Something Old, Nothing New

Sean Gaffney has the titles and descriptions of all 75 cartoons in the upcoming Woody Woodpecker set. Woody was introduced in an Andy Panda ...

A handy compilation of most of the Pinky and the Brain "Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?" responses. (There are probably ...

After writing my post on Zero Hour and Airplane! , I found this transcript of Zero Hour that highlights the lines that were re-used in Air...

The new DVD of Howard Hawks' Land of the Pharaohs looks all right, though it certainly could look better (the process shots in particul...

Good news: after its superb work on the Get Smart set, Time-Life has announced that it's doing another complete series set for a '6...

The announcement that Woody Allen will be directing a production of Puccini's Gianni Schicchi (William Friedkin will direct the other t...

Watching the preview of the Woody Woodpecker DVD set at WoodyWoodpecker.com , it occurred to me that the early, crazy Woody -- the one with ...

Season 2 of Family Ties is on the schedule , but I wouldn't get too excited until we find out which episodes Paramount has cut up for m...

YouTube has the first part of an unsold pilot (burned off on a Failure-Theatre show called "Vacation Playhouse") that I've alw...

As part of my neverending quest to find obscure Tashlin movies, I stumbled on a VHS of the 1954 Susan Slept Here at Sam the Record Man'...

With Zero Hour coming out on DVD, I wonder: does anyone else find it kind of shabby that Airplane! didn't give any credit to the write...

You know that guy who posts in the comments section of every blog post, anywhere, that mentions a Dean Martin movie? The one who always writ...

Just to see if it would work, I tried taking music from the Viennese operetta A Waltz Dream by Oscar Straus, which Ernst Lubitsch made into...

If this is Home Theater Forum post is correct, this sounds like one of the more ambitious classic-films-on-DVD projects a major studio has t...

Oh, good -- Ken Levine is writing about the old network practice of burning off unsold pilots in the summer. I don't know about you, bu...

The only other piece of memorabilia that I was directed to because of my recent post (so you don't have to worry about other posts like ...

Eartha Kitt's big number from the revue New Faces of 1952 , and the next-to-last number in the 1954 movie version. While most of the you...

In case you're wondering whether we're going to see Parker Lewis Can't Lose again (one of the best comedies of the early '9...

I just noticed that in the YouTube comments for the Freakazoid! cartoon "Candle Jack" (Paul Rugg at his craziest as a performer ...

This interview with Joe Dante includes some thoughts on the Looney Tunes movie, his never-made "Termite Terrace" project, and th...