Around the Blogosphere This Week

Miscellaneous bits of news and fun stuff from around the Internet......Coming to Blu-ray later this year from ClassicFlix: Hopalong Cassidy - The Legacy Collection, Volume 2. The set will contain CALL OF THE PRAIRIE (1936), THREE ON A TRAIL (1936), and HEART OF THE WEST (1936), plus bonus features. There's more info on the movies in this collection from Toby Roan at 50 Westerns From the 50s....King Vidor's THE TEXAS RANGERS (1936) will be out on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber Studio Classics in June. It will feature not one but two commentary tracks, one by Toby Roan and the other by Heath Holland and Max Allan Collins....As a newly minted Lino Ventura fan, thanks to films such as THE BEAST IS LOOSE (1959), I'm especially interested in BIRDS OF PREY (1968), also coming from Kino Lorber in June. Additional June Blu-ray releases from Kino Lorber include the Brit Noir Collection II, with three films starring Jack Hawkins, and Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films....For my…