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Found this today in my scan of Amazon offerings: Amazon.com: Alec Guinness Collection (5pc) (Dub Gift): Alec Guinness: Movies & TV The studio appears to be Lionsgate -- I hadn't heard that they'd picked up the Anchor Bay set, but then maybe those films are all public domain(?). Anybody...

I was flipping channels last night during basketball, and found a strange sight on Turner Classic Movies: On The Waterfront was playing but it was masked for 16x9 on the top and bottom with black bars (I was watching on a basic 27" tube). I didn't put the DVD in to check, but the framing of...

Has anyone heard any details regarding the Man For All Seasons SE that Bill Hunt mentioned on the Bits yesterday? It looks like Amazon has it for preorder for $9.99 (srp of $14.94), but no release details. This is one of my all-time favorites (as is Paul Scofield), so I wouldn't mind a...

According to Barrie Maxwell on digitalbits.com Anchor Bay is releasing some more classic British cinema next year, including a set of Ealing comedies not previously available here in the US, even on VHS. These include Passport to Pimlico, Tight Little Island (aka Whisky Galore), and A Run For...

The MPI website now lists the remaining Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes episodes as arriving in September (Casebook) and October (Memoirs). It'll be nice to finish this off, regardless of the decline in the quality of the eps (by Memoirs). September is going to be a busy DVD month (Holmes...

I received Richard III today and was intrigued by the description on the back of the 2-disc case, which indicated that the DVD contained footage only recently discovered, which hadn't been incorporated in earlier home video presentations. However, when I brought it home and compared to my...