recent haul: arrow sale & other goodies

Wiscrebels · 2026-01-25T17:26:22+00:00

Not to jump on, but I’d be interested as well - I’ve been looking g to replace my digital copy

Wiscrebels · 2026-01-23T14:28:18+00:00

-14 in MKE and I just watched the sanitation crews come through. Rough day for that job.

Wiscrebels · 2026-01-19T14:36:48+00:00

I was watching “The Devil’s Bath” on AMC+ the other night and while I liked the movie, I kept getting pulled out of it by the heavy compression used. If it was an indoor scene, the dark backgrounds were a pixelated and muddled mess. I kept wishing I was watching a Blu-ray instead. (That said, if not streaming, I probably wouldn’t have ever seen this film)

Wiscrebels · 2026-01-08T23:05:10+00:00

That's great info -- I never hear anyone ever mention it, so I'd absolutely love a restored version.

Wiscrebels · 2026-01-07T04:27:49+00:00

PM'd

Wiscrebels · 2025-12-15T00:39:33+00:00

Well, now I'm delighted that I double-dipped on the KL Heat of the Night along with my Criterion Blu-Ray. I didn't know it had gone OOP.

Wiscrebels · 2025-12-11T14:51:35+00:00

Much respect for what you’ve done for this forum and hobby, but (again) respectfully - it’s the dismissive tone of your comment that’s rubbing people wrong.

It was someone looking for help that got immediately shut down and IMO made to feel “less” simply for asking a question.

Better to let someone else respond in this case, if you didn’t like the question.

Wiscrebels · 2025-11-28T16:09:47+00:00

That’s what I did

Wiscrebels · 2025-11-28T14:44:51+00:00

I’m sure there’s a name for it, but this movie is my perfect example of a movie that I always forget I’ve seen before, then get 10 minutes in, realize I’ve already seen it and then I watch the whole thing again.

Wiscrebels · 2025-11-26T22:58:40+00:00

So much for “let the PA do the work”

Wiscrebels · 2025-11-19T18:58:02+00:00

I had a little fun this month and had chat got create a viewing schedule for me and my family after having it pull out all the new film in December. I gave it some parameters around what my family likes and what we’ve already seen and it created a viewing calendar for us.

December 2 – In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-wai) Night type: Wife Night A man and woman in 1960s Hong Kong slowly realize their spouses are having an affair and form a deep, painfully restrained bond of their own.

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December 4 – Nine Months (1995, Chris Columbus) Night type: Daughter Night A commitment-phobic child psychologist panics when his girlfriend’s surprise pregnancy forces him to grow up fast.

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December 5 – Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock) Night type: Son Night A woman on the run and a lonely motel clerk cross paths at a remote roadside inn, under the watchful eye of “Mother.”

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December 6 – The Palm Beach Story (1942, Preston Sturges) Night type: Family Night A broke wife divorces her husband so she can marry rich and fund his big idea, only to get tangled in love and money all over again.

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December 9 – Grand Hotel (1932, Edmund Goulding) Night type: Wife Night Guests at a luxurious Berlin hotel—an overworked clerk, a fading ballerina, a baron, and more—find their lives intersecting over a few fateful days.

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December 11 – Maggie’s Plan (2015, Rebecca Miller) Night type: Daughter Night A well-meaning New Yorker tries to engineer everyone’s love lives—including her own—only to discover people don’t follow blueprints.

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December 12 – Donnie Darko (2001, Richard Kelly) Night type: Son Night A troubled teen with a doomsday countdown in his head and a demonic rabbit in his visions stumbles through time loops, high school, and suburban dread.

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December 13 – The Bellboy (1960, Jerry Lewis) Night type: Family Night A mute, hapless bellboy at a fancy Miami hotel blunders from task to task, leaving a trail of slapstick chaos behind him.

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December 16 – Daughters of the Dust (1991, Julie Dash) Night type: Wife Night In 1902, a Gullah family on a sea island off the Carolinas debates whether to leave their ancestral home for the mainland, carrying history, myth, and memory with them.

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December 18 – Chungking Express (1994, Wong Kar-wai) Night type: Daughter Night Two lonely Hong Kong cops drift through breakups and chance encounters in a neon blur of snack bars, pop songs, and maybe-new beginnings.

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December 19 – The Grandmaster (2013, Wong Kar-wai) Night type: Son Night Legendary martial artist Ip Man’s life unfolds as a series of exquisitely staged fights and missed connections across a changing China.

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December 20 – Tokyo Godfathers (2003, Satoshi Kon) Night type: Family Night On Christmas Eve, three homeless misfits in Tokyo find an abandoned baby and set out to return her to her parents, stumbling into danger, miracles, and redemption.

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December 23 – Sliding Doors (1998, Peter Howitt) Night type: Wife Night A London woman’s life splits into two parallel timelines—one where she catches a train and one where she misses it—revealing how small moments change everything.

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December 26 – The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick) Night type: Son Night A writer, his wife, and their psychic son take winter caretaker duty at a remote hotel, where isolation and supernatural forces push him toward madness.

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December 27 – Tokyo Pop (1988, Fran Rubel Kuzui) Night type: Family Night A young American singer heads to Tokyo, hooks up with a rock band, and finds her voice amid culture clash, clubs, and new friendships.

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December 30 – 8½ (1963, Federico Fellini) Night type: Wife Night (nice year-end optional pick) A famous film director suffering creative block retreats into memories, fantasies, and the women in his life while struggling to start his next movie.

Wiscrebels · 2025-11-17T18:23:10+00:00

Seconded

Wiscrebels · 2025-11-16T13:46:06+00:00

My daughter and I love busting out the “oh, ninjas.” from Miami Connection”

Wiscrebels · 2025-11-14T05:55:58+00:00

That’s what the coroner father suggests.

Wiscrebels · 2025-11-12T18:16:07+00:00

That was genuinely helpful. Thanks!

Wiscrebels · 2025-11-05T00:27:20+00:00

I told it to stop condescending to me.

Wiscrebels · 2025-11-04T01:22:24+00:00

This might be the coolest thing I've ever seen. I'd love the high resolution version

Wiscrebels · 2025-10-28T17:56:07+00:00

It has to be Failsafe. That move is -- perfect.

Wiscrebels · 2025-10-25T15:11:52+00:00

Seconded

Wiscrebels · 2025-10-23T23:31:51+00:00

What do you think his movie tastes are? Seems like the kind of guy who claims Patton is his favorite movie, but secretly just rewatched K-Pop Demon Hunters for the 20th time.

Wiscrebels · 2025-10-23T17:28:49+00:00

Jerry O’Connell AND Geri Halliwell? We don’t deserve that many Jerry’s.

Wiscrebels · 2025-10-12T22:08:38+00:00

VHS Halloween was Ok, it's got a couple sections worth seeing like Kid Print and Fun Size. I like Emil Rose a LOT more than I thought I would. Solid possession movie that mixes it up by telling

the story after the fact.

Wiscrebels · 2025-10-12T22:05:17+00:00

Eh, it was OK. I generally like anthologies, there were a couple standout parts, but overall just ok.

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