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Cloudy w/Meatballs 2, remastered Robocop, Blue Jasmine, Riddick Complete & Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving, folks! A day early we know, but this is going to be our last post here at The Bits until Monday, as we all go off to celebrate the holiday with family. Couple things for you today…
First, we’re pleased to bring you a trio of additional Blu-ray Disc reviews today. Tim has checked in with his thoughts on Criterion’s Lonesome and The Uninvited in HD, as well as Scream Factory’s The Horror Show. All are now available. [Read on here…]
- Amazon
- Bluray Disc
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- Black Friday
- Criterion
- Black Friday Deals Week
- Gold Box Deal of the Day
- Tim Salmons
- Woody Allen
- Blue Jasmine
- Robocop
- 4K remaster
- Robocop Remastered
- Riddick: The Complete Collection
- Computer Chess
- Eureka
- Wings
- Serpico
- Roma
- White Dog
- Wake in Fright
- Nashville
- Hands Over the City
- Blind Date
- 1: The Movie
- Formula One
- On the Job
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
- Lonesome
- The Uninvited
- The Horror Show
Reaching Out
Our topic today was prompted by a conversation I had after my dear friend Bill Thrash’s funeral a couple of weeks ago. His surviving sister told me that when my pal, about whom I thought I knew everything, was 16, around 1954, in the small southeastern Oklahoma town of Ada, he commandeered a shitload of dimes and tried, to the very best of his ability, to call his hero, Frank Sinatra.
I started thinking then about how many of us have attempted to be in touch with our favorite movie star, director, producer, writer, composer or author? I used to do that very thing a lot when I was single and bored.
Here are two stories that are so personal that I’ve never written about them before... [...]