Category: Movies
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On Movies & Movie Collecting: ‘The Fabelmans’ – Literally Counting the Days for Its Home Media Release
In less than 11 days, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and Universal Pictures – or their distribution partners that send their wares to Amazon, Best Buy, Deep Discount, and what have you – will release The Fabelmans on 4K UHD/2K HD Blu-ray. This, the 36th film directed by Steven Spielberg, is one of the few movies…
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On Movies & Movie Collecting: New Month, New Titles, New Statistics!
Hi, there, Dear Reader, and welcome to another installment of On Movies & Movie Collecting, a semi-regular series of posts in which I discuss movies I like (mostly) and my passion for adding new titles (or upgrading others from one format to another) on Blu-ray. For the February 1, 2023 entry in the series, let’s…
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Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, January 31, 2023, or: A Quick ‘Tempus Fugit’ Piece & Blu-ray Collection Update
Time Flies Onward…1973-2023 If you’re a regular reader of A Certain Point of View, Too, you know that this year is of some significance to this writer. First, in less than 33 days, I will be 60 years old. I wrote about how I feel about that yesterday, so I am not going to repeat…
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Musings & Thoughts for Friday, January 27, 2023, or: My Thursday Night at the Movies*
* At home, with movies in my Blu-ray collection, not at “the movies.” Hi, there, Dear Reader. Last night I watched Amazon Women on the Moon, which was co-directed by John Landis, Joe Dante, Peter Horton, Robert K. Weiss, and Carl Gottlieb, and stars, according to the main titles sequence, “Lots of Actors.“ If you…
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On Books & Reading: My TBR List – Some Progress is Better Than None, I Suppose
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in Alfred Coppel, Books, Code-Name Downfall: The Top-Secret Plan to Invade Japan – and Why Truman Dropped the Bomb, Fire & Steel: The End of World War Two in the West, Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947, Ian Doescher, James D. Hornfischer, Military History, Much Ado About Mean Girls, Operation Downfall, Peter Caddick-Adams, Star Wars, Star Wars Books, Star Wars: Brotherhood, The Burning Mountain: A Novel of the Invasion of Japan (1983), To Be Read (TBR) Stack, Who Can Hold the Sea: The U.S. Navy in the Cold War 1945-1960, World War II (1939-1945)Since I posted about my To Be Watched (TBW) list for late January yesterday, today I decided to do a quick update to my current To Be Read (TBR) list for the same period. (I would have preferred to review Code-Name Downfall, but my brain balks at the prospect of doing that now.) The Impediments…
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On Movies & Movie Collecting: My To Be Watched (TBW) List for Late January 2023
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in 4K UHD Blu-rays, Amazon, Blogging, Blu-ray & DVD Collection, Blu-ray Collection, Documentaries by Ken Burns, Emmanuelle (1974), Erotic Movies, Groundhog Day (1993), Life in Florida, Life in the Tampa Bay area, Movies, Movies & Television, Personal Thoughts, Star Trek: The Original 6-Movie Collection, Star Wars: The Complete Saga, Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, The War: A Ken Burns Film, Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)With the end of January just one week away and the start of February just around the corner, it’s a good time to revisit my To Be Watched list for the first month of 2023. Since I am not sure about when I will be moving to Brandon – all I know is that I…
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On Movies & Movie Collecting: A Mid-Month Update for January 18, 2023
If you’re a regular visitor to A Certain Point of View, Too, you know that I love to collect (and watch) movies – and a few select TV series – on home media. Most of my collection consists of high-definition Blu-ray discs (BDs); per my Collection page on Blu-ray.com (which serves as my personal catalog…
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