May 26th would have been John Wayne’s 100th birthday, and appropriately, the major studios are rushing out product over the next few weeks to commemorate one of the most popular, enduring stars in motion picture history. On Tuesday, Paramount will release True Grit: Special Collector& #8217;s...

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It’s even better this season. I reviewed I Dream of Jeannie: The Complete Third Season earlier this year (please click here to read that review), and I found the show, as I have for thirty years in reruns, a delight. I Dream of Jeannie: The Complete Fourth Season is more of the s...

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Welcome back, Your dreams were your ticket out. Welcome back, To that same old place that you laughed about. Well, the names have all changed since you hung around, But those dreams have remained and they’ve turned around. Who’d have thought they’d lead ya, Who’d have ...

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From Britain’s Granada Television comes the 1995 series, Band of Gold , a six-part look at prostitutes and murder in the northern Yorkshire town of Bradford, England. The problem I had with Band of Gold: The Complete First Series was just that: at times it’s a gritty, dark look at th...

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Something Weird Video delivers the goods again for those who think “nud ie,” with two very strange outings in the nudie/cutie genre: 1966’s Electronic Lover and 1969’s The Spy Who Came . Labeled as a “Girls and Gadgets” double feature, only one of the movi...

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Who wants to knock Cary Grant, after all? I certainly don’t, but Lionsgate’s Cary Grant: 4-Disc Collector’s Set doesn’t inspire a lot good will, featuring four of Grant’s later, lesser efforts, presented in less-than- satisfacto ry DVD transfers with no extras. 19...

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A deliciously camp, waking nightmare, The Paul Lynde Halloween Special , a gay and KISS fanatics “holy grail” long-thought lost, has been miraculously unearthed and brought forth in all its gaudy, tacky mid-70s “Big Three” network TV special glory, by S’More Entertainm...

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From Inecom Entertainment comes World War 1: American Legacy , a wonderful documentary from their Minutes of History series. Utilizing spectacular black and white stills, paintings, propaganda posters, and newspaper clippings, World War 1: American Legacy bypasses a traditional chronological, ...

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In honor, one must assume, of the King’s untimely death 30 years ago on August 16th, 1977 (can you believe he would be 72-years-old today?), Paramount has released a gussied-up box set (and by that, I mean they just sprayed flock on the box to simulate blue suede) of eight ba...

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In honor of the upcoming tenth anniversary of the death of Frank Sinatra, a whole slew of films starring the Chairman of the Board are making their way to you for the first time on DVD. Warner Bros.’ Frank Sinatra: The Golden Years features five titles spanning ten years in the movie-making...

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