Recent content by ChrisOC

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...