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I certainly bought Deep in My Heart and It's Always Fair Weather quite enthusiastically. The latter for me has always been underrated, and the former has some very entertaining musical numbers.

I watched the Region B Blu-ray of The Blue Dahlia tonight. Universal didn't put quite as much work in on this one as they did for The Glass Key. There were patches where dust specks and dirt took over momentarily and took me out of the storytelling. But it's such a good movie. I didn't watch any...

Yes, I agree with you, and in years past, when a receiver died, the whole thing died. With this, it's just the HDMI connections that don't work any more. The optical connection works just fine. Anyway, I'm going to have company tomorrow afternoon for a visit before I drive him to the airport...

Yeah, unfortunately, that was the first thought I had and the first thing I tried, but no soap. [sigh]

Well, shoot! The HDMI circuit on my receiver went out this morning meaning everything that feeds through HDMI is non-operational at the moment. I have a "new" Atmos receiver I bought a few months ago on sale to replace this current receiver once it bit the dust, but I dread the thought of...

Yes, I'll be watching the Blu-ray of The Blue Dahlia tomorrow.

I am very grateful to Universal for the work they have done over the past few years bringing classics to Region A Blu-ray consumers. However, I watched this afternoon the superb mystery The Glass Key on Blu-ray, but to have it, I imported it from Germany on a Region B disc. The picture quality...

Speaking of Universal catalog Blu-rays, tonight I took out my HD-DVD of The Sting to watch. I had read a review of the Blu-ray which mentioned the use of DNR to reduce the moderate grain structure of the image, so I had avoided it and continued watching the HD-DVD version all these years which...

I'd like to see a Blu-ray of Reap the Wild Wind, too.

It does look wonderful, and I think it's Henry Wilcoxon's best screen work.

Absolutely. But I want Mame, too, despite its glaring inadequacies.

Fox had no Best Picture winner between 1941's How Green Was My Valley and 1947's Gentlemen's Agreement.