Today is Friday the 13th, a day that the superstitious fear and movie lovers adore. Since 1980, the Friday the 13th film series has spawned numerous sequels, an underappreciated TV series, a team-up film with Freddy Krueger, a 2009 remake,…
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“Lassie Come Home” Is A Film You’ll Want To Return To
In honor of National Pet Day, we are reprinting this post celebrating that most beloved of pop culture pets, Lassie! Based on the novel of the same name by Eric Knight, Lassie Come Home first hit theaters on October 7,…
Read more →This Week’s New Releases Include “The Greatest Showman” and “Molly’s Game”
Typically, April isn’t the best month for new DVD and Blu-ray releases. That most definitely isn’t the case so far this year though. We are only in the second week of the month and so far it’s been one hit…
Read more →Sandy Dennis Goes “Up the Down Staircase”
I confess that I have never been a Sandy Dennis fan. Perhaps, it was her choice of roles, but her characters always came across as a contrived combination of exaggerated emotions. But after recently watching Up the Down Staircase (1967),…
Read more →Remembering Walt Disney’s “The Shaggy Dog”
In hindsight, The Shaggy Dog (1959) was a landmark Disney film. After all, this amusing comedy perfected the formula for the contemporary live-action family films produced by the studio for the next twenty years. It was also the first of Fred…
Read more →Who’s Your Favorite “NYPD Blue” Character?
With the recent loss of television maverick Steven Bochco still fresh in our memory, we have found ourselves thinking a lot about the legacy he leaves behind. One of our favorites of his work is the gritty (and still ahead…
Read more →“Animalympics” Has a Sporting Chance to Become One of Your Favorite Animated Films
Commissioned by NBC to air during the broadcast of the 1980 Summer Olympics (though that never happened, of course), this first in an intended two-part spoof of the games features anthropomorphic animals, such as alligator runner Bolt Jenkins, dachshund skier…
Read more →Pure Imagination: “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” Nesting Dolls
Oompa, Loompa, doompahty doo, have we got a collectible for you! Who can take a sunrise, sprinkle it with dew, cover it with chocolate and a miracle or two? The Candy Man can! Since it was originally released nearly 50…
Read more →The Warner Archive Collection Rescues Classic Films from Obscurity
The Warner Archive Collection presents rare and beloved films from throughout the history of cinema. (Often rescuing films from obscurity and introducing them to new audiences). Recently, Warner Archives has released a variety of titles on DVD for the first…
Read more →“Fifty Shades Freed” Hits DVD and Blu-ray on May 8th
The Fifty Shades of Grey saga reaches its, as the movie poster non-subtly mentions, climax in Fifty Shades Freed. This final entry in the film trilogy adaptation of E.L. James’ best-selling adult novels has Ana Steele (Dakota Johnson) discovering that…
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