TheArchive: Reviewing the Rare, Retro, and Restored

  As today marks the 25th anniversary of Princess Diana's death  we decided to revisit a movie from   TheArchive , a timely piece of nostalgia,   Princess in Love .  It aired only one year before Princess Di’s untimely death. Recounting the true-life story of the rollercoaster love affair between Captain James Hewitt and Lady Diana Spencer,  Princess in Love  suggests that this relationship “destroyed a royal marriage and stunned the British monarchy.” Today we know that the Royals, still an obsessive figment of media attention and global fandom, and no less a tough lot, remain an insulated family but one no longer immune to the demands for parity from an evolving culture relentlessly pursuing an equitable set of mores.  A subdued and gentle Lady Di is played by Julie Cox in a role - while quite outmatched by the indomitable doppelgänger that is Elizabeth Debicki in Netflix’s The Crown - that still exemplifies Diana’s real life sublimation and pul...

Feels like we were just gearing up for summer at  TheArchive  and now we're already headed back to school! But we always have something for the procrastinators...so feed the dog your homework, ditch your responsibilities, and cut class with these throwback high school classics. In  High School USA , a veritable  who’s-who of TV stars join Michael J. Fox and Crispin Glover (pre-Back to the Future) including Todd Bridges, Dana Plato, Tony Dow, Ken Osmond, Bob Denver, and Dawn Wells. An uncredited Brad Pitt plays a bumbling library nerd, and Nancy Mckeon plays off Anthony Edwards before his star turns in Revenge of the Nerds, Gotcha!, Top Gun, ER, and Billions.    In faith based Angel in Training , Desi has problems just like any other teenager but the biggest difference? She gets help from an apprentice angel who's still earning her wings.  Keeping with the faith theme, The St. Tammany Miracle , starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Soleil Moon Frye, fea...

Live concerts and events are definitely back. This summer and into fall, people everywhere are trying to get out to see their favorite bands back on tour. From The Rolling Stones to The Gipsy Kings , Stevie Nicks to Michael Bolton , every show seems to sell out before the tickets come online. And for bands like KISS , who kick off their final tour ever next week, good luck getting tickets! But not everyone is ready to race out to join the massive crowds or fight to see their favorites one last time. So  TheArchive  is  bringing some of the tour stops directly to you. We've got the "unseen concert" from Kiss.  Kiss: Live in Las Vegas .  In typical cutting edge Gene Simmons fashion, in 1999 Kiss participated in a concert to be streamed on the internet. Unfortunately as Kiss was about to perform, the servers crashed and over a billion people missed out seeing the performance.  Speaking of Vegas, check out The Who: The Vegas Job .  On October 29th, 1999,...

As you get ready for fall but still have those extra hours in the summer days, no time like the present to attack those lingering fixer upper renovation projects. And we've got a couple series that may get you off the couch and inspire you onto a ladder. Repurposed shipping containers turned into beautiful homes and unique building projects? Absolutely.  In our all new reality series  Container Masters , Jim Russell, also known as the Container Master, brings clients' unique shipping container dreams to life in this unscripted series. Working with Jim is his loyal, hard-working and fun-loving team as we follow them through the build process all the way up to the final reveal. We can barely contain our excitement. 54 episodes  of  energetic and uplifting makeovers! Divine Restoration is a "godsend" of a series with wish-come-true religious renovations coming together in a single week—transforming churches, and in the process communities, with the help of their congre...

It's the dog days of summer and boy do we have some dogs for you .  TheArchive  is proud to present... The Barkive! In Sherlock Bones: Undercover Dog , ten-year-old Billy's plans to spend the summer with his father go awry when Sherlock, a talking police dog, demands his help to rescue his police detective handler who was kidnapped by smugglers.    Steve Guttenberg, Billy Zane, and Curtis "Booger Presley" Armstrong, star in The Gold Retrievers about a 12-year-old boy who attempts to save his family home by embarking on a treasure hunt with his mischievous Golden Retriever and a young girl who isn't afraid of a big challenge.   After unearthing a truck full of stolen gold, siblings Peter and Shannon O'Brian are captured by three amateurish bank robbers. Now it's up to Peter and Shannon's pets to come to their rescue.   Pets to the Rescue   stars George Hamilton and his year-round summer tan.                ...

If you need a break from multiple networks flooding the airwaves with shark content, look no further than TheArchive where we boast our own animals gone wild list. It's Everything But Sharks Week. This first one  r anked among the most successful films of 1976. Grizzly  was produced on a $750,000 budget, becoming   the most successful independent   motion picture of of that year, earning more than $39 million worldwide. Of course that's a year after Jaws debuted with a $470 million dollar take on a $12 million budget. But dollar for dollar, while Jaws was more profitable, the ratios are not that far off. Grizzly boasts a crew of more future Academy Award winners and nominees per capita than most legit Oscar films! Eight in fact! Sink your teeth into that. One of them must have been responsible for blowing up the bear much like Jaws saw its demise a year before.... Grizzly was directed by WIlliam Girdler and produced by the wildly bizarre and ironicall...

We've curated a list of “hot summer nights” viewing made to help you turn up the heat just a little bit more courtesy of hot stars including Don Johnson, Renee Zellweger, Matt Dillon, Cybil Shepherd, and Liz Taylor.   So chill out on the couch this weekend with some familiar faces and stream away…. We kick off with The Long Hot Summer starring Don Johnson and Cybill Shepherd. We meet a handsome southern drifter who secures a job at Will Varner's mansion. Varner's daughter and daughter-in-law vie for the handsome drifter’s attention, while he sets his sights on Varner’s fortune. Mark Harmon and Elizabeth Taylor star in  Sweet Bird of Youth , an adaptation of Tennessee William's masterful melodrama about an aging movie star who, appalled by her own image on the screen, flees from her movie premiere and goes into seclusion falling headlong into a sordid affair with Mark Harmon's character, Chance. The brilliant Nicolas Roeg, who helmed the amazing Donald Sutherland st...