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Trial & Retribution Set 6
DCSI Mike Walker and DCI Roisin Connor are back for more crime fighting in Trial & Retribution Set 6. Releasing from Acorn Media on January 1, 2013, this set presents the four concluding mysteries from the hit British series created and written by Emmy nominee and BAFTA winner Lynda La Plante. If you’re new to [...]
Being Human: The Complete Second Season (SyFy)
Something is different about season two of SyFy’s Being Human. Maybe it’s finally cast off the burden of living up to its BBC predecessor, but it feels like there’s something more to it. With the first season, the cast has enough charm and charisma to make some of the obviously recycled storylines bearable, but it [...]
One Piece: Season Four-Voyage Three
Having gone and reviewed over 200 episodes of One Piece, it still astounds me that this series, while being a straight forward Shonen title, manages to still captivate and deliver some of the most emotional punches than any other series I’ve ever seen. Major stakes get raised and the adventure even more eventful, with the [...]
Steins;Gate Part Two
I adored what I got out of the first 12 episodes contained in the first part of Steins;Gate, but I have to honestly say that the final 13 within Part Two is a somewhat of a let down. After the events that take place that lead to the death of a Future Gadget Lab member, [...]
A Certain Magical Index
The J. C. Staff studios anime, A Certain Magical Index, is but one of many media texts adapted from a series of light novels by Kazuma Kamachi. Kamachi’s saga of science and magic also spawned a manga, video games, an OVA, and even an upcoming film. The spinoff manga, A Certain Scientific Railgun, was previously [...]
Shakugan no Shana: Season II
I first encountered this highly-addictive anime through FUNimation Entertainment’s Blu-ray release of Shakugan no Shana’s first season, repackaging the same portion previously released by Geneon with the original dub and all. That release, while collecting 24 episodes of an absolutely terrific series, left me wanting a bit more from FUNimation’s future releases of the title, [...]
Is This a Zombie?
Is This a Zombie? offers a unique interpretation of what it would be like to live as a zombie. As a zombie, Ayumu Aikawa, has to figure out how to live a semi-normal existence, all the while slowly building a harem-like household and trying to figure out why he died in the first place. There are a [...]
Police Academy: The Animated Series (Vol. 1)
The Warner Archive Collection has quickly established itself as the place to turn for your retro, nostalgic, cartoon fix, and their recent release of Police Academy: The Animated Series (Volume One) only adds to this perception. The series, which ran for two seasons between 1988 and 1989, was the product of Ruby-Spears Productions, the same [...]
Wonder Woman (1974)
On paper, the concept of this failed, feature-length pilot for a pre-Lynda Carter Wonder Woman series looks incredibly promising, and wholly in keeping with the television fare of its time. Here, William M. Marston’s ass-kicking Amazonian princess of DC Comics is reimagined as an international super spy in the employ of the American government. She [...]
Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol
As related in my previous review of The Jolly Frolics Collection, animation studio UPA revolutionized the animation world with the stylish simplicity of their visual aesthetic. The animators at UPA drew heavily on modern art and marketing to create an aesthetic style with great visual flair that was also cheaper to produce than animation had [...]
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