Posted in: Expired Contests by Archive Authors on December 16th, 2007
Ho HO HO!! Welcome back to the 12 Days Of Contests, Day 5 Edition! Today we are mixing things up with an alternative flavor... the here! networks gay & lesbian television series Dante's Cove. In keeping with the day 5 theme, we are giving away the FIVE-disc Dante's Cove - The Guilty Pleasure Collection! Not only do you get the complete first and second seasons of this show, you also get the lost pilot episode.
So - enter away below by commenting! Contest draw date is Tuesday, Jan. 1st - the same for all of the 12 Days contests.
Posted in: Expired Contests by Archive Authors on December 15th, 2007
Ho HO HO!! Welcome back to the 12 Days Of Contests, Day 4 Edition! Time to bring some classic comedy to your holiday season with a copy of the FOUR-disc Bob Hope Ultimate Collection!
So - enter away below by commenting! Contest draw date is Tuesday, Jan. 1st - the same for all of the 12 Days contests.
Posted in: Expired Contests by Archive Authors on December 14th, 2007
Ho HO HO!! Welcome back to the 12 Days Of Contests, Day 3 Edition! We have taken care of the sci-fi and drama genres with one copy of ALIEN SEIGE and two copies of Pearl Harbor (Blu-ray), so now we turn to TV-on-DVD. Today, we are offering up THREE copies of One Tree Hill - Season Four.
So - enter away below by commenting! Contest draw date is Tuesday, Jan. 1st - the same for all of the 12 Days contests.
Posted in: Brain Blasters by David Annandale on December 14th, 2007
As I’ve indicated in this space before, one of the joys of the DVD age is the chance to see, at long last, films that one might have heard about since childhood, but that were unavailable until now. A recent addition to Fox’s Cinema Classics line is a case in point. Fox Horror Classics consists of three movies directed by John Brahm, and the one I want to talk about today is The Undying Monster (1942), which I first read about over thirty years ago.
The occasion of my initial encounter with the movie was a mention of it in Denis Gifford’s A Pictorial History of Horror Movies (quite the seminal book in my childhood, as, I imagine, it was for many horror fans my age). This is what Gifford writes:
Posted in: Random Fun by Archive Authors on December 14th, 2007
I've seen thousands of movies in my time and today I'm sharing the ten most important things to learn from action flicks. Jump to check it out.
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Always make sure your old buddy actually died back on that dangerous mission in the 50’s-70’s(especially if they had fancy accents). If he did somehow manage to survive he’s going to be pissed and a bit knife happy. So be sure to go back a couple days later and either give him a nice bottle of wine or just put two in his head to be sure. Also, if you have some long lost sibling you think may have died in a mysterious way, ALWAYS watch your back. Those little turds have a knack for ambushing you.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on December 14th, 2007
Lando Buzzanca plays Senator Puppis, a telegenic young politician on track to become Italy’s next president. He’s been groomed for the part practically from birth by the Vatican, which plans to re-exert social control over the country through its presidential puppet. But plans go badly awry as Puppis suddenly develops an uncontrollable urge to fondle women’s buttocks (Stephen Thrower has aptly described the character as a “repressed heterosexual”). Even as he seeks help for his condition, various parties around him begin to panic, as the police think Puppis is planning a coup without telling them, the military think they are being left out of the loop by the police, and the Vatican, along with its Mafia catspaws, starts whacking everyone in sight in a desperate attempt to keep everything from completely unravelling.
How’s that for a sex comedy plot? Not exactly of the been-there-done-that variety, is it now? Behind the nonsensical UK release title is one of the most interesting Lucio Fulci films to reach these shores. Fans wanting the Fulci gore will have to look elsewhere, but those open to something new will encounter a level of filmmaking absent in too much of his later work. The sex gags are rather dated (though the moment of the Puppi’s first goose is a bit of wonderful deftness I’ve never seen in Fulci), but the black political satire, which makes up the bulk of the film, while being very tied to the specific Italian context, has lost none of its bite. This is an angry film, one that builds to an utterly appalling resolution, all the more sour for its comic framing. Without going so far as to compare Fulci’s filmmaking skills to Kubrick’s, one might think of this film as Fulci’s Dr. Strangelove – a bitter, hopeless indictment that can only fully express its venom in the form of farce.
Posted in: Expired Contests by Archive Authors on December 14th, 2007
Ho HO HO!! Welcome back to the 12 Days Of Contests, Day 2 Edition! Yesterday (well, this morning) we opened up for entries on one copy of ALIEN SEIGE. Now you're probably wondering how we could top the raw festiveness of a blood devouring alien rampage - well, how about 2 copies of the Ben Affleck fueled interpretation of Pearl Harbor in Glorious Blu-ray Vision!
In all seriousness: say what you will about this movie and Mr. Affleck, the December 7th attack on Pearl Harbor was a truly infamous day: it saw the death of thousands, the end of America's perceived aloofness, and the true beginning of World War II. You can read all about the attack on the National Geographic special site.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on December 14th, 2007
Gomer Pyle began life as a one of the down home residents of Mayberry, where Andy Griffith held court as the sheriff and Don Knotts blundered his way to fame and fortune. It’s no small task indeed to find a way to shine as a minor character who wasn’t even there from the beginning; he replaced Floyd after the second year. But shine he did. Much of the character’s charm and success has to be given to Jim Nabors. The shy naive Gomer worked as an auto mechanic in Mayberry, but for his own series he appeared in one of the most unlikeliest of places, the U.S. Marine Corp. There Nabors found the perfect comedic partner in Frank Sutton, who played his superior Sgt. Vince Carter. The chemistry and remarkable timing these two brought to the Andy Griffith spin-off made it an instant hit. Critics at the time were very skeptical of the move, and most of the predictions called for a swift end to Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C. But before you can say “surprise, surprise, surprise”, the series became as popular, if not more so, than the parent series, at least for a time. In syndication the show was always a hit.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on December 14th, 2007
Frasier was another one of those unlikely hits. Frasier started as an intended one-off character on the hugely popular Cheers. Kelsey Grammer made the most out of it, and before long he was one of the regular barflies inhabiting a stool at Sam’s. In Cheers the wit worked because Frasier was so unlike his fellow characters. He was a sophisticated, almost snobbish psychiatrist with a taste for fine art and high class entertainment. Instead of a ballgame, Frasier was more at home at the opera or an art opening. The humor was to be found in his attempts to blend in with his crass companions or even make a run at enriching their lives with his cultured tastes. My favorite Frasier moment will always be his plan to expose the bar patrons to Charles Dickens, but instead of his changing them they eventually had him reinventing the brilliant author in his reading of David And The Coppers In The Field. Soon Cheers had run its course, and everyone was expecting a spin-off. There was too much rich material to be found here to let it just die with the closing of Sam’s bar. While Norm or Cliff were the natural choices, it was Frasier who would move on. While most fans were a little confused by the move, the show would go on for 11 seasons that were arguably far funnier than Cheers ever was.
Posted in: Expired Contests by Archive Authors on December 13th, 2007
Merry Christmas, readers all! In celebration of the season, UpcomingDiscs is going to merrily subject you too... 12 DAYS OF CONTESTS! Its a little holiday-themed fun, a way to put something in your stocking in early to mid-January (mail is slow, sorry), and our festive "thank-you" to the readers that make up our community and keep things lively.
As an added (stupendous) twist, were actually tying the prizes to the days: the first day gets a single disc release; the second day's contest - two discs. By the 12 day (wait for it...) 12 DISCS ARE BEING GIVEN AWAY. Now - by the end, we might be talking about one box set with 12 discs, or a tasteful collection of 12 individual titles - but rest assured, that's a no-foolin' massive quantity of material coming your way.
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