Cereal At Midnight

There's a lot to say about the movie  Gun Crazy.  Entire books have been written about it. Furthermore, it's frequently taught in film classes, and the movie holds a place on multiple cinematic achievement lists. I've known and loved Gun Crazy  for years, first "meeting" it via the "Film Noir Classic Collection Volume 1," released by Warner Brothers in 2006. Now the landmark movie has been restored and is available on Blu-ray courtesy of Warner Archive, and revisiting it has been an absolute pleasure. I believe this to be the definitive home video version of Gun Crazy .

Cereal At Midnight has your review of Wrestlemania 35, WWE's biggest event of 2019! Recorded in the hours following the Pay Per View itself, we talk about the good, the bad, and the exhausted.

Hot on the heels of The Street Fighter Collection comes the Sister Street Fighter Collection! Now all four Toei films starring Etsuko Shihomi (aka Sue Shiomi), Sonny Chiba's real-life protege and student, are available in stunning HD from Arrow Video! We'll dig into the films themselves, explore the special features, and celebrate these martial arts movies and their place in movie history.

It's Wrestlemania time! With the grandest stage of them all now just days away, yours truly debates on whether to see it or skip it. We go through the build up and the momentum (or lack of momentum) of certain feuds and storylines, Becky Lynch versus Ronda Rousey, and even talk about the direct assault on Vince McMahon and the WWE corporation from late night host John Oliver!

In this video, we're taking a closer look at the four latest Blu-rays to arrive from Mill Creek Entertainment's "Retro VHS Edition" line, each of which features the original VHS artwork on a removable slipcover. We're big fans of both this line AND of 80s nostalgia here at Cereal At Midnight, so we have LOADS to say about these four new releases, which include the following: Sheena, starring Tanya Roberts, Neighbors, starring Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson, Neighbors, starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, and The Legend of Billie Jean, starring Helen Slater and Christian Slater!

In this video, we take a look at the new Street Fighter Collection from Shout Factory! These are the movies that made Sonny Chiba a star of the drive-in and a staple of midnight movie marathons! We discuss The Street Fighter, Return of the Street Fighter, and The Street Fighter's Last Revenge, their influence on modern cinema (including filmmaker and fan Quentin Tarantino), and evaluate how these classic martial arts masterpieces look and sound now that they've been restored for Blu-ray!

In this video, we look at some recent paperback acquisitions! It's an eclectic bunch of books, covering the sci-fi horror franchise Aliens, the Nightmare on Elm Street series, and even the Hells Angels. Crash on the couch for a few minutes and take a trip to Paperback Paradise!

In this video, Heath and Bree have a candid, honest, and open conversation about the current Disney product, as represented by the 2018 film Mary Poppins Returns. We discuss the current cycle of remakes, reboots, and sequels, and whether they succeed or fail at capturing the spirit of Walt Disney himself. Does Mary Poppins Returns require a spoon full of sugar, or is it practically perfect in every way?

In this video, we take a look at the origins of the Star Wars Expanded Universe with the ten novels that established the entire first 15 years of Star Wars books! We also look at how the first generation of expanded universe books provided elements and characters that are still being used in today's Disney era of Star Wars!

Jack Hill is loved by exploitation fans for directing such movies as Coffy, Foxy Brown, and Switchblade Sisters. But in the 1960s, Hill made some of the craziest, most poignant films of his entire career. In this video, we take a look at two of those films from his 1960s output: Spider Baby and Pit Stop, both of which are highly-influential among directors like Quentin Tarantino and Rob Zombie, and both of which has achieved true cult status over the years. Buckle up, because this hot rod is driving straight into the maddest story ever told!

With almost an entire year between episodes, Collecting At Midnight is back, and now it's better than ever because it's LIVE! Collecting At Midnight is a long-form video series that's designed to be a conversational and laid-back approach to collecting physical media with an emphasis on chatting about what makes all this stuff so cool. It's a podcast for your eyes!

In this video, we're opening a box of horrors from Lee! In addition to some classic Giallo films from one of the great Italian filmmakers, there are some sixties surprises and some out of print rarities! Also, if you're a fan of Sharon Tate, you're gonna love this!

Two spaghetti western gems have been newly restored and are now available on Blu-ray thanks to Mill Creek Entertainment!

Thriftin' time is here again! This video contains a nice, eclectic mix of movies, music, and books, including some oddities and a healthy dose of CASH. Also, did we mention that we read Playboy for the articles? Check out the video to see what we're talking about!

1979's  Screams of a Winter Night is now on Blu-ray courtesy of Code Red and offers an opportunity to see not only the original theatrical version that played in drive-in-cinemas and theaters almost forty years ago, but also to see a newly-restored, longer cut of the film that was believed to have been lost. The never-before-seen version of the movie runs nearly two hours (not 124 minutes, as the package proclaims) and adds over a half-hour back to the film's running time. Depending on your tolerance for low-budget seventies horror, this is either a good thing or a bad thing.

Who is Captain Marvel? That's the question driving the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe film, and Cereal At Midnight has opinions about the movie, the character, and what might be coming next!

Let's dive deep into the complete series of Community on Blu-ray from Mill Creek Entertainment! Dan Harmon's show about the denizens of a community college was streets ahead. In this video, we'll discuss the show itself, the special features, and the Blu-rays! Cool! Cool cool cool.

In this video, we open a package from Ron, aka Captain Video! This video contains the following: genuine emotion, oversharing, and something Robin-Hood-related! Big shout out to Ron and his ebay store "Ron's Cool Stuff!"

WIth KISS hitting the road for a final farewell tour, we're digging out our KISS Kollection! We're talking records, CDs, comics, books, DVDs, Blu-rays, and more!

After months of quiet, Ollie's Bargain Outlet has thousands of Marvel and DC Comics trade paperbacks and collected editions at bargain bin prices! Let's see what we can find!

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!