Category Archives: DVD Reviews

DVD Review: Rocko’s Modern Life: Season Two (Shout! Factory)

Rocko’s Modern Life is a classic cartoon created in the early 1990s for Nickelodeon that features the misadventures of Rocko, who is a dingo from Australia. Rocko has a dog named Spunky and two friends: Heffer, a steer, and Filburt, … Continue reading

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DVD Review: Futurama, Volume 6

Like Family Guy, Futurama  is a show that refuses to die.  This animated  sci-fi show from the creator of The Simpsons was cursed with a truly awful time slot in 1999 and met an untimely end.  While it never found … Continue reading

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DVD/Blu-Ray Review: The Big Country (Blu-Ray)

The Big Country is the personification of not only what a great Western has to offer moviegoers, but a great example of solid film making and a study in how much actors and actresses really mean to a motion picture. Even though … Continue reading

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DVD Review: Transformers Prime: Darkness Rising (Shout! Factory)

The latest incarnation of the venerable Robots in Disguise franchise finally makes its way to home video with “Transformers Prime: Darkness Rising” which collects the pilot miniseries that launched the series which just wrapped up its first season on Hasbro’s … Continue reading

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DVD Review: He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: The Complete Second Season (Mill Creek Entertainment)

  Like most boys in the mid-80s under 10, for a brief period, I was all about Masters of the Universe. I had the toys, the stickers, coloring books, lunch box–the whole deal. But at the crux of the infatuation was … Continue reading

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DVD Review: Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes Volume 3 & 4 (Disney)

I’m about to do you a big favor. While watching The Avengers, I couldn’t help but think of Justice League Unlimited. JLU set the bar really high for every comic book cartoon that followed it. And there are plenty of … Continue reading

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DVD Review: CARS 2 (Disney/Pixar)

Cars 2, the follow-up to the successful Disney/Pixar film Cars, is a divisive film among animation enthusiasts. It seems that people either like it or they don’t. There’s no real love for it. On the same token there’s no real hate for … Continue reading

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DVD Review: CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (Paramount)

The summer of 2011 was filled with movies based on comic books. Some good. Some bad. CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGERS was one of the better ones, if not the best. Seeing on the big screen was amazing, but on … Continue reading

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DVD Review: Manhunter (MGM)

Thomas Harris’ extremely popular “Hannibal Lector” character has appeared in 80% of the author’s novels and five separate feature-length films. Most would find Lector synonymous with 1991′s landmark The Silence of the Lambs, in which Anthony Hopkins turned the soft-spoken … Continue reading

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DVD Review: Jem and the Holograms Season 1 (Shout! Factory)

If you’re a child of the ’80s, your Saturday mornings were filled with cartoons that not only entertained, but also tried to get you to beg your parents to take you to the toy store. Hasbro had a hand in … Continue reading

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