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Anime DVD Review: Disgaea, The Complete Series

 

Don’t feed the penguin, Dood!

The Netherworld has never seen a small demon with such large ambition!  Prideful and power-hungry, Laharl, son of the former overlord, is determined to claim his deceased father’s throne and rule not only the demon world, but the realms beyond.  At Laharl’s side is a polar opposite pair of gals:  the demon Princess Etna and angel trainee Flonne.  Throw in a trio of Earth Defenders and endless winged-penguin Prinnies for one odd and hilarious anime adventure!

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Anime DVD Review: Black Butler, Season One

 

According to our new arrival, life is more than mere survival.

He cooks.  He cleans.  He kills.  The debonair Sebastian may not be Mr. Belvedere, but to his young and fragile master Ciel Phantomhive, he is certainly one hell of a butler.  For Sebastian’s array of talents are not exactly God-given.  Sebastian is an akuma shitsuji:  a devil butler. 

DVD Review: Stag Night

Over 100,00 people are reported missing in New York City every year. The adults are never looked for…

In olden times, the night prior to his wedding, the young groom would be sent off into the forest to kill and bring home a stag, to prove he could provide for his family. Now it’s about proving your manhood through imbibing massive quantities of alcohol, and looking at strange, naked women. How dangerous can a night out with friends be?

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DVD Review: The Superhero Squad Show: Quest for the Infinity Sword- Volume 3


Hero up, Squaddies!


By Morgan Barrett


The Superhero Squad Show  is an action-packed, family-friendly show (with a kick-ass theme song) full of Marvel’s classic superheroes and villains. In Volume 3 (now available on DVD), the greatest heroes unite in search of the missing fragments of the Infinity Sword. The show is full of nutty characters and witty humor as the world’s greatest superheroes prevent Dr. Doom and his hysterically evil minions from completing the Infinity Sword.


Volume 3 features everything from silly love spells to mayhem at Mutant High.

2 for 2/22 Tuesday Giveaway! Disney/Ghibli Blu-ray and DVD!

In honor of 2/22 2sday, We’re giving away 2 prize packages, each with 2 Blu-rays!

Disney and Studio Ghibli are releasing 2 of their classics 2 weeks from 2day! Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind on Blu-ray/DVD combo, and Tales from Earthsea on DVD are available for pre-order by clicking either of the 2 box images below, but now you can win them 2!

Anime DVD Review: Gantz, The Complete Series


It’s a girl!

What is Gantz?  Gantz is a large black orb, sitting in an empty Tokyo apartment.  Gantz has poor grammar.  Gantz will give you weapons, and points if you are good.  Pray you never meet Gantz.  If you see Gantz, you’ve already died once.  But, the next time you die, it’ll hurt more.  And you won’t come back again.

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DVD Review: The Adventures of Merlin the Complete Second Season


Cometh with me if you want to liveth.

Season two of the BBC’s hit series Merlin surprised me.  I wasn’t sure after the end of season one that the series would be able to maintain its momentum, or develop its characters deeply enough to make the show believable for any length of time.  One of the things you have to love about BBC productions however is that they’re so obviously not Hollywood, everything seems so much more real in a BBC series, and Merlin is no exception.   Perhaps it sounds strange to place a show based entirely on fantasy into the category of “more real”, but bear with me while I make my case.

DVD Review: Dark Skies: The Declassified Complete Series

History as we know it is a lie

Conspiracy and science fiction have been popular television themes since the invention of the cathode ray tube, and when the two mesh it’s often magic. In the middle of The Fugitive, V, X-Files, Lost, and Fringe are 1996’s Dark Skies.

DVD Review: Black Panther Motion Comic


We had iPads before you had televisions. What now, bitchez?

In 2005 Reginald Hudlin (House Party, House Party 2, House Party 3) and John Romita Jr. (Uncanny X-Men, Amazing Spider-Man, Invincible Iron Man, Kick-Ass) brought back Marvel’s first black hero into volume 3 of The Black Panther ongoing series. This is a great comic whose initial 6-issue arc was strong and lent itself to an animated miniseries perfectly, but really that’s not unique among great comics, right? What’s notable here is the how and why this particular comic arc got made into a miniseries.

DVD Press Release: Dark Skies: The Declassified Complete series

DARK SKIES: THE DECLASSIFIED COMPLETE SERIES Starring Eric Close and Megan Ward

Secrets and Conspiracies Spill from All 19 Original Riveting Episodes,extensive DVD Bonus Content, Special Booklet and much more!

OWN THE COLLECTIBLE 6-DVD BOX SET ON JANUARY 18, 2011 FROM SHOUT! FACTORY

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DVD Review: Archer Season 1

Within the past decade or so, the amount of animated shows for mature audiences has been on the rise. Shows like Family Guy, Futurama, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and Space Ghost: Coast to Coast have gained much popularity for pushing the envelope from what people are normally use to seeing and experiencing in animated tv series. It helps that Cartoon Network developed their own sub-channel, Adult Swim, dedicated entirely to such adult programming. Adam Reed who got his start working for Adult Swim and Williams Street creating and writing such shows as SeaLab 2021, Frisky Dingo and the aforementioned Space Ghost: Coast to Coast captured people’s attentions with his fast paced, Arrested Development style writing and brand of off-beat quirky humor and quickly gained himself a small cult following of fans for it. His newest show, Archer, continues in his previous shows footsteps and yet greatly surpasses all of them in numerous ways. Now you can own Archer Season 1 on DVD!

 

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DVD Review: Doctor Who- The Dominators

It is the time of the Second Doctor. Sci-fi history has been made with the first regeneration of the Doctor, ensuring the longevity of the series past any one actor, where an ensemble will keep the show running for decades. It is the start of the second Doctor’s final season. He has faced countless enemies: The Daleks, and the Cybermen being the most famous of them. He has had a few companions over the course of his three seasons, and traveled from 18th century Scotland through Victorian London, then modern day earth, and on into the far future. With his companions, The Doctor has faced the Daleks numerous times. With the beginning of this season, The Doctor faces a new enemy. In this serial, “The Dominators” The Doctor faces a new race called The Dominators, and their robotic servants the Quarks.