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  • WARNER ARCHIVE: Three More Titles Debut on Blu

    Three new releases have been announced by Warner as part of their Archive Collection, all on Blu-Ray, including the arrival of Fred Astaire's final musical, Finian's Rainbow (1968). Also included are two sci-fi adventures: 

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  • KINO: A Trio of Comedies Arrive in April

    Three titles from Kino are scheduled for release on Blu-ray in April, with all three premiering on Blu. Arriving for the first time on DVD and Blu is Jerry Lewis' 1959 comedy Don't Give Up the Ship. The studio will also release two other f...

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  • MORE CLASSICFLIX: Raw Deal, T-Men, You Only Live Once & More

    ClassicFlix is pleased to announce a long-term licensing agreement with Shout! Factory to distribute eight films from their library on Blu-ray and DVD. Two were already made public last Tuesday (Another Man’s Poison, 1951 and Miss Annie Rooney, 1942). The other six are: The Crystal Ball (1943) – starring Ray Milland and Paulette Goddard Raw Deal (1948) – starring Dennis O&rs...

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  • CRITERION: Orson Welles' Othello Arrives in May

    Criterion announced Orson Welles' Othello will be making its Blu-Ray premiere in May, as well as receiving an upgraded DVD. The second of three Shakespearean films Welles directed originally dropped on DVD in 1999 and is receiving its introduction into the Criterion Collection. ...

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  • The Old Corral: Heroes and Their Horses

    'A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty 'Hi-yo Silver'' - the Lone Ranger!Yup, horses were far more than the basic means of transport in the West and the Western. There is a whole myth attached to horses.In many movies, certain Western actors used the same horse again and again, and they became part of the mystique. Everyone knows Roy Rogers's horse was Trigger (who was so 'intelligent' that he could rescue Roy from scrapes), and The Lone R...

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  • CLASSICFLIX LABEL: Another Man's Poison & Annie Rooney First Two

    It is my pleasure to announce the first two films being released by our home video label: Another Man's Poison (1951) starring Bette Davis and Miss Annie Rooney (1942) starring Shirley Temple.  Both will be released on DVD & Blu-ray for the respective retail prices of $24.99 and $29.99. Street dates are March 28th for Poison and April 4th for Rooney

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  • TV Time: Abraham Lincoln in Sci-Fi Television

    Trivia lovers often point out the eerie similarities between two acclaimed United States presidents who were both struck down by assassins. While an amusing number of coincidences do indeed connect Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, there is at least one huge difference: While Honest Abe is all over classic TV, it's hard to find JFK.We all have a vague collective false memory of Kennedy guesting on The Dick Van Dyke Show, but alas, it never happened. Fo...

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  • SITE NEWS: Change of Rental Home, New ClassicFlix Label

    Renting DVDs & Blu-rays at the ClassicFlix.com web address is changing and a newly redesigned, retail-only ClassicFlix.com will emerge in the next month or so featuring our own home video label. GOING UNDERGROUND Sometime late next week, a “Coming Soon” page will go up at ClassicFlix.com and the current ClassicFlix site will transfer over to a new home: classicflixunderground.com.

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  • Dark Cinema: Noirs of '48

    In the world of film noir, 1947 is commonly touted as a banner year -- it's the year that saw the release of such classics as Out of the Past, Kiss of Death, Nightmare Alley, and Dead Reckoning. For my money, though, there's another year that deserves just as much acclaim, 1948. Today's post shines the spotlight on five first-rate features from this stellar year of noir.Act of ViolenceVan Heflin stars as Frank Enley,...

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  • The Old Corral: The Birth of the Western Movie

    Many people regardThe Great Train Robbery (1903) as the first Western movie. It isn't, though. Cowboys had been captured on celluloid before and short Western scenes were quite common. As early as 1894 Buffalo Bill Cody's troupe had been filmed and there was already a motion picture, Lasso Thrower viewed by a single person in a kind of what-the-butler-saw device. In 1896 motion pictures were first commercially projected onto large screens in the US.In 1898 there ...

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