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.
Blu-ray Review: The Day The Earth Stood Still 3-Disc Special Edition
"Klatuu Barada Nikto"
More of a "re-imagining" than a remake of the original 1951 film of the same name, The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) stars Keanu Reeves (Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, The Matrix 1-3, Constantine) as the enigmatic space alien in a cloned human body Klatuu. While in the '51 film, Klatuu comes first to educate, then ultimately threaten the humans of earth against the dangers of nuclear weapons, in the 2008 version, Al Gore Klatuu instead warns against the effects of global pollution, warning that the humans of earth will be exterminated before the council of alien races that he represents allows the humans of Earth to push Earth's global climate past the tipping point toward certain doom for the planet.
DVD Review: Project Blue Earth S.O.S: The Complete Series
“No one can escape the judgment of the Imfabels”
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.
DVD Review: Air: The Complete Series Box Set
“Through all the Sadness and Pain Just Remember, Keep Smiling!”
Bonds of love and friendship that transcends the ages along with a desire to break a curse that has haunted generations is the focus of this beautiful story. Yukito Kunisaki is on a quest to fulfill his Mother’s dream of finding the Girl who lives in the sky. He travels throughout the country side and finds himself in a small oceanside village, out of money and worn out from hunger. Befriended by a girl, Misuzo, he spends a summer finding the real meaning to his quest. The small village has been touched by the Girl who lives in the shy and Yukito and the others who live there discover the sadness that has enveloped them. The trick is how to overcome this sadness and break the curse.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Blu-ray Review: The Princess Bride 20th Anniversary Edition
"Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
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.
DVD Review: Oh My Goddess! OVA series Collector’s Edition
Oh My Goddess! Ova series Collector’s Edition is a short anime series that covers about 6 or seven months in the lives of Morisato Keiichi and the goddess Belldandy.
DVD Review: Lilo & Stitch 2-Disc Big Wave Edition
"Ohana means family, family means nobody gets left behind. Or forgotten." -Lilo
Aliens. Elvis. Kids. Family. Hawaii. Surfing. If you're a fan of any of these things, you will likely love Lilo & Stitch Which is now re-released in its blue-in-color but sadly standard definition only "2-Disc Big Wave Edition".
It seems that there's no Blu-ray announced as on the way, so it's likely safe to pick up this edition if you don't already have Lilo & Stitch on DVD on your shelf.