Known for an unparalleled sense of comedic timing and for playing gruff-yet-lovable characters, Dick Miller had a career in Hollywood than spanned over 50 years. The legendary character actor — whose film and television work included roles in projects as…
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Remembering The Underrated Dick Miller Masterpiece “A Bucket of Blood”
Filmed for $50,000 over the course of five days, the underrated Roger Corman classic A Bucket of Blood stars the great Dick Miller (best known as Mr. Futterman in Gremlins) as a coffeehouse busboy who dreams of being an artist….
Read more →Katharine Hepburn and “Olly Olly Oxen Free”
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,…
Read more →“The Wife” and a Criterion Collection Release of “In the Heat of the Night” Are Now Available
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…
Read more →Poll: What’s Your Favorite Tim Burton Film?
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,…
Read more →This Week’s Out of This World New Releases Include the Neil Armstrong Biopic “First Man”
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…
Read more →Here Are Your 2019 Academy Award Nominations!
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…
Read more →The Freddie Mercury Biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” Is Coming Home In February
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…
Read more →Lost In Space: The First Episode
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…
Read more →Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall: Love in Old Hollywood
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…
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