Mill Creek

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Imagine the Movies Even KLSC Won’t Release: the Label

Hey! I really enjoy Cross My Heart. Horny Martin Short spends an entire film trying to get laid, but it’s actually quite sweet. Jonathan Rosenbaum surprisingly liked it a lot

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It should be noted that the new Mill Creek reissues of Universal titles like Heart & Souls and The Paper actually have new extra features that the previous releases lacked.

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Dawson’s Creek: Complete Series coming to Blu in December

[HJackson]

Dawson’s Creek… Mill Creek… it’s a match made in heaven. Netflix recently restored the Paula Cole theme song for this so I wonder if it will carry over to this blu-ray release - although I must confess a fondness, if not a preference, for the “Run Like Mad” ditty that replaced it in the intervening years.

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A couple Sony-licensed collections on 12/13/22:

Thrillers from the Vault
- The Black Room (1935)
- The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
- Before I Hang (1940)
- The Man with Nine Lives (1940)
- The Devil Commands (1941)
- The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942)
- The Return of the Vampire (1943) (Previously released by Shout Factory in 2019)
- Five (1951)

Sci-Fi from the Vault
- Creature with the Atom Brain (1955) (Previously released by Arrow in 2021)
- It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955) (Previously released by Sony in 2008 and Mill Creek in 2014)
- 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) (Previously released by Sony in 2007 and Mill Creek in 2014)
- The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock (1959)

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Another Sony-licensed collection on 1/31/23:

Peter Falk Comedy Collection
- Luv (1967)
- The Cheap Detective (1978)
- Big Trouble (1986)
- Happy New Year (1987)

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And a Sony-licensed one-off on 1/31/23:

Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)

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May 16: In the Cut

[domino harvey]

Just learned Mill Creek released a Blu of… How Green Was My Valley?! Did Disney really license a Fox title to MC? Are there others?

[DRW.mov]

I remember Mill Creek announcing a few years ago about getting some Fox titles from Disney but it took so long I all but gave up on it. This is some really good news.

[bottlesofsmoke]

I wonder if they are just re-releasing the Fox Studio Classics blu-rays. Good news for anyone who missed those titles the first time around, hopefully Disney is more open to licensing, but I’m sure a lot of the interesting stuff they have still needs to be restored. I can’t remember if there were actually rumors about Criterion releasing Laura of if was just wishful thinking, but I’m sure they’d love to and this makes it feel more likely, however slightly.

[dwk]

Disney stuff like Dick Tracy has been re-released by Mill Creek and they are identical to the old Disney discs, so I assume that will be the case with the Fox titles.

[domino harvey]

The exceptional and absurdly undervalued Nadine is finally coming to Blu next month

Nadine (Robert Benton 1987) Well, by sheer serendipity, here's that great 80s noir film we were looking for, and it too stars Jeff Bridges. Robert Benton's been to the noir well before with the Late Show, but this is a film that leaves behind all the commentary and trappings of pastiche and instead embodies the spirit and narrative structure of the best noir films. With a few minor alterations for language, this 1954-set flick could have easily been filmed in the heyday of noir and it has the same compact spirit of invention. The film is lean (it runs just over eighty minutes) and a lot of fun, with Kim Basinger finding herself in the classic wrong place wrong time whilst rescuing her "artistic poses" modeling shots and she and estranged husband find themselves fleeing cops and a great villain in Rip Torn, who at one point threatens our heroes with the unusual but somehow perfect genre weapon of a box of angry rattlesnakes! Will be making my list for sure.