Author: Rory L. Aronsky

Battle Circus

DVD Review: Battle Circus

Fifty shades of Humphrey Bogart. Actually, I’m sure there are more than fifty, but they’re only effective if the movie he’s in makes him worth watching, not if it just seems that he’s going through the motions, as it is…

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The Halloween Tree

DVD Review: The Halloween Tree

Compared to Christmas, Halloween doesn’t boast a wealth of TV specials with different takes on the holiday. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown would seem to be enough, because how much more can you make out of the day beyond…

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Dinah-Shore-Chevy-Show

DVD Review: 50’s TV Classics

By 2005, two years into my tenure at Film Threat, I had reviewed many independent films, and not the ones you see in theaters. They were without distributors, the ones made in small towns with broke, but passionate casts and…

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James Bond Gadgets

DVD Review: James Bond Gadgets

Knowing of the filmmaking grind from movie history books, memoirs, and seeing various productions at work while living in the Santa Clarita Valley just north of Los Angeles for nine years, I rarely envy filmmakers and actors the experiences they…

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Helen Hayes in Airport

Blu-ray Review: Airport

In this tag team review, Rory will give you his thoughts on the film, while Rebecca handles the audio and video aspects of the Blu-ray, as well as the special features. In 1995, I was an 11-year-old aviation enthusiast, stemming…

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846

DVD Review: 8:46

It was dark outside when my family and I left the Walt Disney Concert Hall after the awards ceremony in a cavernous room there for the Stock Market Game, which my father, a business education teacher, teaches in his classroom….

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Master Qi

DVD Review: Master Qi and the Monkey King

The first opera I ever saw was Nixon in China, part of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2010-11 season, which was broadcast via satellite by NCM Fathom to Edwards Valencia 12 in Valencia, California, one theater of many receiving the broadcast at…

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