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Regarding the issue with Daffy Doodles: I tracked down the frame you posted above from Daffy Doodles on one of the old laserdiscs (I forget which one offhand) and while the colors are a little different, the lack of outlines on Porky are the same, so it's not an issue with the Blu-ray production.

Chewy should have done a better job of packing to keep the contents from moving around (I've seen the same problem with Amazon packages) but the damage almost certainly occurred during shipping. Packages move very fast through FedEx, UPS, and USPS (seriously, the speed is remarkable) and...

Battleship The Car Cowboys and Aliens Death Race (2008, with Jason Statham) Joe Versus the Volcano The Lone Ranger (2013) Sunset (1988, with James Garner as Wyatt Earp)

I like the film, too! The "Old Tonto" segments really drag it down and there's too much schtick for my taste, but the William Tell Overture kicks the film into high gear. There's a fan edit of The Lone Ranger by a cinematographer in which "Old Tonto" is cut and the rest of the film is tightened...

Reggie, I'm sorry I didn't respond sooner, but business at home had me preoccupied for a while. I appreciate your clarification, and I get what you're saying, but I think you're painting with a very broad brush. Yes, Jungle Cruise is a lightweight film that didn't require any heavy lifts of...

I disagree. That may be a problem in the executive suites at the big studios, but there are a lot of independent movies being made, with and without well-known actors. And ironically, some of those "indies" are owned by the big studios. Indie success doesn't look like big budget success, and it...

The Universal Story is on YouTube with a few sound edit by YouTube, according to the poster. There's also a recent doc about Carl Laemmle. It ran at least once on TCM, but it doesn't appear to be streaming or on blu-ray yet.

I wish it were. I love docs like that, even if they're self-congratulatory films made or sanctioned by the studios.

Here are some other titles: YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS - re Warner Bros HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU, WARNER BROS THE BROTHERS WARNER SAMUEL GOLDWYN, THE MAN AND HIS MOVIES WALT DISNEY - from PBS American Experience, mostly about the Disney studio DREAM ON, SILLY DREAMER - an indie focused on Disney...

As I understand it, Sony's film rights entitle them to keep making Spider-Man movies as long as they do it every X months. If they wait too long, they lose those rights, so they'll keep making Spidey films until they stop making money.

This is ironic, since Sweetland is Jean Doumanian's company and Allen and Doumanian had a major falling out that resulted in him suing her.

Sad to say, this is true of the Miramax DVDs, including the ones released under the banner reading Miramax Classics Widescreen. My DVD of Mighty Aphrodite is from Canada (under the Alliance label) and the specs read "enhanced for widescreen," but it's non-anamorphic.

I borrowed the DVD from the local library a while back, and it was non-anamorphic.

Ironically, Allen himself doesn't seem to care. From what I've read and heard, he's already writing a new film when the current one is finished, and he has never cared if his films made any money in theaters or on home video. It may be why so many of his films didn't get that much home video...

As far as I know, Sweet and Lowdown only got as far as DVD in the States, and the first one I bought one from ebay was released at 4x3. Turns out Sony released two different versions, the 4x3 only, and a double-sided disc with WS and 4x3. The 4x3 is cropped (not just unmatted) and more commonly...

My apologies; I forgot to list what's in the set, and for some reason I can't edit my post today, so here goes. Bullets Over Broadway Mighty Aphrodite Everyone Says I Love You Celebrity Small Time Crooks Curse of the Jade Scorpion Hollywood Ending Anything Else That's 8 movies at $6.25 each...

I just got the set today, and it's nicely put together in a shiny box that looks up to the price. A small sampling of the discs tells me that the films are HD with good detail but a slightly softer look and perhaps a bit lighter than the DVDs. They're not dazzling, as one might expect from a...

I don't know if it's the same thing, but our cable company started running a channel called Decades, which appears to be a METV offshoot. It runs a lot of older sitcoms, as well as some edited Dick Cavett shows, and it's had a couple of weekends recently in which it ran marathons of other shows...

For what it's worth, Target's website is listing the Blu-ray set for $49.99...

I'll second (or third?) the suggestions to buy a dedicated streaming device. I've had three or four players with streaming apps, and they were all terrible, as if the apps were an afterthought. I have both a Roku Ultra and an Apple TV 4k and they're both good, but each has advantages and...

I agree about an anamorphic Blu-ray, but I'm not holding my breath. This film was released in 1992, before anamorphic presentations, and while the interviews are framed at 16x9 and some of the flip clips are 16x9 or wider, a lot of the clips are necessarily 4x3. So the entire film would need to...

This doc is on the 50th Anniversary Blu-ray of the film, on the second disc.

There's a multi-part doc about the RKO Studio, but there doesn't seem to be an official release, and all I can find are parts of some parts on YouTube. If anyone has a source for clean video, streaming or disc, please post it.

Wild Bill is on the DVD Forbidden Hollywood Volume 3 from Warner Archive. The set also includes The Men Who Made the Movies: William A. Wellman, apparently part of a series produced by TCM. All of the set's pre-code features were directed by Wellman. There's also John Ford: The Man Who Invented...

Turns out that Visions of Light was produced on DVD a long time ago and is out of print, but I found a copy on ebay for $15, and it should be arriving in a week or so. I look forward to it. I love films like this, even when they're on the "marketing" side of things, like MGM: When the Lion...

I've seen the first, third and fourth, and I agree, they're all excellent. I'm not familiar with Visions of Light, but I'm going to look it up. There's another doc about cinematographers called Keepers of the Magic, which is also excellent. I also recommend: The Battle Over Citizen Kane (from...

Correct. Apple holds back digital movie extras for their own hardware, as well as iTunes. However, if you have Movies Anywhere and have linked the two services, you can find extras for a lot of movies from Apple on MA as well. If you have Vudu linked with MA, the extras should appear there, too.

I don't know if anyone has noticed—or if anyone cares, which is possible—but the Justice Is Gray presentation of this film actually has a sepia tone and adjusted contrast. I pulled up the film on my PC and took a screenshot of the same scene in both "gray" (left), and original altered to...