Category: The Godfather Trilogy (50th Anniversary Box Set)
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On Movie Collections: My Current To Be Watched (TBW) List – March 2022 Edition
Ever since I bought my first videocassette recorder in the summer of 1984 – it was a VHS machine from a company whose name I’ve forgotten and it cost me the princely sum of $400.00 ($1,092.27 in 2022 dollars) plus Florida sales tax – I have collected “home media” versions of movies I either saw…
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On the Joys and Pitfalls of Online Shopping: Coppola’s ‘Godfather Trilogy’ 4K Set is ‘Out for Delivery,” and ‘The Berlin Concert’ Has Shipped
One of the biggest peeves that I have about home media releases on disc (especially the new 4K UHD Blu-ray format) is with packaging, especially when it comes to commemorative box sets such as last year’s Indiana Jones: 4-Movie Collection (released to celebrate Raiders of the Lost Ark’s 40th Anniversary) or this week’s The Godfather…
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50 Years On: Remembering – or Trying to Remember – March of 1972 is No Easy Thing
Hi, there, Dear Reader. It’s early afternoon here in Lithia, Florida, on Monday, March 21, 2022. It is a warm first day of astronomical spring in the Tampa Bay area; meteorological spring began on March 1. Currently, the temperature is 80˚ F (27˚C) under sunny skies. With the wind blowing from the east at 11…
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On the Joys and Pitfalls of Online Shopping: “…But Wait! There’s More!”
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in 4K UHD Blu-rays, Amazon, Berliner Philharmoniker/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Blogging, Blu-ray Box Sets, Films by Steven Spielberg, John Williams/Berliner Philharmoniker: John Williams -The Berlin Concert, Life in Florida, Movies, Music, Online Shopping, Personal Thoughts, The Godfather Trilogy (50th Anniversary Box Set), West Side Story (2021)Well, with the recent arrival of my Ultimate Collector’s Edition set of West Side Story – it arrived at 3:49 PM Eastern yesterday – I can now say that this bit of my online shopping story is safely in the rear-view mirror of my life. Yes, the Best Buy Limited Edition Steelbook bit was unnecessarily…
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