DVD Review: Transformers – The Complete Series
"Me Grimlock say you full of cesium salami."
I grew up on Transformers and I have such fond memories of watching the show every morning before going to school. I just loved the idea of transforming robots (a reason that I also eventually loved the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Series as well.) Listening to Peter Cullen's deep voice coming out of Optimus Prime is one of those things that you just can't forget. Optimus was the total personification of good, while Megatron was all that was evil in the universe…it was as simple as that.
DVD Review: Mushi-shi: The Movie
Mushi-Shi: The Movie, follows Ginko, as he looses his mother, becomes a Mushi Master, and fights to save his own life.
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DVD Review: Alien Trespass
Well, you can't go home again. Director R.W. Goodwin (The X-Files, appropriately) and a partner were sitting around waxing nostalgic one day many years ago about the great cheesy sci-fi/horror flicks of their youth, and decided to make a new picture in their mold showing what made the originals so great. Note: a new picture, not a modern one. The point was not to comment on the tropes of the era from a 21st century perspective, but to recreate them. Unfortunately they forgot that A) what was exciting to a ten-year-old in the age of Sputnik might not resonate with modern audiences viewing them without a lens of nostalgia, and B) it takes exceptional craft to make a movie about bad movies without making one yourself.
DVD Review: Pokemon All Stars 2
“We’re blasting off again” with the the next set of Pokemon All-Stars. Like the first set, ten more fan favorite Pokemon where chosen and then the three greatest episodes about each Pokemon where picked. The first Pokemon All-Stars was only the beginning, and now Pokemon All-Stars 2 is here to shock the world again.
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DVD Review: The Color of Magic
The Color of Magic is an adaptation of the first two books of author Terry Pratchett's (Good Omens, with Neil Gaiman) enormously popular Discworld series. Launched in 1983 with The Colour of Magic, the series is light comic fantasy where everything from over-familiar fantasy conventions to modern day political events to the grim specter of Death Itself are sent up using droll wordplay and Pratchett's trademark dry wit. Every release has been an immediate hit with readers, and now with 36 volumes (and counting) the books comprise one of the most popular fantasy series of all time.
DVD Review: Welcome to the N.H.K. – The Complete Series
"Let's face it, you and I aren't meant to have a dramatic death."
DVD Review: Bleach Volume 19 The Bount
Ichigo and the gang are back. The battle with the Bounts continues. We are now in the middle of the 4th season and the Bounts have begun to break with the age old covenant made with the Quincy. They agreed to not devour the souls of live humans and now the decide they need a change of pace, with a hidden agenda behind it. This caught the attention of the Soul Society along with Ichigo and the others. At this point Uyrū has been captured by the Bounts and Ichigo and the others have gone to get him back.
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DVD Review: Gunslinger Girl, IL Teatrino: The Complete Series
With a name like Gunslinger Girl you might think this will be a high action and adventure series, but you could not be further from the truth. Gunslinger Girl is one of the most thought provoking series I have seen in a long while. It takes on the base moral issues of the use of children as weapons, along with the different manifestation of emotional love. There is plenty of action. Just picture a 10 year old girl beating the crap out of a full grown man 5 times her size. OK, now you got that picture in you head, next imagine an entire episode devoted to exploring the meaning of Scarborough Fair by Simon and Garfunkel.
DVD Review: Pumpkin Scissors, the Complete Series
“I can’t believe you took on that tank, a normal person wouldn’t do that.”
DVD Review: Stargate-Children of the Gods Final Cut
For ten seasons, SG-1 traveled through the Stargate to protect Earth from alien forces. Now their first adventure has been re-released on DVD, but this isn't the adventure as you original viewed it! This new DVD Release of Stargate: Children of the Gods contains a new Final Cut! This re-cut version of the pilot episode contains new scenes, new voice work, new CGI, and more!