Rent It Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The TV Series: Time for more cha-cha music, manly men, swanky dames, and Rat Pack-era swellegance. In an unfortunate coincidence, we happened to watch the second and final season of the Starz “mobsters and mayhem in 1959 Miami” drama Magic City at the same time …
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Top DVD distributor Gaiam has announced its latest from international yoga guru Rodney Yee, the “Yoga for Your Week” digital and DVD release. Celebrity fitness trainer Tracy Anderson continues her DVD success with a new offering, “Perfect Design Series” in a box set.
Just in time for the start of the holiday season, Twentieth Century Fox has released a classic, ghostly love story to Blu-ray. The Ghost and Mrs.
 With the announcement of yet another Marvel Animated feature, my hopes began to rise. Let’s be honest, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment cranks out the animated DC Universe like nobody’s business
Recommended In 10 Words or Less The little blue girl gets center stage Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Good animation, Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays Likes: The Smurfs cartoons, Hank Azaria Dislikes: Most TV-show movie adaptations Hates: Grouchy, wasted talent The Story So Far… The Smurfs, little, magical, blue forest creatures, were a phenomenon in the 80s thanks to their popular TV cartoon, but …
Rent It The majority of American film fans will only maybe know Jay Chou from The Green Hornet , the underrated Michel Gondry-directed, Seth Rogen / Evan Goldberg-scripted adaptation that cast the actor as actual hero Kato to Rogen’s dim Hornet. In his home country of China, however, Chou rose to fame as a songwriter for numerous pop acts after an appearance on a televised competition show, then …
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Celebrating George Pal’s mostly-forgotten animated legacy Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Animation Likes: Davey & Goliath , Gumby , Historical collections that don’t ignore controversy Dislikes: Most puppets Hates: How artists oft go unappreciated The Movie Though I consider myself film literate, before watching this set, the extent of my knowledge of George Pal …
DVD Talk Collector Series “There are eight million stories in the naked city…” …and here are 138 of them.
Fans of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy know you never buy the films upon initial DVD or Blu-ray release because there will be an extended edition that follows. The extended edition of The Hobbit checks in at a mere 182 minutes, 13 minutes longer than the theatrical cuts while the LOTR’s extended cuts were 30 – 45 minutes longer in length…