DVD Review: Transformers – The Complete Series
"Me Grimlock say you full of cesium salami."
I grew up on Transformers and I have such fond memories of watching the show every morning before going to school. I just loved the idea of transforming robots (a reason that I also eventually loved the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Series as well.) Listening to Peter Cullen's deep voice coming out of Optimus Prime is one of those things that you just can't forget. Optimus was the total personification of good, while Megatron was all that was evil in the universe…it was as simple as that.
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies- Interview with John C. McGinley
John C. McGinley scrubs in as super villain Metallo
in Superman/Batman: Public Enemies.
Scrubs star joins stellar voice cast for all-new DC Universe Animated
Original PG-13 Movie.
From the trauma of war in Oliver Stone films to hospital humor on
Scrubs, John C. McGinley has covered the acting gamut. But in his
latest role – as the voice of Metallo in Superman/Batman: Public
Enemies – McGinley finally gets to delve into a characterization he
has rarely been offered: pure villainy.
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies- Interview with LeVar Burton
LeVar Burton is electric as Black Lightning in Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
Star Trek: The Next Generation star adds sci-fi cache to all-star cast of
sixth DC Universe Animated Original PG-13 Movie.
As the voice of Black Lightning, LeVar Burton adds another level of
fanboy cache to a cast thick with legends of the super hero genre in
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, the next entry in the popular series
of DC Universe animated original PG-13 movies.
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies boasts a cast headed by the definitive
voices of its three central characters – Kevin Conroy (Batman), Tim
Daly (Superman) and Clancy Brown (Lex Luthor), the original voices
from the landmark Superman: The Animated Series and Batman: The
Animated Series.
Karls Comic Con 2009 Highlights
So the San Diego Comic Convention has ended, we’re all back home, and hopefully all caught up on housework, yard work, schoolwork, whatever we got behind on to go to Comic Con. And by now we’ve gone through our swag, purchases, and freebees, and are trying to place an item with the event or booth. Here are some of mine.
A Short Interview With Rachel Miner
I got the chance to speak with Rachel Miner (Horrorfests’ Penny Dreadful, Tooth and Nail, and Butterfly Effect 3) at San Diego ComicCon on Saturday. We chatted about her role preparation for Penny Dreadful, her thoughts about being a Scream Queen, how movies and Algebra don’t compliment each other, and how I’m enjoying the Con.
Rachel Miner is a lovely young lady, quick to smile, with an unassuming demeanor that made this less of an interview and more of a friendly conversation.
CC09: STARGATE UNIVERSE- Interviews Part 3
Here is the newest installment in our interview series with the stars of the upcoming show: Stargate Universe!
DVD Review: Alien Trespass
Well, you can't go home again. Director R.W. Goodwin (The X-Files, appropriately) and a partner were sitting around waxing nostalgic one day many years ago about the great cheesy sci-fi/horror flicks of their youth, and decided to make a new picture in their mold showing what made the originals so great. Note: a new picture, not a modern one. The point was not to comment on the tropes of the era from a 21st century perspective, but to recreate them. Unfortunately they forgot that A) what was exciting to a ten-year-old in the age of Sputnik might not resonate with modern audiences viewing them without a lens of nostalgia, and B) it takes exceptional craft to make a movie about bad movies without making one yourself.
CC09: The Spectacular Spider-Man Panel (Parts 1-5)
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Blu-ray Review: Morning Light
Morning Light is a documentary about a team of young sailors competing in the 2007 Transpacific Yacht Race wherein dozens of boats arranged in divisions according to size compete to see who can make the crossing from Los Angeles to Hawaii fastest. This is a haul of over 2200 miles in a straight line, which course, we are told, cannot even be taken because of a permanent high pressure region in the middle of the Pacific that would bring boats dependent entirely on the wind to a halt. Even in customized ultra-light sailing ships with expert crews, a winning time is usually around ten days. And if somebody gets hurt or sick, or a sail or winch tears or breaks, you better have the equipment and know-how to take care of it yourself, literally a thousand miles from anywhere.
Blu-Ray Review: Race to Witch Mountain
Dwayne Johnson (Doom, The Rundown) stars in Race to Witch Mountain, a "re-imagining" of 1975's Escape to Witch Mountain, Disney's first adaptation of the 1968 novel by Alexander Key, who made a career out of paranormal YA stories a generation before it was hip. Although details of characterization and plot may change with each transition, some points are invariant throughout, most notably alliteratively-named siblings with psychic powers, at least one reliable adult to help the twins against a much better connected heavy who represents the dark side of humanity, and of course the eponymous mountain itself.
Blu-ray Review: Stargate Atlantis- Fan’s Choice
Good news for Stargate Atlantis Fans: MGM has just released Stargate Atlantis- Fans' Choice on Blu-ray! This single disc release contains the pilot episode, "Rising" Parts 1 and 2, and an extended version of the series finale, "Enemy at the Gate". These three episodes are presented in glorious high definition and have never looked better!
DVD Review: Pokemon All Stars 2
“We’re blasting off again” with the the next set of Pokemon All-Stars. Like the first set, ten more fan favorite Pokemon where chosen and then the three greatest episodes about each Pokemon where picked. The first Pokemon All-Stars was only the beginning, and now Pokemon All-Stars 2 is here to shock the world again.
Highlights
DVD Review: The Color of Magic
The Color of Magic is an adaptation of the first two books of author Terry Pratchett's (Good Omens, with Neil Gaiman) enormously popular Discworld series. Launched in 1983 with The Colour of Magic, the series is light comic fantasy where everything from over-familiar fantasy conventions to modern day political events to the grim specter of Death Itself are sent up using droll wordplay and Pratchett's trademark dry wit. Every release has been an immediate hit with readers, and now with 36 volumes (and counting) the books comprise one of the most popular fantasy series of all time.