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50 Years, 50 Films

Jul 2, 2020 0

Covid-19 makes us do strange things – baking bread, canning fruit, assembling scrapbooks, sewing masks, drinking more alcohol than ever imagined, and watching a ton of content. We’re also making lists. At least I am. […]

Safe At Home Blu-Ray Round-Up

Jun 22, 2020 0

With the world turned topsy-turvy over COVID-19, now might be the best time to catch up with some of the latest Blu-ray releases of classic and foreign films. Here are ten capsule reviews of new […]

DWT Presents: Roots, Rock, Reggae

May 29, 2020 0

Drinking While Talking Co-Host Wade Sheeler brings back his class ic podcast tracing the roots of rock, R&B, reggae and popular music. Each episode he takes a genre or song and goes as far back […]

‘But I don’t want comfort’: DEMOLITION MAN

May 19, 2020 0

According to 1993’s Demolition Man, the Los Angeles of 1996 is like a war zone: a post-apocalyptic, grim, techno-blasted war zone. As seen at the start of this sci-fi-comic-action bonanza, even the Hollywood sign is […]

Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zeman Criterion Boxset

May 14, 2020 0

Most special effects artists try to convince audiences that what they’re seeing is real—that the giant dinosaur, the 100-foot tidal wave, the alien invasion are really there and sharing the same physical space as the […]

New Year! New Blu-Ray Round-Up!

Jan 8, 2020 0

A FACE IN THE CROWD (1957) (Criterion Collection, Spine #970) ★★★★½ When I first saw Elia Kazan’s A Face in the Crowd over five years ago, I wrote in my journal that the film, while […]

“You’re Welcome Here Anytime” – Remembering Robert Osborne

by Jill Blake in Featured 5

by Jill Blake, Senior Editor Five years ago this May, I had the honor of sitting in on one of Robert Osborne’s shoots for TCM. I had recently attended a screening of Seven Brides for [...]