Australia is indeed region B for bluray, and that was a saviour for me in the early years of collecting before investing in a region free player. Was able to import UK blur ays with no worry, and grow my collection of many titles which didn't get Australian releases.
Really enjoying your videos every week. The Irwin Allen disaster films you mentioned were in a great box set released last year with 4 other Allen disaster films. Region A locked though.
I used to love Universal TV movies from the 1970s. I know Kino released a batch of them a little while back! Some have gone OOP. In the UK, CIC video released a series of Universal TV movies like James Brolin in Trapped. All the thrills and spills of The Elevator, the classic Universal thriller The Longest Night, directed by Jack Smight, and you really can't ignore Killdozer. I still find it agrivating that Kino or another boutique have never tried to license a nice Universal TV movie box set. I'm still waiting for the Darkroom to get a US release remastered. Darkroom did get an Australian release through Madman via Universal, but their must be a rights issue over the anthology series. I would still like to see Universal's one-off pilot for a TV series that never was called Annihilator. The pilot was about andriods replicating their human counterparts. The show was never picked up by the networks, and Universal buried it. Blue Chips was the Friedkin film with Nolte.
@@dr.impossibleofcounterpunc1984 Annoying. That sounds amazing too. But yeah, there's a bevy of fantastic TVMs lost in purgatory. I'm not hopeful we'll ever see many of them again.
@snipsmovies Yep. A lot of these TV movies are permanently stuck in licensing limbo. The Alfred Hitchcock Presents series made by Universal is stuck in limbo. This series was made in the 1980s. The original series from the 1950s got put out on DVD in UK, but the 1980s series is nowhere to be seen.
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Australia is indeed region B for bluray, and that was a saviour for me in the early years of collecting before investing in a region free player. Was able to import UK blur ays with no worry, and grow my collection of many titles which didn't get Australian releases.
Really enjoying your videos every week.
The Irwin Allen disaster films you mentioned were in a great box set released last year with 4 other Allen disaster films.
Region A locked though.
@@ravenelektra Oh really! Very cool. Pleased to see them getting some love and attention
Ishtar is another one that’s been on my list for while now, looking forward to watching it despite its reputation
@@LeeBrennan-hl6ud I think it looks great!
I used to love Universal TV movies from the 1970s. I know Kino released a batch of them a little while back! Some have gone OOP. In the UK, CIC video released a series of Universal TV movies like James Brolin in Trapped. All the thrills and spills of The Elevator, the classic Universal thriller The Longest Night, directed by Jack Smight, and you really can't ignore Killdozer. I still find it agrivating that Kino or another boutique have never tried to license a nice Universal TV movie box set. I'm still waiting for the Darkroom to get a US release remastered. Darkroom did get an Australian release through Madman via Universal, but their must be a rights issue over the anthology series. I would still like to see Universal's one-off pilot for a TV series that never was called Annihilator. The pilot was about andriods replicating their human counterparts. The show was never picked up by the networks, and Universal buried it.
Blue Chips was the Friedkin film with Nolte.
@@dr.impossibleofcounterpunc1984 Annoying. That sounds amazing too. But yeah, there's a bevy of fantastic TVMs lost in purgatory. I'm not hopeful we'll ever see many of them again.
@snipsmovies Yep. A lot of these TV movies are permanently stuck in licensing limbo. The Alfred Hitchcock Presents series made by Universal is stuck in limbo. This series was made in the 1980s. The original series from the 1950s got put out on DVD in UK, but the 1980s series is nowhere to be seen.