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Why you might consider heeding the call to Adventure and buying Adventure Time on DVD

Adventure Time seemed like a fun little show about a boy and his canine companion having wacky escapades in a magical, apparently post-apocalyptic world. And then you actually watch the show, and it’s much weirder and more awesome. It’s sort of the perfect hipster comedy action fantasy, in which there’s a weird core of sweetness…

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Breaking Bad‘s Bryan Cranston is the real star of Batman: Year One

The genius of Frank Miller’s graphic novel Batman: Year One wasn’t just how it reimagined Batman’s origin — it was the new and grittier version of James Gordon, Batman’s main ally on the police force. And the animated DVD adaptation, which comes out a week from tomorrow, makes a brilliant move by casting Breaking Bad’s…

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Rediscover the British classic Quatermass and the Pit on Blu-ray

The most renowned of the Quatermass films (which are themselves derived from the 1953 TV show titled The Quatermass Experiment), Quatermass and the Pit is a Hammer film that holds a firm place in the minds and memories of science fiction and horror fans. Fondly remembered for elements that could be perceived as simultaneously excellent…

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Your Chance to Smoke a Bowl and Appreciate the Original Captain America

The original 1990 Captain America film was a trainwreck — by all accounts, the investors pulled out a short time into filming, and the budget had to be slashed mercilessly — but it’s also a supreme achievement of campy superhero action. https://gizmodo.com/is-it-finally-time-for-the-director-of-the-original-cap-5779203 And now it’s on DVD, in a nice restored limited edition from MGM.…

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The Star Wars Blu-ray set gets 3.5 out of 5

For better or worse, the day is finally here – George Lucas’s magnum opus is out today on Blu-ray. I’m sure you’ve all heard by now that they’re not the versions we all know and love, and they’re not even the versions we’ve begrudgingly had to live with for the last 10 years. However, they…

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The Classic Dalek Battle We’ve Been Waiting 40 Years For

It should be one of the greatest moments in the history of Doctor Who: an all-out battle between the Daleks and U.N.I.T., the paramilitary organization that the Doctor spent most of a decade teaming up with. Sadly, the climax of “Day of the Daleks” has always been a bit of a letdown, with only three…

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“The Ultimate Computer” + Airplane = Disaster Movie Gold!

You have to love this clip from Turbulent Skies, the disaster movie starring Casper Van Dien which is newly out on DVD. Just the way every other line is the characters saying “WHAT?” to each other is pure awesomeness. “Our pilot is dead. Our copilot is unconscious. Our flight computer has gone insane.” “WHAT?” “And…

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The Time the Inventors of the C Programming Language Guest-Starred on Doctor Who

A bunch of classic Doctor Who stories have appeared on DVD recently, and they’re full of little gems. Like this suite of deleted scenes in which we learn that two random guards are named Kernighan and Ritchie. What are the creators of the C programming language doing on Doctor Who? Blame Christopher H. Bidmead, computer…

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The Beginning and the End of Doctor Who’s “UNIT Family” Era

The early 1970s, arguably, was when Doctor Who started to come of age, and a lot of the credit belongs to the late, great producer Barry Letts. Two newly released Doctor Who DVDs form a kind of Barry Letts celebration. https://gizmodo.com/r-i-p-barry-letts-the-man-who-made-doctor-who-transce-5378284 For one thing, Letts directed both “Terror of the Autons” and “Planet of the…

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Phantoms: High Weirdness in Resort Country

More than special effects or even the Big Idea science fiction, fantasy and horror movies depend on one thing: casting. A good cast can help make mediocre material convincing while a mediocre cast can turn even the best production into Mansquito 2. Phantoms, based on the Dean Koontz novel, is an uneven but often mesmerizing…

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Man and Superman: The Riddick DVD Collection

We first met Richard B. Riddick back in 2000 in an excellent little SF action movie, Pitch Black. He was introduced to us as a ruthless killer and the most badass criminal alive. But he was a lot more than that. Riddick was a man who through intelligence and sheer force of will had made…

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The Secret Origin of Captain Planet!

A poor bunny rabbit is exposed to the molecular duplication ray — and its evil opposite is created, in this amazing clip from Captain Planet and the Planeteers. The new Captain Planet DVD set is full of equally ludicrous moments. Like the making-of documentary, which explains that Ted Turner is the second smartest thing on…

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Peter Davison explains what’s wrong with Doctor Who’s sonic screwdriver

Back when Peter Davison was playing that mysterious time traveler, the Doctor, he had a lot fewer tricks up his sleeve — and he couldn’t rely on the sonic screwdriver to get him out of jams. In this clip from one of two newly released Doctor Who DVDs, Davison vents about what he sees as…

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Dracula in a Toybox: Guillermo del Toro’s Cronos

It shouldn’t surprise you that Guillermo del Toro’s Cronos isn’t your ordinary vampire movie. Like his best known film, Pan’s Labyrinth, Cronos is a melancholy and brutal movie punctuated by moments of black humor. And like the strong mother-daughter love story at the center of Pan’s Labyrinth, Cronos is a kind of grand guignol Disney…

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Some of Doctor Who’s most thrilling stories come to DVD

A few of Doctor Who’s coolest stories have shown up on DVD recently. Last week, we got the classic stories “The Seeds of Doom” and “The Ark,” and a few weeks earlier there was “A Christmas Carol,” the latest special. These three stories, collectively, show what Doctor Who is capable of being at its absolute…

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All-Star Superman: You will believe a man can make you cry

Zack Snyder only dreams he could make a Superman movie as stunning, as fun and as moving as All-Star Superman, the direct-to-DVD movie that hit stores yesterday. This is how you make Superman relevant again: with great storytelling. Spoilers ahead… All-Star Superman is an adaptation of a twelve-issue miniseries of the same name by Grant…

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Original audition video proves Doctor Who’s 1996 comeback could have been way worse

The 1996 Doctor Who TV movie was not the series’ finest hour, by any stretch of the imagination. But it could have been way worse — just watch these brief snippets from the original audition tapes, back when the show was following a way cheesier storyline. Prepare to be overwhelmed with schlockiness. The newly released…

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If you let this skeevy guy kiss you, you’ll never be able to get him off your mind

A blonde sex-worker breaks her rule against kissing clients — only to run into the worst case of identity theft in history, in this clip from Marvel’s animated Black Panther, out now on DVD. And yes, that scene is lifted almost shot-for-shot from the comic book version, as written by Reginald Hudlin, who worked on…

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Doctor Who serves up two tales of alien worlds colliding

What do the two Doctor Who stories on DVD today have in common? On the surface, nothing. But they’re both stories about sheltered alien societies coming into contact with other alien races… with disastrous results. Spoilers ahead. Very few TV shows would be able to get away with showing an alien race meeting another alien…

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Relive Doctor Who’s most epic season on DVD

Doctor Who got a new lease on life this year — not just in the sense of growing a new body, but also getting a whole new look and creative team. And now the results are a shiny DVD box-set! Looking at Doctor Who: The Complete Fifth Series on DVD, you’re reminded of just how…

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Why you might consider heeding the call to Adventure and buying Adventure Time on DVD

Breaking Bad‘s Bryan Cranston is the real star of Batman: Year One

Rediscover the British classic Quatermass and the Pit on Blu-ray

Your Chance to Smoke a Bowl and Appreciate the Original Captain America

The Star Wars Blu-ray set gets 3.5 out of 5

The Classic Dalek Battle We’ve Been Waiting 40 Years For

“The Ultimate Computer” + Airplane = Disaster Movie Gold!

The Time the Inventors of the C Programming Language Guest-Starred on Doctor Who

The Beginning and the End of Doctor Who’s “UNIT Family” Era

Phantoms: High Weirdness in Resort Country

Man and Superman: The Riddick DVD Collection

The Secret Origin of Captain Planet!

Peter Davison explains what’s wrong with Doctor Who’s sonic screwdriver

Dracula in a Toybox: Guillermo del Toro’s Cronos

Some of Doctor Who’s most thrilling stories come to DVD

All-Star Superman: You will believe a man can make you cry

Original audition video proves Doctor Who’s 1996 comeback could have been way worse

If you let this skeevy guy kiss you, you’ll never be able to get him off your mind

Doctor Who serves up two tales of alien worlds colliding

Relive Doctor Who’s most epic season on DVD

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