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Unboxed: The Wizard of Oz on Home Video Through the Years

David Krauss — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:00:00 +0000

This week marks another home video milestone for The Wizard of Oz. As the iconic 1939 musical fantasy celebrates its 80th anniversary, Warner Home Video honors the occasion with a 4k Ultra HD release. Over the years, director Victor Fleming’s adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s children’s classic has been at the forefront of any new...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of October 27th, 2019 – All Monsters Attack!

Josh Zyber — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 12:00:57 +0000

This Halloween week is inundated with monsters, ghouls, and beasties on Blu-ray, plus sparkling new 4k makeovers for a couple of genuine classics. October closes, however, without a single recent theatrical release of note – at least none I recognize. Ultra HD I have dutifully upgraded The Wizard of Oz through every video format from...

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Weekend Roundtable: Do Not Delete

Josh Zyber — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 17:00:30 +0000

A couple weeks ago, we asked what movie you wish could be erased from all memory of its existence. For the flip side, what one single movie would you save if all other examples of the cinema art form were wiped out? Your choice doesn’t necessarily need to be your favorite movie, but rather the...

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Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Movie Pets

Josh Zyber — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 17:00:26 +0000

As audiences return this weekend to Stephen King’s Pet Sematary, let’s look back to some of our favorite movie pets of the living variety. (At least, they were alive when these films were made. I can’t promise that a dog from 1939 is still kicking today.) David Krauss My favorite movie pet has to be...

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Weekend Roundtable: Children’s Fantasy Movies

Josh Zyber — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 20:00:34 +0000

In our Roundtable this week, we look at some of our favorite fantasy films made for children. What were your favorites when you were young? Which ones still hold up to rewatching as an adult? M. Enois Duarte I was at the perfect age demographic for Wolfgang Petersen’s ‘The NeverEnding Story‘. It worked on me...

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Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Movie Musicals

Josh Zyber — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 19:00:24 +0000

Musicals may have fallen out of favor with modern movie audiences quite some time ago. Nevertheless, filmmakers periodically attempt to revive the genre, usually to mixed success. As Clint Eastwood gives it a try with this week’s adaption of the Broadway smash ‘Jersey Boys’, we’ll use today’s Roundtable to look at some of our favorite...

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Weekend Movies: Party On, Wayne!

Luke Hickman — Fri, 09 May 2014 16:00:42 +0000

After last weekend’s blockbuster superhero kick-off to summer, this week brings some counter-programming. We have a crude R-rated comedy, an awful-looking animated flick, a light-hearted family movie and a few indies to kick around. Can one of these new releases dethrone the amazing ‘Spider-Man’? Opening on more than 3,000 screens is ‘Neighbors‘, the latest raunchy...

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Full Metal Jackets: I’ll Get You, My Pretty

Josh Zyber — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 13:00:21 +0000

In another recent post here, I lamented about the frustration that SteelBook and metal case collectors face when foreign retailers with exclusive product refuse to ship to the buyer’s country. Almost as annoying is when a retailer actually in the right country gets an exclusive and doesn’t bother to tell anyone or exert any effort...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of September 29th, 2013 – I’ll Tell You a Tale of the Bottomless Blue

Josh Zyber — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:00:23 +0000

As September draws to a close, the first Blu-ray slate for the new month brings us two great family classics refreshed and (some would say needlessly) converted to 3D, plus a newer 3D animated film that probably won’t be remembered six months from now, much less revisited decades hence. Oh, and because it’s October, you...

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Weekend Box Office: Going Dark…

Jack Lilburn — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 15:00:52 +0000

[Editor’s Note: Luke is out this week. Filling in with the box office update is our new contributor Jack Lilburn. Please give him a warm welcome. –JZ] Leading the box office this weekend was a dark crime thriller, which also conveniently kicks off the season of Oscar contenders. Thanks in part to strong reviews, festival...

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Weekend Movies: We’re Off to See the Wizard

Luke Hickman — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 16:00:38 +0000

This week offers a perfect example of counter-programming. On the one hand, we have an R-rated, hard-to-watch tale of two fathers coping with the kidnapping of their daughters. On the other, there’s a PG-13 dance drama. And on the third hand (what, you don’t have three hands?) is a 3D re-release of a family classic....

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of June 9th, 2013 – Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain

Josh Zyber — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:00:14 +0000

In this week’s new Blu-rays, Disney cashes in on one of the most beloved family films of all time with a gaudy 3D prequel, fairy tales get reimagined in ways no one ever wanted, and The Rock delivers the first of seemingly dozens of movies he’ll star in this year. New Releases Blatantly patterned after...

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