TV on DVD
The Men Who Built America
To sum up The Men Who Built America in a couple words would not sound very professional but it would read: The Men Who Built America is so very awesome! Now, like I said not, this is not particularly professional or explanatory, but it’s still true. With that being said, at least give me the chance [...]
Blood-C: The Complete Series
Uncompromising, subversive and incredibly violent are but a few of the many words that can describe Blood-C. Made in a collaboration between Production I.G. and CLAMP, this sort-of spin off of the original movie made in 2000, Blood: The Last Vampire, is one the most riveting horror anime TV shows of recent years and certainly [...]
Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns: Season 7
Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns: Season 7 highlights the triumphs and travails of a family journeying through life’s adventures. From addressing sensitive health issues, such as HIV transmission from a past lover to the shock of a divorced mother becoming a “Cougar”, thereby dating half her age, there’s an incredible amount of activity in each [...]
Iron Man: Armored Adventures (Season 2, Vol. 3)
Is your animated television series getting stale? Well, how about trying the “kitchen sink” approach? That’s what the creative team behind Iron Man: Armored Adventures did. Just throw every damn thing you have at the audience and hope enough of it sticks that someone somewhere will warm up to it. At least, that’s what it [...]
Jackson 5ive: The Complete Animated Series
For the first time ever, the complete animated series of the Jackson 5ive (or Jackson Five, if you prefer, but says “5ive”) is available on DVD and, more importantly, Blu-ray from Dreamworks Classics. Rankin/Bass, yes the Rankin/Bass of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer fame, originally produced the series for ABC during the height of the group’s [...]
Life’s Too Short: The Complete First Season
Ricky Gervais has expressed a desire to have a certain expected style, citing Woody Allen as a successful example of how this can be obtained. Of course, this is a recipe open for immense backlash, with a dwindling fanbase inevitably on the horizon. But the niche market is a place Gervais belongs, and within that [...]
Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt: The Complete Series Blu-ray
Sure, FUNimation’s three-disc DVD release of Panty & Stocking with Garter Belt boasted a solid visual presentation and surprisingly dynamic audio… for a DVD. But as thankful as we all were for the opportunity to pick up the series on home video in any format, much less in a release of this caliber, we all [...]
Ground Control to Pyschoelectric Girl
When I first saw Ground Control to Physcoelectric Girl when it aired in Japan under its original title Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko, I was blown away. I loved everything about it, the story. the amazing art, my sweet Erio. The obligatory anime cliches remain the same, the character progression was and still is some [...]
Enlightened – Season 1
Laura Dern attempts to join a long list of strong female characters in TV comedy with Enlightened. The series, which Dern co-created with executive producer Mike White, is about Amy, an executive in a big company who has a nervous breakdown after an affair with her boss (Charles Eston). Returning to work months later, having [...]
Umineko: When They Cry
This 26-episode anime from Studio Deen, the same company that brought you Fruits Basketand Junjo Romantica, is now available in two, Premium Edition Blu-ray sets from NIS America. Adapted from a popular series of Japanese “visual novels” (which, for transparency’s sake, I have not played/read), Umineko: When They Cry (2009) begins with the murder of virtually [...]
Connect