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Five Years & Counting…

 

Welcome back to our site, which has just turned five years old as of late May.  With some of our highest usage and visits in that time being lately, it is great to see we have far from peaked, you are enjoying the work of our 15 active writers and we hope you’ll continue to enjoy using the site and visiting often.  As a break from High Definition technology, which we are covering as thoroughly as anyone, it was time for something big on music, so we have an article we expect will cause some though, talk and controversy entitled…

 

 

The 50 Most Underrated Albums: 1980 - 1987

 

By Nicholas Sheffo

 

 

Before a number of factors caused the implosion of the entire music label system, part of it being a movement later in the 1980s to ignore their history and legacy as if they could throw away their catalog and history, there was pride and people running the labels for the most part who knew and loved music.  They were willing to take risks and promote more than just pop tarts or junk they knew would sell, but really never liked.

 

Though some music has survived and thrived into our early 21st Century as currently relevant, especially Funk and Soul music, especially when sampled in newer song releases.  That leaves entire music genres behind and as many of you are aware, the death of quality mainstream music, along with a decline in Rock music (staring with the infamous hair bands) sowed the seeds of the major label’s implosion all the way up to their inability to deal with the Internet, the video age in the long term and failure to secure a new format to succeed the very aged compact disc.

 

Part of the problem is a new sense of censorship that has befallen the industry, helping to kill it and drive the more creative artists to alternate and independent outlets.  Though the following material is diverse, as the releases of the industry once were, they all have a certain heart and soul in common that made them outstanding releases in their time and as you are about to see, enduring ones, no matter how tastes have changed and especially in how tastes have declined:

 

 

You can read the list at this link

 

http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/7069/The+50+Most+Underrated+Albums

 

 

 

As for video, we still have…

 

50 Films That Should Come Out On Blu-ray Now!

 

 

OK, we can’t abandon the HD subject entirely.  Five of our most popular essays yet are top ten lists on key films that should be issued in high definition and with Blu-ray the ultimate HD format, we hope to see the following films released.  We hope you enjoy these lists as much as our visitors have so far as a series of surprise hits giving us a bunch of hits and visits:

 

Ten Great Films The Blu-ray Group Should Release In High Definition Now!

http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/essay/6682/Ten+Great+Films+The+Blu-ray+Group

Ten Great Independent Films That Should Be Issued On Blu-ray Immediately!

http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/essay/6890/Ten+Great+Independent+Films+That

Ten Great Foreign-Language Films That Should Be In The HD Formats Now!

http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/essay/6431/Ten+Great+Foreign-Language+Films

Ten Great Films Paramount, Rhino & Universal Should Release In HD-DVD Now!

http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/6364/Ten+Great+Films+Paramount,+Rhino

Ten Great Films Warner/New Line Should Release In Both High Definition Formats Now!

http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/6263/Ten+Great+Films+Warner/New+Line

 

 

Besides our constantly changing sidebar highlighting the best new discs, we have a master list of key titles we constantly update.  The link to highlights in both formats here on the site is:

 

http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/4249/Highlights+of+software

 

 

You can also put “Blu-ray” (or even “HD-DVD”) in our search engine for the latest coverage of software releases, approaching 700 titles and counting.  Keep checking in for exclusive analysis of all the latest releases, including many that most other sites and magazines have not covered!

 

 

 

The Best Film Magazine On The Market!

 

 

Though it is hard to argue the importance of film publications like American Cinematographer, Indie Slate, Cineaste or Moviemaker and what they deliver, but so much of film history and production is not being covered properly or of key films that deserve whole new audiences.  If you love film, you’ll love the new hit magazine Cinema Retro, which is getting bigger and bigger.  You may want to see about subscribing now while supplies last on the latest issue.   You can visit their site at:

 

www.CinemaRetro.com

 

 

“CINEMA RETRO" IS THE NEW MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO CLASSIC & CULT FILMS OF THE '60S & '70S. WRITTEN ABOUT AND BY THE ACTORS & FILMMAKERS OF THE ERA. EVERY ISSUE A LIMITED EDITION COLLECTOR'S ITEM!

 

 

Their site offer film news you cannot even find on IMDb, Variety or The Hollywood Reporter websites.  Then there is their amazing magazine, one of the best of its kind on the entire market and a must for any serious film fan, so good that many issues are selling out.  ISSUE #11 includes:

 

 

Film in Focus tribute to Michael Caine's classic crime caper Get Carter

 

Exclusive interview with director Joe Dante

 

David McCallum recalls the making of Sol Madrid and Mosquito Squadron

 

A look back at the scandalous teen schoolgirl sex drama Baby Love starring 15 year old Linda Hayden

 

Inside the making of Gerry Anderson's unheralded sci-fi classic Doppelgänger (aka Journey to the Far Side of the Sun)

 

Tribute to original scream queen, Barbara Steele, star of the Mario Bava horror classics

 

The Films of Doris Day – Part 2 focuses on her greatest performance, opposite James Cagney in Love Me or Leave Me

 

The mystery of who really played the villainess Bambi in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever

 

The Films from U.N.C.L.E. Part 3 – The making of One Spy Too Many

 

Raymond Benson's top ten films of 1970

 

The Queen's visits to Pinewood Studios

 

The Ian Fleming centennary museum Exhibition in London

 

The latest DVD, soundtrack and movie book reviews – plus the usual rare stills from the Cinema Retro archive

 

 

And that is just a single issue!!!

 

Contact the producers and get any issue to see for yourself.  By the way, back issues are running out as the magazine expands and does so worldwide.

 

 

In the meantime, back to the site:

 

 

FulvueDrive-in.com is about providing the most direct, expert, detailed (without ruining anything for first time viewers and listeners, as we are not into spoilers), informative, fun, bold, vital information we can come up with.  That fun, yet College-level and all accessible way in which we cover material here benefit all our readers.  Some of them are getting the hang of our technical section, but others are starting to catch on.  We are doing our best to stay on top of the latest releases and what is happening or being released that you may not have heard about.  If it is something you know about, we will likely have information and observations you will get nowhere else.

 

 

Now for some other sites worth checking out…

 

The newest of a growing trend of sites covering only the high definition websites is High Def Disc News, whose primary content is authored by two big, enthusiastic fans: Justin Sluss and Brendan Surpless.  They have been up for less than a year and the site is already loaded with a surprisingly large number of reviews and news items.  See more at http://www.highdefdiscnews.com/

 

 

Blogs are all over the place, and some (like our writer Dante Ciampaglia’s Crazy From The Heat) cover film and entertainment.  Daniel Johnson recently wrote us about his.  He is a fine writer and implores “For amazing movie articles, crazy cinematic lists, and riveting reviews go to Film Babble Blog!"  The link is:

 

http://filmbabble.blogspot.com/

 

 

If you are interested in wild, wacky productions or something more ambitious and serious, you can check out the new website for Stone Phoenix Productions.  We figured it was worth including instead of the usual review and theory coverage:

 

http://www.stone-phoenix.com/

 

 

Continuing their winning ways is DVDBeaver, a site that covers DVDs and films from all over the world like no other, and is one of the only other sites besides ours to do so.  Their link is:

 

www.DVDBeaver.com

 

We believe that we are one of the few sites that manage to cover both the technical parts of filmmaking, as well as the content and form of the films themselves more thoroughly than you would usually find on other sites or in print.  They have reviews as well, but our favorite section is their ever-growing DVD Comparisons section, which features very technical details on several versions of a given film.  Often, they are even from different DVD Regions, but they are always accompanied by still images from each DVD covered.  Gary W. Tooze’s site is everything the net is supposed to deliver and we will be adding anything we can to contribute to their efforts as they do ours.  For starters, see Nicholas Sheffo’s comments on comparisons for Midnight Cowboy, Ronin, Taxi Driver, Johnny Guitar, The Harder They Come, Lawrence Of Arabia, A Hard Day’s Night, Rosemary’s Baby, The Aviator, Magnolia, Jaws, Casino (see our HD-DVD review), Robocop (also on this site), Bram Stoker’s Dracula, John Carpenter’s Vampires, Dances With Wolves, Planet Of The Apes (1968, also on this site), The Shadow (1994), Night Of The Hunter, Charade (early review), King Kong (1933, unrestored imports), Playtime, (prior to the new Criterion DVD reissue) Apocalypse Now (Redux), Diary Of A Chambermaid, The Night Stalker/Night Strangler double feature (also on this site) and The Good, The Bad & The Ugly.  A few of those also happen to be covered on this site.  Be sure to give them a visit, all titles of which can be accessed alphabetically on the site by clicking the “DVD Comparisons” at the lower left hand corner of the DVDBeaver logo on their home page.  More comparisons are on the way and their site adds material everyday like we do.

 

www.cinegeek.com is run by Stephen Lackey and has its own love of anything Sci-Fi, Horror, Fantasy or Cult.  The web needs more alternative sites like this, so be sure to visit them.

 

 

Thank you for visiting.  We add new material everyday and hope you are enjoying everything.

 

 

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