DVD Review: Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960s Volume 1 and 1970s Volume 1
Ahh, Saturday mornings. Time to grab some breakfast and plant yourself in front of the TV so that a variety of commercial sponsors can tell you what to want in between snippets of ridiculous animated stories frenetic enough to hold your minuscule attention span! Ok, I haven't always been this cynical, and it is that innocent youngster that lurks somewhere inside us all that these collections are made for. Most of these series are from before my time, but anyone who watched cartoon reruns as a kid will find something recognizable in these collections.
DVD Review: TMNT Season 7 Parts 1-4 (Repost with Kevin Eastman Interview)
For our exclusive interview of TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman, listen to this episode of the ComicsOnline Podcast:
http://www.comicsonline.com/COP/COPS09E11-LostieMutantTrekkieTurtles.mp3
DVD Review: Penn & Teller: Bullshit The Complete 6th Season
Do you have deeply held beliefs that you keep despite all evidence to the contrary? Do you have trouble accepting criticism? Do you offend easily?
If you answered "Yes" to all of these questions, you should probably avoid Penn & Teller: Bullshit The Complete Sixth Season. End of Review! Goodbye!
Ok, everybody else, keep reading…
DVD Review: 24 Season 7
WHO ARE YOU WORKING FOR??!?!
Fans had to wait a long time to see Season 7 of 24 due to the Writer's Strike of 2007/2008. Several promotions had already aired in the US and had indicated the dismantling of CTU, as well as the return of a key player to the 24 Universe, TONY ALMEDA! But wait… wasn't he dead? Well unfortunately for us, only a few of the 24 episodes had been filmed before the strike began and production had to be postponed. After the strike ended, producers at Fox decided to postpone the airing of Season 7 until early 2009… The Power That Be decided that 2009 was a bit too long to wait for new adventures of our hero and made a two hour TV movie called "24: Redemption" (aka Jack Bauer's Adventures in Africa!) to serve as a prequel to the upcoming season. Now that the new season of 24 has been aired in the US, Fox has released the complete 7th season set!
DVD Review: Forever Funny
Forever Funny is a new DVD collection featuring several classic sitcoms from the past.
It took a long time to sit down and watch seven of the "best" comedies starting from the tarnished golden years of the Honeymooners to the rainy day hijinxs of Dr. Frasier Crane and his Seattle crew. The episodes, which also include I Love Lucy (I didn't), The Odd Couple (not about Bush and Cheney), Taxi (a show you probably couldn't get on a rainy Friday night in the City), The Brady Bunch (a little like the Palin Family) and of course Cheers (a bar where everybody may know your name but not the location of the nearest A.A. meeting). All of these shows put the sit in sitcom.
DVD Review: Action Packed
Action Packed is a special DVD collection of Four adventure TV shows of yesteryear. All are the original pilots of Mission Impossible, Macgyver, Walker Texas Ranger and NCIS. You can see what made each of these series terrific or moronic from the get go.
DVD Review: Galaxy Quest: 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
Remember when you were young how it felt watching Star Trek for the first time? All those times that you thought about new races and new civilizations out in the universe? Remember when you thought, what if this was actually real? What would happen if you took the "trained" crew of actors from Star Trek and put them on a real version of the ship? Now replace the name Star Trek with Galaxy Quest and you have yourself an incredible movie! To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the release of the Tim Allen film Galaxy Quest, Paramount has released a new Deluxe Edition DVD loaded with brand new interviews and features!
DVD Review: Karin: The Complete Series
Karin is a 24 episode comedy on six discs, about a growing relationship between two people in two different situations, and the connection of two worlds, vampires and humans.
Blu-ray Review: Dexter The Second Season
"There are moments when I feel the mask is slipping. "
Blu-ray Review: Saturday Night Fever
"You make it with some of these chicks, they think you gotta dance with them."
Saturday Night Fever was originally released in 1977. As I was a little kid at the time, and it was perceived as just some film about disco dancing, a pastime that was much-derided in my adolescence, I never got around to seeing it until now. That's kind of a shame really, as I might have really enjoyed it's themes as a teenager.
Blu-ray Review: CSI: The First Season
Just in time for the announcement of the show’s tenth season, Paramount has released the CSI [Crime Scene Investigation] The First Season on Blu-Ray.
C.S.I. first aired in ’00 and in just 9 seasons had two spin-off shows (CSI: Miami and CSI: NY) a series of mystery novels, comic books, and even the occasional video games. It’s easy to see why when watching the first season. Known for being one of the first shows to be filmed and presented in HDTV format, Paramount finally releases all 23 episodes in the original 16:9 wide-screen.
Blu-ray Review: Star Trek: The Motion Picture Trilogy
I cannot possibly tell you how many times I have watched the original Star Trek films growing up. Wrath of Khan and The Voyage Home were viewed countless times as a child. For that reason (amongst others) I am excited to tell you about the release of the classic Star Trek movies featuring the adventures of Captain Kirk and the crew of the original Enterprise on Blu-ray. One of these sets is Star Trek: The Motion Picture Trilogy which contains The Wrath of Khan, Search for Spock, and The Voyage Home. These three films take place within a short period of time and act as a continuing adventure.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
"Logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."
DVD Review: Ikki Tousen: The Complete Series
"When these Girls Fight, the clothes always lose"
Centuries pass and the same events have taken place many times before. A young girl, Sonsaku Hakufu, comes to town and wants to fight everyone. One little issue, she is not that good and is rather stupid, but there is something else. Sonsaku is the possessor of the Dragon Bead that contains the chi of Sun Ce-Bofu, one of the most powerful fighters that ever lived. Once the secret is out, the battles really begin and the story takes on an interesting turn.