Archive: 2016

  • TV TIME: Party Like It's 1959 - Celebrating New Year's with Classic TV

    What better way to welcome the future than by revisiting the past? Inspired by some of your favorite classic television shows, we've assembled some tips on how to ring in the New Year the right way.Get your New Year's resolutions squared away: Let's start, as more discussions of vintage TV should, with Davey & Goliath. In addition to producing the 15-minute stop-motion animation shorts we saw in reruns for years, the Lutheran Church of America created...

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  • Distinguished Achievements in Slapstick

    Film buffs take sides over many genres: B-westerns, horror films, the works of Maria Montez or Lum and Abner. Slapstick is another divider, and the division is stark. To the anti's, slapstick is lowbrow, unimaginative, and unfunny. To its fans, slapstick, done by experts, is a comic exaggeration of the extremes of human behavior, fitting the definition of comedy as bad things happening to other people.A buff who scrupulously avoids slapstick must forego the pleasures of Chaplin's ...

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  • CRITERION: Bicycle Thieves and Manchurian Candidate Arrive in March

    Criterion announced Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves and John Frankenheimer's Manchurian Candidate will be available on DVD and Blu-Ray in March. Originally released on DVD via Criterion in 2007, this marks the debut of Bicycle Thieves on Blu. The Manchurian Candidate receives its introduction into the Criterion Collection. It originally dropped on DVD and Blu-ray via MGM with the Blu released in 2011. Both will be single-disc Bl...

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  • WARNER ARCHIVE: Westerns and Comedy in New Releases

    Nine new-to-DVD releases have been announced by Warner as part of their Archive Collection with westerns and comedies being the predominant theme. January 26th: Roughshod (1949) - Robert Sterling, Gloria Grahame, Claude Jarman Jr., John Ireland, Jeff Donnell Station West (1948) - Dick Powell, Jane Greer, Agnes Moorehead, Burl Ives The Younger Brothers (1949) - Wayne Morris, Janis Paige, B...

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  • WARNER ARCHIVE: Bad Boy and Two Guys Lead Latest Wave

    Nine new-to-DVD releases have been announced by Warner as part of their Archive Collection including Audie Murphy's first starring role in Bad Boy (1949). Also included in this week's releases are three films pairing up Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson. They are: The Time, the Place and the Girl (1946) - Janis Paige, Martha Vickers, S.Z. Sakall, Alan Hale Two Guys From Milwaukee (1946) - Joan Leslie, Janis Paige, S.Z...

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  • Another Nice 'mas: The Christmas Films of Laurel & Hardy

    Oh, in the history of movies, there have been more successful comics, I suppose, than Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, more famous, more popular, and more influential. But has ANYBODY generated as many laughs? Is there any other comedy team that you can say is as beloved?Not that we need a reason to revisit them (or, more accurately, have them revisit us), but the holiday season is as good a time as any to entertain kith and kin with the following films, most of which have...

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  • KINO: Five Titles Arrive on DVD and Blu in March

    Five more titles from Kino are scheduled for release on DVD and Blu-ray in March, with all five premiering on Blu-Ray. March 1st: Gog (1954) - Richard Egan, Constance Dowling, Herbert Marshall March 8th: The Vikings (1958) - Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles March 22nd: After the Fox (1966) - Peter Sell...

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  • FOX ARCHIVES: Trio of Titles Arrive on DVD

    After two months without a release Fox announced three new entries into their Cinema Archives line. Four Men and a Prayer (1938) - Loretta Young, Richard Greene, George Sanders, David Niven, C. Aubrey Smith It Happened in Flatbush (1942) - Lloyd Nolan, Carole Landis, Sara Allgood, William Frawley Bad Boy (1935) - James Dunn, Dorothy Wilson, Louise Fazenda All are making their DVD debut -- alth...

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  • Five Unforgettable Christmas Moments

    The tree is up, the stockings are hung by the chimney with care, and it's time to wait for 'ole St. Nick. What can you do in the meantime? Watch a movie, of course! I'm a big fan of Christmas films, and some of my favorites have such iconic moments that make me smile, cry, and remember the reason for the season. Here are the five Christmas moments I enjoy revisiting every year that you should pass along to your family, hot chocolate optional!Christmas in Connecticut

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  • TIMELESS: Death Valley Days - Season 1 Arrives in March

    Timeless Media, a division of Shout! Factory, has announced a March 29th release date for Death Valley Days - Season 1. This marks the first time the long-running Western anthology, which ran from 1952-1970, has been put out on DVD. The 3-disc set contains all 18 episodes in the first season. Bonus features are not forthcoming.

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