Their first FB announcement did *not* mention the isolated music/FX tracks so Kino is to blame for making the rest of us think the last few days those were out. They might have toned down the outrage if they'd made sure to stress *only* the commentaries were impacted. Last night I had decided not to...

The art is so awful on the other 4K and Blu Ray options that I *had* to do this one.

Doesn't really work that way. Because the scope of this project is so vast, you really don't know what they might have an issue with. I can only imagine they did a bunch of commentaries, they didn't like this or that, too many of these tracks had issues and instead of delaying the whole set, "...

I touched base with Gary Gerani who did a couple of them (he's needless to say quite shocked). I even offered to host the audio of what they did on Dropbox so they could be shared on the Columbo message board I've been part of for twenty years. He said he hoped he'd hear some follow-up from Kino in ...

All I can think is it's content on the commentaries. Too bad but they must've started going through the commentary tracks and started taking apart different elements on them. Is Kino dropping the price on the set? Did Universal ever have legal issues with Falk or other elements of this show previou...

I am furious to hear this. They've not only removed all of the commentaries, they've removed all the music/effects tracks promised and that means this is going to be as barebones a release as you can get from a company that's supposed to give us more than that (I have no interest in a shorter versio...

This is one case where an upgrade isn't worth it IMO. If they had *all* of the films from the Classic Monsters boxed set upgraded that would be different, but I'd be forced to keep the Blu-Ray versions anyway because the old boxed set has 22 more films in them.

Berlin had just one credit after this film until 1990, an episode of "Columbo" and she got it strictly through nepotism, because Peter Falk gave her mother uncredited carte blanche control over the episode in all facets which included script rewrites, gender swapping characters (and giving...

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...