Tender Mercies (1983) 9 of 10 -I'd never seen this movie before tonight. The chief reason is because I never figured it would be of much interest to me because I am not a fan of country music and just never felt I'd be able to connect with a story about a country singer. I can see that I gypped mys...

She should play Dopey instead. Dumb and mute.

Two For The Seesaw (1962) 4 of 10 -This was a hit play on stage in 1958 with Henry Fonda and Anne Bancroft. It's because it was a hit play that the movie ends up being largely a giant snoozefest because Robert Wise, in the film he did in-between "West Side Story" and "The Haunting&qu...

Circus World (1964) 7.5 of 10 -The last of the Samuel Bronston epic films before his company went bankrupt thanks to the failure of this and before that of "Fall Of The Roman Empire". John Wayne stars in basically a splashy European version of "The Greatest Show On Earth" set in...

Well nice to see the long cut of "When Time Ran Out" will be there. Having that and the long cut of "Beyond" justifies having the set from an archival standpoint.

I hope we see something similar for the "Airport" movies eventually.

The first dud from my most recent Kino sales purchases. The Big Bus (1976) 2 of 10 -Utterly, painfully not funny. I remember seeing just part of it on TV once in the early 80s on Channel 11 and remembered a little bit but until the sale never revisited it. Unlike "Airplane" which landed as...

The Paper Chase (1973) 7 of 10 -The title will never get a Blu-Ray release in the US but thankfully there was a region free Blu-Ray last year in Europe that I managed to pick up. Definite improvement over the ancient DVD (a useless R2 DVD is also included in the set). I've seen it a couple times be...

Didn't think I was ever going to order from them again, but some of these titles are ones I discovered I have the scores of during my reorganization so I figured I might as well get a few of them and be able to get hooked into the music. Juggernaut was an upgrade from the earlier release that had no...

I haven't seen Ronin but I'd be willing to give it a shot in the future. It'd be nice to find just one film he did after 1977 that was worthy of some of his earlier work. And of course even without the gross-out stuff "52 Pick-Up's" other problem is the idea that any man would cheat on Ann...

I'm convinced they cut out more of Doug McClure as the politician Ann-Margret works for because he was all but invisible in the film. Those porn shop scenes were basically Frankenheimer's grapes-orgy scene from "Seconds" on steroids to the max. He also insisted on putting in a drag queen p...

"Rather seedy" is an understatement to describe "52 Pick-Up". I was so revolted by what I saw when I got the old Blu-Ray release as a blind buy that I not only had that "I need a shower" sensation afterwards I threw the disc away because I couldn't find a single redeema...

Even though I have the TV cut of Beyond, I should probably ask what site that is, since recordings with network ads are not without interest! With Universal films, I know we're dealing with the problem of the 2008 fire destroying the video masters of many of their TV cuts. I was surprised the overse...

WHEN TIME RAN OUT I've never seen the longer version of and have only faint memories of ever watching it...in fact I'm not sure I've ever really seen it all the way through. It was never in widescreen until the Archive DVD, as memory serves the laserdisc was cropped (?), so I've been holding out fo...

The administrator of a Poseidon Adventure FB group just confirmed that he is now giving bonus materials to Shout! to help them with the release which it looks like will include the extended TV cut, or at minimum the extra footage as a bonus. "Blu-ray update. I am officially helping Shout with t...

When did movie studios start thinking what we wanted from our childhood heroes was to see them old, broken, miserable failures? :? Half the reason why Top Gun: Maverick went through the roof at the box office was because Tom Cruise was still portrayed as...well, top gun. He had his late-middle-aged...