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FrauBlucher wrote: Fri Jan 09, 2026 12:31 pm Come on Stage Door!

The Elegant Dandy Fop wrote: Sun Jul 20, 2025 4:47 pm

domino harvey wrote: Sun Jul 20, 2025 4:45 pm Has WB been including disclaimers?

Only on their animated releases.

domino harvey wrote: Mon Jan 12, 2026 9:30 pm

The Elegant Dandy Fop wrote: Sun Jul 20, 2025 4:47 pm

domino harvey wrote: Sun Jul 20, 2025 4:45 pm Has WB been including disclaimers?

Only on their animated releases.

Just popped the recent Archives Blu of Rhapsody in Blue in and it opens with a non-skippable content disclaimer for “ethnic, racial, gender, and other stereotypes”. I wonder what child was going to sit down for a three hour Joan Leslie musical, but at least they’re protected

There's a new Extras podcast that's 2025 in review, I'm only partway through but here's a few notes:
-George says there's over 100 feature films currently in the works, not counting TV or animation titles which will continue. He states that a lot of exciting things will also be coming from partner labels.
-There will be more animation titles in 2026 than 2025.
-There will be more film noir in 2026 than 2025.
-George sees wishlists on forums like these and he says that roughly 60-70% of almost any given wishlist are in the pipeline and that the "recognition factor" of titles will go up, but that there will also continue to be deep cut titles.

domino harvey wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2010 12:55 am Regret to inform the board that I didn't care for Stranger on the Third Floor. I'm pretty liberal with throwing "noir" around, but, uh, this isn't one for me even if I liked it. It feels too much like a sloppy dip from the German Expressionism well instead of exhibiting a style influenced by German Expressionism. And the difference is all the difference. I thought the film briefly had a good idea with the absurd self-directed obsession over being falsely accused, but it drops that tack pretty quickly and makes his fears somewhat accurate to no great effect. Meh. I like Lorre in general fine, but I'm not seeing what everyone is jizzing over here with regards to his performance either.

therewillbeblus wrote: Wed Nov 15, 2023 6:21 pm Stranger on the Third Floor: Slight early proto-noir that's comprised of relatively low-stakes, rote activity, elevated only by Lorre's creepy perf - particularly when awkwardly meshing with Margaret Tallichet's socially-intelligent ingenue anxiously entertaining his eccentricities in their tense walk that marks the finale. I enjoyed that sequence far more than any other showy or dramatic turn, and its crowning resolve is so anticlimactic that it feels like a conscious gag of deus ex machina. Regardless, this doesn't amount to much and I've already forgotten the movie preceding its end.