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Celebrating the arrival of the new SUPERMAN Blu-ray box set, this week’s Cinefantastique Laserblast Home Video Podcast takes a look back at the five Warner Brothers films: SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE; SUPERMAN II; SUPERMAN III; SUPERMAN IV: THE QUEST FOR PEACE; and SUPERMAN RETURNS. Guest Orenthal V. Hawkins joins CFQ stalwarts Dan Persons, Lawrence French, and [...]

This is one of those wonderful weeks for home video releases. The number of new titles may be small, but that hardly matters when you’re getting a 15th anniversary edition of one of the greatest examples of cinefantastique ever filmed. We are speaking, of course, about Tim Burton’s THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS. The film has [...]

Tim Burton’s THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS gets another go-round in theatres beginning this week. Last year, the film was digitally enhanced with 3D for its annual Halloween reappearance. Disney puts the film into its El Capitan Theater in Hollywood every year; for 2006, the 3D presentation warranted  other theatres around the country – a tactic being repeated this [...]

Hey, watch where you’re pointing that sword, buddy!
You better duck, because BEOWULF is comin’ at ya in 3D. The Hollywood Reporter has an article on the growing interest in 3D exhibition of movies. 3D has had a couple of cycles of interest, first in the early 1950s, then again in the early 1980s, but thanks [...]