Academy Award Winners

Create-A-Caption: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

04.05.19 | Chris Cummins | Tags: 1960s films, Academy Award Winners, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, William Goldman | 2 comments

For this latest Create-A-Caption, we are paying tribute to writer William Goldman (who died last year at the age of 87). Perhaps his best script was his Oscar-winning effort for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969’s formula-shattering Western starring…

This Week’s New Releases Include “Aquaman,” “If Beale Street Could Talk,” and “The Glass Bottom Boat”

03.26.19 | Chris Cummins | Tags: Academy Award Winners, Anthony Quinn, Aquaman, Barry Jenkins, Basil Rathbone, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Boris Karloff, Criterion Collection, Djimon Hounsou, Dolph Lundgren, Dorothy Lamour, Douglas Sirk, John C. Reilly, Johnny Mack Brown, Mary Pickford, Meat Loaf, Michael Keaton, Nicole Kidman, Patrick Wilson, Ralph Forbes, Raw Dawn Chong, Regina King, Robert Wise, Robert Zemeckis, Steve Coogan, Temuera Morrison, Val Lewton, Warner Archive Collection, Willem Dafoe, William Shatner, Woody Strode, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II | no comments

From Oscar-winners to classics from the vaults, there’s an incredible amount of new releases this week. We’ve got a little bit of everything hitting Blu-ray and DVD this week. Check out what you’ll be watching next! Aquaman Jason Momoa returns…

“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” “Mary Poppins Returns,” and More New Releases

03.19.19 | Chris Cummins | Tags: Academy Award Winners, Antonio Fargas, Bernie Caset, Colin Firth, Constance Bennett, Criterion Collection, Disney, Emily Blunt, George Brent, Ginger Rogers, Joan Fontaine, Joel McCrea, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mary Poppins Returns, Meryl Streep, Pre-Code Hollywood, Shelley Long, Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse, Tamara Dobson, Tom Cryise, Walt Disney Studos, Warner Archive Collection | no comments

Thwip! Swinging to DVD and Blu-ray this week are the recent Academy Award-winning Best Animated Feature, a follow-up to a Disney classic, more great releases from the Warner Archive and Criterion Collections, and much more. Even though the weather is…

“Green Book” and “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” Lead This Week’s New Releases

03.12.19 | Chris Cummins | Tags: Academy Award Winners, Ally Sheedy, Bobbie Gentry, Carol Burnett, Dick Purcell, Flip Wilson, Frank McHugh, George Brent, George Carlin, Green Book, Harold Lloyd, Jane Wyman, Joan Blondell, Lance Henriksen, Mahershala Ali, Pat Boone, Patrick Duffy, Perry Como, Roy Rogers, The Criterion Collection, Victor Buono, Viggo Mortensen, Warner Archive Collection | no comments

The Best Picture winner Green Book is the biggest DVD & Blu-ray release in a week packed with impressive offerings. Be it the latest entry in the Wizarding World series, classics from the Warner Archive and/or the Criterion Collections, recent…

“The Favourite,” “Creed II” and More of This Week’s New Releases

03.05.19 | Chris Cummins | Tags: Academy Award Winners, Alec Guiness, Allex Honnold, Brigitte Nielsen, Courtney B. Vance, Creed II, David Thewlis, Dolph Lundgren, Emma Stone, Greer Garson, Julia Roberts, Mark Wahlberg, Michael B. Jordan, Olivia Colman, Phylicia Rashad, Rachel Weisz, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, The Favourite, Willem Dafoe | no comments

Fresh from its success at the Academy Awards, The Favourite comes to DVD and Blu-ray this week. And its not alone. There’s a variety of great new releases that are now available — everything from Sylvester Stallone‘s final appearance as…

Do You Think “Green Book” Should Have Won Best Picture?

02.25.19 | Chris Cummins | Tags: Academy Award Winners, Green Book, Mahershala Ali, Viggo Mortensen | 5 comments

The biggest news from the entertainment world right now is how Green Book beat out such favorites as Black Panther and A Star Is Born to win Best Picture at last night’s Academy Awards ceremonies. It was a controversial win…

“In the Heat of the Night” Is Now Available via the Criterion Collection

02.24.19 | Chris Cummins | Tags: 1960s films, Academy Award Winners, In the Heat of the Night, Norman Jewison, Rod Steiger, Sidney Poitier | no comments

On this day where we celebrate Hollywood’s greatest, let us look back at a true great, the Best Picture-winning In the Heat of the Night. This groundbreaking 1967 drama based on John Ball’s novel stars Sidney Poitier as Philadelphia homicide…

Create-A-Caption: Key Largo

02.03.19 | Chris Cummins | Tags: Academy Award Winners, Claire Trevor, Dan Seymour, Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, John Huston, Key Largo, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Gomez | 2 comments

In the 1948 favorite Key Largo, A World War II vet (Humphrey Bogart) ventures to the Florida Keys so he could pay his respects to a lost comrade’s widow (Lauren Bacall) and hotelier father (Lionel Barrymore). Unfortunately, his hosts’ latest…

Movie Trailer of the Day: The Blind Side

02.03.19 | Chris Cummins | Tags: Academy Award Winners, Football Films, Kathy Bates, Quinton Aaron, Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side, Tim McGraw | no comments

Since a lot of you have football on your minds today, it seemed like the most logical choice to make this latest Movie Trailer of the Day post one that pays tribute to the sport. Originally released in 2009, The…

“The Wife” and a Criterion Collection Release of “In the Heat of the Night” Are Now Available

01.29.19 | Chris Cummins | Tags: Academy Award Winners, Ben Vereen, Bob Fosse, Criterion Collection, David Niven, Gary Oldman, Gerard Butler, Glenn Close, Helen Mirren, In the Heat of the Night, Jane Greer, Jessica Lange, Joel Edgerton, Joel McCrea, Jonathan Pryce, Larry Hagman, Linda Blair, Mark Hamill, Maureen O'Hara, Maureen O'Sullivan, Penelope Spheeris, Peter Lawford, Rod Steiger, Roy Scheider, Russell Croew, Sidney Poitier, Superman, Tarzan, Tarzan Movies, The Wife, Warner Archive Collection | 2 comments

Glenn Close‘s Academy Award-nominated performance in The Wife is the most notable DVD/Blu-ray of the week, and it is joined by several acclaimed films getting Criterion Collection and Warner Archive Collection releases, as well as other theatrical hits and critical…