Category Archives: DVD

Walt Dali

By tone | Published: July 3, 2009
Hollywood had a love affair with Salvador Dali and a friendship with Walt Disney was nurtured to a point where they worked on a potential short film called Destino. The project was abandoned in 1946, only 18 seconds of test footage was created. The project re-surfaced in 1999 for Fantasia 2000, Disney’s nephew Roy Edward [...]
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Tom and Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection

By tone | Published: June 22, 2009
Tom and Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection Between 1963 – 1967 Chuck Jones handled the Tom and Jerry franchise. His Tom had an uncanny resemblance to his later creation, the Grinch, and the swift Jerry put on a little more weight for this series. This show had a slight psychedelic influence in the art and [...]
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Jack Lord as Captain Kirk

By tone | Published: June 13, 2009
Jack Lord as Captain Kirk on Star Trek. It almost happened if the actor did not demand 50% profits from the show and also produce. Irked by such a notion both Gene Roddenberry and Desilu Studios nixed the actor. This opened the door for Montreal native, William Shatner. Who knows what would hold for [...]
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Peanuts 1960’s Collection

By tone | Published: March 12, 2009
Pencil in July 7th for the release of a new collection of award winning TV Specials based on the Peanuts Gang. There have been more than 41 specials over 5 decades based on the comic strip series. A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) – In this Emmy® and Peabody Award winning classic, Charlie Brown is upset by [...]
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Land of the Lost New DVD Set

By tone | Published: March 7, 2009
The newly re-imagined Land of the Lost will be making waves this summer. Universal wants you to catch up with the latest Will Ferrell movie adaption of the retro classic kid fare series with the release of the original show. With CGI  animation at hand the series will take a greater polish off the Sid [...]
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Saturday Morning Cartoons

By tone | Published: January 26, 2009
Saturdays in the 60’s and 70’s ruled supreme for many kids in the three channel universe. Warner is mining from their vast pit of animation archives  from both Warner and Hanna Barbera to create a compilation of some of the best cartoons from both eras. The two volumes have great promise. This is a perfect [...]
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Peanuts: Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown

By tone | Published: January 26, 2009
Got Milk? Well it seems the Peanuts’ estate has plenty of it. The corpse of Schulz has the market cornered for every holiday on the calender and every birthday with either a Hallmark greeting card or new book on tired old gimmicks. The estate is milking the characters for all it’s worth. The latest is [...]
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Timeline of the Planet of the Apes

By tone | Published: January 13, 2009
Timeline of the Planet of the Apes Fans are going to go apes with the latest unauthorized book on The Planet of the Apes franchise. This is something real to look forward to in the 40th anniversary celebration of one of the greatest Sci-Fi series ever. Rich Handley handles the whole chronology from Pierre Boulle to Burton’s version of the [...]
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Swatch James Bond

By tone | Published: January 7, 2009
Don’t tell Frank Castle about the latest James Bond Swatch watches. The coolest one is the  Baron Samedi watch. The Villain Collection has 22 watches from the best of the Bond villains.The legendary figure of Baron Samedi is a mischief-maker who both tempts and punishes humans. Dr. Kananga employs a man who claims to be Baron Samedi [...]
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Max Fleischer’s Superman

By tone | Published: December 24, 2008
It’s about time! Warner Brothers and DC Comics have finally put their heads together to bring clean crisp copies of the original Max Fleischer Superman cartoons. Considered by many as the best Superman incarnation of the character. You have seen the cartoons either in Youtube or in dollar bins in many stores. [...]
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