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Hosts Tim Rosenberger -- a 25 Years Later film writer, a blogger, and YouTuber -- and Rosalie Lewis, a writer for FThisMovie.com, travel back to the Golden Age of Television with four live teleplays featured in Criterion's boxset...um...The Golden Age of Television. Hollywood later adapted all but one of the four teleplays -- Marty (1953), Patterns (1955), No Time For Sergeants (1955), and A Wind from the South (1955) -- into successful feature films and were written by legends like Paddy Chayefsky, Rod Serling, and Ira Levin.

Hosts Rosalie Lewis, a writer for FThisMovie.com, and Tim Rosenberger -- a 25 Years Later film writer, a blogger, and YouTuber -- look back at two of Al Pacino's earliest films: his second film and the first to feature him in a leading role, The Panic in Needle Park (1971), and Scarecrow (1973), a little-talked-about drama starring him and Gene Hackman. Both highlight his early talent while also showing a lighter, more comedic side that some may be unfamiliar with.

Hosts Tim Rosenberger -- a 25 Years Later film writer, a blogger, and YouTuber -- and Rosalie Lewis, a writer for FThisMovie.com, discuss Bruce Lee with big Lee fan, Andy Ginestra. The three dive into Lee's best known films, both available in The Criterion Collection's boxset Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits. First up, there's a 1972 Hong Kong martial arts action-comedy The Way of the Dragon, directed and written by and starring Lee. Secondly, there's the most successful martial arts movie ever made, 1973's Enter the Dragon, a Hong Kong and American co-production.

Hosts Rosalie Lewis, a writer for FThisMovie.net, and Tim Rosenberger -- a 25 Years Later film writer, a blogger, and YouTuber -- celebrate pride month by educating themselves on the gay and lesbian experience through two historic documentaries: Portrait of Jason (1967) and Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (1977). The films explore what it was like to be gay in the 60s, 70s, and earlier.

Hosts Tim Rosenberger -- a 25 Years Later film writer, a blogger, and YouTuber -- and Rosalie Lewis, a writer for FThisMovie.net, travel through America and the afterlife as they discuss two Criterion comedies from actor, writer, director, and comedian Albert Brooks: Lost in America (1985) and Defending Your Life (1991). The films explore life, romantic relationships, fear, Reagan-era values, and the importance of nest eggs.

Hosts Rosalie Lewis, a writer for FThisMovie.net, and Tim Rosenberger -- a 25 Years Later film writer, a blogger, and YouTuber -- put on their deerstalkers and grab their magnifying glasses as they investigate four silent Sherlock Holmes films: two German adaptions of The Hound of the Baskervilles and two screen versions of the famous early 1900s William Gillette play simply titled Sherlock Holmes.

Hosts Tim Rosenberger -- a 25 Years Later film writer, a blogger, and YouTuber -- and Rosalie Lewis, a writer for FThisMovie.net, set the table and eat up a couple of cannibalism movies: Ravenous (1999) and Raw (2016).

Hosts Rosalie Lewis, a writer for FThisMovie.net, and Tim Rosenberger -- a 25 Years Later film writer, a blogger, and YouTuber -- delve into the matter of love with two films that feature a form of it: The Kid (1921) focuses on the love between a father and son, and the 1955 Best Picture winner Marty is about two people who fall in love over one romantic night.

Hosts Tim Rosenberger -- a 25 Years Later film writer, a blogger, and YouTuber -- and Rosalie Lewis, a writer for FThisMovie.net, take a look behind the curtain of three boutique video labels: Kino Lorber, Arrow Films, and Flicker Alley. They discuss how and why each label does what it does by talking with Kino Lorber Senior Vice President and Producer of Archival Restorations Bret Wood, Arrow Films' Head of Catalogue Kevin Lambert, and Flicker Alley founder, CEO and President Jeffery Masino.

Hosts Rosalie Lewis, a writer for FThisMovie.net, and Tim Rosenberger -- a 25 Years Later film writer, a blogger, and YouTuber --discuss why independent, black-and-white, 1961 film noir Blast of Silence and 1983 war film Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence starring David Bowie may contain unexpected Christmas moments and themes.