Something Old, Nothing New

It's a good time to be a Frank Tashlin fan. Fox is finally releasing, in August, The Jayne Mansfield Collection , which will feature t...

( My first "WKRP in Cincinnati" post, about the episode "Real Families," can be found below this one.) Now, of course I ...

The original Star Wars Trilogy on DVD, by which USA Today means the original original trilogy, before George Lucas did whatever it is Geo...

Though "WKRP in Cincinnati" will probably never be on DVD (music rights, music rights, and music rights are the three reasons why)...

Well, finally, an '80s series will have every episode available on DVD: Fox has announced the last volume of "Remington Steele...

One of the things about being an old-movie buff is that you can fall into the trap of talking as though all movie genres were done better i...

Cartoon Brew has had a number of posts on Cartoon Network's insane decision to show old live-action movies and TV shows (because, after...

"Little Rural Riding Hood" (1949) is sort of the end of an era for Avery: it was his last cartoon with "Red," the sexy r...

Season 6 of "King of the Hill" comes out on DVD tomorrow. I have mixed feelings about this season. This is the season where ...

US News and World Report: "Skewering comedy skit angers Bush and aides." Comedy Central star Stephen Colbert's biting routine ...

Having done way too many posts about the greatness of cartoonist-writer Bob Bolling and his "Little Archie" comics, I thought I...

Some more lyrics from that most fascinating of all flop musicals The Golden Apple , by the great John LaTouche. How many musical-theatre l...

Thad has an animation analysis of the Chuck Jones classic "Rabbit Hood." It's based on another one of Greg Duffell's great...

I just placed an order at Amazon for a recording of Wagner's "Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg" , conducted by Rafael Kubelik , ...

One thing that used to strike me about modern TV is that it hadn't really produced an Archie Bunker figure -- a TV character who was bot...

Bill Crider reminds me that yesterday was the 65th birthday of Ann-Margret. (She shares a birthday with Saddam Hussein and Jay Leno.) A...

It's Always Fair Weather makes for a good DVD, with a good transfer and a making-of featurette that is more honest than these things us...

Lee Siegel's "Culture" blog at The New Republic is kind of a train wreck. (That publication's pop-culture coverage has s...

"The Batman," aka "The Show That Is Not 'Batman the Animated Series,'" aka "Batmanime," will be addin...

Here are some rare Tex Avery MGM cartoons that are currently YouTubeified: Avery's first cartoon at MGM, "Blitz Wolf" (1942) r...