In an effort to jump start the kinda sluggish-to-catch-on (for good reasons) new DVD format, Disney announced plans to release five of their classics in Blu-Ray over the next two years.
The films are “Pinocchio,� “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,� “Fantasia,� “Fantasia 2000� and “Beauty and the Beast.� The company had previously announced plans [...]
A Japanese Steven Seagal DVD box set gets the ironically righteous treatment it deserves.
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Well, this ought to make some nerds very, very happy. “Freakazoid,” that other Bruce Timm cartoon that was created under Spielberg’s short-lived television animation phase, is coming to DVD in July! It didn’t last long – only two seasons – but I have fond memories of the show. One can only hope the reality lives [...]
After taking the ’90s off from making zombie flicks, genre master George A. Romero seems to be making up for lost time. First came 2005’s criminally underrated Land of the Dead, and now, just three years later, comes Diary of the Dead.
Diary is a much smaller film than Land — actually, it’s [...]
Relegated to umptillion VHS and DVD versions over the years after slipping into the public domain, Night of the Living Dead gets ANOTHER DVD release thanks to Dimension Extreme, who is cannily trying to move a few more copies of the film off the interest in the new DVD of Romero’s latest zombie epic, the [...]
One of the few ’80s toons that actually holds up (thanks to solid creators like head writer J. Michael Straczynski), The Real Ghostbusters has been curiously absent from DVD shelves, with the exception of some random, half-assed single discs put out by Sony. TVShowsonDVD is now reporting, however, that Time-Life will release a massive [...]
My Criterion Collection newsletter told me this:
Dear Criterion Collection Newsletter subscriber (THAT’S ME! – ed.),
We’ve got some exciting news for this fall, and we wanted you to hear it first.
Our first Blu-ray discs are coming! We’ve picked a little over a dozen titles from the collection for Blu-ray treatment, and we’ll begin rolling them out [...]
A funny thing happened when I received this DVD in the mail. I immediately called my brother and, chuckling with sadly predictable Gen X smartass irony, told him what 80s TV show box set I had in my hand. His revealing response: “What the hell is that?”
My bro was the target audience for Jayce and [...]
