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Upgrade Your Warner DVDs to Blu-ray for as Low as $7.95

17 November 2009 11:02 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Warner Home Video just announced a new program where you can upgrade several of your DVD titles to Blu-ray for as low as $7.95, and right now the price doesn't go any higher than $9.95. This is a similar program to the Red2Blu offer they made allowing customers to upgrade their HD DVD titles to Blu-ray, a program I actually took advantage of and loved it as a result.

The process to upgrade is simple. Consumers select the titles they want to upgrade on DVD2Blu.com, mail in their standard DVDs with pre-paid postage and a short time later receive copies of the same film on Blu-ray Disc. Consumers who place orders over $25 will receive free shipping. For a complete list of titles visit DVD2Blu.com, but I have included the most recent list of titles and prices directly below. 10,000 B.C. ($9.95) Rush Hour 3 ($9.95) Full Metal Jacket ($9.95) Pan's »

- Brad Brevet

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Warner Bros. Launches DVD to Blu-ray Upgrade Program

17 November 2009 10:57 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Warner Bros. has announced a DVD to Blu-ray upgrade program.  While the list doesn’t include all their titles, it’s at least a start.  According to WB, the process to upgrade is simple.  Consumers select the titles they want to upgrade on DVD2Blu.com, mail in their standard DVDs with pre-paid postage and a short time later receive copies of the same film on Blu-ray Disc.  If you mail in one DVD, it’s $7.95 plus shipping.  If you order more than $25, you’ll receive free shipping.

While some people haven’t been converted to Blu-ray, I’m all in.  I think the picture quality is amazing on Blu-ray and I definitely see a difference between DVD and the HD format.  All I can say is, if you have an 1080p TV, the format is absolutely worth the investment.  For a complete list of what WB is willing to »

- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub

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What's On Tonight: College Football, Good Eats, Wanda Sykes

10 October 2009 10:06 AM, PDT | AOL - TVSquad | See recent AOL - TVSquad news »

TBS has Baseball Playoffs all night. At 7, NBC has the President's Cup golf tournament. At 8, ABC has College Football, Michigan vs. Iowa. CBS has College Football at 8, Florida vs. Lsu. Fox has a new Cops at 8. AMC has Rio Bravo at 8. ESPN2 has College Football at 8, Georgia Tech vs. Florida State. At 9, Fox has a new America's Most Wanted. There's a new Suze Orman Show on CNBC at 9. BBC America has a new Robin Hood at 8, followed by the season premiere of The Graham Norton Show. At 9:30, Biography has a new Ghostly Adventures, then a new Celebrity Ghost Stories. At 10, Food Network has the Good Eats 10th Anniversary. Style has a new episode of The Dish at 10. HBO has Wanda Sykes I'ma Be Me at 10. At 11:30, NBC has a new Saturday Night Live, with Drew Barrymore and Regina Spektor. At midnight, Fox has a new Sit Down, »

- Bob Sassone

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400 Screens, 400 Blows - The Best of the Best

27 September 2009 7:02 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Recently, my uncle -- a film buff to put most other film buffs to shame -- sent me a clipping from the Seattle Times, in which critic John Hartl celebrated the greatest movie year of all time. Not 1939, as is generally accepted, but 1959. And I have to agree with him. It was an amazing time when the old Hollywood guard was winding down and creating their final masterpieces, new upstarts were coming in with fresh new films and the most outrageously artistic of European cinema was getting released (and being watched) in America. Not taking into account any weird release patterns -- such as the fact that Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries (1957) was released here in 1959 -- and based on the IMDb's list of 1959 movies, here's my top ten list for that great year.

1. Rio Bravo. On most days, this is my favorite Western, with its combination of breathless suspense »

- Jeffrey M. Anderson

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Bravo Rio Bravo - Top Ten Westerns Starring the Duke

4 September 2009 9:01 PM, PDT | amctv.com - Future of Classic: Westerns | See recent amctv.com - Future of Classic: Westerns news »

From his apprenticeship in B-movies to his transformation into an American icon, John Wayne's success at the movies seems pinned to the genre he helped create -- the Western. And while it's easy to think of Wayne as playing the same sauntering cowboy in every movie, there's actually an enormous amount of diversity in his work. "I don't act, I react," was a standard Duke quip. But there's more »

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The greatest movies ever made

2 August 2009 10:59 AM, PDT | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »

All lists of the "greatest" movies are propaganda. They have no deeper significance. It is useless to debate them. Even more useless to quarrel with their ordering of titles: Why is this film #11 and that one only #31? The most interesting lists are those by one person: What are Scorsese's favorites, or Herzog's? The least interesting are those by large-scale voting, for example by IMDb or movie magazines. The most respected poll, the only one I participate in, is the vote taken every 10 years by Sight & Sound, the British film magazine, which asks a large number of filmmakers, writers, critics, scholars, archivists and film festival directors.

1. The Night of the Hunter, 1955

That one at least has taken on a canonical aspect. The list evolves slowly. Keaton rises, Chaplin falls. It is eventually decided that "Vertigo" is Hitchcock's finest film. Ozu cracks the top ten. Every ten years the net is thrown out again. »

- Roger Ebert

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Exclusive: Interview with Clifton Collins Jr.

2 July 2009 1:08 PM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »

It’s likely you’ve seen Clifton Collins Jr. but haven’t known it. He took on Captain Kirk and company as Ayel, Nero’s right hand man in Star Trek as well as making Chev Chelios’ life more of a living hell as El Huron in Crank: High Voltage. Entertainment has spanned his family for generations, notably with his grandfather Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez who did a number of roles in the 1950s and 60s, the best known being his take as an innkeeper in Rio Bravo. Likely Pedro would be proud of his grandson, who’s coming into his own with projects like Boondock Saints II, a new Mike Judge film, and even taking a turn behind the camera.

I was fortunate enough to catch up with Mr. Collins Jr. and discuss his recent turns in blockbusters, his grandfather, and his hand in directing. The interview was conducted around »

- Philip Barrett

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El Dorado (Centennial Collection) - DVD Review

27 May 2009 9:59 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

Director Howard Hawks liked his own Rio Bravo so much that his final two projects would bear a striking resemblance to it. El Dorado would be his second to last film and would feature both John Wayne and Robert Mitchum in the cast. Gunslinger Cole Thornton (John Wayne) has been hired by rancher Bart Jason (Ed Asner) who is in a land war with the MacDonald family. Cole is on his way to Jason.s ranch when he stops in to see old friend Sheriff J.P. Harrah (Robert Mitchum) in El Dorado. Harrah sets him straight on some things that Jason left out of the situation and Cole decides not the take the job. Kevin MacDonald (R.G. Armstrong) »

- Jeff Swindoll

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DVD’s I Bought This Week: May 19th

19 May 2009 9:37 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

Rob Hunter loves movies.  He also loves taking pictures of people in uncompromising positions and situations.  These two joys come together in the form of blackmail payments that he receives every week and immediately uses to buy more DVD's.  So join us each week as Rob takes a look at new DVD releases and gives his highly unqualified opinion as to which titles are worth BUYing, which are better off as RENTals, and which should be AVOIDed at all costs. Click on any of the titles below to magically head over to Amazon.com and pick up the DVD. El Dorado Pitch: For those of you who don't believe it's possible for a remake to (almost) equal the original. Why Buy? Yes, I know this isn't technically a remake of Rio Bravo, but it's pretty damn close.  It's also a damn fine film in it's own right.  This is one of two new additions to Paramount's Centennial »

- Rob Hunter

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This Week On DVD and Blu-ray: May 19, 2009

19 May 2009 3:32 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

DVD Links: DVD News | Release Dates | New Dvds | Reviews | RSS Feed Before we get started there are a couple of things to point out. First off, Universal is selling quite a few of its DVD catalog titles for cheap as part of a promotion and including Movie Cash for one ticket to see Land of the Lost. One title I noticed on sale for only $9.99 was the 30th Anniversary Edition of Jaws, which you can buy directly right here, or you can search all of the titles by clicking here. Harry Potter Gift Set, The Fountain, Unforgiven, The Wild Bunch, The Searchers, Rio Bravo, Purple Rain, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, GoodFellas, The Fugitive, Enter the Dragon, Dog Day Afternoon, The Dirty Dozen, The Cowboys, Constantine, Bullitt, Blood Diamond, Blazing Saddles, Battle for the Bulge, The Last Samurai, Syriana, The Aviator, Million Dollar Baby and Lethal Weapon

Photo: Brad Brevet Next, »

- Brad Brevet

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Review: 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' and 'El Dorado' on DVD

17 May 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »

The Western movie genre is something most of us consider a relic from the 1950s, and yet, two of the better regarded films – The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and El Dorado – are products of the 1960s, even though they feel older given the changes to American cinema in that decade. Both movies, coming out Tuesday as part of Paramount Home Video’s Centennial Collection, are both solid and entertaining.

The former may be best recalled for line, "This is the west, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." It stars James Stewart and John Ford playing entirely different kinds of men of the west. Wayne was a rancher, a fairly decent sort but narrow-minded, prone to jealousy, and believed using a gun was essential to surviving on the frontier. Stewart, a lawyer by training, came west to start his career. Both loved Hallie (Vera Miles) and had »

- Robert Greenberger

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DVD Playhouse--May 2009

11 May 2009 11:22 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

DVD Playhouse—May 2009

By

Allen Gardner

Paramount Centennial Collection Paramount Studios releases two more classic titles from its library on special edition DVD: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is John Ford’s last masterpiece (although he would go on to direct two more very good films) from 1962: about an Eastern lawyer (James Stewart) who travels west only to find primal brutality in the form of sadistic bandit Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin, great as always) and pragmatic brutality in local rancher Tom Doniphon (John Wayne), each two sides of a coin that represent a way of life slowly dying out as Stewart’s modern brand of civilization tames the West. A perfect film, period. Howard Hawks’ El Dorado is essentially a remake of his earlier classic Rio Bravo, with John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and a young James Caan as lawmen joining forces against corrupt cattle barons. Great fun. Two disc sets. »

- The Hollywood Interview.com

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Interview: Angie Dickinson on the Big Break, The Rat Pack, ‘Police Woman’

1 April 2009 1:55 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Angie Dickinson has brought her charm and magnetism to a career that has spanned from the Marilyn Monroe era – she was featured in the original “Ocean’s 11” – to grittier movie roles in such cult classics as “Point Blank”, “Dressed to Kill” and Ronald Reagan’s last film,”The Killers”.

But she will always be remembered for her breakthrough TV role as “Pepper” Anderson in 1974’s “Police Woman”. Dickinson was the first lead role female cop character in series television history and laid the foundation for all the women-led action series that followed.

HollywoodChicago.com caught up with still radiant Ms. Dickinson in Chicago at the Hollywood Collector Show. She reminisced about her first big break, her life with the “Rat Pack” and how Pepper was a role model for girls…and boys.

Angie Dickinson talks to director Howard Hawks while John Wayne looks on during the filming of ‘Rio Bravo’

Photo credit: Dr. »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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Five Things I Love About John Carpenter

21 January 2009 10:25 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Good Lord!  How long have I been gone?  Well, here's the deal, Fangorians.  You may or may not know that I took over as team captain for Blog@Newsarama, with my new group kicking things off on December 1st.  I also made some preparations for my original site, ShotgunReviews.com, to begin celebrating its Tenth Year online.  Needless to say, it's been busy.  But I haven't wanted to neglect my Fango friends, so I've been giving a lot of thought to what to do for the third installment of this (now more) regular series.  The first two go-rounds, I talked '31 Frankenstein and Dracula.  I really kicked around covering Spanish Dracula, and I Will get back to that eventually.  Today, though, I've decided to cover someone that's still in the game.  And I'll begin with this question: between 1978 and 1988, was there a genre director that had a better run than John Carpenter? »

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