The Videodrome

04/21/2023

Got to love Buster.

12/24/2022

I couldn’t resist this one. Lol

12/20/2022

Anyone surprised?
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The problematic pitfalls of the first “Avatar” movie reappear in the sequel, Indigenous critics say, namely in its portrayal of the movie’s alien species.

12/09/2022

The New York Times list of the best films of 2022. (Paywall 😞 )
1) EO
2 ) Petite Maman
3) Nope
4) No Bears
5) Kiki
6) The Eternal Daughter
7) Happening
8 )Decision to Leave
9) Experdition Content
10) All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Amid endless agonizing over the State of Cinema, the actual releases proved a bounty for film lovers, whether fans of the art house or the multiplex.

09/13/2022

Very sad news from the film world. RIP and thank you.

The Franco-Swiss filmmaker and provocateur radically rethought motion pictures and left a lasting influence on the medium.

08/15/2022

A bit of film history: on this date in 1975, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" was released in the UK.

The film opened in the United Kingdom at Rialto Theater in London, and in the United States on 26 September at the UA Westwood in Los Angeles, California. It did well at that location, but not elsewhere. Before the midnight screenings' success, the film was withdrawn from its eight opening cities due to very small audiences, and its planned New York City opening on Halloween night was cancelled. Fox re-released the film around college campuses on a double-bill with another rock music film parody, Brian De Palma's "Phantom of the Paradise" (1974), but again it drew small audiences.

With "Pink Flamingos" (1972) and "Re**er Madness" (1936) making money in midnight showings nationwide, a Fox executive, Tim Deegan, was able to talk distributors into midnight screenings, starting in New York City on April Fools' Day of 1976. "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" helped shape conditions of cult film's transition from art-house to grind-house style. The film developed a cult following in 1976 at the Waverly Theatre in New York, which developed into a standardised ritual. According to J. Hoberman, author of "Midnight Movies", it was after five months into the film's midnight run when lines began to be shouted by the audience.

The film is considered to be the longest-running release in film history. It has never been pulled by 20th Century Fox from its original 1975 release, and it continues to play in cinemas.

07/08/2022

Proud to post this pod cast. It is co-hosted by former employee and manager of the store Scott Sharplin. This week his guest was former Videodrome co-owner John Hudson! How do Dr. Strangelove, The 3rd Man and Strange Brew tie together? You can find out right here.

Marty, Scott, and guest John Hudson spend a super-sized episode discussing merkins, zithers, and precious bodily fluids. Core Connections: Dr. Strangelove, or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb The Third Man Strange Brew Connective Cameos: The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orlean...

07/07/2022

Such a great actor. RIP

He also starred in the TV drama “Brian’s Song” and proved, beyond his tough-guy exterior, a versatile performer of wry expressiveness and unexpected vulnerability.

05/26/2022

We are so sorry to hear this news. RIP and thank you.

A shocker. Ray Liotta, the terrific actor whose career breakout came in the 1990 Martin Scorsese crime classic Goodfellas after co-starring in Field of Dreams, has died. He was 67. Deadline hears h…

05/21/2022

Made me laugh. In the early days of the store (90’s) we would rent lots of VCR’s on the weekends.

05/15/2022

Well, I still love going to the theatre to see a great film.

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From the time he stepped in as chairman of Sony’s Motion Picture Group in 2015, Tom Rothman has heard the rumors that Sony would eventually sell because it didn’t have a streaming service or the sc…

04/09/2022

Well I think we all felt this might be coming.
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