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The Last Stand, Charles Swan III, Falling Skies: Season Two, new Uni catalog...
Happy Friday, folks! Hope you’re all ready for the weekend. Sorry for missing yesterday’s post – lots of things going on behind-the-scenes at The Bits this week. Good stuff, but stuff that kept us...
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Cleopatra: 50th at last, plus American Horror Story, Homeland, Enter the...
All right, we’ve got another new Blu-ray Disc review for you today. Our own Joe Marchese has given Twilight Time’s new The Rains of Ranchipur a spin and has his thoughts for you here. Watch for more...
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Disney sets Spielberg's Lincoln for BD/DVD on 3/26, plus Stand Up Guys, Mama...
All right, the big announcement news today is that Disney has officially set Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln for Blu-ray and DVD release on 3/26. There will be a 4-disc Blu-ray Combo, a 2-disc Blu-ray...
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Jack Reacher official for 5/7, plus The Howling: CE, Fighting Seabees, The...
Here at The Bits today, we’ve got another new Blu-ray Disc review and a pair of older ones as well. Tim Salmons has checked out Criterion’s new BD release of Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate. Tim has...
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Gangster Squad, True Blood: Season 5, Kino Lorber's May slate,...
Our own Tim Salmons been a busy fellow of late – in addition to the other reviews he’s already done this week, Tim has just turned in his thoughts on Fox’s new Die Hard: 25th Anniversary Collection...
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An Update on Color Timing, DNR and Top Gun 3D
There’s a lot of film enthusiasts out there who have issues whenever a filmmaker makes changes to his films years after the fact. Whether it’s a new director’s cut (Amadeus comes to mind) or revised...
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Cheech & Chong's Animated Movie, Major Crimes & vote in the 2013 Home Media...
We’re closing out the week here at the site with a quick 3D Dimension column update from Jeff Kleist. It seems some of the online natives are a bit restless regarding the color timing of the new Top...
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Welcome to View from the Cheap Seats!
My name is Bud Elder and I’ve loved movies ever since I sold pickle juice at the Canadian Theater in downtown Purcell, Oklahoma in 1971. My first movie reviews were published in the Purcell Dragon...
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Introducing a new regular column on The Bits, plus Ken Burns' Central Park...
All right, we’re kicking off a new regular column here at The Bits this week: Bud Elder’s View from the Cheap Seats! Bud is a longtime movie reviewer and has been associated with Hollywood for many...
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A bit of BD/DVD announcement news, plus great Sherlock: S3-4 news & more!
We’ve got a couple more new Blu-ray Disc reviews for you today. Tim has checked out another pair of great Scream Factory titles for your reading enjoyment: Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm II and Stuart...
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Warner's Gangster BD sets due 5/21, plus Roger Rabbit delay & more announcements
Our Blu-ray review of the day is none other than Jean Rollin’s School Hitchhikers from Kino Lorber! Tim has posted his thoughts for you all to check out here. Meanwhile, know that I’m at work on...
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Shout!'s The Burning & The Town That Dreaded Sundown, plus more announcement...
All right, we’re closing out the week today with another new Blu-ray Disc review. I’ve checked in with my own thoughts on Sony’s Zero Dark Thirty, which offers excellent A/V quality and a darned good...
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Kicking Off the Week with Gangster BD Art & An Unexpected Journey...
All right, here’s hoping you all had a fine weekend… and that those of you who celebrate St. Patrick’s Day aren’t feeling too under the weather today. Nothing else for it but to fire up the old coffee...
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Steven Spielberg & the Schindler’s List: 20th Anniversary Edition
Schindler’s List has become a milestone in more ways than one. Out March 5 by Universal and on Blu-ray for the first time, Schindler’s List remains an important and potent film bringing to light the...
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Beautiful Creatures, Broken City, Side Effects, Greystoke, Space: 1999, One...
All right, we’ve just kicked off a brand new column here at The Bits today! Our own Mario Boucher has turned in a number of Hollywood film “behind the scenes” feature for us in recent months, and now...
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Criterion's June slate, Space: 1999 update, Touch of Evil, Double Indemnity,...
A couple things quickly this morning… Our own Joe Marchese has just turned in a Blu-ray review of Warner’s The Postman Always Rings Twice. This is the original 1946 film with Lana Turner and John...
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Hobbit review update, Walking Dead: Season 3, a last Space: 1999 update & more
Okay, so today’s post is going to be a quickie. Just so you know, I’m hard at work on my review of CBS’ Star Trek: Enterprise – Season One on Blu-ray. That will go up by Monday. Also early next week,...
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Tons of cool news: Earthquake, Midway, Shadow, Sorcerer, Star Trek Into...
Okay… we’re closing out the week with some good catalog Blu-ray announcement news... First up, Disney has set the Atlantis: 2-Movie Collection, Lilo & Stitch and The Emperor’s New Groove for...
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The Great Escape official for 5/7, plus more war/MOD titles & word on...
All right, as promised, we’re kicking things off this week here at The Bits with a new Blu-ray review – my own thoughts on CBS’ Star Trek: Enterprise – Season One, which hits stores tomorrow. The A/V...
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Oklahoma Cowboy Rides into the Sunset
A few weeks ago, the AP wire and even Entertainment Weekly made the simple announcement that Dale Robertson, age 89, had died in southern California. And while the world had lost their western hero...
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BD Announcements: Good Day to Die Hard, Warm Bodies, Hansel & Gretel, Shane &...
All right, we’re pleased to offer you all a brand new View from the Cheap Seats column from our own Bud Elder. In this installment, Bud remembers a dear friend recently lost – veteran Western actor...
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Classic Monster & Hitchcock BD singles, plus Homeland, Breaking Bad & Falling...
We’ve got a bunch more announcement news for you today… First, 20th Century Fox has set the CG-animated Koala Kid for DVD release on 4/30 exclusively at Walmart. Fox has also The Oranges for Blu-ray...
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Upside Down, Open Road, Brubaker, Verdict, Of Human Bondage, House of Seven...
Super-slow news day today, but we do have a new review from Dr. Jahnke for you all to enjoy this afternoon: John Carpenter’s Christine: Limited Edition, now on Blu-ray from Twilight Time in a...
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New Warner DC villains doc, Gaiking, LEGO Empire, Via Zapata & Game of...
Slow news day, but we do have a couple of title announcements for you… First, Warner Home Video has announced that it’s about to begin production on a new documentary called Necessary Evil: The...
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