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On this week’s show, Brian is joined by first-time guest Michele Eggen (film writer for F This Movie, Ghastly Grinning and others) to choose Five Blu-rays each to highlight from the vast offerings in the Arrow Video and Arrow Academy catalogs! Follow Michele on Twitter here:https://twitter.com/micheleneggen We now have t-shirts (& other merch)! Support the...

Rob Galluzzo is back to go through a stack! He and Brian cover discs from Criterion, Shout Factory, Twilight Time, Kino Lorber, Scream Factory and more! Enjoy! We now have t-shirts (& other merch)! Support the show and get some cool stuff! https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/4782952-just-the-discs-logo Follow the Show on Twitter here for Episode previews and new Blu-ray...

There is simply nothing like Karel Zeman’s Invention for Destruction (1958). Taken from the pages of some of Jules Verne’s greatest adventures, these images combine to form one of the greatest cinematic pop-up books ever committed to film. The amount of painstaking detail that must have been involved in bringing this line engraving style of...

A short clip from our latest bonus episode, available now (along with hours of bonus content) on Patreon.

Grab a giant can of Aqua Net, slather some cheap eyeliner on your face, squeeze into your assless chaps and join Doug and Jamie as they venture deep into the Southern California hair metal scene of the late 1980s. It’s the first documentary covered on the show and a fitting way to close out the...

Alicia talks to Oscar-winning film editor Bob Murawski about his early love of horror movies, working with Sam Raimi, finishing Orson Welles’s final film and preserving cult movies. For more about Bob’s company Grindhouse Releasing and upcoming film releases, visit: http://grindhousereleasing.com

On this very special episode, Brian takes a look at Mike McPadden’s new book TEEN MOVIE HELL – which is filled to the brim with teen movie recommendations – and offers up 10 selections from the text that are on Blu-ray! You can buy the book here: https://amzn.to/2VtWsM3 Follow Mike on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/mikemcbeardo We now have...

Keith Enright makes his grand return with a bombshell. First we have a nice discussion about the August 2019 announcements, but that’s like the appetizer before the entree. He then drops his major prediction for a Spine 1000 box set. Expect some jaw dropping on this episode. We also talk about a lot of news...

In this special episode, we discuss the films of Noir City Austin 2019 and its theme of “It’s a Bitter Little World”, featuring a program of ten stellar examples of the progression of film noir from the end of the 1940s through the start of the 1960s. Noir City Austin is always a highlight of...

Matt and Travis welcome Caitlin, the host of Her Head in Films, to discuss Kieślowski’s final film before creating the internationally acclaimed Dekalog series for Television, 1985’s No End. Released in the wake of a two-year period of martial law in Poland that marked the end of the Solidarity breakthroughs of 1980-81, the film was...

Jill and Wade go from mass entertainment to mass hysteria as they tackle the latest threat to abortion rights that’s sweeping the South, discussing the what and why’s of Georgia and Alabama’s attempts to whittle away at Roe v. Wade. They also cover Politics in film, those movies that help shape our opinions and tell...

Stephanie Crawford guests with Brian again this episode to talk about one of her favorite films of all-time: A FACE IN THE CROWD (1957) and the new Criterion Blu-ray. Brian offer’s up the slighter John Ford comedy THE WHOLE TOWN’S TALKING (1935) with Edward G. Robinson and Jean Arthur (on Blu-ray via Twilight Time). We...

Jamie and Doug dig deep on the latest episode as they try and figure out what exactly is going on in Lumberton, what Frank Booth is sucking down in that gas tank, when this movie takes place, why Laura Dern looks the way she does when she cries, how many mechanical birds actually populate this...

Alicia visits British filmmaker Joanna Hogg at the shiny new A24 LA offices, to chat about Joanna’s new film “The Souvenir”, how Joanna delves into her past for ideas and our shared childhood crushes on Gene Kelly.

On this episode, Brian is joined by returning JTD regular John Cribbs (of The Pink Smoke) to discuss their favorite Sergio Leone film in FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE and the recent fantastic Kino Lorber Special Edition Blu-ray. Check out The Pink Smoke here: http://www.thepinksmoke.com/ Follow the Show on Twitter here for Episode previews and new...

Michael Hutchins joins as the special guest as we do a remote episode in a hotel which appropriately features an interruption from housekeeping. We dissect what is perhaps the most perplexing newsletter clue in months, talk about the Cannes Classics lineup and what is and isn’t likely to come to Criterion, the potential of a...

On this month’s “New Arrivals” episode, Rob G. and Brian talk about discs from the likes of Shout Factory, Criterion, Twilight Time, Kino Lorber and more! Directors discussed include Sergio Leone, Hitchcock and others! Follow the Show on Twitter here for Episode previews and new Blu-ray News! twitter.com/justthediscspod We’re also on Instagram! instagram.com/justthediscspod/

The Hitch-Hiker (Lupino, 1953) is not officially the first noir directed by a woman, but there is no doubt that director, producer, and screenwriter Ida Lupino was a pioneer. In adapting the true crime story of murderer Billy Cook, Lupino took the opportunity to get inside the mind of a killer to craft an unforgettable...

Matt and Travis are joined by Martin Kessler of Flixwise and Flixwise Canada to discuss Kieślowski’s shelved 1981 theatrical feature Blind Chance. Like Short Working Day, Blind Chance was never shown publicly before being withheld from circulation, a victim of the crackdown that culminated in martial law at the end of 1981. Only after Kieślowski...

On this action-packed episode, Jamie’s in a different timezone and comes off as sleepy and Doug is forced to watch a Chuck Norris movie and comes off as aggravated. The two try and get to the bottom of Chuck’s appeal and wade through lazy action sequences and uninspired dialogue to get there. But don’t worry,...