That's wild but good on Noé. I knew Argento was there but I presumed he was the guest of honour.

Oh it is, and that's when the danger starts.

*jacked the volume.

Unsure how that typo happened.

...So it went to 1.37:1 and everyone's heads were cut off throughout. I still had a good time. Like I said, they tried. They also once had a midnight screenings of Phantom of the Paradise and jacked the cime to genuinely headache-inducing levels. A bad idea, but the bad choice of true believers.

My key Baxter Avenue memory was when a contest winner picked Chaplin's City Lights to screen. A wonderful film but awkward for a multiplex as it's in the early sound 1.19:1 aspect ratio, which Baxter couldn't quite accommodate...

Me being shocked by carnage but then someone gives me "data and arguments" and I realize the carnage is good actually. A little voice inside me says, "But there's a lot of children in this carnage," but then a nice lobbyist hands me a check.

Luckily I only have a few issues like that, but sadly I am a sucker for those 35mm scans.

It's nice to have options and I already paid for them. I just need more shelves. Ever more shelves.

What's better than two editions of one movie? Why three, of course. Four is when you really know you're a grown-up.

This post brought to you by the two unique audio commentaries on Arrow's Blu of The Exorcist III that Shout Factory did not acquire.

They should remake Storytelling but with one half muppets.

That's the thing about Videodrome, it has an philosophy. And that's what makes it dangerous.

The 24 films and supplements are accompanied by a 350+ page, full color book (which is available separately too). It's a heck of a thing.

Emanuelle in America makes it all worthwhile. I've not seen most of what's in there yet but that one, that one is very special, like an atomic bomb attack.