DVD Review: Your Under Arrest, Volumes 1 and 2
"If you can't stand the heat, find some shade"
Blu-ray Review: Bedtime Stories 3-Disc Edition
"Who's the real victim? You are!"
DVD Review: Notorious 3-Disc Collector’s Edition
Notorious is an excellent companion piece to the albums of the late Chistopher “The Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace. That is to say, this movie is great for fans of him and his music, but not so much for the average viewer. The entire movie plays out like a dramatization from The Notorious B.I.G.’s episode of VH1’s Behind the Music, often with similar acting.
DVD Review: The Reader
"It doesn't matter what I feel. It doesn't matter what I think. The dead are still dead." - Hanna Schmitz
When The Reader hit the box offices in 2008 I asked a friend what it was about, to which she responded, "Well, it's a love story." While the film does start out with an affair, passionate, forbidden, erotic, and tragically doomed, all the makings of an epic love story, anyone who can sum this film up as being just a love story wasn't really paying attention.
Chronologically, the story begins in a very well-created post WWII Era Germany, when 15 year old Michael Berg (David Ross) meets 35 year old Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet). Their affair lasts three months during which time Michael discovers that Hanna greatly enjoys being read to. Then as suddenly as it began, it ends, when Hanna disappears with no warning on Michael's 16th birthday.
DVD Review: The Count of Monte Cristo: Gankutsuou, the Complete Series
Albert de Morcerf is the son of a high-ranking aristocrat who doesn’t really know what he wants to do with his life. His childhood friend, Franz d’Epinay, takes him to Luna, a planet of festivals, to give him a break from the expectations of aristocratic Paris. While on Luna, the paths of Albert and the Count of Monte Cristo intersect. Franz tries to warn Albert that the Count is too shady for his own good. Albert does not listen and invites the Count to his home in Paris. The Count agrees, saying he was planning on buying a place in Paris, and sets a date for three months from that day.
DVD Review: Max Fleischer's Superman: 1941-1942
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's... SUPERMAN, saving the day in the final animated series by Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor animators Fleischer Studios. This collection features all seventeen theatrical shorts produced by Paramount in 1941 and 42.
This series is classic Superman, and presents the character in his most iconic form: the supercharged man from Krypton who spends his time posing as mild mannered reporter Clark Kent. Any time fellow reporter Lois Lane manages to get in trouble with some form of mad scientist, criminal, natural disaster or science experiment gone wrong, Kent sheds his meek persona and becomes Superman, swooping in to save the day with his super strength, super speed, and various other super powers.
DVD Review: Exosquad Season One
Exosquad, probably one of the best Sci-Fi animated series ever, has made its way to DVD for the first time! NBC Universal is finally releasing this classic series in all its glory as Exosquad: Season One is now available.
DVD Review: X-Men The Animated Series Volumes 1 and 2
Previously On X-Men...
Remember when Saturday morning was the best time for great shows? Growing up in the 80's and 90's we had a classic lineup of Batman: TAS, Spider-Man, Power Rangers, Sonic The Hedgehog, and more...Those were the days.
With the upcoming release of the new Wolverine Movie, Disney and Marvel have decided to release one of the best (and the second longest running) comic based animated series on DVD as the first two Volumes of X-Men: The Animated Series are now available! This series ran on Fox from 1992-1997 for five seasons total and featured 76 total episodes.
DVD Review: Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage
Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage
The underbelly of society, where even good people are bad is where you will find the city of Roanapur. It is a city controlled by Pirates, Mercenaries and the Mafia. In the midst of this is a small organization, The Lagoon Company, are doing what ever it takes to survive. This leads to some rather unforgettable stories, and I do mean unforgettable. Black Lagoon is a hard hitting saga that does not fear to take on the real issues in the criminal world, from child abuse and torture to Honouring the Family name. This dark series of events will make you think twice about the romantic ideal of the Criminal world that is often portrayed in Anime and Film alike.
