Considering the proliferation of animation on DVD, and considering that the dozens of DVDs I received for review constituted a drop in the bucket, here are my picks as best animation/anime´ DVDs of 2007.
Category: DVD Reviews
Two Threequels & a Fourquel: The Bourne Ultimatum, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, and Live Free or Die Hard
Action movies have become increasingly sophisticated but the advent of CGI hasn’t completely taken over. The summer’s best threequels took radically different approaches: The Bourne Ultimatum was almost completely shot in camera; Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End was a bravura usage of CGI. Then there was the summer’s one fourquel, Live Free or […]
Blade Runner – The Final Cut DVD Review from a Plant!
Hey Everyone, one of my studio friends sent over a review for Blade Runner. He’s a studio plant, but the review is good, and I’m interested in this DVD. I’ll admit, I never got the Blade Runner thing. I’ve tried to watch a couple of times in the past and can’t make it past the […]
Transformers: Bay-Spielberg Collaboration Yields Action Flick With Heart!
If you didn’t see Transformers in a theatre, you missed one of the biggest treats of this last summer’s crop of blockbusters. Simply put, Transformers is the best live action film to have been based on a line of toys, or an animated TV series.
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer; The TV Set; Pittsburgh by Joseph Crowley
Hey there, True Believers! Joltin’ Joe Crowley here with three incredible new DVD releases to brighten your Merry Marvel Marching Society day! We’ve got Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer [2-Disc Edition]; The TV Set [I’m told the reality behind getting a TV series on the air is uncannily like this], and Pittsburgh […]
Death Proof: Extended and Unrated; Resident Evil/Resident Evil: Apocalypse Resurrection Edition; 3:10 To Yuma; The Dark Crystal: 25th Anniversary Edition
Okay, kiddies… We’ve got all manner of strangeness for you, today. First up is Quentin Tarantino’s fusion of cars & babes flicks with slasher movies, Death Proof – in it’s extended [by which we mean full] version. Then there’s the new repackaging of the first two Resident Evil movies in what they’re calling the […]
Dragon Dynasty Kicks: D.O.A.: Dead Or Alive; The City of Violence: Two-Disc Ultimate Edition; Hard Boiled: Two-Disc Ultimate Edition
Dragon Dynasty is onto something good: Asian action movies with and without martial arts – and even non-Asian martial arts movies. D.O.A.: Dead Or alive is an unlikely hybrid of Charlie’s Angels and Enter The Dragon; The City of Violence is the latest action movie from Korea’s Ryoo Seung-wan, whose work is being compared to […]
Animation: Doctor Strange: The Sorcerer Supreme; Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex – Solid State Society
Marvel’s Master of the Mystic Arts gets the Lionsgate straight-to-DVD treatment and Doctor Strange immediately becomes the best of the animated Marvel movies to date by staying true to the basics set out by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, forty years ago. The latest installment in the casefiles of Public Security Section 9 finds the […]
TVonDVD: Dexter: The First Season; Ugly Betty: The Complete First Season; The Dresden Files: The Complete First Season
Serial killers, homely executive assistants and the only wizard in the Chicago Yellow Pages are all available on the video shelves to delight and amaze. Dexter: The Complete First Season introduces the world’s first serial killer of other serial killers, spinning a deeply entertaining but disturbing series of novels into a deliciously macabre TV series. […]
Serenity Collector’s Edition, The Dark Crystal 25th Anniversary Edition, Disturbia, Bubba Ho-Tep Limited Edition
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TVonDVD: The Fugitive: Vol. One; Two New Masters of Horror; The Tick vs. Season Two; Stargate SG-1: Season Ten
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