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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Project Blue Earth S.O.S: The Complete Series
“No one can escape the judgment of the Imfabels”
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: Star Wars- The Clone Wars: A Galaxy Divided
No one could have predicted that Star Wars-The Clone Wars would actually turn out to be a good series. After horrible reviews of the pilot episode/movie most people just thought that there was nothing that could be done to make this series likable/watchable. It turns out that this series is actually quite fun and captures some of what made the original trilogy worth watching. The newest installment called A Galaxy Divided is now available on DVD.
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.
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: 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: The Sandlot / Rookie of the Year Double Feature
The Sandlot and Rookie of the Year, two amazing films from our childhood, have been re-released by Fox and MGM and released as a double feature! These classic tales are now available for you to own on DVD in this special release under the Dove Foundation Family Film Series banner.
"You're killing me Smalls."
DVD Review: Time Crime
Time travel usually involves dinosaurs, buying stock in Kodak, futuristic mutants, changing time lines, or just plain old saving the world as we know it. And falling in live with Jane Seymore. But naked women and a deranged man wrapped in pink bandages make for a new twist on an overused subject.
But that’s exactly what the Spanish made Chronocrimenes (Time Crime) does. Regular guy Hector and wife Clara are moving into a new home and Hector spies a naked girl in the woods. When he goes to check out the situation, and who wouldn‘t, finds not only a naked girl but a man with pink bandages wrapped around is head, who stabs Hector with a pair of scissors. In the course of being chased he ends up in a time machine and travels back in time. What unfolds next is quite possibly one of the slickest scripts written.