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Laurel & Hardy: Year Two – The Newly Restored 1928 Silents Blu-ray Review: A Must Have for Comedy Fans

By Gordon S. Miller | Dec 4, 2024

Flicker Alley has followed up last year's Laurel & Hardy: Year One - The Newly Restored 1927 Silents with Year ...

Looney Tunes Collector’s Choice Vols. 1 – 4 Blu-ray Review: Button Up Your Tonsils and Enjoy a Looney Ride

By Greg Hammond | Nov 26, 2024

The Warner Archive Collection has released a four-disc set titled Looney Tunes Collector’s Choice Volumes 1 - 4. Containing 97 ...

The Powerpuff Girls: The Complete Series DVD Review: Fighting Crime, Trying to Save the World

By Greg Hammond | May 17, 2024

The Powerpuff Girls was an American animated series on the Cartoon Network from 1998 to 2005 (six seasons and 78 ...

Vitagraph Comedies Blu-ray Review: A Beautifully Restored Archive of Early Silent-Era Films

By Greg Hammond | May 14, 2024

Vitagraph Comedies are a collection of 40 short films curated by the Library of Congress and distributed by Kino Lorber. ...

Looney Tunes Collector’s Choice Vol. 3 Blu-ray Review: Another Choice Collection of Classic Cartoons

By Gordon S. Miller | Apr 16, 2024

The Warner Archive Collection has gone back through the vaults to present the Looney Tunes Collector's Choice Vol. 3. This ...

Looney Tunes Collector’s Choice Vol. 2 Blu-ray Review: Another Wonderful Collection of Classic Cartoons

By Gordon S. Miller | Mar 28, 2024

Fans should be happy that Looney Tunes Collector's Choice Vol. 2 expands upon the previous volume's offerings in the number ...

2024 Oscar-Nominated Live Action Short Films Review

By Gordon S. Miller | Feb 16, 2024

Starting February 16, the 19th annual Oscar Nominated Short Films will be available in over 700 theaters globally and in ...

2024 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Short Films Review

By Darcy Staniforth | Feb 15, 2024

Starting February 16, the 19th annual Oscar Nominated Short Films will be available in over 700 theaters globally and in ...

2024 Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Films Review

By Gordon S. Miller | Feb 15, 2024

Starting February 16, the 19th annual Oscar Nominated Short Films will be available in over 700 theaters globally and in ...

Laurel & Hardy: Year One – The Newly Restored 1927 Silents Blu-ray Review: A Standout Release

By Gordon S. Miller | Nov 25, 2023

Flicker Alley has followed up their Laurel or Hardy: Early Solo Films of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy with Laurel ...

Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Cracking Collection Blu-ray Review: Charming, Entertaining, and Imaginative

By Gordon S. Miller | Nov 20, 2023

Wallace & Gromit are a claymation comedic duo created by writer/director Nick Park and produced by Aardman Animations. Wallace (voiced ...

Scorsese Shorts Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Must-own for Fans of the Director

By Gordon S. Miller | Nov 18, 2023

Scorsese Shorts presents a quintet of director Martin Scorsese's early short films, two documentaries from the '70s and three short ...

Sex, Power, and Money: Films by Beth B Blu-ray Review: A Filmmaker of Incredible Vision and Prescience

By Davy | Sep 15, 2023

As an extreme film buff, I always appreciate and seek out filmmakers and films that challenge the usual and obviously ...

The Woody Woodpecker and Friends Classic Cartoon Collection DVD Review: A Fantastic Set

By Gordon S. Miller | Sep 9, 2023

This three-disc set features 75 digitally remastered cartoons from the Walter Lantz Archive. The biggest star to come out of ...

Soundies: The Ultimate Collection Blu-ray Review: The Set Is Really a Lot of Fun

By Davy | Jul 25, 2023

Going through history, there's always hidden gems of pop culture that seem lost forever, whether it's film or television. However, ...

Looney Tunes Collector’s Choice Vol. 1 Blu-ray Review: A Good Start to Becoming a Cartoon Collector

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 13, 2023

Looney Tunes Collector's Choice Volume 1 presents 20 Warner Brothers cartoons, 10 each from the 1940s and '50s. Not sure ...

Max Fleischer’s Superman 1941-1943 Blu-ray Review: It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s DNR!

By Gordon S. Miller | May 14, 2023

After Superman became a sensation in comic books, newspaper comic strips, and on the radio, Fleischer Studios, home of cartoons ...

Silent Avant-Garde Blu-ray Review: Interesting and Assorted Curiosities

By Davy | Apr 5, 2023

I have come around on silent cinema, and I've always loved experimental/avant-garde films. Putting the two rather misunderstood categories of ...

Ice Merchants Movie Review: A Heartrending Winner

By Davy | Feb 20, 2023

These days its amazing that filmmakers are still able to invent new ways to tell stories, especially those centering on ...

2023 Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Films Review

By Gordon S. Miller | Feb 17, 2023

Starting February 17, the 2023 Oscar Nominated Short Films will be available in over 500 theaters across 75+ theatrical markets ...

2023 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Short Films Review

By Darcy Staniforth | Feb 16, 2023

Starting February 17, the 2023 Oscar Nominated Short Films will be available in over 500 theaters across 75+ theatrical markets ...

2023 Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Short Films Review

By Davy | Feb 15, 2023

Starting February 17, the 2023 Oscar Nominated Short Films will be available in over 500 theaters across 75+ theatrical markets ...

Cinema’s First Nasty Women Blu-ray Set Review: Thoughtfully Highlights Unknown Performers from Different Walks of Life

By Davy | Dec 29, 2022

When Donald Trump called opponent Hilary Clinton a "nasty woman" at a 2016 televised debate, the term came back to ...

A scene grab from the short film Fireworks

Tribeca 2022 Interview: Producer Annalise Davis Talks Fireworks

By David Wangberg | Jul 1, 2022

Producer Annalise Davis has been in the film industry for nearly 20 years, having worked on films such as The ...

Panda! Go Panda! Blu-ray Review: Proto Totoro Anime Film

By Kent Conrad | Jul 1, 2022

In my estimation, Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro is one of the greatest films ever made. It's an almost perfect fantasy ...

Tribeca 2022 Review: Fireworks

By David Wangberg | Jun 29, 2022

There have been many films and television series that involve top-level characters carrying out orders to bomb a certain location ...

Tribeca 2022 Review: Coming Out with the Help of a Time Machine

By Davy | Jun 23, 2022

Coming out of the closet for in one of the most difficult things that anyone in LGBTQ community ever has ...

Tribeca 2022 Review: Out of Order

By Davy | Jun 15, 2022

Sometimes the big city can bring a lot of you, including your search of love after heartbreak. This appealingly familiar ...

Tribeca 2022 Review: Closing Dynasty

By Davy | Jun 11, 2022

Written and directed by Lloyd Lee Choi Closing Dynasty is a quietly humanistic short portrait of how we really do ...

Constantine: The House of Mystery Blu-ray Review: A Cosmic Groundhog Day

By Gordon S. Miller | May 3, 2022

The DC Showcase Animated Shorts release Constantine: The House of Mystery is similar to the franchise's Batman: Death in the ...

SXSW 2022 Review: Radical Honesty

By Davy | Mar 12, 2022

I can't say much about dating. I've never been on a date, so I have no experience. However, watching movies ...

2022 Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Films Review

By Gordon S. Miller | Feb 24, 2022

ShortsTV presents the 17th annual Oscar Nominated Short Films theatrical releases. Spanning the categories of Live Action, Animation, and Documentary, ...

2022 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Short Films Review

By Darcy Staniforth | Feb 24, 2022

ShortsTV presents the 17th annual Oscar Nominated Short Films theatrical releases. Spanning the categories of Live Action, Animation, and Documentary, the ...

2022 Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Short Films Review

By Davy | Feb 23, 2022

ShortsTV presents the 17th annual Oscar Nominated Short Films theatrical releases. Spanning the categories of Live Action, Animation, and Documentary, ...

Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 3 Blu-ray Review: Another Must-own for Fans of Avery and Animation

By Gordon S. Miller | Oct 21, 2021

The Warner Archive Collection has released the third volume of their Tex Avery Screwball Classics line, bringing the total number ...

Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 2 Blu-ray Review: A Second Helping of Silliness

By Gordon S. Miller | Dec 15, 2020

The Warner Archive Collection has released the second volume of their Tex Avery Screwball Classics line, bringing the total number ...

Batman: Death in the Family Interactive Movie Review: Ready Viewer One

By Gordon S. Miller | Oct 12, 2020

A sequel to the animated film Batman: Under The Red Hood, which I previously reviewed, Batman: Death in the Family is an animated film ...

Worst Cartoons Ever! DVD Review: They Stink!

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 24, 2020

[It was a tradition Friday nights at San Diego Comic Con to visit Jerry Beck's long-running panel, Worst Cartoons Ever!, ...

Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 1 Blu-ray Review: A Must-Own for Animation Fans

By Gordon S. Miller | Jun 14, 2020

When it comes to the work of legendary animation director Fred “Tex” Avery, the stories typically show order giving way ...

The Pink Panther Cartoon Collection: Volume 6 (1978-1980) Blu-ray Review

By Gordon S. Miller | May 17, 2020

From January 2018 to December 2019, Kino Lorber Animation released the entire run of 124 Pink Panther cartoons produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises ...