By the early 1970’s, Looney Tunes cartoons were regularly seen on television. Gone were the days of showing them in theaters. Unfortunately, at the time, it didn’t occur to anyone to preserve the original negative. Filmmaker Larry Jackson decided that…
Scripted by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr. and directed by Warren Beatty, Dick Tracy got a lot of press prior to its 1990 release for its dynamic approach to filmmaking. The special effects were mind-boggling for the time and…
Sometimes a Great Notion—the second of five films directed by Paul Newman in his career and based on a novel by Ken Kesey—is both impressive and exasperating. It’s Impressive, because cinematographer Richard Moore (The Life and Times of Judge Roy…
Now available from the Warner Archive Collection, Shazam! The Complete Live-Action Series collects all 28 episodes of the Filmation program, which initially aired from 1974 to1976. After airing under its own title for the first season, Shazam! was paired with…
Right up there with the Toy Story franchise, Finding Nemo is one of Pixar’s finest efforts to date. Equal parts comedy, family drama and adventure, this story about a father and son is wonderfully executed. In case you’re one of…
Otto Preminger directed over 35 films in a film career that spanned more than five decades. Throughout his career, Preminger wasn’t afraid to attract controversy dealing with taboo topics of the era such as drug addiction (The Man with the…
One of the most recognized and beloved movie stars of all time, James Stewart made a couple of forays into television with mixed results. His first series, The Jimmy Stewart Show, debuted amid lots of fanfare but failed to catch…
The Odd Life of Timothy Green offers a family friendly story, best enjoyed by those that don’t mind some improbability mixed with their entertainment. After years of trying, Jim and Cindy Green (Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Garner) have had to…
A lively caper inspired by true events, Steven Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can never takes itself too seriously. Though classified a drama, the story contains enough comedy to keep viewers giggling at every turn. It also helps that the…
I was quite young at the time, but I remember watching Eight Is Enough as a kid. The show centered on the Bradford’s, a family in Sacramento, California with eight children: David (Grant Goodeve), Mary (Lani O’Grady), Joanie (Laurie Walters),…