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.
-- The Management
