Blu-ray Review: 12 Monkeys
From the space between the past and the future, buried somewhere flush against both madness and sanity, comes the time traveling story about potentially crazy people. We all want the future to be perfect. Flying cars, moving platforms, and robot servants will make life good. In the past the idealized future job has been to simply sit around all day and maybe push a button or two. Anyone who has worked in an office or cubicle can tell you that can be boring and tedious work, and definitely not the job of the future. Didn’t you get the memo? As much as I dreamed of a future with an Astro of my own, there are those who had a decidedly different outtake on what the future would look like.
DVD Review: Bleach Volume 19 The Bount
Ichigo and the gang are back. The battle with the Bounts continues. We are now in the middle of the 4th season and the Bounts have begun to break with the age old covenant made with the Quincy. They agreed to not devour the souls of live humans and now the decide they need a change of pace, with a hidden agenda behind it. This caught the attention of the Soul Society along with Ichigo and the others. At this point Uyrū has been captured by the Bounts and Ichigo and the others have gone to get him back.
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Blu-ray Review: Dollhouse
"I know you've heard colorful rumors about what an Active is… An Active is the truest soul among us."
DVD Review: Gunslinger Girl, IL Teatrino: The Complete Series
With a name like Gunslinger Girl you might think this will be a high action and adventure series, but you could not be further from the truth. Gunslinger Girl is one of the most thought provoking series I have seen in a long while. It takes on the base moral issues of the use of children as weapons, along with the different manifestation of emotional love. There is plenty of action. Just picture a 10 year old girl beating the crap out of a full grown man 5 times her size. OK, now you got that picture in you head, next imagine an entire episode devoted to exploring the meaning of Scarborough Fair by Simon and Garfunkel.
DVD Review: Pumpkin Scissors, the Complete Series
“I can’t believe you took on that tank, a normal person wouldn’t do that.”
Blu-ray Review: Doctor Who – Planet of the Dead
The Doctor is back! David Tennant returns as the 10th Doctor in Planet of the Dead, the newest story in the Doctor Who universe, which is now available on Blu-ray! This stand alone special features the Doctor at his best when a bus and its passengers are accidentally transported through a wormhole to an alien world, the Doctor must act quickly or everyone is doomed… Luckily for him, he has the lovely Lady Christina (played by Bionic Woman's Michelle Ryan) to help with this tricky situation.
DVD Review: Watchmen Director’s Cut 2-Disc Set
Watchmen: Director's Cut is now available on DVD!
Watchmen is a off the beaten path tale about a group of former costume crusaders who have split up after many years of serving together as comrades in arms and are now having to face each other again due to someone or something killing off one of their former members. It plays out much like a detective noir tale with superhero trappings along the edges. It is important for the viewer to understand going into the film that this is not your typical superhero film as Watchmen is something completely different. This is an extremely graphic story and they don't pull any punches (or hold back on the blue genitailia).
DVD Review: Super Capers
The Superhero genre parody Super Capers is now available on DVD.
After wannabe superhero Ed Gruberman (Lois and Clark's Justin Whalin) attempts to save a damsel in distress, he is sued by the mugger (played by Clint Howard). The judge decides to side with Gruberman but insists that he be trained by the Super Capers program for lacking superheroes.
He is driven to the Super Capers program by the infamous "Man-Bat" (played by Batman's Adam West) who now runs a taxi service using the Man-Batmobile. Once at the compound, Gruberman meets the rest of the team which includes: Sarge (Tommy Listner), Will Powers (Chuck's Ryan McPartlin), Felicia Freeze (Danielle Harris), and Puffer Boy (Ray Griggs). Can these struggling superheroes get it together in time to save the world?
DVD Review Global Metal
It’s loud. It’s rebellious. It’s obnoxious. Most authority figures don’t like it, and religious leaders believe it’s the moral ruination our youth. And it is the global phenomenon commonly known as heavy metal music. Global you say, how can that be with all the countries that are so restrictive? And so many different types of music styles. That’s what Sam Dunn thought too.
Sam Dunn, anthropologist and metal head, didn’t believe it either, so after his first documentary, Metal: A Headbangers Journey, elicited a global response he decided to film another documentary to investigate just how widespread this phenomenon is. So Sam, together with director Scot McFayden, head off on a multi-country jaunt to track down heavy metal music in the most un-metal places.
DVD Review: Stargate-Children of the Gods Final Cut
For ten seasons, SG-1 traveled through the Stargate to protect Earth from alien forces. Now their first adventure has been re-released on DVD, but this isn't the adventure as you original viewed it! This new DVD Release of Stargate: Children of the Gods contains a new Final Cut! This re-cut version of the pilot episode contains new scenes, new voice work, new CGI, and more!
Comic Con 2009: Chuck Interviews part 2 of 3
ComicsOnline Junior Editor Kendrick interviews Zach Levy (Chuck) and Josh Gomez (Morgan) from Chuck at Comic Con 2009.