‘The Secret’ taking the world by storm
Sep 14 2007
Posted by Jay as DVD Reviews, Featured Articles, News Features, Trade Paperback Reviews
Move over J. K. Rowling. There’s a new book that’s taking the world by storm, surpassing even the popularity of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the seventh and final episode of the J.K. Rowling series.
The book is “The Secret’ by Rhonda Byrne. Published in November 2006, it has now sold more than 3.75 million copies – outselling the orders for “The Deathly Hallows” on amazon.com.
A DVD documentary on the book was released earlier on the Internet in March 2006. Although it was not shown on theaters, had no marketing campaign, and relied solely on word-of-mouth endorsement, the ...
Teen Titans is one of those shows that progressed in quality with each season, hardly fluctuating at all. The show started out rather kid-oriented but became darker and more complex with each passing season (though season 5 was mostly one big fangasm). Season 2 is one of the better seasons and also one of the most memorable, as it adapts possibly the most famous storyline from the New Teen Titans comic book series by Marv Wolfman and George Perez.
Season 2 roughly adapts “the Judas Contractâ€, but as you ...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Classic) Vol. 1 – Review
Dec 15 2006
Posted by Spengs as DVD Reviews
The first season of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series from Murakami-Wolf-Swanson is considered by many a fan to be the best season of the entire series. Incidentally, it also happens to be the shortest. It was initially a five-part miniseries, which TMNT creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird worked on rather closely. While I can’t say that the first season is a perfect interpretation of the dark and gritty Mirage comic books, it certainly does have a much harder edge to it.
The first episode ...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Classic) Vol. 6 – Review
Dec 06 2006
Posted by Spengs as DVD Reviews, TV Reviews
Family Home Entertainment has finally released the sixth volume of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, which unfortunately, doesn’t contain as many classic and memorable episodes as their last offering. This volume features the fourth and final part of season 3, as well as the first episode of season 4. Season 3 was one of the TMNT’s stronger seasons, and according to many fans, supposedly the last good season (though, the show did spike back upward in quality for seasons 7 through 10). While this set ...
Though it’s been out for a year, I chose willingly to avoid all fansubs and bootlegs of the series so I could buy the DVD on release and thoroughly enjoy myself. I’ve been a fan of the Guyver since 1991, when the live action movie was released (though I came to appreciate that film less after I viewed the original anime). Seeing this new Guyver series is a real treat.
For those not aware, the Guyver is a Japanese manga and anime series (and two live action films ...
Batman the Animated Series, created by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini, began in 1992. Eventually, it spawned its own extensive universe of DC comics-related animated fiction, including Superman the Animated Series, Batman Beyond, Static Shock and Justice League among other shows. Over ten year later, they created Justice League Unlimited, the pinnacle of a decade’s worth of dedication and imagination.
“JLU†is a prime example of what superhero stories should be like, a perfect blend of humor, action, morality and character depth. The shear scope of JLU’s story telling ...
COPS: the Central Organization of Police Specialists. Fighting crime in a future time.
COPS was an animated series produced by DiC for the purpose of selling a new Hasbro toyline. But hey, what cartoons in the 80’s and 90’s weren’t made to sell toys? COPS was, in a way, Hasbro’s successor to G.I. Joe (which was waning in popularity by the 90’s), featuring similar characters, trite public service announcements (“COPS for Kidsâ€) and some recycled plots. Interestingly enough, the characters and their backgrounds were all created by Larry Hama, ...
Although it pains me to say this, the Super Mario Bros Super Show is one cartoon best left remembered than revisited. A lot of the times you’ll remember loving a cartoon as a kid and thinking its still “awesomeâ€, but then when you check it out ten years later…not so much.
Now, alright, perhaps I’m being a little harsh. The Super Show was campy for campiness’ sake and I can’t fault them for that. The main problem is just that so many of the gags are really dumb, ...
Well, first and foremost, the “Season 4†2-disk DVD set does not contain the entire season, despite the back of the box telling you the season was only 14 episodes-long. It contains all the episodes of the season that hadn’t been released on DVD yet, the earlier episodes of season 4 having been smattered randomly across various single disk DVDs. Well, despite a bit of false advertisement, it is good to get the last of the episodes on DVD (well, almost last, since “Ninja Tribunal†is being saved for the ...
So Lions Gate has released the 5th volume of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series on DVD. This volume contains the 3rd part of season 3 with the DVDs still marching along in proper chronological order (which, unfortunately, cannot be said for the DVDs of the new animated series, which jumped ship into Random Episode Land a long time ago).
Of the three DVDs containing portions of season 3, I have to say, this volume contains the best selection of episodes; 12 episodes total with at least 7 of ...
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