Archive: January 2014

  • Mayberry RFD - Season 1 in April

    Finally making it to DVD, Warner Bros. has scheduled an April 8th street date for Mayberry R.F.D. - The Complete First Season. The much sought-after series will be on standard pressed DVDs with all 26 episodes from Season 1. Bonus features, if any, are unknown. Mayberry R.F.D. (R.F.D stands for 'Rural Free Delivery', a quaint postal d...

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  • OLIVE: Sleep, My Love, Men in War - Standard & Blu in April

    Olive has scheduled an April 15th release date for Sleep, My Love (1948) and Men in War (1957) on both DVD and Blu-Ray. This marks the DVD & Blu debut for Sleep and the Blu bow for Men in War. The great Douglas Sirk (Magnificent Obsession) directed the third and final teaming of Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche, they first ...

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  • Animation Craze: The Convoluted History of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

    Before there was a mouse in the Walt Disney house, there was a rabbit. A rather unassuming creature-black and white with a rounded, simplistic design masterminded by Disney's brilliant early animator, Ub Iwerks-the hare, dubbed Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, made his debut in theaters in 1927. Oswald's tenure as Disney's first animated star was brief; the studio produced twenty-six Oswald shorts over the course of the next year, before Disney was forced to give up ownership of the character to his dis...

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  • KINO: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) Gets Upgrade to Blu

    Kino has scheduled a January 28th street date for a Deluxe Edition of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) on both DVD and Blu-Ray. Previously released by the studio on DVD, this marks Jekyll's Blu debut. Bonus features are not forthcoming but are will likely carry over from the previous release (below). Considered by many to be the first great A...

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