Good morning! Hopefully you all are rested and refreshed after that extra hour of sleep. If not, we’re going to let Rodgers and Hammerstein give you some Monday morning adrenaline in the form of the rousing “Oh, What a Beautiful…
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Movie Trailer of the Day: Casablanca
“Moonlight and love songs, never out of date.” Add Casablanca to that list of eternal things featured in the lyrics of “As Time Goes By,” for this is the most beloved of all motion pictures. The star-crossed relationship between club…
Read more →Make Room for Hannibal: “The Silence of the Lambs”
In this post, Jim Brymer serves up his thoughts on Jonathan Demme‘s multiple Academy Award-winning The Silence of the Lambs. A serial killer is on the loose. Known by the FBI as “Buffalo Bill”, he has the habit of kidnapping…
Read more →“Going My Way” Gets a 75th Anniversary Edition Release
With songs like “The Day After Forever,” “Swinging on a Star,” and the title track, Going My Way quickly established itself as a musical masterpiece upon its release in May of 1944. (It went on to be the year’s most…
Read more →“The Thin Man” and “A Streetcar Named Desire” Are Among This Week’s Epic New Releases!
Wow. That’s pretty much the only word we can use to describe this week’s DVD and Blu-ray new releases. There’s a stunning amount of Hollywood heavy hitters that are now available, and if these weren’t exciting enough, other offerings include…
Read more →Five Fantastic Films About the Race to Space
As we wind down today’s celebrations of the fiftieth anniversary of mankind’s arrival on the moon, we wanted to share with you five other notable films about America’s race to space in the 1960s. Each of these efforts focuse on…
Read more →The Latest Version of “A Star Is Born” Gets a Special Encore Edition
Bradley Cooper co-wrote, directed, and stars in the acclaimed third updating of William Wellman’s 1937 drama A Star Is Born. Gifted aspiring singer/songwriter Ally (Lady Gaga) gets a much-deserved shot at stardom when she’s discovered by seasoned and successful musician…
Read more →Guest Review: Come to the “Cabaret”
Cabaret started out as a Broadway show. Actually it started out as a series of stories written by Christopher Isherwood about life in Berlin, post WWI, just before and immediately after the coming of the Nazi party. The original play…
Read more →Walter Pidgeon and Greer Garson: A Dynamic Duo
Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon were the epitome of enduring love. In the majority of their films together they played married couples, a husband and wife perfectly balanced :Garson’s dignified but gentle and kind nature opposite Pidgeon’s strong and stable…
Read more →“The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part,” “The Prodigy,” and More of This Week’s New Releases!
The latest Lego-rific, er, blockbuster kicks off a diverse and fantastic week of Blu-ray and DVD new releases that also sees everything from recent chillers to classics from the Warner Archives. Clear your schedule, as you’re going to want to…
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