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DEATH MACHINE was released theatrically by Trimark. Doesn't that mean Columbia/Sony?

Five Reasons Why Old Movie Posters Are Better Than Current Movie Posters 1. Old Posters Are Brighter Looking – Most illustrators drawing a poster begin with a white canvas. Consequently, the parts of the poster not covered by artwork or credits are often left white, or shaded in some other...

Most flat UA films destined for widescreen projection were likely protected all the way out to 1.33:1 for television, and that is the way most of them originally appeared on VHS.

That's on the Criterion Blu-ray, and I already bought the 1997 TV remake on Blu-ray from Kino. The other special features come from the MGM (50th Anniversary Edition) DVD, so the second disc is superfluous to me.

In addition to Sorrowful Jones, Damon Runyon's "Little Miss Marker" story was used as the basis for Universal's 1962 film Forty Pounds of Trouble, directed by Norman Jewison and starring Tony Curtis, Suzanne Pleshette and Claire Wilcox; and Universal's 1980 film Little Miss Marker, directed by...

Is THE WEREWOLF OF WASHINGTON really being released from public domain hell?

Looks like the site is still dead. It's true that many links on the site were broken. Most of those were because the underlying sites were themselves gone; others because the other sites' link structures had changed. More and more, I had been going to the review links on the IMDB for reviews...

Furmanek's website shows SECRET OF THE INCAS as being in 1.85:1. The AFI Catalog says "up to 1.85:1" https://sites.google.com/site/3dfilmarchive/the-first-year-of-widescreen

It's unfortunate that the U.S. release version of a film so recent has been lost, along with the credited 4-channel quadraphonic soundtrack.

So true. The art work makes it look like SERGEANT RYKER is an action film like THE DIRTY DOZEN, but it's mainly a courtroom drama.

I saw HELLO, DOLLY! twice at the AFI Silver Theatre--once in 70mm on their 41' screen and then in 4K on their 37' screen. The 70mm presentation seemed much more vivid and bright to me. Is it possible that the lamp in the 70mm projector just threw a lot more light on the screen than the DCP...

Someone timed the music on the laserdisc release as running 9:40 [OVERTURE (3:25), INTERMISSION (0:25), ENTR'ACTE (2:25), EXIT MUSIC (3:25)]. So that means that the film proper runs 146 minutes.

Sound is always a toss-up with KL. They rarely mention it in their announcements or on their disc packaging. The only review I found of the DVD of THE HALLELUJAH TRAIL said that the sound was in 5.1. Olive's Blu-ray was said to be in 2.0 (opinions differed as to whether it was dual mono...

"A slightly slower speed'? That suggests that there was a speed differential caused by some PAL to NTSC video conversion. Since all references indicate that the film ran 91 minutes when released, that suggests that the KL/Jezebel release was speeded up, not that the earlier releases were...

Very interesting film. If I recall correctly, this was originally a WB release. Actually, THE GIRL ON A MOTORCYCLE was opened in the U.S. in Los Angeles by Claridge Pictures on 6 Nov 1968 with an X rating. Shortly thereafter, the film was re-edited to delete certain sequences, and the rating...

Most video headsets also allow for the viewing of 3-D films.

If a 3-D print was struck and was screened in both 2006 and 2013, why wasn't one of those showings the "official premiere"?

McQueen was certainly the biggest "young" male star who had any experience in westerns. Alex Cord was 3 years younger than McQueen and appeared in STAGECOACH in 1966, but he didn't have nearly the name recognition of McQueen. Robert Vaughn was two years younger and had appeared in THE...

I believe that METEOR and possibly FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE were in stereo.

The sort function on the https://www.moviezyng.com/warner website is worthless. Try to sort by Newest Products and all you get is a random list.

Kino put it out. What was done and where was it done in the chain? MGM has the film elements (negative, interpositive, whatever). MGM scanned those elements at some point (maybe recently, maybe not). They also may or may not have performed some clean-up of those scans to remove dirt, wear...

I'd like to see the uncut version of Will Rogers' CONNECTICUT YANKEE (1931). Unfortunately, it's a Fox title. The film has only been released on VHS, on cable, and for streaming. The original film ran 95-96 minutes. The version presently available for streaming, and being shown on Turner...

I haven't seen THE SQUARE JUNGLE in more than 50 years. But my recollection is that the boxing scenes in it are brutal, if unrealistic--every punch lands and every punch is a crushing blow. But I guess that no boxing film is realistic. If we had to sit through all the footwork, blocks, jabs...

Interesting that THE TRAIN is still selling, after going though Blu-ray releases by both Twilight Time and Kino.

I have a question on the Kino/Scorpion release of 1978's SLOW DANCING IN THE BIG CITY. Both the IMDB and the Kino website show this film as running 110 minutes. There is currently a version on YouTube that runs 105 minutes. Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide and the book "Screen World" by John...

Both the IMDB and the Kino website show this film as running 110 minutes. There is currently a version on YouTube that runs 105 minutes. Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide and the book "Screen World" by John Willis both say that the film runs 101 minutes. And the back of the Kino Blu-ray disc...

I didn't spring for a VHS player until VHS Hi-Fi was developed. The lowest cost Hi-Fi player I could find was a Fisher for about $800. Initially, pre-recorded tapes were so expensive to purchase, until "sell-through" titles became a thing, I limited myself to buying public domain titles under...

The Columbia House Laserdisc Club was notorious for carrying old pan-and-scan versions of discs long after letterboxed versions had come out. If the text in the flyer didn't specifically say "letterboxed" you were taking a chance if you ordered based solely on the picture of the cover. They...

Since the announcement [for THE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE] doesn't say that this is a new transfer and that the ratio is 2.35:1, there's no telling what we'll get, picture-wise. Almost certainly to be in mono sound.