In 2002, there a second attempt to bring He-Man TV success on an animated series that took the toys and the original ‘80s animated series and re-imagined them in a major way. Where the original series was more or less a series of standalone episodes, the 2002 version came up with a satisfying origin […]
Tag: Mill Creek Entertainment
DVD REVIEW: Watch Out Batman! It’s Ultraman!!
Back in the late sixties, while North Americans were enjoying William F. Dozier’s inspired camp version of Batman, Japan was enjoying the exploits of a much bigger superhero – Ultraman – in a show modestly entitled Ultraman – A Special Effects Fantasy Series! Though it was, basically, a man-in-a-rubber-suit monster series, it was fast-paced science […]
DVD REVIEW: Mill Creek Reissue of Wiseguy: The Complete First Season Makes Its Bones
Sometimes, when you watch a show you loved years ago, you wonder why you loved it so much in the first place. Wiseguy is not one of those shows. The Stephen J. Cannell series revolved around Vincenzo Terranova [Ken Wahl], an undercover member of the Organized Crime Bureau. Terranova had just come out of eighteen-months […]
DVD REVIEW: The Return of The Adventures of Robin Hood!
In the late fifties [1955-60], there was a fair bit of swashbuckling on TV – Zorro, Elfego Baca, The Scarecrow [all courtesy of Walt Disney] and more. Of the lot, none was more popular than the British import, The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Richard Greene [who bore a passing resemblance to Errol Flynn] as […]
DVD REVIEW: Dungeons & Dragons: The Complete Series – Animated, Saturday Morning Mayhem!
The premise was simple: a bunch of kids who play Dungeons & Dragons suddenly find themselves in a world where the roles they’ve played become real – and they gain the abilities of those characters for real.
DVD REVIEW: GoreHouse Greats: A Dozen Horror B-Movies The Price of Two!
One of the great things about Mill Creek Entertainment [besides their commitment to make available inexpensive volumes of cult TV shows] is that they also collect and release B-movies… lots and lots of B-movies. GoreHouse Greats is their latest such collection of horror movies. To review all twelve titles would kill a bit too much […]