunning new restoration undertaken by the UCLA Film and Television Archive, in association with The Film Foundation, with funding from the Lucas Family Foundation. “Wax […]
