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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.

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.

Watchmen: Director’s Cut

Love it or hate it, director Zack Snyder’s immensely intricate translation of Moore/Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is an impressive achievement, and this more cohesive Director’s Cut is stunningly served in a high definition set.

Tom and Jerry’s Greatest Chases: Volume 2

After trying their luck with three “Spotlight” collection releases of the classic shorts (all three with some flaws, editing among them), and a recent Chuck Jones release for the duo, Warner has finally reverted back to the original release format – Greatest Chases, first used in their 2000 release Tom and Jerry’s Greatest Chases.

Peanuts: 1960’s Collection

All six classic specials come in a nifty little package. Putting them accross two discs is a bit of a joke, but the contents are still golden. Great Vince Guaraldi profile, too!

Gigantor: The Collection, Volume One

Giant robots became popular after the launch of this classic Japanese series, presented here in its modified English version.

The Transformers: The Complete First Season (25th Anniversary Edition)

Transformers divided into Autobots and Decepticons battle for the planet Cybertron but wake up millions of years later on the planet Earth. There, the Decepticons vow to deplete the planet of its energy in order to return to Cybertron and win the war. The Autobots align with the humans to prevent the Decepticons from destroying the planet and humans in the process.

Tom & Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection

Chuck Jones’ continuation of the cat and mouse’s antics make for quite contemporary viewing and, while they won’t replace the traditional classics, remain a decent series in their own right.

Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1970s: Volume 1

Ignore the ridiculous warning on the cover— These cartoons ARE for kids, and kids at heart. There are too many episodes on here that we’ve seen on DVD before, but there are also some pretty rare shows.

Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1960s: Volume 1

The best of what Saturday mornings had to offer in the 1960s. Awesome collection.

The Jetsons: Season Two, Volume One

After twenty-two years, The Jetsons returned to television with a second season in 1985. These twenty-one episodes feature the space-age family in exciting new adventures.

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Volume Two: Bump in the Night

Scooby-Doo and the rest of the Mystery, Inc. gang return with episodes 5-8 from the first season of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Bump in the Night includes the episodes Decoy for a Dognapper, What the Hex Going On?, Never Ape an Ape Man, and Foul Play in Funland.

X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 2

In 17 classic episodes from the show’s second and third seasons, X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 2, the X-Men take part in classic adventures straight from the pages of the comic books. These include trips to the Savage Land, through time in Time Fugitives, and to space in the Phoenix Saga.

Tiny Toon Adventures: Season 1, Volume 2

The Toons are back for more, in a slightly weaker second half of their first season that still provides some laughs on the way to bouncing back to the top for their next season.

The Venture Bros.: 3rd Season

More wackiness, more revelations, and more delightful weirdness is found in this third season release of a show that has grown well past its “spoof” origins.

Freakazoid!: Season 2

Warner Animation’s crazy superhero is back in a season that sometimes struggles to be as manic as first time out but still entertains with a series of random spoofs.

Sin City: Blu-ray Disc (plus Recut, Extended & Unrated Edition)

Robert Rodriquez turns Frank Miller’s Sin City strips into a visceral movie and a adult, but terrific Blu-ray experience!

Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword

Scooby-Doo and the rest of the Mystery, Inc. gang travel to Japan for their latest adventure. There, they explore the delicate relationship between modern Japanese culture and ancient Japan.

Snoopy’s Reunion: Remastered Deluxe Edition

Along with It’s Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown, this disc provides two mediocre TV specials… but just try to watch Flashbeagle without being fascinated by 1980s kitsch.

X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 1

In these 16 classic episodes from X-Men: The Animated Series, the X-Men encounter new enemies and old foes in their quest for peaceful coexistence with mankind.

Max Fleischer’s Superman: 1941 – 1942

Max and Dave Fleischer’s exceptionally vibrant and brilliantly animated science fiction cartoons come to disc in a deluxe collection that may not be definitive but is probably the best these cartoons are ever likely to look. Not “super” but not killed by Kryptonite either.

Gulliver’s Travels

Max and Dave Fleischer’s first animated feature gets a down and dirty treatment on Blu-ray, which you’ll certainly find an old VHS edition would beat out in terms of quality. Avoid at all costs!

The Day The Earth Stood Still: Blu-ray Disc Special Edition

Klaatu Keanu’s latest, The Day The Earth Stood Still, takes a few diversions from the excellent Robert Wise original, aalso handily included in this Blu-ray set in high-definition!

Bedtime Stories

Adam Sandler’s jump to family fare – for Disney no less – is an uninspired, drab and flat fantasy that lacks any magic, and this disc presentation doesn’t do a lot to add any.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars – A Galaxy Divided

The Star Wars saga continues with The Clone Wars, the latest chapter in the Skywalker family saga. In the first four episodes of the series, Anakin continues to fight for the Republic against Count Dooku and his droid army of Separatists.

Schoolhouse Rock! Earth

The makers of the original Schoolhouse Rock series return with all new material for a new generation. Focusing on songs about conservation and the environment, the aim is to promote awareness about our planet so that it is conserved for new generations.

Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird – 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

The Sesame Street Muppets make their big screen debut as they attempt to set out and find Big Bird in a decent addition to the Henson film series.

Watchmen: Tales Of The Black Freighter

This film tie-in tells a dark tale of a man’s desperate bid to race an unearthly pirate ship to his home town. Some interesting bonus features also enhance the Watchmen film experience.