Something Old, Nothing New

It's always a bit embarrassing to admit, but I just realized I had a GeoCities page that I forgot to rescue. It was my transcript of ...

The death of Mary Tyler Moore master writer David Lloyd, and the announcement that the sixth season (with "Chuckles Bites The Dust...

Criterion's February announcements include, at long last, a DVD of Leo McCarey's masterpiece Make Way For Tomorrow , as well as a DV...

One thing I got wrong in my recent Bob Bolling post was the chronology. I thought his return to Little Archie happened in the mid-'80s...

It's looking like Warner Brothers will release some single-disc collections of new-to-DVD cartoons next year, but they will not be resto...

Most of the usual cuts in this season 1 episode occurred in act 2 (there is one bit of music in act 1). There's the sequence with "...

I was talking about Phil Niekro , and was reminded of this piece that Bill James wrote in the 1986 Baseball Abstract about all the people P...

This may be a bit of a pointless film-grammar question, but hear me out. For a long time, the rule in most films was that if one scene happe...

The musical portions of this episode suffered pretty heavily on DVD/Hulu (though "Boogie Oogie Oogie" is one of only three or four...

Some good comments in my previous post, both in terms of correcting me (it was wrong to talk as if Hitchcock was more leery of location shoo...

Comments on a previous post bring up a good point about special effects: it seems like every Hitchcock movie has a special effect or process...

Among the late '50s Famous cartoons written by Irv Spector, "Finnegan's Flea" isn't the most disturbing -- not while ...

Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown is not in the Peanuts '70s collection being released tomorrow (though it will be in a volume 2 if they ...

The great video on the special effects of Bringing Up Baby was deleted along with the user's account, but fortunately he uploaded it ag...

This is sort of a combination of a "request" post and a "my random thoughts" post. First, the random thought: ever sin...