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Blog of Thrones: ‘Valar Dohaeris’ Picks Up the Pieces

Jon Snow, still knows nothing.In the intense closing moments of Game of Thrones’ second season, we learned a new phrase. “Valar… Read More

Fund This Film: Alex Cox’s Sci-Fi Comedy ‘Bill the Galactic Hero’ is the Anti-’Starship Troopers’

Cover illustration from a 1975 printing of Bill, the Galactic Hero by Michael Gross.Crowdfunding was made for guys like Alex Cox.… Read More

21 Things We Learned From Scream Factory’s ‘From Beyond’ Commentary

Stuart Gordon’s 1985 film, Re-Animator, remains one of the absolute best horror/comedies of the last three decades thanks to its… Read More

Blog of Thrones: Death Comes for Everyone and Everything

301 days. Not that anyone’s counting, but that is how long it will have been when “Valar Dohaeris,” the first… Read More

How Digital Libraries Made My DVD Collection Better

These are hard times for physical media devotees. The format isn’t dead yet - Blu-Rays and DVDs still represent 61%… Read More

Fund This Film: ‘Beyond the Bolex’ Looks At the Past and Future of Your First Movie Camera

Do you know who Jacques Bolsey was? Also known as Jacques Bogopolsky, he was the inventor of the Bolex movie… Read More

22 Things We Learned From the ‘This Is 40’ Commentary

“I think you think I never cut anything, but I cut tons of stuff. It’s long and I cut in half.” Read More

Fund This Film: ‘Momentum’ is Original, Smart and Well-Designed Science Fiction

Fund This Film: ‘Momentum’ is Original, Smart and Well-Designed Science FictionAfter all that has happened with Kickstarter this week, Fund This… Read More

33 Things We Learned from the ‘Psycho’ Commentary

Legendary director Alfred Hitchcock has many connections to this week. First of all, this past Tuesday was “National Alfred Hitchcock… Read More

The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie’s Movie Career Through the Criterion Collection

Last week, David Bowie released The Next Day, his first album of entirely original music in a decade. That the… Read More