I saw it in the theater last Thanksgiving night (my first post-COVID theater experience) and I was struck by how this movie's obsession over showing Josephine's inability to have an heir meant that the film never explains just WHY is Napoleon invading other countries? What's his reason? What was his...

And another commentary track gets the shutoff from me due to a political intrusion and this time sadly it came from someone whose work I've liked in previous efforts. Tim Lucas did a truly great commentary on "One Million Years B.C" that treated the film respectfully and without snark that...

Glad you found it interesting, Chris! Part of the problem with the Bianca character is that in the earlier drafts when they were writing Selena with Parton in mind as the good girl made bad, Bianca was a major domo figure type from the coven helping her get comfortable in her powers etc. and not a c...

I'll be interested in your take. I have always been fascinated by this film's production history and how it ultimately came off as a near-miss done in chiefly by Reeve's falling out with the Salkinds which made him back out of a planned cameo that IMO was absolutely needed to get this film linked to...

I have NEVER taken part in streaming. I have always been adamant about owning a copy and having a physical version whether on disc or as a downloaded file that is permanently saved on my computer (mp3, mp4, iso etc.) To me there is no substitute for that.

For all the hype the original has gotten as a cult film over the decades, it is really a BORING movie. You get sixty minutes of tedium and the ballyhooed F/X stuff only take up the last ten minutes or less basically.

I have to revisit "Topaz" soon, but I tended to think it was okay even as I acknowledge that post-"The Birds" Hitchcock really declined in his output. But I can enjoy "Torn Curtain," "Topaz" and "Family Plot" pretty much. "Frenzy" though is...

THanks for sharing that.

Not just a horrible font but you'll notice they've flipped the original image and cropped it to avoid showing the World Trade Center.

Ah yes, the equation of Christ with gay people. Pathetic.

I've had a chance to sample more episodes from later seasons and that problem that was clear in the Season 1 episodes isn't coming up so whatever the cause it's unique to that Season only. I also got around to ripping the music/FX tracks from the four Gil Melle scored episodes of S1 (one of which wa...

Someone on HTF suggested that maybe what happened is that the presence of the isolated music/FX tracks might be bleeding over into the regular mono channel. He said that on the Trek Blu-Ray there were instances of new sound/FX bleeding into the original audio channel so that might be the explanation...

I hope someone can explain it, because in all the years I watched this show multiple times I never had a problem with these scenes and that's why I made sure to go back and check the DVD to make sure it wasn't my imagination. Believe me, I'm not looking for another excuse to complain about this set.

Well I have just finished "Blueprint For Murder" the last episode of Season 1 and there is no question that Kino's remastering REALLY screwed up in the sound mixing. Like in "Dead Weight" there are scenes where what should be background noise is literally drowning out the dialogu...

I'd note that we had the Mystery Movie intro in the DVD releases of "McMillan And Wife". It was admittedly a case where they used one opening and then "branched" into the episode but at least we got to see it there. It is true that in recent years, with the publication of David K...