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Month: April 2009

Reviews

DVD Review: Star Wars- The Clone Wars: A Galaxy Divided

No one could have predicted that Star Wars-The Clone Wars would actually turn out to be a good series. After horrible reviews of the pilot episode/movie most people just thought that there was nothing that could be done to make this series likable/watchable. It turns out that this series is actually quite fun and captures some of what made the original trilogy worth watching. The newest installment called A Galaxy Divided is now available on DVD.

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DVD Review: Moonlight Mile The Complete First Season

“Now that we have concurred Everest Now What?”

The year is 2019, 50 years after Humans first walked on the Moon. Helium 3 is discovered on the Moon and everything begins to change. This element is a perfect source of fuel for Nuclear Power. 16 nation band together and form the ISA and plan a mission to go back to the Moon and build power plants to provide a 1,000 years of power for the entire Earth. All of this and 2 fearless dreamers, Goro Saruwatari and Jack “Lostman” Woodbridge, set the stage for plenty of action and intrigue.

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DVD Review: D.Gray-Man: Season One, Part One

Allen Walker is a young, cursed boy who fights Akuma (weapons created from a tragedy, forced to destroy humans by their maker, the Millennium Earl). Allen was born with an Anti-Akuma weapon on his left arm, thus he was abandoned by his parents. Eventually he would become an apprentice to the Master Cross – an exorcist general. One day, Master Cross leaves Allen, telling him to go to the exorcist headquarters, called The Black Order.

DVD Review: The Sandlot / Rookie of the Year Double Feature

The Sandlot and Rookie of the Year, two amazing films from our childhood, have been re-released by Fox and MGM and released as a double feature! These classic tales are now available for you to own on DVD in this special release under the Dove Foundation Family Film Series banner.

"You're killing me Smalls."

Interviews

Spectacular Spider-Man: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Adam Van Wyk

Before the characters we know and love make their way to our television screens in their animated form, their every action is planned out thoroughly and storyboarded. Adam Van Wyk is the man behind the scenes storyboarding all of the action of the Spectacular Spider-Man and has done work on several other shows you might have seen. ComicsOnline had the chance to talk to Adam about his current work on Spidey as well as some of his past projects.

CO: How did you become involved with Spectacular Spider-Man?

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DVD Review: Time Crime

Time travel usually involves dinosaurs, buying stock in Kodak, futuristic mutants, changing time lines, or just plain old saving the world as we know it. And falling in live with Jane Seymore. But naked women and a deranged man wrapped in pink bandages make for a new twist on an overused subject.

But that’s exactly what the Spanish made Chronocrimenes (Time Crime) does. Regular guy Hector and wife Clara are moving into a new home and Hector spies a naked girl in the woods. When he goes to check out the situation, and who wouldn‘t, finds not only a naked girl but a man with pink bandages wrapped around is head, who stabs Hector with a pair of scissors. In the course of being chased he ends up in a time machine and travels back in time. What unfolds next is quite possibly one of the slickest scripts written.

Blu-ray Review: Never Say Never Again


"I need a urine sample. If you could fill this beaker for me?"
"From here?"

Back in the early 1980s someone made a bold move. Was there was a loophole in the movie rights for Bond films? It turned out that there was in fact a series of events that would allow a company other than Eon to create a film based on James Bond, but that's the thing: Just because you can, should you? Dare you? In 1983 Kevin McClory's Never Say Never Again remake of the Eon Bond film Thunderball went head to head against Eon's latest Bond film: Octopussy. In the end, Roger Moore's Bond won out in ticket sales and rentals, but it proved that there was indeed room for both to be blockbusters.

Blu-ray Review: Quantum of Solace

The 22nd Bond film, Quantum of Solace picks up almost immediately after Casino Royale leaves off. Quantum hits the ground running, opening with a spectacular car chase that sets the non-stop action tempo of the film. Driven by grief and anger, 007 dives recklessly into a quest to topple the mysterious Quantum organization responsible for blackmailing Vespar into betraying him. An assassination attempt against M from inside MI-5 itself pushes Bond further towards the edge, causing even M to question his motivations.

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DVD Review: The Other End of the Line

The Other End of the Line a romantic comedy directed by James Dodson and starring Jesse Metcalf as Granger and Shriya Saran as Priya is now available on DVD!

The story is about a call center girl in India (that does an amazing American accent) who has a client that she kind of falls for over the phone. She does not tell him she's in India, instead she says she's in San Francisco. He ends up going to San Francisco for business and asks if he can meet up with her. She accepts, goes there, wimps out and meets him accidentally after deciding to go home without seeing him. They hit it off and it's lovely and then, of course, it all falls apart because he finds out she was lying.

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DVD Review: Caprica

Now that Battlestar Galactica and Stargate Atlantis have ended, it feels like there isn't as much of a reason to watch SciFi channel anymore…but there will be a reason to watch the SYFY channel when it makes the rebranding jump because of new shows like Caprica.

There were a lot of questions about this new series that would take place 50+ years before the Battlestar Galactica saga that we witnessed for four amazing seasons. Everyone was worried that it wouldn't hold up to the high expectations that came with a prequel series being announced so soon after the current series ended. Thanks to NBC Universal, ComicsOnline has seen the pilot of Caprica and we can say with great assurance (and relief) that the pilot does hold up, and then some.

THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. This is your warning.

Movie Review: Dismal

So when you're failing College Biology what do you do? Study hard? Get a tutor? Date the T.A.? No, you go on an extra credit field trip to The Great Dismal Swamp.

Blu-ray Review: The Princess Bride 20th Anniversary Edition


"Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

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Blu-ray Review: James Bond Collection Volume 3

James Bond has returned for more adventures on Blu-ray! Volume 3 of the James Bond Blu-ray collection is now available and it features 3 new to Blu-ray films: Goldfinger, Moonraker, and The World Is Not Enough. These films feature three fan favorite actors in the roles that made them famous.

Goldfinger

I don't expect you to talk Mr. Bond…I expect you to DIE!

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DVD Review: Jim Gaffigan: King Baby

Jim Gaffigan: King Baby is a stand up special by comedian Jim Gaffigan, the exceptionally pale man behind Jim Gaffigan: Beyond the Pale, his previous special, who has also appeared in numerous film and television comedies.

Gaffigan has a very distinct, very silly persona for his stand up, which is particularly effective when he uses a high pitched voice to second guess himself, expressing the possible thoughts a critical member of the audience. He also uses his voice to create all kinds of ridiculous characters, which he uses while discussing all manners of inane topics. Overall, his stand up style is very effective.