Warner Archive Podcast

The fires of youth, hell and a wax museum collide in this week's new Blu-ray releases include a new two color Technicolor restoration The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) from by UCLA Film and Television Archive and The Film Foundation in association with Warner Bros. Entertainment as well as Inside Daisy Clover (1965) starring Natalie Wood and Lucifer: The Complete Fourth Season (2019). DVD's back in print include the Charlie Chan 4-Film Collection (1946-48), Smart Money (1931), The Mayor of Hell (1933), G-Men (1935) and Each Dawn I Die (1939).

Join us in the bunker with new Blu-Rays like Blood on the Moon (1948), Rachel and the Stranger (1948), Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) and Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967). Step By Step: The Complete (and final) Seventh Season (1997- 98) is new to DVD along with Them! (1954) and Innocent Blood (1992) finally on Widescreen on DVD for the first time! Back in Print on DVDs include Desperate Journey (1942), Curse of the Cat People (1955), and a Village of the Damned/Children of the Damned (1960/1963) double feature.

Join us deep in the vault as we check out Blu-Rays including V: The Final Battle (1983), Tin Cup (1996), and Action of the Tiger (1957). Back In Print DVDs include Footlight Parade (1933), Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935), Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937), Du Barry Was a Lady (1943), Love Me or Leave Me (1955) and Guys and Dolls (1955).

Join us deep in the vault as we celebrate our 11th birthday! George and Matt reminisce about the infancy of the brand and reveal more information about how our unique service is able to bring so many new releases to so many great fans. Also we chat about how unfortunate current events are affecting all of us, and how we are focusing on bringing even more great Blu-ray Discs and DVDs out in the near future. Thanks for your continued support!

New to Blu-ray: Dodsworth (1936), Beau Brummell (1954) and The Stalking Moon (1969). New to DVD: What's My Name: Muhammad Ali (2019). Back in Print discs include the Tom and Jerry Golden Collection Vol 1 (Blu-Ray) as well as Bataan (1943), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), Trouble Along the Way (1953), The Left Handed Gun (1958), Ride The High Country (1962), The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964), Up The Sandbox (1972), The Gauntlet (1977), International Velvet (1978) and The Formula (1980) all come back to DVD.

What's new to Blu-ray? Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 1 (1943-51), A Little Romance (1979), It Started With a Kiss (1962), and Victory (1981) with Guys And Dolls (1955) and Sparkle (1976) back in print on Blu. Step By Step: Season Six (1997) and Years and Years (2019) are TV shows new to DVD!

There were several masters of animation during Hollywood's golden era. Of the top two geniuses, one created elaborate fairy tales and ornate feature-length fantasias -- the other guy was Tex Avery. We talk Tex with animation historian Jerry Beck and this first collection of restored Technicolor shorts on the new Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 1 Blu-ray that feels fresh and new, and funnier than ever.

Movies new to Blu-ray include Underwater! (1955), Cimarron (1960), Two on a Guillotine (1965) and Penelope (1966) while TV releases include Ballers: The Complete Fifth Season (2019) and Big Little Lies: The Complete Second Season (2019). Duck Dodgers: The Complete Third Season (2005) comes to DVD for the first time as well as Hanging with Mr. Cooper: The Complete Third Season (1994-95), You: The Complete First Season (2018), Roswell New Mexico: The Complete Fist Season (2019) and True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality (2019).

We wish you a Merry Disc-mas and a very happy holidays with our very special 400th episode that wraps up our historic 10th year. We talk about all the highlights, the great new releases and all the hoopla surrounding our first decade followed by a sneak peek of what's in store for 2020. Thanks for all your continued support!

Get set for the ride of a lifetime with our collections of Monogram Westerns, B-movie staples from the 30s-50s and it's time to say sayonara to our epic sagebrush collections with our tenth and final volume of our Monogram Cowboy Collections. Later written off by other studios, this episode we talk about their history and impact as well as their return to relevance.

Young Justice's creators, Greg Weisman and Brandon Vietti host a play-along Commentary track of the fourth episode in the season, Private Security.

We interview Young Justice's creators, Greg Weisman (Gargoyles) and Brandon Vietti (LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes, Batman: Under the Red Hood) about how after they picked up the story seven years after Season 2 aired on Cartoon Network and hit it out of the park. The first two seasons are among our most popular Blu-rays, and these guys do not dissapoint!

Current Animation on Blu-ray launches this month's releases with Young Justice: Outsiders (2019) and Teen Titans: The Complete Series (2003-06). Classic Films on on Blu-ray include Operation Crossbow (1965), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959), and Great Day in the Morning (1956). Current TV on BD includes The Kominsky Method: The Complete First Season (2018), The 100: The Complete Sixth Season (2019), and Blindspot: The Complete Fourth Season (2018-19). Finally, the classic sitcom Step By Step: The Complete Fifth Season (1995-96) comes to DVD.

Haunting a generation of children with its creepy tiny demons, we descend into the shadows of the Made-for-TV-Movie horror classic Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973) with special guest, author Amanda Reyes (Made for TV Mayhem) who also provides a commentary track on the new Blu-ray. How did this tight, effective film come about, and why has it continued to find new audiences?

Join us for a discussion of the new Blu-rays Shazam!: The Complete Live Action Series (1974-77), From Beyond The Grave (1973), The Fearless Vampire Killers...Or Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are In My Neck (1967), Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark (1973), Mr. Nice Guy Extended Original Cut (1996) and Days Of Wine And Roses (1962). Contemporary TV releases incliude Veronica Mars 2019: The Complete First Season (2019) on Blu-Ray, as well as Mom: The Complete Sixth Season (2018-19), Black Lightning: The Complete Second Season (2018-19), Crazy Ex Girlfriend: The Complete Fourth Season (2018-19), and Legacies: The Complete First Season (2018-19) on DVD. Also Logan's Run: The Complete Series (1977-78) is back in print on DVD.

Jackie Chan's Mr. Nice Guy (1996) has finally come to Blu-ray with a longer international cut. We talk to Hong Kong film aficionado Jeff Briggs about what went on behind the scenes as well as what it took to bring this comedy-action classic to Blu-ray.

By uttering a single magic word young Billy Batson transforms himself into the world's mightiest mortal, Michael Gray, who talks to us about working on the original SHAZAM! (1974-76) live action TV series and his reactions to seeing the recently restored HD presentation now available on Blu-ray.

New Blu-rays iinclude The Letter (1940) starring Bette Davis, The Set-up (1949) with Robert Ryan, A Touch of Class (1973) with Glenda Jackson, My Favorite Year (1982) with Peter O'Toole, and the back-in-print Action Jackson (1989) with Carl Weathers. Classic animation Blu-rays include Popeye the Sailor: The 1940's Volume 3 (1948-49) and The Jetsons: The Complete Original Series (1962-63). Contemporary TV Blu-rays include Young Sheldon: The Complete Second Season (2018-19) and Lethal Weapon: The Complete Third Season (2018-19). New to DVD films include You Can't Buy Luck (1937), The Man Who Dared (1939), Red Sun (1972) and Snow Job (1972).

Interview with V: The Original Mini-series Writer/Director Kenneth Johnson as well as a discussion of this week's latest releases including V: The Original Mini Series (1983), author Roald Dahl, director Nicolas Roeg and executive producer Jim Henson's The Witches (1990) with Anjelica Huston, and Jezebel (1938) starring Bette Davis on Blu-ray as well as Cash McCall (1960), Critics Choice (1963), Sex and the Single Girl (1964), Cincinnati Kid (1965), Dracula Has Risen From the Grave (1969), The Hand (1981), Of Unknown Origin (1983) and Wolfen (1981) back in print on DVD.

New Blu-Rays discussed include John Ford's Wagon Master (1950) and Fritz Lang's Moonfleet (1955) New TV on Blu-Ray release Riverdale: The Complete Third Season (2018-19) is next, followed by DVDs back in print including The Little Giant (1933), Larceny, Inc. (1942), along with Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan the Ape Man / Tarzan Escapes (1932,1936) and Tarzan and his Mate /Tarzan Finds a Son! (1934,1939) double features.