Blu-ray Review: Batman The Anthology Collection
Sat, 03/28/2009 – 18:00 — matt
"Alfred, let''s go shopping."
Before Christopher Nolan's "Batman Begins" and "The Dark Knight", there were a few other adventures of the Caped Crusader. Warner Brothers has just released the classic theatrical adventures of The Batman for the first time ever on Blu-ray in the new Batman: The Motion Picture Anthology 1989-1997. This collection includes Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Forever, and Batman and Robin. This set is loaded with hours and hours of special features as well as our hero''s adventures in High Definition!
Star Trek Movie Prequel Comes to iPhone
(San Diego, March 19, 2009) — Star Trek: Countdown, the official prequel to the new Star Trek movie being released by Paramount Pictures on May 8, 2009, is going to mobile devices! The four-issue mini-series is now available on Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch, and Google’s Android Mobile Devices through iVerse Media’s digital distribution technology. Visit IDWPublishing.com for more information about Star Trek: Countdown.
DVD Reviews: Escape to Witch Mountain and Return from Witch Mountain
Escape to Witch Mountain
Years ago, I met Bob Young, a retired TV writer who needed a computer tutor. Once a week I scheduled an hour and a half to go to his home above La Costa, California, but we usually took much longer than that. When we were finished going over what he wanted to learn that week, we’d speak French as best we could remember, look at old home movies, or he’d tell me about his experiences writing for television. I eventually looked him up online and found what he had left out. While he had written for quite a few television shows, he neglected to include that he had written one feature film, one that I and all the kids of my generation had seen multiple times growing up. The next time I saw him, I showed him his entry on IMDB and he was surprised to see how many shows they listed as scripted by him. I mentioned how impressed I was that he had written a film from my youth. I wish I remembered more details. I tried to contact him for an interview to go along with this review, but when I called his number, the young woman who answered claimed that this was her number and she’d had it for twenty years. Emails just bounced, but that’s not surprising since I know his old ISP went out of business. I just hope he’s okay. He is about to be 85 this year after all.
A Tribute to May Parker aka Spider-Girl
Today, a very special Marvel series will come to an end (again). The current series, starring May “Mayday” Parker, ends an amazing run because Marvel has canceled Spider-Girl’s current series Amazing Spider-Girl #30. This will conclude the stand alone adventures of our favorite Alternate Reality heroine. Spider-Girl is the longest running series with a female lead that Marvel has ever published!
The character will live on in Spider-Man Amazing Family release, but honestly, who knows how long that will last for. For a character that started off as a What If story, I think she has come a long way. Her first appearance was in What If Volume 2 #105 released in 1998. For those of us who picked up that book when it hit the shelf, we knew right away that there was something different about this character. No one could have predicted that this character would have lasted for more than ten years after her initial appearance.
DVD Review: The Midnight Meat Train Unrated Director’s Cut
Before you were born, or the birth of any other human thing, that’s how long, or longer. And now you found us, as only a few before you have. The intimate circle that keeps the secret, we protect and nurture them and order is thereby preserved. It must be done, to keep the worlds separate. You’ll understand soon enough. Now serve, as we all do, without question.
Movie Review: Dismal
So when you‘re failing College Biology what do you do? Study hard? Get a tutor? Date the T.A.? No, we go on an extra credit field trip to The Great Dismal Swamp.
DVD Review: Andy Richter Controls the Universe
Once upon a time on network prime time TV, sitcoms ruled the entire prime-time landscape. Families use to look forward to sitting down after dinner and watching the hilarious adventures of their favorite TV family and possibly learn a couple life lessons along the way. As time has gone by, these series became too formulaic and the public’s interest in them started to wane. Now sitcoms on TV are very scarce and most don’t even make it past their first seasons. In order to try and break up the normal formula of how a sitcom is, we started to find shows that took on gimmicks such as That 70s Show, Scrubs and Greg the Bunny.
Blu-ray Review: Watchmen the Complete Motion Comic
Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few months then you are probably aware of the hype that the Watchmen Movie has been getting. Well in case you hadn’t read the graphic novel before venturing out to the movies you might want to check out the new DVD and Blu-ray Release of Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic.
DVD Review: The Haunting of Molly Hartley
Your mother has gone crazy and tried to kill you, you’re starting a new prep school and everyone knows about your mom. What could be worse? If you’re Molly Hartley, turning 18.
Wii Game Review: Deadly Creatures
An Arachnophobe’s Review of Deadly Creatures:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH! AAAAAAAAAH! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHH!
In short, I am never going to sleep again.
DVD Review: Dead Like Me: Life After Death
Remember the reapers? The Dirty Harry meter maid Roxy (Jasmine Guy – A Different World), actress Daisy (Laura Harris – The Faculty), English slacker Mason(Callum Blue – The Tudors), and newest to the grim reaper ranks, toilet seat girl (remember she was killed by a space station toilet seat), Georgia, “George” Lass (Ellen Muth – Dolores Clairborne), with Rube (Mandy Patinkin – Alien Nation) as the leader of this group.
DVD Review: Marley & Me
Based on John Grogan’s best selling novel of the same name Marley & Me, is an autobiographical look into the dog eat answering machine world of dog ownership now available on DVD!
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DVD Review: Marley & Me
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This quippet of a story is an autobiography of a real life columnist in South Florida. It begins on his wedding night with his wife and follows trough the trials and tribulations of a growing family. The first addition to this family is a ‘clearance’ puppy they name Marley. The story that follows is a sequence of anecdotes about their life together. It is an honest look at a typical quirky family that has no idea what they are doing or what they want to be when they grow up. They are also the typical new dog owner, biting off way more than they can chew in the case of Marley the Labrador.
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Blu-ray Review: Zack and Miri Make a Porno
“If you ask me nicely, I will Dutch Rudder you for the rest of our lives.”
Kevin Smith and View Askew hadn’t left the nest of the “View Askewniverse” since Jersey Girl, so what were we to think when he cast yet another hot young actor in his latest departure from his comfort zone? Well firstly, that’s a damn funny title. Second, it’s got an alluring ensemble cast taking some of the best of Silent Bob’s Jersey cohorts and pairing them with an awesome sampling of geek pop culture and other hip actors.
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Blu-ray Review: Clerks 2
Kevin Smith’s first sequel Clerks 2 is now available on Blu-ray. Clerks 2 is the 6th film in the Jersey Chronicles movie series written by Kevin Smith.
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