Legend of the Seeker (LOS) is one of those boats that I missed the first time around. I mean it’s on Syndicated television and these days it’s not so easy to find syndicated programming. Whenever I turn on DC20, DC’s local indie station, the only thing on are bad tv movies on the weekend. I […]
Tag: DVD Reviews
Blu-Ray Review: Superman. Batman: Public Enemies
DC Comics and Warner Brothers really know how to do their Animated movies. A few weeks ago they gave us the excellent Green Lantern: First Flight this month we get Superman/Batman Public Enemies. It’s Superman’s worst fear, Lex Luthor has become President of the United States and he just can’t help himself, he uses an […]
TV ON DVD: Marvel DVD Comic Collection X-Men: Volume 3 and 4
As a long time comic book fan and collector I never purchased X-Men comics their world was too dense with too many characters, to rich a history and way too many comics that I would have had to purchase. Luckily in the early 90s Marvel created one of the greatest Superhero Cartoon Series of all […]
DVD REVIEW: Life On Mars: Series 1 – The Original Sam Tyler, Time-Travelling Cop!
It’s a reasonably nice day in Manchester in 2006 and Detective Inspector Sam Tyler [John Simm] and his team, which includes his girlfriend Maya [Archie Panjabi] have discovered another victim of a particularly cagey serial killer. When Sam and Maya quarrel about methodology and hunches, Maya stalks off and, following her hunch, is taken by […]
DVD REVIEW: Burn Notice: Season Two – Breezy Spycraft, Beautiful Environs and Carla!
In season two of Burn Notice, Michael Westen [Jeffrey Donovan] found himself between a rock and a hard place when Carla [Trisha Helfer] began to squeeze him into taking assignments for her – forcing him to track her down and get her out of the picture so that he could return to the task of […]
DVD REVIEW: Angel of Death: Zoe Bell Powers Web Series Turned Feature!
When assassin Eve [Zoe Bell] has a job go south on her, with tragic consequences, she somehow survives a knife through her skull but the injury finds her seeing her most recent, and unintentional victim – a fourteen-year old girl. Angel of Death was written for veteran stuntwoman Zoe Bell, who first exhibited unexpected acting […]
DVD REVIEW: The Middleman: The Complete Series – True Blue Hero and Sardonic Sidekick Save The World From Comic Book Villains! Who Knew?
One last season’s summer shows, ABC Family’s The Middleman, had me at the tentacle monster and reeled me in at the gorilla gangster. Javier [call him Javi] Grillo-Marxuach’s series – adapted from the graphic novel that was adapted from an unsold TV script [still with me?] achieved something that no other comics-to-movies/TV has ever done […]
DVD REVIEWS: Coraline 2-Disc Collector’s Edition – Henry Selick’s Brilliant Film Gets A Cool DVD Release!
Coraline is the little 3-D film that could. Although it wasn’t any kind of a tentpole event, it quietly made almost $115 million in its theatrical run. Not bad for a 3-D stop-action animation film. The story, about a little girl who discovers an alternate world where her Other Parents dote on her – as […]
DVD REVIEWS: Watchmen Director’s Cut 2-Disc Special Edition DVD – How Not to Make a Special Edition DVD!
When Watchmen was released, I wrote, “Watchmen is beautiful and brutal. It is an experience. Snyder has put together a thoughtful, nearly anthemic work here. There are various small changes and one major one [the pan-dimensional, intergalactic space squid is not here – and that’s a good thing] in the film, but the essentials are […]
DVD Review: American Gladiators: The Original Series – The Battle Begins
Nitro. Blaze. Gemini. Gold. Lace. Laser. Titan. Zap. They were the AMERICAN GLADIATORS! From 1989-1996, we got to see the phenomenon that swept the nation and around the world. Ordinary men and women descended upon “Gladiator Arena” each week to put their strength, speed, and athletic ability on the line against a group of highly trained […]
DVD REVIEW: G.I. Joe A Real American Hero, Season 1.1
Yo, Joe! Cobralalalalala…….There are three movies that deeply disturbed me as a sensitive child of the mid 70s and 80s – the first time I saw The Wizard of Oz, the flying Monkeys gave me nightmares – I still get nightmares to this very day about them, then there was the H.R. Puffingstuff movie and […]