Cinema On A Shelf

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Cinema On A Shelf

Matt

8 episodes

3 weeks ago

With the recent news in the entertainment industry related to Warner Bros., Matt wanted to take a look into his favourite aspect of the WB physical media landscape: the Warner Archive Collection! This long-running "boutique"-ish label has thousands and thousands of titles spanning the vast catalogue of vintage Hollywood films that comprises the Warner Archive. Matt loves classic films, so it's no surprise that he is a big fan. Through this episode, he talks about the history of Warner Archive...

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Film Reviews

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Episodes (8/8)

Cinema On A Shelf

Label Spotlight - Warner Archive Collection

3 weeks ago

1 hour 9 minutes

Cinema On A Shelf

Sale Season (or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love a Budget)

With one of the biggest sale seasons, Black Friday, being upon us, Matt wanted to take a bit of time to talk about different physical media sales. While Black Friday is quite a popular time for discounted movies, it is certainly not the only sale that happens; in fact many physical media sales happen on a fairly regular basis! He also looks into a little bit of info about the psychology of these kinds of sales, different ways that collectors can plan and prepare for a sale, and some ways to t...

1 month ago

1 hour 2 minutes

Cinema On A Shelf

Criterion Hall of Fame: Kiss Me Deadly & The Red Shoes

The beginning of the month of November brings one of the annual Criterion Collection 50% off sales, so what better time for Matt's second installment of the Criterion Hall of Fame! For his second and third entries respectively, Matt revisits two of his all-time favourite Criterion releases. First up is the unflinching film noir Kiss Me Deadly, an adaptation of a Mickey Spillane novel that pulls no punches and is both a critique of the macho private investigator trope and a Cold War era shocke...

1 month ago

1 hour 9 minutes

Cinema On A Shelf

Label Discovery: Vinegar Syndrome

In the next episode in his Label Discovery series, Matt takes a dive into a mainstay of boutique physical media that specializes in low budget and genre films: Vinegar Syndrome. It's a label that he is definitely familiar with as a company, but this is more based around their partner labels. The mainline VS films are something he did not have any first-and experience with, so this year's fall/spooky season provided a perfect setting for taking the plunge. Once again, he samples three Vinegar ...

1 month ago

1 hour 28 minutes

Cinema On A Shelf

Label Discovery: Indicator

A big part of the fun of collecting physical media from boutique labels is actually discovering a new label. Every company has their own unique touches on the types of films they release, how they present them, and what they lie to include to enhance the experience of watching the film. Personally, Matt loves this act of discovery! In this first of his Label Discovery episodes, he finally gets to dig into Indicator, a boutique physical media line from UK distributor Powerhouse Films. he goes ...

3 months ago

1 hour 5 minutes

Cinema On A Shelf

Label Spotlight: The Criterion Collection & The Criterion Hall of Fame

One of the really special parts about collecting movies on physical media is the great boutique labels that create some of the most exciting releases each year. In the first of his Label Spotlights, Matt wanted to talk about the label that started it all 41 years ago: The Criterion Collection! In this episode, he'll touch on the history of Criterion from the early days of laserdisc all the way to the present, the innovations and impact that their legacy has had on the physical media space, an...

3 months ago

1 hour 42 minutes

Cinema On A Shelf

Collecting Your Way

There are so many different ways to go about building your physical media collection, and the beauty of it is that there is no right or wrong way to go about it! For this episode of Cinema On A Shelf, Matt breaks down collecting into two focal points: the HOW and the WHERE. The "how" part of the discussion is a bit of a brainstorm of the different ways you can focus on what you add to your collection. (Genres? Franchises? Labels?) The "where" part of it is a little bit different in mode...

4 months ago

1 hour 34 minutes

Cinema On A Shelf

So, You Want To Start Collecting Physical Media?

Whether you have never owned them or want to get back to collecting them, movies on physical media are pretty great. You can go diving for DVDs, high definition hunting for Blu-Rays, or searching for the sharpest 4K UHD discs that technology can produce. So what do you need to know about starting your collection? In this first episode of Cinema On A Shelf, Matt talks about the different physical media formats available today, why you would choose to watch and collect films on physical media, ...

4 months ago

1 hour 2 minutes