UPDATED: Disney to buy Marvel — it's official
Just breaking from Market Watch is news that The Walt Disney Company will be acquiring Marvel Entertainment (the company behind such comic icons as Iron Man, Spider-Man, X-Men, Captain America, Fantastic Four) in a stock and cash transaction worth about $4 billion. No other sources for this yet, but we’ll report more below as it […] |
Battle from the 80s: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles vs. GI Joe!
Reviews of two new box sets – the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 25th Anniversary Collection and GI Joe: A Real American Hero, Season 1.1. |
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: Season 1.1
G.I. Joe is the code name for America’s daring, highly-trained, Special Mission force. Its purpose: To defend human freedom against Cobra, a ruthless terrorist organization determined to rule the world. |
New Astro Boy poster
The final theatrical poster for Astro Boy has appeared online and can be viewed at Cinematical. The one-sheet features the robotic hero as well as several of his mecanical friends and enemies. Astro Boy hits theaters on October 23rd. |
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
All four Turtles movies in one box, and although the first three films unfortunately miss out on extras, the set gains points with its collectible physical extras. |
Witch Mountain, Super Friends, and Disney history!
News reviews, plus catching up on some Disney history! |
Super Friends: The Lost Episodes
These episodes saw the last of ther Wonder Twins, and a lot of cheesy plots. But darned if I wasn’t entertained. |
Race To Witch Mountain
Disney’s modern update of its own 1975 thriller isn’t as shameless as it might have been, providing the same kind of thrills for today’s audience that the original did back in original release, but the discs are very poor in terms of supplements, making this Race a rental at best. |
Warner Archive: Doc Savage: The Man Of Bronze
Warner’s Archive Collection offers up overlooked and rarely seen movies, including the George Pal-produced tongue in cheek adventure Doc Savage: The Man Of Bronze. |
Warner Archive: Freebie And The Bean
Warner’s Archive Collection offers up overlooked and rarely seen movies, including the prototype cop-buddy comedy Freebie And The Bean. |
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Super Friends The Lost Episodes: Superman and Batman battle Octoman and Superfrog
Super Friends The Lost Episodes is available to order from Amazon.com [AMZ]B0027WNRV8[/AMZ] |
Lots of classic super-Warner goodness!
Reviews on some great Warner Archive Collection titles, plus Robert Zemeckis to take on Yellow Submarine!? |
Warner Archive: Captain Nemo And The Underwater City
Warner’s Archive Collection offers up overlooked and rarely seen movies, including the exciting matinee style adventure Captain Nemo And The Underwater City. |
Warner Archive: A Distant Trumpet
Warner’s Archive Collection offers up overlooked and rarely seen movies, including legendary director Raoul Walsh’s T A Distant Trumpet. |
Warner Archive: Captain Sindbad
Warner’s Archive Collection offers up overlooked and rarely seen movies, including Byron Haskin’s Captain Sindbad reviewed here. |
Warner Archive: The Big Circus
Warner’s Archive Collection offers up overlooked and rarely seen movies, including Irwin Allen’s The Big Circus reviewed here. |
Ponyo opens across North America
Hayao Miyazaki’s latest feature Ponyo opened at number nine spot on the US box office chart with an estimated $3,506,000 during its opening weekend from 927 theaters. After its first weekend, Ponyo has already become the 8th highest grossing theatrical anime released in the United States, reports AnimeNewsNetwork. Ponyo, which follows the story of an […] |
Oobermind cast shuffled
Variety reports that Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill have joined a cast led by Tina Fey to lend their voices for Dreamworks Animation’s upcoming feature Oobermind. Ferrell reportedly replaces Robert Downey Jr. in the title role of a supervillain in the animated comedy. Produced by Lara Breay and Denise Nolan Cascino and directed […] |
Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse DVD in November
UltimateDisney reports that Disney has announced Mickey’s Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse dvd on November 3rd. The non-branded new version will carry the same bonus features from the out-of-print original release which will include the premiere “House of Mouse” episode, the featurette “The Sounds of Christmas”, and sing-along songs of “Deck […] |
Total Recall: Hayao Miyazaki's best movies
Coinciding with the release of Ponyo, RottenTomatoes explores the career of Hayao Miyazaki and rates his nine best films. |
Peanuts 1970s Collection, Volume 1 DVD in October
DVDActive reports that Warner Home Video has announced Peanuts 1970s Collection, Volume 1 dvd 20th October. This release will include 6 remastered TV specials, (“You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown”, “There’s No Time for Love, Charlie Brown”, “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving”, “It’s a Mystery, Charlie Brown”, “It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown”). The only extra feature […] |
Miyazaki on Ponyo, plus Green Lantern's First Flight
Review of the Green Lantern video premiere movie, and an interview with Ponyo‘s Hayao Miyazaki. |
Green Lantern: First Flight
DC Comics’ Emerald Warrior gets his own exciting, visually impressive movie. The extras are plentiful even if they don’t address the movie too much. But comic fans especially will enjoy everything. |
Who's watching the Watchmen?
Who’s watching the Watchmen? Well it seems, after a somewhat lacklustre theatrical outing earlier this year, that many of you are, since it’s been topping the DVD and Blu-ray sales and rental charts. It’s the kind of film that, as I say in my review for the Watchmen: Director’s Cut on Blu-ray Disc, is more […] |
