Editor’s Blog on Video Store Day V, coming this weekend. In this nostalgia piece, I look at the personal impact of getting cable TV in 1972, and Pay TV around 1986. Included: links to scans of vintage brochures.
Reviews of four sci-fi thrillers: The Satan Bug (1965) on Blu from Kino Lorber + Fox’s 2005 DVD of Panic in the Streets (1950) from the KQEK.com archives, Ejecta (2014) from Anchor Bay Entertainment Canada, and Singularity Principle (2013) from Big Screen / CAV.
Review of Woody Allen’s underrated A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy (1982), available on Blu from Twilight Time.
Review of jack Hill’s excellent stock car racing ‘art film’ Pit Stop (1969), new on Blu from Arrow Video / MVD Visual.
Reviews of two Film 4 productions, new on Blu from Twilight Time: Neil Jordan’s film debut Angel (1982) + Pat O’Connor’s A Month in the Country (1987).
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