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The Dario Argento Collection will be released on 2 October 2006 and is available for pre-order right now.

The collection includes Suspira, Tenebrae, Terror At The Opera, The Stendhal Syndrome and The Card Player.

With some of the most powerful and beautifully shot films ever committed to screen, this superlative collection includes 5 of the most important films in the history of cinema.

Rooted in the Italian resistance during the close of World War II, Neo-realism was greatly influenced by socio-historical factors of the time. From the German occupation to the devastating aftermath of the War and the hopelessness of reconstruction that ensued, Neo-realism painted a picture of “real” Italian life. Few other periods of film history are so deeply influenced by the political ideal and social history of their time.

The films are : Rome, Open City, The Bicycle Thieves, Miracle in Milan, Umberto D and I Vitteloni.

Much praised and much missed after its premature cancellation, Firefly was the first SF TV series to be conceived by Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy and cocreator of Angel. Set five centuries in the future, it is a show where the mysterious personal pasts of the crew of the tramp spaceship Serenity continually surface. In fact, it’s a Western in space where the losers in a Civil War are heading out to a barren frontier. Mal Reynolds is a man embittered by the war, yet whose love of his comrades perpetually dents his cynicism - even in the 14 episodes that exist we see him warm to the bubbly young mechanic Kaylee, the preacher Book, the idealistic doctor Simon, even to the often demented River, Simon’s sister, the psychic result of malign experiments.

Firefly is also about adult emotional relationships, for example Kaylee’s crush on Simon, the happy marriage of Mal’s second officer Zoe and the pilot Wash, the disastrous erotic stalemate between Mal and the courtesan Inara. Individual episodes deal with capers going vaguely wrong, or threats narrowly circumvented; character and plot arcs were starting to emerge when the show was cancelled.

And now Titan Books has to published Firefly: The Official Companion: Volume One, a highly illustrated guide to the first six episodes, including annotated scripts and profiles of all the cast.

The idea behind The 50 Best Movies for the Movie Fan was for the author to express his subjective opinions on the best English language films in cinema history, ranked from number 50 down to number 1…but it became much more than that. Stan Russo has chosen to critique, analyze or just plain talk about close to 500 movies in total, including a number of foreign films that have impacted hardcore cinema fans and the top movie lists from two other well-known sources. Russo hopes to spark debate with his choices. While every movie fan will no doubt challenge aspects of this list, the goal of this volume is to be exposed to great films that may have been overlooked.

It’s time to look towards the future, specifically 2007.

Iconic posters from classics like Dracula, Frankenstein, and King Kong and howlers like I Was a Teenage Werewolf and The Blob celebrate the enduring thrill of the midnight creature feature.

Calendar features posters from such beloved monster movies as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Mothra, The Phantom of the Opera, and Village of the Damned. The Museum of Modern Art has a long and extensive dedication to film that is unique among the world’s art museums. This calendar brilliantly shows the artistry and wonder behind these classic posters. A great early calendar season gift for Halloween!

I was in Cardiff recently, so of course I went along and visited the Doctor Who Exhibition, which is well worth seeing if you happen to be in the area.

But if you aren’t in the area, you can more than make do with the complete first series in a TARDIS shaped box.

From Tod Browning’s Dracula (1931) to Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator (1940), this tome explores a diverse and fascinating era in world cinema.

The stock market crash of 1929 had left the America—and the globe—in a devastating depression that would not begin to lift until World War II. With so many jobless, penniless, broken people singing the blues, is it any wonder that Hollywood strove to distract viewers from their misery with comedies like Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936), Capra’s feel-good Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), and the Marx Brothers’ hilarious Duck Soup (1933), thrillers such as Hitchcock’s seminal The 39 Steps (1935) or Hawks’s Scarface (1932), or the epic romantic classic Gone with the Wind (1939)?

While American moviegoers flocked to the theaters to escape their troubles and find solace in the magical world of Hollywood movies, filmmakers in Europe were experimenting with new techniques in a medium that had only recently gained sound; Fritz Lang’s German Expressionist M (1931) and Jean Renoir’s anti-war masterpiece La Grande Illusion (1937) greatly enhanced cinema as an art form, while Leni Riefenstahl’s visually stunning Olympia (1936-38) pushed the limits of the medium’s technical capacities. It’s clear that while the 1930s was a time of poverty and struggle for many people, the world of cinema was much enriched.

Now seems as good a time as any to mention that I am going to be a father in the new year. And, in the interest of starting as I mean to go on, I’ve just ordered a Cars room make-over kit for the soon-to-be child’s bedroom.

Giant Stickers can be fun and also come in non-movie themes.