DVD Review: The Adventures of Merlin the Complete Second Season
Cometh with me if you want to liveth.
Season two of the BBC’s hit series Merlin surprised me. I wasn’t sure after the end of season one that the series would be able to maintain its momentum, or develop its characters deeply enough to make the show believable for any length of time. One of the things you have to love about BBC productions however is that they’re so obviously not Hollywood, everything seems so much more real in a BBC series, and Merlin is no exception. Perhaps it sounds strange to place a show based entirely on fantasy into the category of “more real”, but bear with me while I make my case.
DVD Review: Black Panther Motion Comic
We had iPads before you had televisions. What now, bitchez?
In 2005 Reginald Hudlin (House Party, House Party 2, House Party 3) and John Romita Jr. (Uncanny X-Men, Amazing Spider-Man, Invincible Iron Man, Kick-Ass) brought back Marvel’s first black hero into volume 3 of The Black Panther ongoing series. This is a great comic whose initial 6-issue arc was strong and lent itself to an animated miniseries perfectly, but really that’s not unique among great comics, right? What’s notable here is the how and why this particular comic arc got made into a miniseries.
Blu-ray Review: Twelve
Based on the book of the same name written by the 17-year old (at the time) Nick McDonell, Twelve offers a fast paced journey through a week in the life of a young drug dealer. “White Mike” has never done any drug or used alcohol to distract him from the reality of his situation. His mother is dead from cancer, he has fantastic childhood friends who have been there every step of the way, his family is well-respected in the community…and he’s dropped out of school to become a successful drug dealer to spoiled rich kids in the Upper East Side. Kiefer Sutherland (24) narrates this seedy tale of when the privileged life meets the underbelly of society and how mutually damaging it can be.
The Flick
Movie Review: The Green Hornet
DVD Review: Archer Season 1
Within the past decade or so, the amount of animated shows for mature audiences has been on the rise. Shows like Family Guy, Futurama, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and Space Ghost: Coast to Coast have gained much popularity for pushing the envelope from what people are normally use to seeing and experiencing in animated tv series. It helps that Cartoon Network developed their own sub-channel, Adult Swim, dedicated entirely to such adult programming. Adam Reed who got his start working for Adult Swim and Williams Street creating and writing such shows as SeaLab 2021, Frisky Dingo and the aforementioned Space Ghost: Coast to Coast captured people’s attentions with his fast paced, Arrested Development style writing and brand of off-beat quirky humor and quickly gained himself a small cult following of fans for it. His newest show, Archer, continues in his previous shows footsteps and yet greatly surpasses all of them in numerous ways. Now you can own Archer Season 1 on DVD!
DVD Review: Doctor Who- The Dominators
It is the time of the Second Doctor. Sci-fi history has been made with the first regeneration of the Doctor, ensuring the longevity of the series past any one actor, where an ensemble will keep the show running for decades. It is the start of the second Doctor’s final season. He has faced countless enemies: The Daleks, and the Cybermen being the most famous of them. He has had a few companions over the course of his three seasons, and traveled from 18th century Scotland through Victorian London, then modern day earth, and on into the far future. With his companions, The Doctor has faced the Daleks numerous times. With the beginning of this season, The Doctor faces a new enemy. In this serial, “The Dominators” The Doctor faces a new race called The Dominators, and their robotic servants the Quarks.
Blu-ray Review: Wall Street – Money Never Sleeps
In 1986, the economy was strong. It was the “Me” Decade, and Wall Street was thriving. The brokerage firms of Wall Street had just gone through the insider trading scandals just a few years before, and confidence of the market had been shaken just a bit. The time was ripe to make a movie about Wall Street, and the excesses of those who worked there. That year, Oliver Stone released the movie Wall Street, where he villainizes the corporate raiders of the film and the greed-filled society where everyone lived in a way that actually glamorized them, and created the current markets and the people who run them. In 2010, twenty-three years later Oliver Stone decided to revisit that world, and bring along one of the characters of the original film, Gordon Gekko, the Villain that everyone seemed to love, and wanted to imitate. In the sequel, Stone treads the waters of the market a couple of years back, during the recent financial collapse.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps follows the stories of both Gordon Gekko as he navigates the current economic market, and Jake Moore in his current life as a stockbroker, and his relationship with Winnie (Gordon’s daughter).
Now you can own Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps on Blu-ray!
Blu-ray Review: The Town
DVD Review: Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tales
Christmas time is here, and with every holiday season comes the Peanuts Christmas specials. Every year, like clockwork, A Charlie Brown Christmas is aired on TV, or played in millions of households across the US, and even the world. The perennial classic has become synonymous with Christmas, and the country stops to sit down with family to watch it. In 1992, a new Christmas special is shown. It’s Christmas Time Again, Charlie Brown.In this special, we get to watch as the gang gears up for Christmas… and watch as Charlie Brown has to find a way to afford a present for his girlfriend, Peggy Jean. Starting in 2003, I Want A Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown premiered following Rerun and his quest for a dog for Christmas. But in 2002, a different kind of special for Peanuts came out. It was a series of vignettes dealing with what goes on for the gang during Christmas time.
Now you can own Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tales on DVD!
Blu-ray Review: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
All the best babes dig mages.
What may have been inspired many years ago by a viewing of “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” short in Disney’s classic Fantasia, has been fleshed out into a full feature film by the magic of Disney.
Mass Effect 3 teaser
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/vga-10-mass-effect/708363
It is an epic epic of epicness!
TV on DVD Review: Boy Meets World: The Complete Fourth Season
“Someday, Topanga’s going to be a mother, and I’m going to be the father. Or, the uncle. Or, the way I’m going, the guy down the street with the binoculars.”
The Season