Sir Laurence Olivier directed her. Eve Arnold observed her.

Where The Prince and the Showgirl delivered 117 minutes of Technicolor fantasy, Eve Arnold's black-and-white photograph of Marilyn Monroe amid a crowd of reporters reveals the scrutiny beneath the stardom. In a moment orchestrated for headlines, Arnold captured something rarely afforded to the mid-century icon: stillness, subtlety, and the assertion of agency.

The Oscar wasn’t just panned, it was nearly purged.

The Oscar is a film so overproduced, overacted, and overdesigned that it circles the block back to relevance. For all its missteps and miscastings, it exposes the machinery of Hollywood mythmaking better than a dozen prestige pictures. More importantly, its resurrection on Blu-ray reveals why boutique labels matter.

Physical media, in this case, captures The Oscar for what it is: a flawed, fascinating artifact of an industry in Golden Age denial.

You probably didn’t expect the definitive history of Hollywood’s most prestigious night to be launched on a daytime talk show.

More than a record of categories, dates, and names, Robert Osbourne's Academy Awards Ilustrated is a tribute to the permanence of print in a culture obsessed with ephemeral media. It laid the foundation for Oscar commentary and scholarship in the decades that followed. It also highlights the disconnect between cultural memory and archival truth.

Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story (2024) explores what it means to be born into a very bright spotlight, and what it takes to live up to it.

The 2025 DVD release from Kino Lorber offers audiences a chance to discover (or rediscover) a living legend while helping preserve her legacy through the power of physical media and independent film.

Please note: this episode contains spoilers.

Dorothy Gale could click her heels and get back to her farm in Kansas. But for one of MGM's brightest stars, where exactly was she supposed to go?

Rupert Goold's Judy captures the iconic performer in the late 1960s. Defrauded, displaced, and out of options, she accepts a five-week engagement at London's Talk of the Town.Judy is a story about cost; the incalculable price paid not just for fame, but for performance itself. With the 2019 Blu-ray in hand, let's unpack the MGM myth, reveal the person behind the persona, and affirm the sacred contract between artist and audience.

Please note: this episode contains spoilers for the 2019 film, Judy.

Liza Minnelli didn’t intend on sharing the London stage with her mother. But, Judy Garland had other plans.

This episode explores how their mother-daughter duo at the London Palladium marked the beginning of a captivating and enduring shared legacy.

The reissue of Judy and Liza: Together is a marvelous example of “mother knows best” in action. And sixty years on, it’s clear that Judy’s ambush worked better than anyone could have imagined.