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Katharine Hepburn and “Olly Olly Oxen Free”

01.30.19 | Constance Metzinger | Tags: 1970s Films, family films, Katharine Hepburn, Olly Olly Oxen Free | no comments

There are certain films that you have watched in your childhood that need to be revisited as an adult. Olly Olly Oxen Free is one such film. It has everything in it that would appeal to children – air balloons,…

“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…

Poll: What’s Your Favorite Tim Burton Film?

01.28.19 | Jon Morgereth | Tags: Alice in Wonderland, Batman, Batman Returns, Beetlejuice, Big Eyes, Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Ed Wood, Johnny Depp, Mars Attacks!, Michael Keaton, Miss Peregrin's Home for Peculiar Children, Pee-Wee Herman, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Sleepy Hollow, The Corpse Bride, Tim Burton | 6 comments

Tim Burton is a director whose visual style is so distinctive that you can spot his work just by seeing a movie poster of TV spot. Since exploding onto the scene in 1985 with his feature debut Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure,…

This Week’s Out of This World New Releases Include the Neil Armstrong Biopic “First Man”

01.23.19 | Chris Cummins | Tags: Claire Foy, First Man, Ginger Rogers, Greydon Clark, Pre-Code, Pre-Code Hollywood, Robert Young, Rowan Atkinson, Ryan Gosling, Ted Danson, The Criterion Collection, Warner Archive Collection, Zasu Pitts | 1 comment

The DVDs and Blu-rays debuting this week take film lovers into the stratosphere and beyond! Fresh off of its theatrical release (and four Academy Award nominations), the fact-based First Man kicks things off, with other notable releases from the Warner…

Here Are Your 2019 Academy Award Nominations!

01.22.19 | Chris Cummins | Tags: A Star Is Born, Academy Awards, Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, Bohemian Rhapsody, Green Book, Oscars, Roma, The Favourite, The Oscars, Vice | no comments

Earlier this morning, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 2019 Academy Awards, celebrating the finest films of the previous year. The movies Roma, The Favourite and Black Panther earned the most nominations, with…

The Freddie Mercury Biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” Is Coming Home In February

01.20.19 | Chris Cummins | Tags: Freddie Mercury, Mike Myers, Queen, Rami Malek | no comments

When the Oscar nominations are announced on Tuesday morning, we fully expect that Bohemian Rhapsody will get a few nods. Despite a troubled production period in which originally planned star Sacha Baron Cohen exited the project through to director Bryan…

Lost In Space: The First Episode

01.20.19 | Rick29 | Tags: Angela Cartwright, Bill Mumy, Guy Williams, Irwin Allen, John Williams, June Lockhart, Lost in Space, Sci-Fi Sunday, Science Fiction TV | no comments

When a friend recently updated his Lost in Space collection to Blu-ray, he kindly gave me his DVD set. Although I’ve watched several Lost in Space reruns on the telly over the years, it had been a long time since…

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall: Love in Old Hollywood

01.20.19 | Jim Brymer | Tags: Agnes Moorehead, Claire Trevor, Dark Passage, Howard Hawks, Humphrey Bogart, Key Largo, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Martha Vickers, Robert Montgomery, The Big Sleep, To Have and to Have Not | 1 comment

The love story of the ages began when Humphrey Bogart met Lauren Bacall on the set of To Have and Have Not. Although the chemistry was not immediate, it did grab hold and held on for dear life. Bogie was…

Movie Trailer of the Day: Thoroughly Modern Millie

01.20.19 | Chris Cummins | Tags: 1960s films, Academy Award Winners, Beatrice Lillie, Carol Channing, James Fox, Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore | no comments

In the 1967 Oscar-winning favorite Thoroughly Modern Millie, the “Roaring Twenties” live on in a musical comedy of innocent girls, wild flappers, romance, and crime. Julie Andrews stars as Millie, whose plan to get a job with─and then marry─a wealthy…

Happy 85th Birthday to “Doctor Who” Star Tom Baker!

01.20.19 | Chris Cummins | Tags: BBC, British Science Fiction, Doctor Who, Sci-Fi Sunday, Tom Baker | no comments

Each week, our Sci-Fi Sunday post celebrates an iconic science fiction film, program, actor or character, and this week we are turning our attention to the most famous of all Doctor Who‘s, Tom Baker. Although he is most famous as…