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Popeye The Sailor: Volume 1 1933-1938
…the disc, including Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, Smurfs: Season One (since reduced to a partial season two-disc set), Space Ghost/Birdman/Droopy, and Tom And Jerry Spotlight Collection Volume 3…. |
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The Tick Vs. Season Two
…small children with magnifying glasses, the ants are fighting back! Unfortunately, The Tick is totally weirded out by having hundreds of ants crawl into his spandex jammies, forcing him to… |
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The Muppet Show: Season Two
…of the show were being fine-tuned, with the dropping of George the janitor as a featured player, and the introduction of such gems as the “Pigs In Space” segment, as… |
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Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show: The Complete Series
…view one of the Previews making frequent appearances on Warner sets these days (Smurfs, Space Ghost/Birdman/Droopy, Popeye, Teen Titans, The Batman), plus Challenge Of The Superfriends. Case Study: Typical of… |
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The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians
…appearances here. Escape From Space City has an orbiting satellite, actually called “Star City” in the episode, taken over by Darkseid as part of a massive invasion plan. While part… |
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TaleSpin: Volume 2
…and company lost in the ocean. In the first disc’s final episode, Baloo pretends to be radioing Becky from outer space, somehow convincing the military to prepare for a Martian… |
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The Hanna-Barbera Treasury
…Touché Turtle gets a chapter, but Wally Gator does not. The randomness continues to the adventure shows, where Space Ghost and Birdman appear in their own chapters without Dino Boy… |
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Teen Titans: The Complete Fourth Season
…for dopiest of the year. Some fans love these over-the-top episodes, but I am not one of them. At all. Killer tofu from outer space? Cow-powered spaceships? Eating the villain?… |
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A Charlie Brown Valentine
…much bonuses as essential inclusions to making the disc a worthwhile purchase. The disc is cheap enough, but having only a half-hour special would mean wasting space, right? Aside from… |
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Justice League: New Frontier
…loved being able to see such favorite films as Superman: The Movie and 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1080 resolution. There is one area, however, in which I had yet… |
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Anything on DVD this week?
…Ben 10: Race Against Time, then there’s TMNT: Season 6, or the Blu-ray release of the game Space Ace. Hmmm… Rugrats – Tales from The Crib: Three Jacks & A… |
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Astro Boy (1963): Ultra Collector’s Edition Sets 1 & 2
…Nutty Fruitcake (#14, One Million Mammoth Snails), gains a human heart (#17, The Haunted Ship), travels in a Time Machine (#18) and fights a giant robot from outer space (#19,… |
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Tinker Bell
…Bolt, and Tinker Bell And The Lost Treasure, as well as the Disney Movie Rewards promo. From the menu, Wall*E and Space Buddies trailers can also be viewed, along with… |
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She-Ra: Princess of Power – Season One, Volume One
…Princess of Power, The New Adventures of He-Man, Flash Gordon, Ghostbusters, Journey Back to Oz, Groovie Goolies, Bravestarr, Blackstar, Happily Ever After, Hero High, Space Sentinels, Mission Magic! , and… |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Two-Disc Special Edition)
…Wars and the relationship between the Republic and the Hutt Clan that controls the Outer Rim, a region of space not under the control of the Republic. Jabba the Hutt’s… |
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Tom and Jerry Tales: Volume Six
…a satisfying conclusion in the Air & Space Museum in Washington, DC. It was very interesting to see the duo bear witness to historical moments in US history, although one… |
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Kachow! The Cars Speedway Premiere
…the crowd was pumped with excitement, the speedway’s infield between Turns 1 and 2 remained void of the usual race fans occupying the space. Instead, those fans were invited to… |
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Directors Buck and Brannon on Surf’s Up
…quite a bit of that on the DVD. And there’s more, too – there’s more than that. Yeah, there are some fun things. Reggie Belafonte, the James Woods character who… |
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How director Steve Anderson met The Robinsons!
…personality. You see uncle Art, dressed like a space man coming out of this giant flying saucer, you’ve got Uncle Gaston shooting meatballs at dinner across the table and you’ve… |
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Jonatha Brooke and Joel McNeely: the Pixie-Powered Music of Return To Neverland!
…Jones and the Attack of the Hawkmen, James Cameron’s Ghosts of the Abyss, Holes, his videogame score for Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, and James Cameron’s (again!) Dark Angel… |
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How Dean Wright and Wendy Rogers brought FX to Prince Caspian
…in 1989, he soon landed work with one of the industry’s most prominent directors, James Cameron, on Terminator 2: Judgment Day, which went on to win the Oscar for Best… |
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Ariel’s Song: Robert Reece, a fortunate writer under the sea!
…Did you happen to meet and work with some other members of the crew? RR: Every production takes up space at the studio. You see all of the artists and… |
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WALL•E: Animator Victor Navone gives soul to a bot, and Cars a Toon-up!
…as the Rubik’s Cube), their sitting on a bench at sunset, WALL•E’s space walk with the extinguisher and his being repaired by EVE back on Earth, among others! An impressive… |
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Peter & The Wolf: A Bird’s-Eye View (With A Balloon!)
…Royal Albert Hall by the seat of his pants due to us supplying the finished film on the day of the premiere, which he did brilliantly. The space between early… |
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Monsters, Inc.: 2-Disc Collectors Edition
…recycles them for energy to power the big city. James P Sullivan (John Goodman) is the city’s number one scarer, his only close rival being the devious Randall (a simply… |
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Beauty And The Beast
…one thinks about the storage space being used for one Dolby track, a separate 5.1 track, and two versions of the film “as was”, plus roughly half the film again… |
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Chuck Jones: Extremes And Inbetweens, A Life In Animation
…24th ½ Century, Chuck’s take on the space serials popular at the time. Although this is an obvious one to put in with a Chuck Jones retrospective, one can’t but… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Behind The Scenes At The Walt Disney Studios
…hours of programming, there’s slightly less space for any more extras, but what are on offer are fascinating. The Kem Weber Gallery features a number of archive stills highlighting his… |
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The Dad Behind The Myth: An Interview With Walt Disney’s Daughter Diane
…people that we interviewed and we couldn’t include everybody that I wanted to be part of it, and the DVD gave us the space do to that. AV: And what… |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Limited Issue
…future release, I wonder how sharper the image could become. It’s crisp, and the film print used is clean of any scratches. Without any extras to take up disc space… |
