DVD Review: Phineas and Ferb vol. 2 The Daze of Summer

“There’s a hundred and four days of summer vacation, and school comes along just to end it. So the annual problem for our generation is finding a good way to spend it. LIKE MAYBE…”

So begins every episode of Phineas and Ferb. Each episode contains 2 stories, so while this DVD only contains 5 episodes, you get 10 cartoons.

DVD Review: Death Note II: the Last Name

Death Note II: the Last Name is the sequel to the phenomenal hit live-action movie Death Note, based on the hit manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. The Death Note live-action DVD, released in September 2008, was ranked as #1 in Japanese Films in North America and #34 in the Live-Action category. As the sequel of Death Note and once again directed by the renowned monster filmmaker Shusuke Kaneko, Death Note II: the Last Name concludes the titanic battle between the two geniuses Light and L. The DVD is distributed in North America by VIZ Media.

DVD Review: The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)

Paramount brings you another classic movie in their “I Love the 80’s” on DVD series.

“It’s the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy. Boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl. Girl dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year’s Day.”

“Goodyear?”

“No, the worst.”

DVD Review: Choke

Choke is weird: a personal quest of self discovery through worlds of sexual addiction and delusion, occasionally hilarious, occasionally heartbreaking, and absurd throughout. It shares several characteristics with Fight Club, most notably the author, Chuck Palahniuk, who wrote the novels that inspired both films. Choke drips with Palahniuk’s style: it has a clever yet mentally deranged protagonist who constantly makes snarky observations about human nature while surrounding himself with other deranged individuals; it examines the ugly underside of human nature; it has a twist, which managed to surprise because it provides a moment of reality in the midst of complete absurdity.

DVD Review: Coming To America (1988)

Paramount brings you another classic movie in their “I Love the 80’s” on DVD series.

Remember back when Eddie Murphy movies were funny? Need a minute? I’ll wait….

Before he started churning out hot crap like “The Adventures of Pluto Nash”, and the celluloid abortion known as “Norbit”, Eddie Murphy had an incredibly successful (and funny) standup and movie career. Toward the end of this great streak, which included such classics as “48 Hours”, “Trading Places”, “Beverly Hills Cop”, and “The Golden Child”, there came along a more family friendly movie called “Coming To America”.

DVD Review: The All New Super Friends Hour Season 1 Vol. 2

Remember a simpler time? A time before Frank Miller made Batman “The Dark Knight”? Before Aquaman lost his hand in a bizarre fishing accident? A time before Wonder woman killed a man, and everyone else has died and been resurrected (mostly)? Welcome to 1977 and The All New Super Friends Hour: Season 1 Vol. 2.

Blu-ray Review: Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist

“Also that mix CD… uh that I left on your doorstep was the last one that I’ll be making for you. More or less… “

The hit 2008 film Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist is now available on Blu-ray! The film is based on the book by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan.

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Blu-ray Review: Sideways

Sideways is now available on Blu-ray.

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For those of you unfamiliar with this vintage, Sideways is a 2004 comedy/drama from Alexander Payne, the director of Election starring Paul Giamatti (Lady in the Water, The Amazing Screw-On Head) as Miles, a high school teacher/novelist/oenologist (wine enthusiast) who takes his friend Jack, played by Thomas Haden Church (Spider-Man 3), on a pre-nuptual vacation to California’s central coast wine country. Miles just wants a mild retreat, while Jack has a more carnal conception of a bachelor’s trip.

Blu-Ray Review: Zodiac – 2 Disc Directors Cut

In the late 1960s and 1970s there was a series of murders, in San Francisco, by an unknown assailant known only as the Zodiac killer. This man held the city in terror for the better part of a decade, taunted the police and San Francisco Chronicle with letters about the heinous crimes, and he was never brought to justice.

Blu-ray Review: Election

The 1999 film Election is now available on Blu-ray!

Election, based off the book of the same name is about a subject that many of us all know and have grown to love/hate over the years. High School and the many politics that govern it. We are introduced to Matthew Brodrick who sadly is not playing Ferris Buller, but a teacher, Jim McAllister, who fails at life yet takes such joy at working with the school and the students there. Reese Witherspoon plays Tracey, a Senior in High School who has had a secret affair with a member of the teaching staff (her actions led to the staff member getting fired). Reese Witherspoon can definitely play a crazy, vindictive, sex crazed co-ed.

DVD Review: The Secret of the Magic Gourd

The Secret of the Magic Gourd is the English translation of the Chinese remake of Bao hu lu de mi mi (which I understand doesn’t mean “Baby website designed to soften human brains of Songbird”). It’s a beautiful children’s story of an imaginative schoolboy, Raymond, who finds the legendary magic gourd while fishing. The animated gourd is sentient and even more innocently naïve than Raymond himself as it grants him unlimited, but flawed wishes much like the well meaning djinn in I Dream of Jeannie.

DVD Review: Alvin & The Chipmunks: The Mystery of the Easter Chipmunk

Well, someone had to ask the question. Was the first Easter Bunny really a bunny or a chipmunk? Alvin is convinced that his grandpa is the original Easter Chipmunk and wants to set the record straight. After talking to Aunt Bunny that the first Easter Bunny was not a Bunny sends Alvin out to prove his grandpa is the one who first to leave Easter Baskets on Easter Sunday. As always he manages to get Simon and Theodore to help. I’m going to tell you the end but this is a cute holiday story for the season.

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“You took my stapler”.

Everyone has hated their job at one time or another…but what happens when you are pushed too far? Well Peter Gibbons sure knows that feeling in Mike Judge’s cult comedy classic Office Space which has just made its way to Blu-ray! The film is based on Mike Judges cartoon series Milton and features an amazing lineup of acting talent!

Blu-ray Review: Napoleon Dynamite

“Vote for Pedro. He will protect you.”

The hit 2004 comedy Napoleon Dynamite is now available on Blu-ray!

DVD Review: You’re A Good Sport, Charlie Brown

When you think of sports, certain names come to mind. When you think of baseball it’s Babe Ruth. For football, it’s Joe Namath. With basketball, let’s say Dr. J. In skateboarding it’s Tony Hawk. But when you think of motocross you don’t think of Charlie Brown. With the restored deluxe edition of You’re A Good Sport, Charlie Brown the sport of motocross is introduced to the viewers of the Charlie Brown specials mundanely as Peppermint Patty brings it to the gang. Throughout we see how Charlie’s usual run of luck plays out. But the final outcome of the special remains an old adage that I will leave for you to figure out.