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In our latest look at Heath's pick-ups, we talk about classic animation, music, box sets, rare books, and Professor Scorsese.  To unlock this episode, visit  patreon.com/cerealatmidnight !  Patrons unlock over a HUNDRED exclusive videos and YEARS worth of rewards from the archive.  Thank you to all of our Patreon supporters! CerealAtMidnight.com Shop:  CerealAtMidnight.Threadless.com Ebay.com/usr/cerealatmidnight Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight Facebook.com/CerealMidnight Twitter: CerealMidnight Instagram: CerealMidnight Letterboxd: CerealAtMidnite

The Patreon vaults have been opened for the first time ever! Collecting At Midnight Episode 26 includes discussion on Hamilton Book pick-ups, 50-movie packs from Mill Creek, and a purchase that Heath was hoping he'd never have to make.  This channel does not exist without your help! To find out how you can support Cereal At Midnight, visit patreon.com/cerealatmidnight or make a one-time donation right here via the "support" tab at the top of this page. Patrons unlock over a HUNDRED exclusive videos and YEARS worth of rewards from the archive. Every view, thumbs up, comment, and dollar contributed matters.  THANK YOU! CerealAtMidnight.com Shop: CerealAtMidnight.Threadless.com Ebay.com/usr/cerealatmidnight Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight Facebook.com/CerealMidnight Twitter: CerealMidnight Instagram: CerealMidnight Letterboxd: CerealAtMidnite

Ollie's Bargain Outlet is a great place to find cool deals, but they also have an amazing assortment of comics, graphic novels, and omnibuses! Let's see what's new! We are viewer supported! To unlock the entire Collecting At Midnight series plus collection tours and over 100 EXCLUSIVE EPISODES, visit Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight ! CerealAtMidnight.com Shop: CerealAtMidnight.Threadless.com Ebay.com/usr/cerealatmidnight Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight Facebook.com/CerealMidnight Twitter: CerealMidnight Instagram: CerealMidnight Letterboxd: CerealAtMidnite

In this episode, Heath has a non-spoiler discussion about FARSCAPE: Season One! This international series was unlike any science fiction show on television either before or since, and it remains unique nearly 2 decades after it left the airwaves.  Order ViaVision's Blu-ray set from Australia HERE Or from America HERE We are viewer supported! To unlock the entire Collecting At Midnight series plus collection tours and over 100 EXCLUSIVE EPISODES, visit Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight ! CerealAtMidnight.com Shop: CerealAtMidnight.Threadless.com Ebay.com/usr/cerealatmidnight Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight Facebook.com/CerealMidnight Twitter: CerealMidnight Instagram: CerealMidnight Letterboxd: CerealAtMidnite

Giveaway time! In our latest HorrorPack unboxing, we check out the April Blu-ray bundle and announce how YOU can win your own box! Full details at Twitter.com/cerealmidnight Horrorpack.com We are viewer supported! To unlock the entire Collecting At Midnight series plus collection tours and over 100 EXCLUSIVE EPISODES, visit Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight ! CerealAtMidnight.com Shop: CerealAtMidnight.Threadless.com Ebay.com/usr/cerealatmidnight Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight Facebook.com/CerealMidnight Twitter: CerealMidnight Instagram: CerealMidnight Letterboxd: CerealAtMidnite

Johnny Stool Pigeon  sits alongside films such as  T-Men  and The House on 92nd Street  as a noir that presents itself as being "ripped from the headlines" and inspired by the actions and bravery of real government officials. In this tale, a U.S. Treasury agent, played by Howard Duff (1950's  Shakedown ) pulls a convict (the always-excellent Dan Duryea) out of Alcatraz to help him infiltrate a drug smuggling ring. As these two go deep undercover to earn the trust of the bad guys, they'll cross paths with both the crime boss's dame (Shelley Winters, The Raging Tide ) and a mute thug (Tony Curtis in one of his earliest film roles). Complicating things even further, career-criminal Duryea doesn't intend to play nice with Uncle Sam and vows to be nobody's stool pigeon. With the whole operation riding on his willingness to go legit and play along, things are about to get messy. Directed by exploitation king William Castle ( Hollywood Story, House on Haunted Hil...

In our latest Kino Lorber spotlight, we're looking at the second half of every release for the month of April! Featured in this episode: Film noir, In the Heat of the Night on 4K, and a Vincent Price double feature! Catch Part 1 Here We are viewer supported! To unlock the entire Collecting At Midnight series plus collection tours and over 100 EXCLUSIVE EPISODES, visit Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight ! CerealAtMidnight.com Shop: CerealAtMidnight.Threadless.com Ebay.com/usr/cerealatmidnight Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight Facebook.com/CerealMidnight Twitter: CerealMidnight Instagram: CerealMidnight Letterboxd: CerealAtMidnite

"Gotta dance!" One of the greatest movies of all time has arrived on the 4K UHD format! In this episode, we'll discuss the new restoration, the special features, and the enduring legacy of this classic! Order Here More 4K reviews We are viewer supported! To unlock the entire Collecting At Midnight series plus collection tours and over 100 EXCLUSIVE EPISODES, visit Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight ! CerealAtMidnight.com Shop: CerealAtMidnight.Threadless.com Ebay.com/usr/cerealatmidnight Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight Facebook.com/CerealMidnight Twitter: CerealMidnight Instagram: CerealMidnight Letterboxd: CerealAtMidnite

The gun man and the sea? What starts as a routine film noir/crime film quickly turns into something else. We open on the cold, foggy streets of San Francisco as gunfire rings throughout the night. Gangster Richard Conte has just plugged a rival and has to get out of town quick. Easier said than done since all the planes, trains, and automobiles are at a standstill. Desperately hopping onto a small fishing boat, he finds himself on the open water with a grizzled sea captain and his first mate. Meanwhile, back on land, the cops get really close to Conte's tough-as-nails girlfriend, played by Shelley Winters. The tonal shift here is quite striking as the routine Frisco noir morphs into something that I'm less interested in, but that is admittedly well acted, directed and lensed. Richard Conte ( The Hollywood Story ) gets to sink his teeth into the role of a bad guy who finds new purpose and meaning on the open sea. I'm not used to seeing him in traditional dramas that deal wit...

In this look at Umbrella Entertainment's latest releases, we discuss two Ozploitation Classics, a hidden gem starring Heath Ledger, and one of Bruce Lee's best! More Umbrella Entertainment coverage We are viewer supported! To unlock the entire Collecting At Midnight series plus collection tours and over 100 EXCLUSIVE EPISODES, visit Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight ! CerealAtMidnight.com Shop: CerealAtMidnight.Threadless.com Ebay.com/usr/cerealatmidnight Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight Facebook.com/CerealMidnight Twitter: CerealMidnight Instagram: CerealMidnight Letterboxd: CerealAtMidnite

Brooklyn Nine-Nine has arrived on Blu-ray from Universal and it is NOICE!  Order Here We are viewer supported! To unlock the entire Collecting At Midnight series plus collection tours and over 100 EXCLUSIVE EPISODES, visit Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight ! CerealAtMidnight.com Shop: CerealAtMidnight.Threadless.com Ebay.com/usr/cerealatmidnight Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight Facebook.com/CerealMidnight Twitter: CerealMidnight Instagram: CerealMidnight Letterboxd: CerealAtMidnite

As a documentary about the resurgence and proliferation of record collectors and enthusiasts,  Vinyl Nation has quite a challenge set before it. After all, the hobby means different things to different people. For some, records represent a tangible connection between the artist and the listener. For others, it's a decorative item that can also be spun and enjoyed. Still others prefer the warm, analog sound over digital. Allow me to establish my bona fides  so you know where this review is coming from. I am a massive fan of vinyl records. I own thousands of them, both vintage and new pressings, and vinyl was my first format. I am older than digital. I am even older than CDs. I enthusiastically attend record shows, I support my  local record store , and I lustily seek out new discoveries and obscure oddities alike. Records make me happier than just almost everything else. Because of this, and because record collecting has become so trendy that you can't throw a 45 rpm adapt...

A friend of mine, Chicago film critic Patrick Bromley , is known for saying "it's black and white, so it must be good." It's mostly a joke, but there's something to it. This phrase means two things to me: first, my generation grew up in the shadow of monochrome. For our formative years, most of the "important" movies were all in black and white. Second, as we began to explore the cinema of the distant past, we discovered that there was a basic competency, efficiency, and overall magical quality to The Golden Age of Hollywood and the films made during the studio system era. The lighting, the acting, the camera angles, the music, even the distinct dialogue, delivered through transatlantic accents all work together to create something that is uniquely cinematic and altogether artificial. The sixties and seventies would do much to deliberately destroy that gauzy, otherworldly reality, but we continue to discover these antiquities with a mix of awe and fascin...

Why do we collect? Heath is joined by fellow film fan/curator Aaron Pynn to discuss their reasons for collecting as well and to highlight some of the more alarming trends that have started to overtake physical media fandom. Subscribe to Aaron Donate to Aaron Aaron's Merch Store Aaron's Patreon We are viewer supported! To unlock the entire Collecting At Midnight series plus collection tours and over 100 EXCLUSIVE EPISODES, visit Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight ! CerealAtMidnight.com Shop: CerealAtMidnight.Threadless.com Ebay.com/usr/cerealatmidnight Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight Facebook.com/CerealMidnight Twitter: CerealMidnight Instagram: CerealMidnight Letterboxd: CerealAtMidnite

The Whistle At Eaton Falls makes me very uncomfortable. Oh, don't get me wrong, it's a wonderful movie that was considered a "lost film" for a very long time and that is only just now making its home video debut. But the film itself is so full of relatable, complicated adult problems that I found myself watching with an increased heart rate and gritted teeth. Most horror films don't affect me this way, but give me a rich, well-realized story with problems that have no easy solutions and villains that look just like those that I see in my news feed every day and you'll see me squirm.  The film was released in 1951, but it might as well have been made yesterday because the story is as relevant now as it was when it first hit cinemas over 70 years ago. Our tale takes place in a small New Hampshire town where most of the locals are employed by an industrial factory whose whistle rings out daily at exactly the same time, so reliably that the locals could set their ...

Thanks to Jeff from Films At Home for having me as the first guest on his new podcast! I had a blast talking about movies, media, and trends in fandom as well as YouTube. Hope y'all enjoy! Follow Films At Home on YouTube HERE

Spider-Man: No Way Home has arrived on the 4K UHD format and Cereal At Midnight has your in-depth review! How does the disc look, what special features are included, and is this movie worth adding to your collection?  Order Spider-Man: No Way Home HERE We are viewer supported! To unlock the entire Collecting At Midnight series plus collection tours and over 100 EXCLUSIVE EPISODES, visit Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight ! CerealAtMidnight.com Shop: CerealAtMidnight.Threadless.com Ebay.com/usr/cerealatmidnight Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight Facebook.com/CerealMidnight Twitter: CerealMidnight Instagram: CerealMidnight Letterboxd: CerealAtMidnite

The Silver Masked hero is back to face off against the fearsome forces of darkness! The 1971 film Santo in the Vengeance of the Mummy finds our wrestling champion deep in the jungle as part of a scientific expedition to discover the tomb of an Aztec mummy. Upon arrival at the site, a group of locals appears to warn them of the mummy's curse: "Stay away from the burial site or be doomed!" Of course, Santo and company don't heed the warning and quickly find themselves being picked off, one by one.  The movie offers us a nice twist on the old Universal Monsters and Hammer Films  mummy movie formula by moving the title monster from Egypt to Mexico and providing audiences with an indigenous mummy, which is a nice departure from the norm. Instead of a stumbling, lumbering pile of bandages, we've got a regal Aztec warrior who is both agile and logical. The origin story is pretty similar to what we expect: forbidden love, ancient curse, doomed to a hell of never-ending t...

In this spotlight on new 4K and Blu-ray releases from Arrow Video, we cover action and horror classics, kung fu tragedy, Italian crime from Tarantino's hero, and the films of a French master!  Order using these links to support Cereal At Midnight: Robocop 4K An American Werewolf in London 4K Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter   Rogue Cops and Racketeers: Two Crime Thrillers By Enzo G. Castellari  Twisting the Knife: Four Films by Claude Chabrol   We are viewer supported! To unlock the entire Collecting At Midnight series plus collection tours and over 100 EXCLUSIVE EPISODES, visit Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight ! CerealAtMidnight.com Shop: CerealAtMidnight.Threadless.com Ebay.com/usr/cerealatmidnight Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight Facebook.com/CerealMidnight Twitter: CerealMidnight Instagram: CerealMidnight Letterboxd: CerealAtMidnite

Exploitation maven Jerry Gross may be better remembered for the movies that he distributed than for the ones that he actually created. Notorious grindhouse staples such as I Spit on Your Grave , I Drink Your Blood , Fulci's Zombie , Penitentiary , The Black Godfather , and The Mafu Cage  owe their reputations largely to Gross and his entrepreneurial efforts, but as a director, his output is much smaller and more obscure. Now, his first and arguably most unknown film, 1966's  Girl on a Chain Gang, has been given wonderful new restoration by The Film Detective in collaboration with Something Weird Video.   Three young social rights activists (a white man, a white woman, and a black man) are driving through the south when a small town sheriff pulls the group over. It doesn't take long to realize that they're in the wrong place at the wrong time and that this good ol' boy lawman and his crooked cronies have no intention of letting them leave. They don't take too kin...