Cereal At Midnight

In this video, we announce the winners of the February contest and give away Waterworld on Blu-ray, courtesy of Arrow Video and MVD Entertainment, and the new autographed trade paperback of Bubba Ho-Tep and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers, courtesy of IDW Publishing and writer Joshua Jabcuga!

What Arrow Video goodness hides inside this white envelope? Only one thing is for sure: it's gonna be awesome!

The fourteenth entry in MVD's "Rewind Collection" shines a spotlight on a movie that truly deserves a second look.

The title of this video is not an exaggeration: I bought 33 pounds of pulp fiction on Ebay! More specifically, I purchased over 120 Mack Bolan: The Executioner novels in one fell swoop. Here's the story!

Years before Italian film icon Sergio Leone made history with his spaghetti western classics like The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West, he cut his teeth in the "peplum" genre. Peplum films were inspired by the epics of Holywood's Golden Age, but NO ONE made movies like the ones coming out of Italy during the fifties and early sixties. Leone's first film, The Colossus of Rhodes, is an exceptional entry-point for those looking to learn more about this unsung genre and the giants who worked within it, and this video explains why!

Cereal At Midnight's second birthday extravaganza continues with our biggest contest to date! In this video, you'll find out how you can win a copy of Waterworld from Arrow Video AND a copy of Bubba Ho-Tep and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers from IDW Publishing and adapting author Joshua Jabcuga! Check it out, and GOOD LUCK!

What's in the box? Retro treasures, that's what! It's Cereal At Midnight's second birthday, so Heath and Bree are opening a box of goodies straight from the sixties, the seventies, AND the eighties! Seriously, this is one epic unboxing video and we extend a heartfelt THANK YOU to our friend Eric Grigs, the man behind Eric Grigs Design Studio!

Writer Scott Tipton has been blazing new trails with IDW's Star Trek comics for over a decade, penning titles like Klingons: Blood Will Tell  and the  Mirror Broken  series, as well as crossing over the heroes of the Federation with other fan-favorite properties such as Planet of the Apes and Doctor Who . Scott and his co-writer and brother David Tipton have now launched perhaps their most ambitious project yet: in The Q Conflict , four Federation crews--those of The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager -- are brought together for the first time to face their most powerful threat yet. Cereal At Midnight had the pleasure to chat with Scott about this new comic, creative inspirations and mentors, and the responsibility of carrying on Gene Rodenberry's dream.

What would you do if you found a huge box of science fiction and fantasy novels? If you're like Cereal At Midnight, you grab it as fast as you can! In this video, Heath tells the legend of the Big Box of Geektastic Books!

There's no other studio quite like Hammer. Often imitated, never duplicated, Hammer dominated genre films from the late fifties all the way through the seventies with a unique English style and a stable of regular actors who would become household names to monster kids of multiple generations. They breathed new life (and fresh blood) into monster movies that had become relatively tame, and by putting their own decidedly-adult spin on the classics, they presented old favorites like Frankenstein, The Mummy, and yes, Dracula himself, in a way that not only felt fresh, but more explicitly scary than arguably ever before.

It's a Cereal At Midnight crossover! In collaboration with Cameron from Obnoxious and Anonymous, we're counting down our top five favorite movie books! These books can be adaptations and novelizations, behind the scenes books, or anything related to movies. Be sure to head over to YouTube.com/ObnoxiousAndAnonymous to check out Cameron's top five!

Counter-agent Matt Helm is back, and this time, the mission is clear: ASSASSINATION!

In this thrift store video, Heath manages to complete not one, but TWO collections that he's been chasing down! This one seriously has a massive finale. Just like Vanessa Williams, we go and save the best for last. If you got that reference, you're old!

Horror Express is now out on Blu-ray from Arrow Video and Cereal At Midnight has your review! This cult classic film defies genres and walks among several of them: horror, science fiction, mystery, and action. With a killer (no pun intended) cast including Hammer Films stalwarts Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, not to mention Kojack himself, Telly Savalas, Horror Express is endlessly watchable and--most importantly--a ton of fun.

The Spinner Rack Bros tackle the news that Ultraviolet, one of the very first digital media lockers, has shuttered its doors and will soon be no more. We also revisit the pros and cons of physical media versus digital media and discuss ownership rights in a digital world. This discussion is for fans who love the debate between physical and digital media! Turns out, there's more middle ground that you'd expect. *Special note: we're still working through technology issues, but this episode is a step forward. Thanks for your patience and understanding.

Cereal At Midnight is celebrating two years! In this video, we talk about turning two, and then give the details on how you can win a Steelbook Blu-ray of the anime Metropolis courtesy of Mill Creek Entertainment! Check out the video for all the details on this contest giveaway, and good luck!

Cereal At Midnight dives deep in this exploration of the 1995 film Waterworld via a new three-disc limited edition Blu-ray box set from Arrow Video! In what has already topped the list as one of the best releases of the year, Arrow leaves no stone unturned, offering viewers not one, not two, but THREE cuts of the film and hours of special features, a book, a poster, and photo cards. It's a stunning release of one of the most ambitious films in movie history, and we have things to say about both!

As discussed in a recent video , I've decided to start reading and collecting Donald Hamilton's "Matt Helm" book series. Hamilton wrote 27 novels in the series (plus one more that was never published) between 1960 and 1993, all focused on the exploits of an American counter-espionage agent. The novels are written from first-person perspective, and allow us to get inside the head of our hardened hero...or anti-hero, as it may be. They were originally published by Fawcett Publications under the Gold Medal label. In this inaugural entry, we're digging into the very first Matt Helm novel, 1960's Death of a Citizen.

It's time for another unboxing video! IThis package comes to the channel courtesy of Lee! This one's for fans of spies, British television, and out of print DVDs!

In this video, we're building cheap and easy media shelves! These shelves are great for those who want to keep costs low and are looking for storage solutions for larger media collections. They maximize function and efficiency. These shelves are ideal for DVDs, Blu-rays, even books. the stronger the wood chosen for the project, the more durable the shelves will be. You could even paint them if you wanted a more polished look.

"I'm always ready, I won't let you out of my sight!" This is huge news for me. Believe it or not, I'm actually quite a fan of the show Baywatch. Reason number 1: David Hasselhoff, star of one of my all-time favorite shows , Knight Rider . Then there's the setting: every episode featured beautiful lifeguards placed against the backdrop of sun, sand, and the Pacific Ocean. I know Baywatch  has been a punchline on Friends  and I know that it deserves some of the jokes that have been thrown its way, but at the end of the day, Baywatch  is not all that different from the American International Pictures "beach movies" that I love so much. No, it's not high art and it didn't have award winning scripts, but it was fun, and it ultimately had an uplifting message that I think we could use a little bit more of today. Plus, it featured quite a few stars, or actors that soon would be: Pamela Anderson, Carmen Electra, Nicole Eggert, Yasmine Bleeth, M...

In the most symmetrical thrift store video to date, we continue our excavation into the pop culture of the past by way of VHS tapes, records, and shiny discs for your ears and eyes! What gems will come to those who seek the forbidden knowledge of the past? All shall be revealed!

Is Matt Helm the manliest fictional character ever created? First published between 1960 and 1993, author Donald Hamilton's protagonist is a secret agent who makes other tough guys look weak by comparison! In this video, we dig into the books themselves, the Dean Martin spin-off movies, and even compare Helm to James Bond! There's also the small matter of a yacht captain's hat.

It's time for another Mego update! There are big things brewing in the world of 8 inch action figures, and we're going to cover it all. From wave 4 (and beyond), wholesale availability to retailers outside of Target, and even some cool new retro horror figures, there's a lot of developing in the Mego marketplace!

1960 was a pivotal year in the career of Elvis Presley. Fresh out of the army after a two-year stint in the service, the 25-year-old immediately returned to the life he'd left behind, arguably an even bigger star than when he'd left.  That year saw the release of two studio albums, Elvis Is Back! and the gospel LP His Hand in Mine, both of which were hits. But   Hollywood was also calling, and Elvis was eager to answer.