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24 Sep

Alejandro Jodorowsky 4K Restoration Collection Brings Clarity to Underground Film

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Alejandro Jodorowsky’s films are confounding, grotesque, beautiful and healing, often within the same frame. The post-violence images of the opening sequence of El Tropo are made more horrific as they are reflected through the eyes of a seven-year-old boy, still naked from a rite of passage. Jodorowky’s films are a gateway drug. The Alejandro Jodorowsky 4K Restoration Collection of his cult classics Fando y Lis, El Topo, and The Holy Mountain, as well as his new Psychomagic, A Healing Art, are a first taste. The most surrealistic of the psychedelic filmmakers had no special effects, or even fancy cameras in his…
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03 Sep

Super Mario 3D All-Stars Collection Gets September Release Date

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Nintendo has revealed the Super Mario 3D All-Stars Collection for Nintendo Switch, which includes Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, and Super Mario Galaxy. Each of the three games in the collection has been updated to take advantage of the Nintendo Switch’s capabilities. Their resolutions have been enhanced, they can all be played with two Joy-Con controllers, and Super Mario Sunshine will support a 16:9 aspect ration. Interestingly, the reveal video suggests that only Sunshine will support that last feature, but we’re still waiting for clarification on that topic. It’s also noteworthy that Super Mario Galaxy 2 is not included…
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03 Aug

Halo: The Master Chief Collection Crossplay Will Connect Xbox One and PC Players

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While developer 343 Industries prepares to unleash Halo Infinite on the Xbox Series X later this year, the studio is also hard at work on improving the PC and Xbox One versions of Halo: The Master Chief Collection. In a new blog post on Halo Waypoint, 343 has detailed a new update that will bring crossplay, mouse and keyboard support for Xbox One, a custom game browser, PC fileshare, new graphics and audio options, and more to the collection. Currently, all of these updates are slated for 2020, but 343 declined “to commit to specific dates as things need to…
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05 Jun

Selma and Criterion Collection Lower Pay Walls in Support of Black Voices

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More than 50 years since black protestors first attempted to walk with protestors across a bridge in Selma—a bridge where they were met with violence and bloodshed at the hands of local authorities—it appears much and little has changed in American life. Millions make that connection each day as we head into the second weekend of protests against police brutality following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Maybe that’s why some are eager to revisit the history of this American experience. Hence Paramount Pictures announced Friday it is making Ava DuVernay’s Selma available for free across all major content…
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14 Apr

Bruce Lee to Get Definitive Criterion Collection Blu-ray Box Set

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Bruce Lee’s cinematic legacy may already be secure, but it’s about to be boosted by impressive Blu-ray releases, courtesy of The Criterion Collection, that will see his five legendary, genre-transformative Hong Kong action films in a way we’ve never before imagine, digitally restored in 4K resolution. The Criterion Collection has officially announced Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits, which will be released on July 14. The 7-disc Blu-ray box set will showcase 4K digital restorations of fist-flying films, The Big Boss, Fist of Fury, Game of Death, and The Way of the Dragon. Additionally, Lee’s signature film and iconoclastic actioner, Enter…
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15 Jul

The Brady-est Brady Bunch TV & Movie Collection

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Recommended Gather round, kiddos, for this review of The Brady-est Brady Bunch TV & Movie Collection will, as never before, attempt to make sense of this unkillable piece of pop culture iconography. Your humble reviewer was in the thick of things when The Brady Bunch, the 1969-74 family sitcom, staked its claim onto the American consciousness, and can offer a bit perspective those generations, just before and since, can't quite reconcile. But before we do that, let's first point out that this compact if unruly boxed DVD set, with a total running time of around 75 hours (!) of material…
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17 Jun

Sesame Street: Awesome Alphabet Collection

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Recommended The Show:As my two-year old goes from infant to toddler and is more of a sponge soaking up data and information I try to keep his media above board with things on education, and having Sesame Street as your driver in the club bag is a clutch one I have to say. He can watch Elmo, or Kermit or Bert and Ernie with content while I get his meals ready, and he gets the chance to learn something in the process. So yeah, damn right I grabbed Awesome Alphabet Collection as a surrogate parent!The disc is less a series…
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03 May

The Alice Howell Collection

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Recommended The Alice Howell Collection: From where we are now, it\\\'s weird to think of these silent comedies as being filmed and released 25 to 35 years after the advent of motion pictures. I mean, with the first true examples of \\\'film\\\' coming from the mid-1880s, you\\\\\\\'d think that by 1914 a picture like Shot in the Excitement, featuring early film comedienne Alice Howell, would look more sophisticated. Aah, but those were the olden days, when horse-drawn carriages still regularly shared the road with motor cars. This 2-disc collection of silent motion picture comedies, curated by Steve Massa and Ben…
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14 Nov

I Married Joan: Classic TV Collection Vol 4

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Recommended Back in the late 1970s a local UHF station in my Detroit market, WKBD TV-50, ran a summer series consisting of long unseen, rarely syndicated-by-then sitcoms from the 1950s and early- 60s, most of which never turned up anywhere else since. These included The People's Choice (starring Jackie Cooper), How to Marry a Millionaire (based on the movie, and featuring Barbara Eden), December Bride (and its spin-off, Pete & Gladys), Topper, My Little Margie, Love That Bob! (aka The Bob Cummings Show) and others. What prompted the airing of this collection of old shows? Maybe the local station had…
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31 Oct

Thelma Todd & Zasu Pitts: The Hal Roach Collection 1931-33

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DVD Talk Collector Series Hal Roach Studios produced many of the best short and feature comedies of the silent and early sound era. Roach's most successful films were the shorts and features starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, but his studio also boasted Our Gang (aka The Little Rascals), Charley Chase and others. Roach was a businessman, but making his comedies good was equally important. As he had done earlier with silent great Harold Lloyd, Roach nurtured his properties, favoring strong characterizations over broad slapstick. His was a small company with a family atmosphere, the "Lot of Fun," as it…
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25 Oct

Saved By The Bell: The Complete Collection

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Highly Recommended Originally created by TV writer Sam Bobrick and developed by producer Peter Engel, Saved by the Bell (1989-93) outgrew humble origins to quickly become an enduring and popular teen sitcom -- which, at the time, was a genre that didn't exist. First envisioned as a teacher-focused series called Good Morning, Miss Bliss in 1988, it was retooled for younger audiences with a bigger spotlight on the (mostly new) students and a more fun and colorful atmosphere. Both were necessary with the show's new timeslot on NBC: Saturday mornings, where it was head-to-head against cartoons that had dominated the…
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22 Jun

George Carlin Commemorative Collection

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DVD Talk Collector Series The Collection: As we remember George Carlin on the tenth anniversary of his passing (June 22,2008), it will come as a great joy to fans to be able to celebrate George's talent with a new 10-disc multi-format set, George Carlin Commemorative Collection. The set incorporates all fourteen of George's stand-up specials for HBO, several hours of additional television appearances and interviews, the recent posthumous CD I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die, and HD versions of his final two specials. It's the definitive George Carlin video collection.Fans of stand-up comedy already know that George…
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21 Jun

Jackass TV and Movie Collection

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Highly Recommended The Collection:During its heyday, Jackass was as close to having a TV show that was full-blown unhinged, subversive, and fascinating performance art. Or, it was a dumb TV show about a bunch of morons doing incredibly stupid things for our enjoyment, the modern equivalent of a carnival freak show. No matter how you dice it, one thing was for sure, it was a lot of fun to experience it. You always wanted to look away, but you couldn't avert your eyes either.This collection of DVDs basically repackages the exact same previously available discs of the Jackass experience over…
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30 May

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Singles Collection

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DVD Talk Collector Series The Collection: Shout! Factory seems to have completed the nearly two-decade process of putting out DVDs of all the legally cleared episodes from Mystery Science Theater 3000's original 1989-1999 run, with last year's 39th volume. But, the company's work is not totally done. In addition to releasing the cult comedy show's new episodes on disc, they've been doubling back to get the original Rhino-released DVD sets of the show back in print. (I reviewed the reissued
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16 Mar

The Marcel Perez Collection: Vol. 2

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Highly Recommended The Shorts:One of my absolute favorite compilations of silent film shorts isUndercrank Productions disc TheMarcel Perez Collection. An amazing and totally forgottensilent clown, Perez made hilarious films that were also creative andtechnically innovative. The only down-side was that the 10 shorts onthat disc were all of the films of Marcel Perez that were availableat the time. Luckily, more have turned up so Undercrack has releaseda second volume, appropriately titled The Marcel PerezCollection Volume 2, filled with eight more offerings fromthis silent clown. Just as fun and entertaining as the first volume,this is a disc you'll want to add…
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16 Oct

Ernie Kovacs: Take A Good Look: The Definitive Collection

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DVD Talk Collector Series The Show: Ernie Kovacs was a pioneer, an innovator in the realm of early TV comedy, who has morphed into a cult figure over the years. Most folks have probably missed out on Ernie's best bits, and if you have, I recommend checking out The Ernie Kovacs Collection, Volumes One and Two. These lovely box sets were released by Shout! Factory roughly five years ago, and they offer a thorough survey of Ernie's varied and all-too-brief career. (He was killed in a car crash at age 42.)Now, Shout! Factory is releasing a (nearly) complete set of…
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18 Sep

Phantasm – 5 Movie DVD Collection

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Recommended In April, Well Go USA finally brought all five Phantasm movies to Blu-ray in a swanky six-disc package stuffed to the gills with bonus features. Now, five months later, Well Go has a second set on offer. This standard-def DVD set may not be a satisfying replacement for Blu-ray owners who wanted the new remastered presentations in their HD glory, but is an affordable alternative for casual fans, and features a reasonable chunk of the content produced by Well Go for the Blu-ray edition.As a franchise, Phantasm is a unique and bizarre beast. Following the exploits of Mike (A.…
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16 Sep

Cinematic Titanic: The Complete Collection

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Recommended Between the cancellation of the original show in 1999 and the Kickstarter for its revival in 2015, there have been three major attempts to revive the format of "Mystery Science Theater 3000" for a new generation, all by people who worked on the original program. Two of them, one successful and one unsuccessful, feature the team of Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett (arguably the "second generation" cast, even though Murphy voiced Servo in all of the "official" episodes of the original series). The successful iteration is Rifftrax, which uses .mp3 files to allow the team to…
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