Blu-ray Review: Venture Bros The Complete Season Four
Now maybe I got a little intoxicated before starting this review, but I don’t think my opinion would have changed in the slightest: The Venture Brothers Season Four Blu-ray is the most concentrated source of awesome that money can buy. I am 90% sure that isn’t the whiskey talking, and is instead my unadulterated devotion to this genius series. If you are a fan of comics, science fiction, or anything that uses the word “adventure” in its genre tag, you probably already know about The Venture Brothers from their first three excellent seasons. If not, you should. Look into it now. They are on Blu-ray (and DVD)!
Blu-ray Review: Hereafter
Comics Review: The Walking Dead #83 (MASSIVE SPOILERS)
By Matt Sernaker
There are a few moments in comics these days that really make you stop and reflect on what you just read (the shocking death of [REDACTED] in the penultimate issue of Y: The Last Man was a massive jaw dropping shocker that still makes me sad to this day). For those of us who have been reading the ongoing story of The Walking Dead, we have become accustom to Robert Kirkman’s knack for keeping his audience guessing…and the newest issue (#83) again not only pushes the envelope, but is also rather disturbing on multiple levels.
So many spoilers in the rest of this article. Read at your own risk.
Blu-ray Review: Skyline
by Karl Madsen, ComicsOnline.com
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
By now we all know what happens when we travel to foreign countries for a vacation. Beaches, exotic drinks with fruit and little umbrellas, local customs, disappearances, human trafficking, torture, sacrifices…and so much more to make you never want to leave. So how mundane and boring would a vacation in Los Angles with your movie mogul friend be?
DVD Review: Batman: The Brave and the Bold- Season One, Part Two
The adventures of the Caped Crusader have made their way to DVD in Batman: The Brave and the Bold – Season One, Part Two! With help from Booster Gold, Etrigan the Demon, Black Canary, Blue Beetle, The Huntress, and Aquaman, Batman is able to successfully save the day, week after week!
Episode Highlights:
“Trials of the Demon!”- Batman is transported back in time to save Jason Blood! Now Batman must team up with Etrigan the Demon and Sherlock Holmes to stop Jim Craddock’s mystical plan to gain immortality. Batman recognizes his future foe and tries to save him from becoming the Gentleman Ghost. This episode features a nice homage to the Batman Elseworld‘s story “Gotham by Gaslight”.
Anime DVD Review: FLCL (Fooly Cooly), The Complete Series
It’s not a tumor!
Finally, finally the brilliant OVA (Original Video Animation) from the creators of Neon Genesis Evangelion is available in a single DVD or Blu-ray format, loaded with juicy extras! FLCL or Fooly Cooly follows young Naota in awkward flirtations with his brother’s ex-girlfriend, as he suddenly encounters a guitar-slinging alien girl named Haruhara Haruko, her sentient yellow Vespa, and a slew of robots Naota must fight. Luckily, he has the aid of Canti, a TV-headed humanoid bot that sprouts from Naota’s own noggin. All this madness is brought to you in glossy, vivid animation with a bangin’ soundtrack.
Movie Review: Sucker Punch
Book Review: The Wise Man’s Fear plus interview with Patrick Rothfuss!
By Brenda Waldrop
Patrick Rothfuss follows up his wildly successful first novel “The Name of the Wind” with this superb telling of “day two” in Kvothe’s story.
To say that “The Wise Man’s Fear” was one of the most superb pieces of literature I’ve had the pleasure to read in some time would be an understatement. Every one of just under 1,000 pages is suffused with such incredible detail that the reader is instantly whisked away into Kvothe’s world of Sympathy and music, treachery and betrayal, friendship, love, and madness. The pages practically turn themselves, and if like me you have a day job that requires your presence, you’ll find yourself suddenly realizing that sleep is overrated!
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Blu-Ray Review: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 2-Disc Special Edition
Everyone out of the pool! We have reports of giant fleas!
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TV Review: Stargate Universe – “Alliances”
Stargate Universe has returned to Syfy for the back half of Season 2 and tonight we are treated to a Earth-centric story called “Alliances”. Here is a quick look at what is coming up tonight on SGU.
Spoiler Alert!
DVD Review: The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu
Spoon!!
What do you do when members of you cult find half of a relic, that when joined with the other half, releases an indestructible force trapped beneath the ocean? And this force is named Cthulhu? You find the descendant of H. P. Lovecraft, of course.
That’s what happens in The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu. Comic artist Jeff (Kyle Davis – Friday the 13th) is the last descendant of H. P. Lovecraft, and a Lovecraftian cult has found a relic and charged Jeff with the safekeeping of the object.
DVD Review: Psych9
I told you, no desert until you clean your room!
Your husband drives a taxi at night. You take a job sorting records at a closed hospital at night. There might be a couple of ghosts running around the building, and you are losing chunks of time. And, there is a serial killer running around town, and his schedule synchs with your blackouts and your husband’s schedule. Could it get any stranger?