"Coming from a geek standpoint, the 20thanniversaryeditionDVD of 'Transformers: The Movie' is the absolute be-all and end-all experience for the true 'Transformers' fan ... at least until the Michael Bay live action film comes out. With the war in Iraq...
SONY BMG Entertainment announced that a TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE 20THANNIVERSARYSPECIALEDITIONDVD will hit retail in November. The DVD will contain exclusive special features to commemorate the 20thanniversary of the animated classic film. The releas...
In co-operation with the home entertainment group of SONY BMG Music Entertainment, BotCon 2006 will present an advance DVD screening of 'Transformers: The Movie 20thAnniversarySpecialEdition'.
This is your chance to see this newly restored legendary...
"Honestly speaking, if this DVD were a single-disc set featuring only remastered, properly formatted picture and sound, most fans of this film would be completely satisfied. Thus it is with not only surprise but great satisfaction that we can report that ...
Sony BMG Entertainment announced the upcoming release of Transformers: The Movie 20thAnniversarySpecialEditionDVD, which will hit stores in November. The DVD commemorates the anniversary of the animated classic film and is timed to the debut of a Tran...
As a thank you to fans, SONY BMG is adding even more content to the special features available via the exclusive DVD-ROM link on Disc 2 of the 'Transformers: The Movie 20thAnniversarySpecialEditionDVD'. Currently this link provides access to exclusive...
E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL's original theatrical run in 1982 set a new standard for blockbuster success in Hollywood, outdoing even STAR WARS with a record domestic box-office haul that would remain the highest-ever for an amazing decade and a half (until...
The official details for the DVD/HD-DVD releases of Paramount's TRANSFORMERS have been released online. The release date is set for October 16, 2007 for both formats. Here's the press release and the list of items set to appear on the 2-Disc Special ...
As I watched Monster Squad for the first time in close to twenty years, I was struck by how much it reminded me of a modern day version of Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein. Little surprise then that Director, Fred Dekker, in his commentary, po...
Joe Moore from TFW2005.com received an advanced copy of the "Transformers: The Movie 20thAnniversaryDVD" and here is what you can find on each disc:
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The "Transformers: The Movie" 20thAnniversaryDVD Official Site has been updated today adding a whole range of wallpapers, avatars, buddy icons and banner gifs for fans to download. Click here to view and download:
Two weeks ago New Line Home Video re-released Terrence Malick’s breathtaking film The New World in an extended cut. An unrated cut and an additional thirty minutes were promised and nothing else included. No trailers, no commentary and no cl...
"While not a perfect movie by any means, I still really enjoyed Transformers. It's a fun action flick with plenty of great eye candy, in terms of both actors and special effects, and I would easily Recommend it to anyone. On top of a fun movie, the two-di...
The summer is over and with the fall in front of us it means only one thing. It is time to add those summer movies to the collection. Summer movies are not the only releases that we Maniacs look forward to though. Horror movies will start to populate the ...
In March of 2007 Casino Royale wasreleased on Blu-ray. It was the only James Bond film, out of the 20 that preceded it, to be released on the new format. This was not surprising to me. Having been raised on Bond and working at various video stores...
THE EXORCIST was--and remains--a galvanic theatrical experience, one in which each individual`s reaction to the film is enhanced by the kind of group psychology that takes over in crowded rooms, by the communal sense of shared experience, by the chorus of...
Click here for a full gallery of all of the images you could possibly want to see of Sony's upcoming Transformers The Movie 20thAnniversaryDVD which will be released on November 7th. This is the ultimate version of this movie. It's got a TON of extras i...
What They SayFeudal Japan - A time of danger, intrigue and deception. Jubei is a masterless ninja who travels the land alone, hiring his services to those with gold... or a worthy cause. His fearsome abilities have served him well, but a hideous plot to o...
Collector’s Editions, box sets and complete series are all the rage during the holiday season. This week there is a Maniac worthy Collector’s Edition to hit the DVD shelf and unfortunately it falls completely flat. 300 (Limited Collect...
As of today it has been one year and one week since I took over the DVD Shopping Bag Column. I thought for my anniversary I would let you Maniacs in on all that I learned and experienced over the last year as your columnist. If you are not interested, ski...
So far two easter eggs have been found on "The Transformers: The Movie - 20thAnniversaryDVD"; both on Disc 1. Look for some old TV commercials and some additional hidden commentary.
Back in the mid-1980’s, a friend who knew that I was into horror suggested I read a series of books written by a new horror writer named Clive Barker called The Books of Blood. I did, and became an instant fan. Barkers’ tales were a ...
Does a critic have a statute of limitations on making a judgment regarding a feature film? Is twenty years too long a period of time? Back in December 1979, I was the feature editor of The Compass, the campus newspaper at Suffolk Community College, and I ...
Transformers, one of the year’s biggest blockbusters , arrives on DVD on Tuesday and here at Mania.com we have you covered with a look at the two-disc specialedition. Now working under the assumption that most visitors to the site have alr...
With 25 years of packed midnight screenings, and a worldwide cult following that spans generations, there`s no way to review The Rocky Horror Picture Show as just a movie without also reviewing the phenomenon. A campy spoof of horror, sci-fi, comic books,...
Review copies of the Transformers20thAnniversarySpecialEdition have gone out, and reports are coming in that the set contains trailers for the rerelease of the original series. Fans have been waiting for more Transformers sets since Rhino lost the rig...
To celebrate the 20thAnniversary of its release, Sony will release 'Transformers: The Movie' AnniversaryDVD. The website Transformersthemoviedvd.com has added all new sections to the website. It now has links for Artwork, Transmisions, Upcoming Promotio...
VIDEO NEWSBUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER fans - of which, I am told, there are a few recently saw their fave femme make a triumphant return to TV after a move to the eternally struggling UPN network. Those same fans can likely expect another victory as the pe...
DVD Times has posted 14 images from the new TransformersDVD Two-Disc SpecialEdition and 1 Disc Widescreen Edition and a list of the Special Features for the Two-Disc SpecialEdition.
This week the Prize Closet holds copies of two DVDs about heroes assigned to quests by their respective deities. Enter to win by sending an email containing your valid mailing address to psycho@psychotronic.info. To win one of five copies of the thri...
Back in the summer of 1999 I was chomping at the bit for a little film called Star Wars The Phantom Menace. I would ritualistically watch the trailer that I recorded when it was on Entertainment Tonight, listen to the soundtrack and rearrange my action fi...
Hasbro.com has updated their Transformers News page with a trailer for the new release of Transfomers: The Movie 20thAnniversaryDVD. Click here to view it:
Several years ago after watching Terry Gilliam’s Twelve Monkeys I embarked on massive screening of his films. I was doing fine until I got to The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. I was confused, frustrated and bored. I loved the Fishe...
Though the film has previously been released on DVD, Disney is putting out a two-disc 20thanniversaryDVD set of the movie TRON. The set is scheduled to hit store shelves on January 15.According to Video Premiere, the discs will feature "many" new featur...
Universal pictures recently announced three upcoming titles that will soon be appearing on DVD with loads of extras, while looming on the horizon is a specialedition release of one of the most important anime features ever made.THE MUMMY RETURNS release ...
There were a lot of great entries, but Stephen Smith's defense of MALLRATS was judged to be the most concise, to the point, and in keeping with the Essence of Smith. Plus, his name is Smith, thereby fuelling several conspiracy theories if I pick him, so h...
The original advertising campaign for James Cameron`s 1989 underwater sci-fi thriller The Abyss, featured the tag line, `There`s all you`ve known about adventure. And then, there`s The Abyss.` Although that little publicity blurb may have had a bit of h...
"At the main menu of the first disc where the various photos of Optimus and and the rest, use the arrow keys on the remote to highlight the Autobot or Decepticon insignia. When it's highlighted press the enter button..."
One year of columns. Yes, Anime Avalanche has been on Cinescape.com for 52 consecutive Saturdays. *** Wassup, Chef? Last week I wrote about the brouhaha over Isaac "Chef" Hayes' resignation from his gig as a voice actor on SOUTH PARK. This week, Comedy Ce...
The suits at Paramount have always looked down their noses at their moneymaking slasher series. There must've been cigars all around when they sold the rotting franchise off to New Line. Well, now that Ronny Yu has hit a home run with FREDDY VS. JASON (an...
Proposed by David McCall, an advertising executive, back in 1972, SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK! was an attempt to teach young kids important information through song. The basic idea being that with a catch ditty supporting it children would be able to easily retain i...
We found in our mailbox a screener for a new black & white horror feature from William Winckler (DOUBLE-D AVENGER) that is "thisclose" to landing a DVD distributor. FRANKENSTEIN VS. THE CREATURE FROM BLOOD COVE recalls the monster pictures of the 1950...
Beetlejuice, Tim Burton’s insanely odd and hilarious film, is two decades old this year. The film was the world’s introduction into the macabre world of Tim Burton’s imagination. Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure established him as a directo...
The post-Halloween horror doldrums are still keeping the release of new terror titles to a minimum, but mid-November has a nicely eclectic mix of movies that should offer something for almost any fan. The cream of the video crop for the week is far remov...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONI Hear Dead People: The music for George Romero's DEAD saga was inaugurated in 1968 to the accompaniment of an assemblage of vintage library music with NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (re-released in 1998 in a new version by John A. Rus...
VIDEO NEWSProof, as if any was needed, that direct-to-video horror producers have no shame is the recent report (from CREATURE CORNER) of a sequel to the dreadful BLOODY MURDER. That film was an unexpected video hit, probably due to its cover art of a cha...
I have without exaggeration seen Jaws 18 trillion times, often stumbling across it on cable, then unable to change the channel. Yet each time I see it I am utterly surprised at how good it is. I can only assume my surprise is because there`s kind of a neg...
While visiting my local Post Office to send out packages from our Prize Closetr recently, I was surprised to find a new item available at the counter. DVDs! The U.S. Postal Inspection Service produced a series of public service films in the style of TV cr...
The Prize Closet continues to dominate this territory. Well, dang it, we just love to give away fee DVDs! To win any of these prizes, you just have to send me an email to psycho@psychotronic.info and include a valid mailing address in the body. Once we ha...
Amazon.com has added a clip from "The Transformers - The Movie" (20thAnniversarySpecialEdition) called the "Death of Optimus Prime" and exploring the death of this beloved character.
Starting next week Warner Brothers will have a plethora of superhero DVD tie-in titles to coincide with The Dark Knight. Yet, this week Anchor Bay is releasing the best DVD tie-in of the month. This hero isn’t a rich business man and he doesn’...
Nelson Riddles original music for the 1966 BATMAN movie (based on the colorful TV series) is the latest limited edition CD release from Film Score Monthly magazine. With just 3,000 copies, the disc includes more than an hour of original dramatic soundtr...
The very first video store I ever worked at was a mom and pop store that only competed with the big chains because it had a great location, we carried adult videos and we weren’t under a lot of scrutiny about what we carried like the big chain store...
20th Century Fox created quite a stir recently by announcing that a new
specialeditionDVD of the X-Men film is in the works - but they haven't got
anything on Supergirl, a movie coming to DVD for the third time.
Recently, several media outlets,
p...
Those of you who missed the nice behind-the-scenes footage of 'Transformers' when it debuted in grainy fashion on YouTube, can now catch a crisp QuickTime version on director Michael Bay's website. The clips, which were shipped on the 20thAnniversaryDVD...
With this being the first week of the Holiday season I am going to change the DVD Shopping Bag Column up a bit. For the next four weeks I am going to feature films that would make great gifts for the film aficionado and to give to a member of the ...
This month you can see the Colin Farrell meets the American aborigines movie THE NEW WORLD on DVD but you won't be able to smell him. Not so in Japan. Last year, showmen in Japan revived Mike Todd Jr.'s old Smell-O-Vision idea in two theaters when they r...
Want another preview of the 'Transformers' live-action movie? You'll find it on the 'Transformers: The Movie 20thAnniversaryDVD' or by visiting this YouTube link. Be sure to keep watching past the tired teaser trailer for a behind-the-scenes featurette ...
Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy/Sequel.Studio: Walt Disney Pictures.Production Company: Unknown.Project Phase: Development Hell.Who's In It: No one confirmed as yet.Who's Making It: Steven Lisberger (Director, possibly); Steven Lisberger, Richard Jeffries ...
That's right, fans it's October! The season of spooky pranks, ghoulish doings, colorful costumes and tasty treats is upon us. Of course you know what I'm talking about: Canadian Thanksgiving is just around the corner! Everyone who claims to be Canadian c...
Readers with sharp memories may recall that last week I prominently featured two DVD releases also available in specialeditions that none of you were able to find for sale. Well, turns out that the deluxe editions of those long-awaited titles have been d...
This week ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’ arrives in three different formats of DVD: Standard DVD, High Definition DVD (HD-DVD) and Blu-Ray DVD. All of these formats are releasing the Harry Potter films in a box set. With...
Last October I headed over to mall to pick up Halloween on DVD. After sitting through Rob Zombie’s awful rendition of John Carpenter’s classic film I knew it was time to pick up the original. I still had my 1998 VHS Limited Edition 2 t...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSNino Rota's music for Federico Fellini is among the brightest and most interesting Italian film music of the '60s and early '70s. Scores such as LA DOLCE VITA, LA STRADA, JULIET OF THE SPIRITS are among the composer's most profo...
This weeks column marks the start of my second year of DVD Shopping List, and I want to thank all the readers out there for the support theyve shown for it if youre all enjoying it, that makes all the time & trouble that goes into it worthwhile.O...
When Neil Marshall’s unrated Doomsday was half finished I thought this just might be the perfect film for Mania. A Maniac’s delight of science fiction, action and post apocalyptic nightmares. With genre favorite Malcolm McDowell’s openin...
In case you were wondering, the SPACE and WITCHBLADE fans are still writing in to support the seasoning of those shows. The more extreme cases either thank me profusely for the charitable work Im doing on their behalf, or defensively attack me for some i...
As the clock ticks down to the busiest shopping day of the year, I noticed that more and more box sets are starting to appear on the list of new releases. Many times these movies are not new and have been released before. Often, many of the film...
In the Prize Closet this week we have one copy of MALLRATS to give away. Okay, some of you may think that's extremely lame. Many folks consider MALLRATS slightly below JERSEY GIRL on the Kevin Smith filmography, and you might not think it worth opening th...
Woohoo! We're back to a big long list, so we've just got room to get into the Prize Closet. We have 2 copies of BLACKBALLED: THE BOBBY DUKES STORY to give away, courtesy of Shout Factory. To enter, send an email containing your name and address to psycho...
What They SayThe well beloved 101-episode TV series, \"Touch\", based on the original work of Adachi Mitsuru serialised in the \"Shounen Sunday\" magazine, is now finally available on DVD. The video is remastered for release in conjunction with the 20th ...
We've been fans of Something Weird Video for two decades, as they've unearthed and preserved on home video hundreds of "lost" and obscure exploitation films over the years. We've enjoyed their TV show REEL WILD CINEMA, and their fun-packed Image DVDs have...
20th Century Fox and Lucasfilm have announced plans to release the original original STAR WARS trilogy (episodes 4-6) on DVD along with the 1997 "upgrade" editions, even though George Lucas claimed that the original theatrical versions would never be avai...
Coming soon to your TV: your cut of your favorite film. And why not? Seriously Mania readers, with studios releasing all the different versions of films in “SpecialEditions”, “Director’s Cuts”, “Extended/ Unr...
1980 was a pretty bad year for movies. Its also the year when most of the movie-going public missed out on Somewhere in Time, a sweet picture scripted by SF-horror legend Richard Matheson, based on his award-winning novel, Bid Time Return. Directed by Je...
TORN by Robert T. Trate, Columnist (Tue 01-15-2008)
As much as I love getting my DVD’s each and every week and watching them in the privacy of my own home; I do love going to the movie theater more. About 2 miles down the road is a Mega-Plex. 24 screens (usually running the same title multi...
In Part One of this article, we interviewed Rich Heierling, a film and video producer at Digital Stream in Bridgeport, Pennsylvania, who has sent Paramount Pictures a proposal to remake STAR TREK The Original Series (TOS) visual effects with new, state...
VIDEO NEWS TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE was originally a low budget TV anthology series which, while largely forgotten today, helped pave the way for a multitude of horror, fantasy and sci-fi TV series we enjoy ...
Comic Con 2007 in San Diego has listed their full lineup. I'll be posting the movie and television sections of the COMIC CON event.. This will include lots of information for you to judge on what to see if you happen to go to it.
Another thing, if ...
In response to an apparent uproar from loyal fans, Cartoon Network has brought DRAGON BALL Z back to its nighttime lineup at 9:30 CT Mondays through Thursdays. They may have thought that the show's mostly young audience didn't stay up that late on school ...
Not only will the "Final Cut" of BLADE RUNNER be released in dvd format on December 18 but they are also planning a limited re-release in theaters on October 5. On that date, select theaters in Los Angeles and New York will be re-releasing the d...
There\'s even bargains in here I can no longer pass up. It looks like I\'ll be reviewing a lot of Dragon Ball in the future...Happy Thanksgiving! Funimation has a delicious selection of titles available right now as well as some tasty pre-orders... so whi...
Hot on the heels of a successful theatrical release last September comes this DVD of the revised version of The Exorcist. This latest DVD release lacks the supplemental material of the wonderful 25th AnniversarySpecialEdition; if you buy this new disc, ...
HOUSTON, September 21, 2006 "ADV Films, the number one producer-distributor of anime outside of Japan, is pleased to announce three exciting titles, including the second installment of Jinki: Extend, and the final volumes of Kaleido Star: New Wings and T...
Don't get me started on a rant about all the Christmas DVDs coming out already or the fact that most of them are just repackaged versions of stuff that came out last year. Just don't. That doesn't mean I'm not in the Spirit of Giving. In our Prize Closet...
Now playing in theaters is DOOGAL, another animated release from the Weinstein Company, hot on the heels of their R-rated HOODWINKED. A band of animal friends unite on a hazardous journey to stop an evil sorcerer from freezing the Sun. Sounds farfetched, ...
Next week the complete series of the hit TV show The Munsters will be released on DVD. It is complete with all seventy episodes and the two feature length films Munster, Go Home and The Munsters Revenge. With more than enough time to get all the episodes,...
Right Stuf has added the December slate of titles to their site today of Viz Media\'s anime releases:Full Moon Vol. #03 - 100 minutes - $24.98 - 12/05/2006Inu Yasha Vol. #49 - 75 minutes - $24.98 - 12/05/2006Megaman: NT Warrior Vol. #12 - 88 minutes - $14...
Throughout the course of his “end of the world trilogy”: Planet of the Apes (1968), The Omega Man (1971) and Soylent Green (1973) Charlton Heston was cast as mankind’s last hope. Heston portrayed the last light that always refused t...
A bit of horror & sci-fi dvd news for you on this seemingly comedy driven movie news day. Warner Bros has announced a POLTERGEIST: 25th ANNIVERSARYEDITIONdvd set to appear on shelves everywhere October 9, 2007. The new 2 disc specialedition wi...
Well, here`s something else we can blame on George Lucas and his STAR WARS Trilogy SpecialEditions. This atrocity is actually a full year late for NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD`s 30th anniversary. What John Russo has done is taken a horror classic and, in the...
It looks like Steven Spielberg has heard the call of fans. This week, he announced he'll be releasing both the original cut of E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL and the 20thANNIVERSARYEDITION, which is being released Friday in theaters with restored scenes and...
HOUSTON, July 19, 2006 " ADV Films, the number one producer-distributor of anime outside of Japan, is pleased to announce three exciting new titles set to hit the streets on September 5, including the first volume of Jinki: Extend, the second volume of T...
THIS WEEKS RECOMMENDATIONS In the tradition of previous compilations like The INDIANA JONES Trilogy and THE GODFATHER Trilogy, Silva Screen has taken the best music from Howard Shores monumental musical epic, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and fashioned Mu...
The full schedule for this year's Comic Con has been released here but as always, we're going to sift through the press releases and give you the panels covering Movies, DVD and TV events. You can check out the first two days below.Wednesday, July 23, PRE...
Attending comics conventions this summer I noted an extreme drop off in the number of video pirates, which seems odd now that DVD burners are so much more common. Even I have one! A few years ago, every other table had an illegal copy of SPIDER-MAN on it ...
For Chicagoland readers: were having a GODZILLA ticket giveaway over at www.psychotronic.info. For everybody: A plug for the folks at Sinister Cinema, whose terrific Drive-In Double Features are now available on DVD-R, including 10 new volumes. They also...
The DVD shopping bag keeps getting heavier and heavier as the list of new releases and specialeditions keeps growing. The Ultimate Edition of the ‘Battleship Potemkin’ is definitely in the bag. Sergei M. Eisenstein’s film is a...
HOUSTON, December 20, 2006 "ADV Films, the number one producer-distributor of anime outside of Japan, is pleased to bring you three exciting titles, including the first volume of Le Chevalier D'Eon, the second volume of Nerima Daikon Brothers, and the co...
Summer is traditionally a time for people to spend outdoors, engaged in fun recreational activities such as tsunami sweating, swatting mosquitoes, coping with severe sunburn and braving long lines at theaters showing highly hyped summer blockbusters. For...
Here Today! by Robert T. Trate, Columnist (Tue 02-05-2008)
A couple of weeks back one of loyal readers, ‘swansong’, posted a blog about several SpecialEditions he was looking for. One of which I had. I thought the specialedition was still available for purchase in retail stores. Let&r...
Independence Day is the kind of movie where you politely remove your thinking cap and check your brain at the door. Which is to say that it`s a huge amount of preposterous fun, not to be taken too seriously, and not to be questioned too deeply. Movies lik...
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ADV Films, the leading producer-distributor of anime in the U.K., are proud to bring you on 16th October 2006 a new kind of justice: Samurai ...
`We have such sights to show you!` Thats a memorable line from Clive Barkers Hellraiser that youll hear repeated to much lesser effect in Tony Randels Hellbound: Hellraiser 2. Its creepily effective in the first film, but yawn-inducing in the second....
VIDEO NEWSPOWERPUFF GIRLS: MEET THE BEAT-ALLS, a Warner Home Video compilation of the inexplicably popular Powerpuff Girls cartoon TV series, finds the girls themselves to be the biggest threat, rather than their usual goofy super-villain. It seems that t...
Released in the summer of 1987, John McTiernans PREDATOR was an important point for Arnold Schwarzeneggers film career. It came at a time when the former Mr. Universe was carving out a name as an action star, but most importantly is was precisely the ri...
Hey you. Yeah, the person who clicked on this article, not because they were interested in the latest, hottest and coolest things out there for the holidays, but rather because you're like many last minute shoppers who haven't even stepped into the mall s...
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THIS WEEKS RECOMMENDATIONIn the new direct-to-DVD sequel to Paul Verhoevens take of Heinleins STARSHIP TROOPERS, spfx-wizard-cum-director Phil Tippet helms a new battle between our future military heroes and the alien Bug horde from outer space. Willia...
What They SayThis has been officially revised and digitally remastered for this new release by original creators GAINAX to create beautiful, vibrant video and crisp, sparkling new English and Japanese 5.1 surround sound audio.
Neon Genesis Evangelion is...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Patrick Doyle has proven to be an outstanding choice to compose the music to the fourth film in J.K. Rowling's cinematic franchise, HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE. Based on Rowling's then-longest and darkest series entry, ...
Over the past couple of weeks, we've been talking to the head of Elite Entertainment, Vini Bancalari, the man who has long been providing fans with great home video versions of classic genre movies. With films like NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, HOUSE ON SOROR...
I'm getting over a virus, but fortunately after a few light weeks we've got a big list this week. Enjoy! In our Prize Closet this week we have a copy of FAST & THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT, courtesy of Universal. To be eligible to win one, send an email to p...
Warner Home Video has finally made it official and announced plans to release a 2-disc DVD of THE RIGHT STUFF just in time to mark the movie's 20thanniversary.The movie will be digitally remastered in widescreen and include a ton of bonus material. Thre...
This dated relic from the 80s had long lain dormant because of problems regarding home video rights to some of the songs on its soundtrack. Then, a few years ago, the problems were resolved, and HEAVY METAL received a 15th anniversary re-release before f...
This December 5, Disney will release the first titles in their interactive "Disney DVD Game World" series. These will be a sort of combination of traditional board games and interactive DVD play similar to the sort of DVD movie trivia games you see in boo...
Thanksgiving is only a couple days away, and once you get past your post meal nap, youll suddenly realize that Thanksgiving also marks the start of Christmas shopping. Yes, its a petrifying moment, but if youve got friends with a DVD player or VHS dec...
Please Note from the author, Jon Niehof: All of these will be fleshed out more after the con (most likely after I move). Pictures will be added at that point.
Friday
Opening Ceremonies (11-12)
Carl Horn emceed, introducing the guests and then the con chai...
When it comes down to it you have to ask yourself, “Which one do I buy?” Is it the DVD titled “SpecialEdition” or do I save a few bucks and just get the movie? How many times will I watch those special features? &nb...
A
big box of coolness arrived at Comics2Film world headquarters this week.
It's the latest package of goodies to be given away in our 5th Anniversary
Giveaway!
This shipment
comes from our new friends at DeepDiscountDVD.com.
They've helped us fil...
The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror films has announced the nominations for the 32nd Annual Saturn Awards. Leading the pack is George Lucas' genre epic "Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith" with 10 nominations. "Batman Begins" fol...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS After a pair of thunderously powerful retrospective recordings of classic horror film music released in 1996, and an in-depth collection of jungle horror film music like THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON and THE ALLIGATOR PEOP...
What an excellent day for an extended exorcism! Come September 22nd over 800 theatres across America will exhibit the definitive edition of the 1973 classic THE EXORCIST that contains 13 minutes of restored footage!When the movie initially opened on Decem...
‘Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End’ is the final movie in Disney’s Pirate trilogy. Or is it? Apparently, after the credits there is a final scene where Elizabeth and Will are reunited, 10 years later and Will meets his son (...
Lots of new DVDs in the pipeline for pre-order, including 'The Iron Giant: SpecialEdition', 'Clerks 10th AnniversaryEdition', 'Transformers Beast Wars 3rd Season' and 'Van Helsing'. Also, check out the new low price on 'Spider-Man: The '67 Collection'!
When the eagerly anticipated X-Men movie reached theatres this summer, it turned out to be a rarity: a big-budget Hollywood adaptation of a comic book that pleased both fans and newcomers. The result paid off handsomely for distributor 20th Century Fox; n...
Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer's PEARL HARBOR will be hitting store shelves three days before the 60th anniversary of the earth shaking event the film was based on.On December 4th, the film will be available initially in two different packs: the 60th A...
Its one week before Halloween, a holiday that has become almost synonymous (probably thanks to John Carpenter) with the viewing of scary movies at theaters or at home. The deluge of new, classic, obscure and frequently crappy titles that has filled thes...
The Review!Packaging:
The front cover has a picture of Yohko in one of her poses, plus an image of Azusa pasted in behind her. Unfortunately, she\'s out of proportion with Yohko and the cover looks awkward as a result. This picture was on the back of the ...
You don't have to be a Grinch to hate Christmas, merely a cable subscriber. For this is the time of year that the various stations bombard our humble houses with innocuous programming. Seeking refuge from seasonal programming hell, one might find himself ...
THE BIG NEWS FOR MEDIA BLASTERS IS THE FORMATION OF A THEATRICAL AREA IN 2002 FOCUSING ON OUR TOKYO SHOCK AND SHRIEK SHOW TITLES. THE PERSON HEADING UP THIS NEW AREA IS CARL MORANO WHO CAN BE REACHED AT (212) 532-1688 EXT 240. CARL WORKED AT TROMA ENTERTA...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS This is definitely a week of must-haves in soundtrack new releases. Despite having had only five weeks to conceptualize, compose, orchestrate, record and mix the score after stepping in to replace Howard Shore as composer, Jame...
All four ‘Die Hard’ films are now available on DVD and Blu-Ray DVD in a complete set. Some of you will pick up the new ‘Die Hard’ and add it to your box set of the previous ‘Die Hard’ films. Maybe you will upg...
The Review!ADV\'s first title, Devil Hunter Yohko, has finally arrived onto DVD! Since it has been ten years since Yohko was first released (English Subtitled) so ADV has released this disc, marking their 10th Anniversary. The first three of six episodes ...
This has never been utilized in the entire history of DVDs but Fox plans on starting a new trend with their upcoming release of LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD, scheduled to hit shelves November 20, 2007. The SpecialEditionDVD will come with an electronic co...
A week or so ago I received The Richie Rich/ Scooby-Doo Show Volume 1 from Warner Home Entertainment. A Saturday spent by yours truly watching cartoons, eating cereal and staying in my pajamas ‘till noon. The memories came rushing back over the seve...
Last Week by Robert T. Trate, Columnist (Tue 01-22-2008)
Last week was my first real chance to escape the confines of work and go shopping. I know it sounds girly but this last quarter of 2007 was brutal. All the running around, deadlines and holidays made it one giant nightmare. I like to shop, ...
Previously on DVD Shopping List: My prize closet needed cleaning out, so I gave the beloved readers a chance to win some DVDs. As a result, Pat Monahan and Tracie Howard will be feelin' the Noise when their copies of WHITE NOISE arrive at their homes. As ...
So our massive sci-fi TV giveaways from last week have left the ol' prize closet totally exhausted. The prize winners should've been notified by now, and there will never be another giveaway in this column again. Aaaah I should know that I can't fool you...
Fox Home Entertainment exhibited the most recognizable car in the world, the Batmobile, at this years Comic-Con International: San Diego to help promote the DVD release of BATMAN: THE MOVIE 35TH ANNIVERSARYSPECIALEDITION (available August 21, 2001).Ori...
This Week's RecommendationSJohn Williams' latest is at hand, and it's a Spielberg film at that - no little cause for interest and celebration amongst the film music world. MINORITY REPORT, released June 18th by Dreamworks (0044-50385-2), harkens back to t...
Every week it seems another classic (or not-so-classic) movie is dusted off for a new deluxe DVDedition. THE BLUES BROTHERS is not only a classic musical comedy, but a genuine cultural phenomenon that's been a part of the fabric of American life for 25 y...
One of the trilogy of Hallmark holidays - Father's Day and Mother's Day are the others - Valentine's Day seems perfectly suited to piss off anybody who just so happens, through no fault of their own, to not have a significant other to shower with imprompt...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSZhang Yimou's film, HERO, released in Asia in 2002 but debuting in America this summer, is a spectacular visual experience. The film is richly textured in both its color pallet and its sound design. Using spectacular aerobic swo...
The 30th Annual Saturn Awards, 'Celebration of the Fantastic,' were held at the Sheraton Universal Hotel on Wednesday, May 5th. As the excitement built on the red carpet the key phrases from everyone about The Academy and Science Fiction in general seemed...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Alan Menken hasn't entirely dropped out of site since scoring a run of successful Disney animated features from THE LITTLE MERMAID through HERCULES. He did some TV work, scored Disney's humdrum animated HOME ON THE RANGE as wel...
What a weird and fun ride this has been.
Tomorrow, March 3rd, is the 5th anniversary of the start of the site. Our first full real news posting was just a few days later on March 5th, 1998 where we mentioned some new Image titles coming out. Our next p...
We’re looking forward to seeing anime fans at the London MCM Expo 14th and 15th May at the ExCeL in the Royal Victoria Dock. For further details check out www.londonexpo.com/
Do make sure you come visit our stand in the Anime Village for free givea...
FAVE GAMESCORES OF 2005 Video game scores continue to rival motion picture scores, whether they are composed by film scorers or by composers specializing in games music. These are my favorites of those released on CD during 2005: 1. Advent Rising (Tommy T...
Welcome to my Second Anniversary column! Thats right, if youve watched one DVD in the past two years that youve enjoyed, you owe it all to me! Ill do my best to stop in at all the great anniversary parties being thrown by grateful readers, but if I ca...
BLADE RUNNER the "Final Cut" will be coming to DVD this September.A Ridley Scott film, BLADE RUNNER ran into problems while shooting. The film ran over budget and Scott was essentially removed from production. The movie was altered and released theatric...
Wow, this is one of those week’s when the column is just loaded. Onward!
SPOTLIGHT OF THE WEEK
This month is definitely John Wayne month, with several packages being released in honor of the 100th anniversary of his birth over the next few ...
This week I found in my mailbox a new issue of Alternative Cinema, the house organ of the EI Cinema label that covers independent low-budget filmmaking (highlighted by articles on their own releases). The issue reminds me that EI has been around for ten y...
This week bag is chock full of goodies. Obviously ‘Twilight Zone: The Movie’ is must have for the bag. The other Spielberg collaboration that all true Maniacs must have is the 25th AnniversaryEditionof ‘Poltergeist’.&nbs...
This column may still seem long, but it's a lot shorter than it could've been. You might notice that there's no animation titles in the list this week. That's because all those anime DVD titles are now over in our ANIME AVALANCHE companion column! Check i...
Sony is attempting to keep the UMD format viable with a new marketing strategy lately. They've been bundling together the UMD and DVDeditions of certain films at a special price. It's hard to figure their reasoning here, but I think they're assuming some...
As I am part Israeli, today at sundown we mark the beginning of Chaunnahkkah, the traditional Jewish holiday marking the time when Jesus performed a miracle making the tuna casserole last for seven days and nights. Of course, no one dared to eat it, which...
ADV Films UK has sent out their latest press release for what people can expect from them in August and September 2008:
THIS UGLY YET BEAUTIFUL WORLD COMPLETE COLLECTION!
THE 20thANNIVERSARY SHOWPIECE FOR STUDIO GAINAX OUT 25th AUGUST 2008
LOND...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS UK film composer David Julyan, noted for his moody scores for Christopher Nolan's FOLLOWING, MEMENTO, and INSOMNIA (the latter two scores issues on Thrive and Varese Sarabande CDs, respectively) has taken a dark swing into horr...
The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films has announced its nominations for the 28TH annual Saturn Awards to be held this summer in Los Angeles. The ceremony honors the best in genre entertainment from 2001.What follows is a complete list of ...
DVD has truly changed the landscape of home video, and this weeks mixed bag is a fine example. Major studio releases hit the shelves alongside direct-to-video nonsense, and even the dregs of Asian martial arts trash cinema are preserved in digital format...
From Citadel Records comes JUDAS KISS, a sultry and moody thriller score with a strong Latin edge from the trumpet and plenty of mambo-stylisms in several cues. 15 tracks appear on