Of the old series cast cameos, only Mark Goddard's as the general lands. Angela Cartwright and Marta Kristen get wasted as reporters at a press conference while poor June Lockhart (just turned 100!) gets the thankless bit as Will's principal. They actually had an ingenious idea for Jonathan Harris ...

I revisited this a few years ago, and what could have had potential was done in by IMO their obsession with showing the Robinson family as dysfunctional, and also the horrible performance of Matt LeBlanc as a truly repulsive Don West. And I've said this before a million times and I'll say it again ...

Yes, a lot of subplots got excised. There were subplots about the captain's affair with the singer. The doomed waiter was the one smuggling the stowaway etc. Dreyfuss's in-your-face gayness was beyond annoying and I knew from the outset he was going to survive just because of his orientation (I keep ...

So in this Lucas special edition, does this mean the Wicked Witch throws the water first?

That is certainly possible, though in that case if Shout! could include an old TV airing of "Two Minute Warning" as a bonus, Kino could do likewise with "Airport '77" since there are decent looking ones out there. All they'd have to do is make an effort.

The TV cut of "Airport 77" though is something that can't be dismissed as unnecessary because in all honesty, that version is more comprehensible to me as a narrative than the theatrical one is. For years the only times I ever saw the film was in its TV version because NBC showed it about six times ...

Preorder on the Kino site is very agreeable at $79

If you want to wait for overseas releases, which I have to assume will happen because these are popular titles, it's possible the TV cuts could pop up there. Kino for whatever reason has never been a label that's dabbled into the TV cuts. Other ...

I am passing not only because they don't include the TV cuts, but because I have ZERO desire to listen to any commentary that Julie Kirgo is part of or any liner notes that she is the author of. Get set for her to go off about feminist subtexts or a lot of discourse on abortion for the first film ...

Tomorrowland (2015) 5 of 10

-I gave this film a look because I am a big fan of classic Disney theme park attractions and also have studied a lot about the 1964 World's Fair. I have to say that the opening scenes recreating the 64 World's Fair are excellent. They literally got the details of the ...

Disney doesn't even care about preserving its own past. And they've invested so much in pushing the woke agendas of the franchise's recent history that calling attention to the innocent era before all that existed wouldn't be in their self interest!

Lucas, over the years, has been rather firm about not screening the original and, when asked in 2004 by the Associated Press why he doesn’t simply release the original version along with the Special Editions, rather grumpily shot back, “The Special Edition, that’s the one I wanted out there. The ...

Some of the biggest names of 1960s TV tried their hands at film careers and found out the hard way that their TV success couldn't translate beyond that (Steve McQueen had been a TV star in the late 50s so he doesn't count). Not just Van Dyke, but Mary Tyler Moore flopped as did Richard Chamberlain ...

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) 5 of 10
-I saw this film multiple times on TV as a child between the ages of 5 and 10 I think. I loved it then (yes, I found the Child Catcher genuinely scary), but then when I got older I stopped watching it except maybe once in the 90s and until last night never saw ...

Diamonds Are Forever (1971) 7 of 10
-I waited a few days after seeing OHMSS to see this because some detuning from that film is needed to appreciate DAF more. You have to view the film in the context of the producers trying to forget as much as possible the previous film, which was understandable ...

I'll agree YOLT is watchable and can be fun as I think even the weakest of Bond films pre-2002 can be fun (except maybe "Licence To Kill"). I think what this marathon demonstrates though is how the weaknesses stand out if you engage in a quick marathon sequential viewing of the franchise and that ...