I was just looking at the FMC December schedule and I have good news and I have bad news. The good news is that there's more older films on the schedule, extending further into the afternoon and even in prime time some days. However, the bad news is that they're all repeat showings (sometimes multip...

Both WILD RIVER and Kazan's first film as a director, A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN are perfect examples of the many American films that, while having been available on DVD in Europe for years, are not available in the U.S. These two alone make it worth getting a multi-region player and placing an order ...

I've noticed that with other programs on the BBC website. I wonder if it's because BBC is funded by the TV tax. I know in the U.S., the BBC America channel runs commercials because your law says that the tax can't be used to fund channels outside the UK. Perhaps, the series will be released on DVD o...

Thanks ever so much. I'm glad to hear it's over. Federal law prohibits government employees from striking in the U.S. so it's not something we have to deal with here.

I know that some of us, including myself, order DVDs and other things from the UK. Can any our our friends over there give us the latest news. The last I heard was that it had ended, but there was a possibility that it would resume again. I had also read that there was a 50-60 million piece backlog ...

For whatever reason neither my wife or I had ever seen an episode of NCIS. I think it was over Labor Day weekend that USA was running an NCIS marathon. Well, for lack of anything else to watch she started and within an episode got hooked. Then she got me watching and I got hooked. Ever since, we've ...

Just a reminder of a couple of goodies this weekend on TCM. Saturday (10/31) at 10pm eastern, MURDERS IN THE ZOO (1933). Lional Atwell at stars a crazed zoologist who uses animals to kill his wife's suitors. It also stars Charlie Ruggles, Gail Patrick and Randolph Scott. I recently saw this at a fil...

[quote="Lzcutter"]Holy Cripes, Moira, are you ever right. What a bunch of naysayers.

Well, as we all know there are some folks over there who wouldn't be happy if the studios gave them away for free and had the president of the company hand deliver them to their door.

Every once in a while, I like a good adventure thriller with a touch of horror. I just finished BLOOD AND ICE by Robert Masello. It's 1856 and a British ship is thrown off course by a horrendous storm and ends up in the Antarctic. Something has the crew terrified and that results in two passengers, ...

charliechaplinfan wrote: Did Ford really meet Wyatt Earp or is it a case of printing the legend?

I've read that he did, but I don't really know. Earp lived until 1929 so it's certainly possible.

On my first visit to sunny California back in.... (well, a long time ago) I drove down the coast from San Francisco and spent an afternoon at Hearst Castle. It was a thrill that I remember to this day. One of the highlights for me was sitting in Hearst's private theater and watching films of the var...

BRIGADOON is one of my very favorite musicals, however MGM was very shortsighted in shooting the whole film on a sound stage. Even if they didn't want to spend the money actually shooting it in Scotland, there are locations in California could have passed for it and would have been been an improveme...

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There are certainly a lot of good films there, but with a couple of exceptions they've been run over and over and over again. With all the older films sitting in the Fox vault, FMC ought to be able to land at least a few dozen films that are new to their schedule. When people complain about repeats ...

Hi Moira, Wow! Thanks for your thoughts on the original title. I would have never connected it with scripture (I must have been absent when they covered that in religion class) or THE SEVENTH SEAL. I've seen other films titled for similar reasons so maybe it was so. As for the American title THE BEA...