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2007 National Film Registry Films Announced

December 29, 2007 Rich Drees

The Library of Congress has made its annual announcement of the 25 films to be added to the Library’s National Film Registry, and as in years past, the films are a combination of modern favorites [click for more]

Welles’ CITIZEN KANE Oscar Statue A Bust At Auction

December 13, 2007 Rich Drees

An investment is only as good as the price you can get when you ultimate divest yourself of it, and it looks like the Dax Foundation’s 2003 investment in the Academy Award statue awarded to [click for more]

SUPERMAN III: It Could Have Been Worse

November 29, 2007 Rich Drees

A few months back, I was working my way through my box set of the Christopher Reeves Superman films, when the inevitable happened. I had to watch Superman III. I hadn’t seen the film all [click for more]

BLADE RUNNER Location In Need Of Restoration

November 26, 2007 Rich Drees

While it may have looked like a partly crumbling old building in its appearance in 1982’s Blade Runner, real life Los Angeles landmark and sometimes movie location, The Ennis House, has not weathering the passage [click for more]

Munchkins Get Walk Of Fame Star

November 22, 2007 Rich Drees

Almost seven decades after they welcomed a twister-tossed Dorothy to the magical land of Oz, the diminutive Munchkins were welcomed to the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a presentation of their own star commerating their [click for more]

Spend Thanksgiving With The Hardys!

November 21, 2007 Rich Drees

As Thanksgiving is the one holiday steeped in Americana and there is no film series that celebrates ordinary American life like MGM’s Andy Hardy series, it makes perfect sense that Turner Classic Movies will be [click for more]

Pickford Oscar Trial Location Set

November 20, 2007 Rich Drees

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has tentatively ruled that a lawsuit filed to halt the sale of one of two Academy Award statuettes originally awarded to silent film star Mary Pickford should be tried [click for more]

MEXICAN SPITFIRE Takes Over TCM

November 20, 2007 Rich Drees

Most comedy series from the Golden Age of Hollywood relied on a specific formula to crank out installments. Universal’s Blondie series always saw hapless husband Dagwood getting into one predicament after another only to be [click for more]

LOONEY TUNES, POPEYE DVD Collections To Remain Uncensored

September 18, 2007 Rich Drees

Last week I expressed some concern over the news that Warners had censored the Tom And Jerry: Spotlight Collection, Volume 3 DVD release by the removal of two cartoons that contained racial humor, wondering what [click for more]

TOM AND JERRY DVD Censored

September 12, 2007 Rich Drees

It looks like the third and final volume of Warner Brothers’s Tom And Jerry theatrical shorts collections will not be as complete as once thought as the label has decided to drop two cartoons — [click for more]