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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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  • WARNER ARCHIVE: Love in the Afternoon on Blu and More in Latest Wave

    Five new releases have been announced by Warner as part of their Archive Collection including the Blu-Ray debut of the Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper romance, Love in the Afternoon (1957). The remaining four are: Challenge to Lassie (1949) - Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Geraldine Brooks, Reginald Owen A Lady's Morals (1930) - Grace Moore, Reginald Denny, Wallace Beery, Jobyna Howland

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  • UNIVERSAL VAULT: Crime Dramas Anchor Wave of Twelve

    Three months since their last wave of titles, Universal's MOD program kicks back into high gear with the announcement of twelve titles newly available on DVD as part of their Vault Series. Nine of the titles are crime dramas or films noir: Abandoned (1949) - Dennis O'Keefe, Gale Storm, Marjorie Rambeau, Raymond Burr An Act of Murder (1948) - Fredric March, Edmond O'Brien, Florence Eldridge, Geraldine Brooks I...

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  • June Allyson: America's Girl Next Door

    The delightful June Allyson was born in the Bronx, New York, on October 7, 1917. She overcame a hardscrabble childhood and a years-long recovery from a freak injury to emerge as a sunny and cheerful star at MGM.June was raised by a single mother after her father walked out. At the age of eight she was crushed after a tree limb fell on her when she was riding a bike; she spent years in a brace but eventually recovered and learned to dance. She appeared in a series of musical shorts...

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  • TV Time: Bizarre Sci-Fi Episodes

    You'll see many strange things in science fiction and fantasy television: space aliens, interstellar travel, super powers, and more. Yet even within the fantastic realm of genre entertainment, you sometimes encounter episodes that are just...bizarre. This month, let's look at some of the strangest episodes of popular sci-fi series. They may have their detractors, but I guarantee each is worth watching at least once.The Adventures of Superman, 'The...

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  • CRITERION: Woman of the Year Arrives in April

    Criterion announced Katharine Hepburn's Oscar-nominated film, Woman of the Year will be making its Blu-Ray premiere in April, as well as receiving an upgraded DVD. The first Hepburn film to pair her with Spencer Tracy originally dropped on DVD in 1997 and is receiving its introduction into the Criterion Collection. Bonus features are below. Woman of the Year arrives on April 18th.

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