All this talk about losing the Mobius history got me thinking...

There have been a lot of reveiws posted on this site that were much better then anything in the current crop of movie reveiw books (many of the ones on the cult board send me out looking for films in the few local stores that still carry tapes).
I would dearly love for some of these reveiws to see print so that they don't get lost the next time something like this (or worse) occurs.

I don't know anything really about storing history for a site like this... would it be feasible to save to disc?

I would dearly love to be able to walk over to my bookshelf and pull down a book of reveiws by a handful of Mobius' best posters. I know, not enough time, to expensive, etc. But still....

Don't I wish? I have thought the same thing from time to time, especially when I discovered Web critic James Berardinelli had recently published a book of his film reviews. Not only does Mobius offer some of the best-written, most thoughtful and most entertaining reviews on the Web, but we also cover a lot of films that nobody else--newspapers, magazines, Websites, books, nobody--even touches or would even consider touching. Does anyone else besides Mobius and The Phantom of the Movies regularly cover direct-to-video genre movies? I don't think so, at least not to the extent that we do and with the same level of quality that we do.

My reviews are also posted at my (quite primitive) personal Web site, the link to which can be found in my signature below, so at least those are extant on the Internet still. As to others, I can only hope, since I'd love to be able to once again check the archives to learn what, say, Richard Harland Smith had to say about HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS back in 2000 or Mark Wickum's lengthy VIOLENT CITY review/essay a couple of years back. I doubt anybody is lamenting the loss of my BLOODFIST series reviews though! :D

I have no idea what it would take to piece together a book of Mobius-related material, but I am sure it would be of great use to fans of unusual cinema. I would also urge all of you to contribute reviews to Mobius when you can. Help us find the gems and avoid the dogs!