by Sean Axmaker | Aug 20, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
A year ago I surveyed a number of Blu-ray releases from the Warner Archive, which is predominantly a line of manufacture-on-demand DVD-Rs offering films that otherwise wouldn’t support a traditional DVD release. It also, however, releases a few choice Blu-rays...
by Sean Axmaker | Apr 25, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
The House of Mystery (La Maison du Mystère) (Flicker Alley, DVD) – Serials—the adventure cliffhangers what would play out in theaters before the main feature at a chapter a week—are commonly dismissed as kid stuff, glorified B-movies cranked out with little thought...
by Sean Axmaker | Jan 1, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
The death of Blu-ray and DVD has apparently been prematurely called. Streaming and cable VOD still dominates home viewing but Redbox and other kiosk-based disc vendors have kept disc rentals alive (if not quite robust) and Blu-ray remains the format of choice for...
by Sean Axmaker | Dec 14, 2014 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
With sales of movies on disc falling with the rise of streaming video and digital movies, many studios have licensed their catalogs of classic movies to other labels. But not Warner Brothers. They started the Warner Archive in 2009 for manufacture-on-demand releases...
by Sean Axmaker | Jul 6, 2014 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
It’s been ages since I dove into the manufacture-on-demand titles coming out of Warner Archive, 20th Century Fox and Sony Pictures, and frankly I haven’t had as much time to explore them as I would like. Given that, here are the highlights from the past...
