BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: ESPN Video/DisneyMSRP: $29.99RATED: N/ARUNNING TIME: Bannister: 3 Minutes, 59.4 Seconds. Flick: 90 Minutes.SPECIAL FEATURES:• Original 1954 Film of Roger Bannister Breaking the 4-Minute Mile• Deleted Scenes• Outtakes• Four Minutes: On the Set Featurette• Original Interviews with Roger Bannister and Chris Chataway• Enhanced trivia track The Pitch “Let’s make a … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: DisneyMSRP: $39.99RATED: NRRUNNING TIME: 604 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Muppet Morsels• Original Pilot• Muppet Pitch Reel• Season One Gag Promo Reel Puppets get no respect. Sure, Punch and Judy can get a table for dinner and Howdy Doody still holds down pension on the board at Philip Morris like a rich … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: DisneyMSRP: $32.99RATED: NRRUNNING TIME: 275 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Introductions by Leonard Maltin• Screen test• Mickey Mouse Club episode• Publicity and stills The Pitch “Let’s make a serial show but without all that annoying action stuff and leave those cliffhanger things off too. Kids will watch it becuase of the Mouse … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: UniversalMSRP: $29.98RATED: PG-13RUNNING TIME: 119 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Commentary by Joss Whedon• Deleted Scenes• Joss Whedon’s Introduction to Serenity• What’s In A Firefly• Re-Igniting the Firefly• Outtakes• Future History: The Story of the Earth That Was No time to be humble. I’m the ideal Serenity reviewer. I’ve never seen Firefly. … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Warner Bros.MSRP: $44.98RATED: TV-GRUNNING TIME: 792 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Time Capsule Yogi – Restored pilot with original breaks and bumpers• Cartoon Tracks: The Art of Hanna Barbera Sound• Stills Gallery Tour with Yogi• Yogi Gets Global – A Yogi episode in multiple languages Chances are good that you have seen … Continue reading
As December rages on with its infinite fury, it’s quite possible most are burnt out with the things of life (work, shopping, and watching Cannibal Holocaust for the umpteenth time). Nothing is better than plunking yourself down and watching a film, even if you end up even more infuriated with yourself if it’s horrible. Bombs … Continue reading
It’s no news to the casual Muppet fan that the franchise has been in decline these past few years. Byzantine deals with House of Mouse and some Germans of shadowed motivation interfered with the magical formula of Kermit and friends. Jim Henson’s death, in 1990, didn’t do much to help the troupe along, but under … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE AND HERE!STUDIO: Warner Bros.MSRP: $44.98/$26.98RATED: TV-Y7RUNNING TIME: 521/390 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES: Batman:• Interactive Arkham Asylum: examine the top-secret case files of the Dark Knight’s many foes• Commentary by animation creators on three episodesSuperman:• Menaces of Metropolis: Behind the villains of Superman• One video and two audio commentaries by animation creators … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Warner Bros.MSRP: $19.98RATED: NRRUNNING TIME: 71 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:� Commentary� Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy� Trailer How can a director have more than one best film? The critic’s card of relativity. For streamlined psychological horror, it’s impossible to beat Cat People (reviewed here), Val Lewton’s first production … Continue reading
Yes, this has been out on R1 DVD for months now, but it debuts on disc in my native UK on December 26th, and as we never really gave it the coverage it needed last time, here it is…I missed The Devil’s Rejects during its theatrical run. Not deliberately, it just wasn’t top of my … Continue reading