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Movies Till Dawn: Post-Prandial Palate Cleansers (2020 Edition)
“Dolly: The Ultimate Collection” (2020, Time Life) This staggering 19-disc set couldn’t be better timed, given the recent outpouring of affection for Dolly Parton, not for her financial support of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, but also for her long and celebrated … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: Truth is Stranger Than Science Fiction
“Star Trek: Picard” (2020, CBS Home Video/Paramount Home Video) Sir Patrick Stewart reprises his role as former “Enterprise” captain Jean-Luc Picard in this CBS All Access series. I will confess that I never watched “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” which … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: Post-Election Palate Cleansers
“Grace of My Heart” (1996, Kino Lorber) Boundless talent and fortitude allow singer-turned-songwriter Illeana Douglas to navigate the turbulence of the music industry during the 1960s and her own personal life and ultimately bring her own artistry to life. Writer-director … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Music, Television
Tagged Film Movement, Kino Lorber, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, MVD Visuals, Time Life
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Two Hours of Vintage Halloween Cartoons Especially for You
If you can’t get enough of skeletons playing the drums on other skeletons’ bony butts and the awesome music of Cab Calloway, we have assembled a collection of vintage cartoons for you to enjoy. Two hours of animation including Betty … Continue reading
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Movies Till Dawn: The World is a Monster (Halloween 2020, Part 5)
First: “The Dead Ones” (2020, Artsploitation Films) opens on a harrowing note – a quartet of high schoolers are hunted down by gunmen dressed as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse – and from there, manages to head into even … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Artsploitation Films, Kino Lorber, Mena Films, Severin Films
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Movies Till Dawn: The World is a Monster (Halloween 2020, Part 1)
“Penny Dreadful: City of Angels Season 1” (Showtime/Paramount/CBS, 2020) Detectives in Los Angeles circa 1938 discover that a malevolent supernatural entity from Mexican folklore may be responsible for not only a grisly murder, but also rising social and political unrest … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: All Kinds of Icons 2 – Kid Heroes Edition
“Gamera: The Complete Collection” (1965-2006, Arrow Video) Arrow’s eight-disc Blu-ray set compiles all 12 films featuring the giant, firebreathing turtle Gamera, who vied with Godzilla for global adoration from the kaiju faithful for more than a half-century, and bundles them … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, GKids, Kino Lorber, MVD Entertainment Group, shout factory
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Movies Till Dawn: All Kinds of Icons, Part 1
“The Best of Cher” (2020, Time Life) This nine-DVD, 15-hour Time Life set, which covers the post-Sonny/pre-movie stardom and post-Oscar periods of her career, provides not only an abundance of footage of El Centro’s Cheryl Sarkisian, but also examples … Continue reading
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Tagged Corinth Films, Kino Lorber, RLJE Films, shout factory, Time Life
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Movies Till Dawn: The Saturday Morning Strange Must Die!
“The Beast Must Die” (1974, Severin Films) Wealthy hunter Calvin Lockhart invites a gaggle of Very Suspicious-Seeming individuals – among them Michael Gambon, Charles Gray and Peter Cushing – to his English manor home in order to determine which among … Continue reading
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Tagged Kino Lorber, Mondo Macabro, RLJE Films, Severin Films, Warner Archives Collection
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