Tag: Warner Archive Collection

Bugs Bunny Superstar

DVD Review: Bugs Bunny Superstar

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…

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Shazam!

DVD Review: Shazam! The Complete Live-Action Series

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…

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Lisztomania

DVD Review: Lisztomania

You never forget Ann-Margret writhing around in baked beans spewing out of a television set in Tommy, no matter if you’re in high school, as I was, or any age really. Once you’ve seen that, you’re ready for anything else…

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The Devil Makes Three

DVD Review: The Devil Makes Three

Gene Kelly plays Captain Jeff Eliot, who, while on leave, returns to Munich in 1947 while on leave to seek out the Lehrt family, who hid him in their cellar after he escaped from a prison camp with a few…

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Gene Kelly, Black Hand

DVD Review: Black Hand

What makes old Hollywood an ever-fascinating study are the thousands upon thousands of names still to be discovered and studied, such as directors of photography that may not have been as widely-known as those who were held in high regard…

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