Oh, my, my. This is a dream come true for a number of old-movie fans. I love the Warner Archive for bringing so many classic and lesser-known films to DVD. Now comes word that they’re working on a subscription streaming service, currently in restricted beta, called Warner Archive Instant. They’re promising access to their rare [...]

Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann Shout! Factory continues its run of bringing obscure fan-favorite films to Blu-ray with its newest announcement: Timerider, a 1982 science fiction action pic co-written and produced by Michael Nesmith, who also provides the music. Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann stars Fred Ward as a motorcyclist who’s accidentally sent [...]

The Muppets… Again! will be in theaters on March 21, 2014, and EW.com has an “interview” with Kermit to start the promotion machine running. The movie is filming now in London. In an echo of The Great Muppet Caper, the second Muppet movie, this film features the gang getting “tangled up with a criminal mastermind [...]

I think I just put the entire story in the headline, but Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock) doesn’t look nearly so good in stringy blond hair. He’s shown here with Daniel Brühl, playing Daniel Domscheit-Berg, in The Fifth Estate. The Fifth Estate is being made by DreamWorks Studios and will open in the US on November 15, [...]

I was sent this link to a do-it-yourself video by “The Stylish” YouTube fashion channel because of its comic book connection. I looked at it and thought, hunh, they’re trying to make decoupage, one of the many crafts I associate with the 70s (along with macrame and pop can top projects) popular again. On the [...]

The sequel to Red, a comic book movie adaptation I was really surprised to enjoy, has had its first trailer released. Red (said to stand for “Retired, Extremely Dangerous”) was based on a comic by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner about retired CIA agents that have to reunite and demonstrate how they’re still incredibly competent [...]

Dick Tracy A shipping mixup can be your benefit! I have an extra copy of Dick Tracy on Blu-ray, and I’m giving it away to one lucky winner in this contest. To enter to win, please leave a comment below telling me your favorite comic strip movie adaptation. Or any comic strip adaptation — I [...]

To say thank you to customers, WarnerArchive.com is having a sale, good through tomorrow, January 14. Choosing from a selection of over 1000 DVD titles, you can order five titles for $45 with free ground shipping.

Dredd is an extremely violent science fiction action movie that is also very faithful to its comic source. For fans of either genre, it’s worth watching. Comic fans will also appreciate the mini-documentary on the source material included in the home video release. Dredd Judge Dredd was created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra in [...]

Super-fan Mike Pingel has self-published an episode guide to the Wonder Woman TV show. That’s only half the book, though. The other half is full of information on the show and its star, Lynda Carter. (This is the second edition, a reworked version of The Q Guide to Wonder Woman (2008), that includes a new [...]

CBS has announced that the Hawaii Five-O episode airing Monday, January 14, will have an ending determined by a real-time audience vote. Votes will be taken at their website or on Twitter to determine which person killed a university professor: his boss, his teaching assistant, or a student. “Separate voting will occur for East/Central and [...]

Dick Tracy was released on Blu-ray last month. I saw the movie when it came out, and I was impressed by the cast. I also liked the limited palette, with only a few shades of bright colors used to give the movie a comic-strip look. For instance, early on, a set of oil barrels are [...]

Annie Hall Annie Hall (1977) I very much dislike watching most Woody Allen movies, because his personality colors my take on his work. (Fairly, I think, since so many of his films are about him or someone just like him.) However, I thought I’d better see this one, since it’s possibly his greatest and best-known. [...]

The episode of Hot in Cleveland airing Wednesday, January 2, on TVLand, features the stars heading to the “Cleveland Fantasy Con” in some convoluted plotline that puts guest Heather Locklear and show anchor Valerie Bertinelli into costume, as shown in this promo clip: Hot in Cleveland Valerie’s character has a thing for Jay Harrington (whom [...]

Warner Archive continues its trend of finding the most wonderful and amazing discoveries, movies and TV shows you didn’t know you wanted but once you hear about them sound terrific. Before the Lynda Carter Wonder Woman TV show took off, they tried a 1974 pilot starring Cathy Lee Crosby. It’s more similar to the white-suit, [...]

They made a live-action film version of the manga Rurouni Kenshin, starring Takeru Sato as the title character and directed by Keishi Ohtomo. The movie will be shown (with subtitles) at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 14 at LA EigaFest in Hollywood. As described by the promoters, The film, released this summer in Japan, follows goofy, gentle [...]

Jacques Tardi’s graphic novel series The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec had a live-action movie adaptation that came out in France two years ago. The film was directed and produced by Luc Besson (The Fifth Element) and starred Louise Bourgoin. Set in 1913, reporter Adele sails to Egypt to handle mummies and deals with the [...]

KC and I went to see The Perks of Being a Wallflower because we’d somewhere heard it described as this generation’s John Hughes film. I don’t think that’s an accurate comparision, for reasons I’ll get into, but it’s certainly well worth seeing as a affecting, intelligent portrait of teenage emotional growth. I’m impressed that Stephen [...]

Through tomorrow (December 5), Warner Archive has two special deals available. If you’re looking for a few single-disc movies, you can get three for $33 from their list of over 1200 titles. (That’s almost half-price, considering their standard list is $19.95 a disc.) Here are some of the included films I’ve previously written about: Americathon [...]

Detention I can pretty much guarantee you missed knowing that Detention even existed, which is a shame. Although I hate horror films, I enjoyed this mashup of teen movies, high school slasher flicks, and parodies. The more you know about any of those types, the more you’ll enjoy this film, which never stops moving and [...]