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DVDs and other home entertainment formats are the equivalent of comic books for films. You watch them in the comfort of your home or on the road, but always at your convenience. Now, read our takes on DVDs at your own convenience
Last Updated: Oct 20, 2009 - 7:25:21 AM



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Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
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It's old home week as Superman and Batman unite in the latest offering from the DC Comics Animated Universe.

Oct 12, 2009 - 9:22:36 AM

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Marvel X-Men Volume 3
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In this volume, the follow up to the first Dark Phoenix saga returns, the Hellfire club pushes Jean Grey to the edge

Sep 27, 2009 - 18:36:48 PM

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Boot Camp
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There are thousands of those centers in the United States and abuses such as rape and physical assaults are frequent

Sep 27, 2009 - 11:20:24 AM

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From Comic Book to film: A late salute for The Watchmen
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In the words of a certain Sith Lord; 'Impressive'

Aug 20, 2009 - 14:45:20 PM

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Race to Witch Mountain
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A rather deviously named film, lacking in universal appeal. At least the kids will love it.

Aug 11, 2009 - 12:00:00 PM

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Green Lantern: First Flight
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Green Lantern's origin... and Sinestro's too!

Jul 30, 2009 - 11:22:10 AM

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Retro-Review: The Girl Hunters
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Mickey Spillane IS Mike Hammer

Jul 15, 2009 - 8:35:55 AM

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12 Rounds
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12 Rounds is the story of Detective Danny Fisher of the New Orleans’ Police Department who is embroiled in a cat and mouse game with international terrorist Miles Jackson

Jul 13, 2009 - 18:25:41 PM

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The Mysterious Cities of Gold
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This 1980s cartoon series follows the adventures of twelve-year-old Esteban, his Inca friend Zia, and Tao to find the first city of gold

Jun 16, 2009 - 23:45:35 PM

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Defiance
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A powerful true story of struggle and survival, with at least one worthwhile DVD extra.

Jun 1, 2009 - 10:00:00 AM

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Marvel X-Men Volume 2
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The second volume of the X-Men cartoon series from the 1990s continues in chronological order, the adventures of a core team of X-Men

Apr 30, 2009 - 23:13:07 PM

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Marvel X-Men: Volume 1
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The first volume of the X-Men cartoon series introduced in 1992 and one of the best remembered series from Marvel's comics universe

Apr 28, 2009 - 0:20:47 AM

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My Name is Bruce
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Bruce Campbell gives us all some sugar back. If that didn't make sense to you, just keep on scrolling.

Feb 21, 2009 - 20:36:28 PM

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Hellboy II: The Golden Army
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A fun action movie that ends up more like a romance story.

Dec 15, 2008 - 15:00:00 PM

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Son of Rambow
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Two kids come together to make a movie based on the action classic Rambo.

Oct 3, 2008 - 16:30:00 PM

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Lars And The Real Girl
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A comedy that will make you laugh, think and, quite possibly, go looking for a box of tissues.

Sep 16, 2008 - 15:00:00 PM

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Batman: Gotham Knight
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Our movies are so good, they go DIRECTLY to dvd...

Jul 12, 2008 - 14:11:34 PM

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Lucker The Necrophagous - Synapse Films
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Cinemetic perfection. And no, that's not a typo.

Jun 23, 2008 - 21:05:03 PM

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Diary of the Dead
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Romero makes history, again. Unfortunately.

Jun 20, 2008 - 14:09:23 PM

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The Dario Argento Collection: Part 1 - Anchor Bay
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Italian horror gets the deluxe treatment from Anchor Bay. Again. There are other countries with film cameras, you know.

Jun 4, 2008 - 19:51:03 PM

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Honey & Clover - VIZ Pictures
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The Godzilla of hippie art-school films.

Jun 1, 2008 - 20:05:58 PM

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Most High - Dokument Films
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The words "subtle" and "meth addiction" don't often go together. But mix in a few Vicodin and it all makes sense.

May 29, 2008 - 20:11:09 PM

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The Killing Hour - Blue Underground
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Ah, New York. The city that never sleeps. Because it's dumping dead hookers in the river.

May 25, 2008 - 19:00:49 PM

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Meeting Resistance - First Run Features
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Turns out there's a war in Iraq against people in the witness protection program.

May 20, 2008 - 19:26:17 PM

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Beyond Hatred - First Run Features
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Homophobic hate crimes take a time out to cool off in this unorthodox documentary.

May 19, 2008 - 17:51:55 PM

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The Passion of Greg The Bunny: Best of the FIlm Parodies Volume 2 - Shout! Factory
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Greg the Bunny skewers your favorite films with one hand, while flipping off the Muppet Show with the other.

May 13, 2008 - 18:25:23 PM

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Fine Dead Girls - Global Film Initiative
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Normally, films about Eastern Europeans are a little more cheerful than this. Also more naked.

Apr 23, 2008 - 9:40:25 AM

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The Lost - Anchor Bay/Starz Home Entertainment
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Another cheerful story from Jack Ketchum's murder factory.

Mar 19, 2008 - 19:27:19 PM

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Love*Com: The Movie - VIZ Pictures
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A film that perfectly capture the feeling you get immediately after eating 14 packages of Rockets on Hallowe'en.

Mar 8, 2008 - 10:50:30 AM

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Tactics Box Set - from Anchor Bay
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X-Files gets animated, kind of fey, and very pretty.

Mar 4, 2008 - 19:38:37 PM

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Justice League: The New Frontier
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While playing with the old Silver Age classics, this film also cuts out the heroes away from the interchangeable mould that they were plagued with in old comic books

Mar 3, 2008 - 9:00:46 AM

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Barn of the Naked Dead - Legend House
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I remember circuses having more elephants. And less dead women.

Feb 27, 2008 - 16:22:28 PM

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Automatons - Facets Video
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It's tough to argue with a robot army. Because they have buzz saws and death rays instead of ears.

Feb 25, 2008 - 19:59:11 PM

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Tragic Ceremony - Dark Sky Films
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The Summer of Love throws up pea soup and sacrifices a lamb to the Horned One. From Dark Sky films.

Feb 14, 2008 - 15:29:05 PM

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Ricco The Mean Machine - Dark Sky
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Dark Sky introduces Ricco, who would like to beat you to death with a rifle butt, or maybe go for a beer. Whatever.

Jan 29, 2008 - 7:08:23 AM

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The Girl Next Door from Anchor Bay
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I don't remember the girl next door to my house looking quite so, um, bloody and gagged. But then again, I didn't grow up in Anchor Bay's release of The Girl Next Door.

Jan 16, 2008 - 19:23:46 PM

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Movieside Film Festival from Microcinema
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Microcinema brings us short films for crazy people.

Jan 13, 2008 - 18:46:25 PM

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Evil Dead: Ultimate Edition from Anchor Bay
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Apparently, different editions of Evil Dead DVDs breed like undead rabbits. Learn to spay and neuter, Anchor Bay.

Jan 3, 2008 - 17:59:06 PM

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Bluebeard
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Maple Pictures release a long lost Richard Burton classic on DVD. Provide you define classic as "bizarre trash film that has lesbians and falconry." And you should.

Dec 28, 2007 - 22:08:16 PM

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Bleach Volume 7
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VIZ Media releases the seventh volume of Bleach, and I am unable to resist its mind-controlling siren's call. Join a very confused writer on a very confusing journey through a very good anime series.

Dec 26, 2007 - 21:01:04 PM

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Frog Song
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Sacrament Films releases the sexiest frog-related movie you'll see all year. Yiffie.

Dec 19, 2007 - 22:10:32 PM

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Black Emanuelle's Box 2 (Part 2)
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Severin Films continues with the Black Emanuelle series, hotter than a grease fire and about six times as oily.

Dec 6, 2007 - 22:32:25 PM

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Masters of Horror: Dream Cruise
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Anchor Bay/Starz releases another episode of Masters of Horror, an anthology series exploring how superstar horror directors deal with Showtime.

Nov 28, 2007 - 22:44:19 PM

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Black Emanuelle's Box Volume 2: Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade
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Severin Films releases three more films from the Black Emanuelle series, which contain about 700 times more sex that I'll have in my lifetime.

Nov 26, 2007 - 22:56:32 PM

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Bava Box Volume 2 (Part 2_
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More Bava from Anchor Bay/Starz Home Entertainment. I saved the best for last.

Nov 24, 2007 - 23:00:05 PM

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The Nude Vampire
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Redemption Films releases an early film from Jean Rollin.

Nov 21, 2007 - 21:27:35 PM

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Death Note Volume 1
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VIZ Media releases popular anime Death Note on DVD.

Nov 20, 2007 - 22:28:30 PM

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Naruto The Movie: Ninja Clash In The Land Of Snow
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VIZ Media releases a deluxe edition of the first Naruto film.

Nov 14, 2007 - 20:40:23 PM

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Midnight Movies: From The Margin To The Mainstream
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A documentary that examines the movies that keep me up even later than Desperate Housewives.

Nov 14, 2007 - 19:36:50 PM

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Black Sunday (The Mask Of Satan)
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Being stupid never looked so good. Well, maybe on America's Next Top Model.

Nov 5, 2007 - 8:30:49 AM

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Heavy Metal Parking Lot
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The music will live forever, and so will the alcohol-fueled brain damage.

Oct 30, 2007 - 7:30:45 AM

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Bava Box Collection 2 (Part 1)
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Anchor Bay releases some of Mario Bava's late-period films.

Oct 23, 2007 - 8:00:07 AM

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Demons 2: Special Edition
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A review of Anchor Bay's Demons II: Special Edition.

Oct 22, 2007 - 17:58:14 PM

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Justice League Unlimited: The Complete Second Season
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This season’s stories were interesting and good in general and focused a lot on character interaction

Oct 20, 2007 - 18:17:04 PM

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Demons: Special Edition
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More Bava Jr from Anchor Bay. The dead have risen. And they are crazy.

Oct 15, 2007 - 8:00:54 AM

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Elvira's Movie Macabre: Maneater of Hydra/The House That Screamed
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Elvira puts the 'yucks' into "man, this movie yucking sucks".

Oct 11, 2007 - 14:24:35 PM

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The Alchemy of Art; David Mack
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Delivers on the information, lacking on the visual.

Oct 6, 2007 - 15:53:19 PM

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Perfect Blue
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If Hitchcock could draw, and also wasn't dead, and was kind of cruel and really into blood, this is the film he would make. I need to get better at writing blurbs.

Oct 3, 2007 - 8:00:02 AM

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Elvira's Movie Macabre: Blue Sunshine/Monstroid
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More of Elvira's Movie Macabre from Shout! Factory

Oct 1, 2007 - 13:34:43 PM

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The Film Crew: Killers From Space
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Mystery Science Theatre 3000 is back! Sort of!

Sep 26, 2007 - 16:11:38 PM

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