Recommended The Show:Is comedy anime your thing? If so then I'm sure there are several shows in your collection which you'd consider to be a "go to" when you're looking for a good laugh. Many fan favorites top that list

Highly Recommended The Film:Although I consider myself to be a fan of Star Trek, one could argue that I'm not that big of a fan, since I only have one season of the original series and one season of Deep

pays tribute to rock 'n' roll impresario Bill Graham and the San Francisco music club he transformed into a rock mecca of the Sixties. The flick, which chronicles the final week of the Fillmore West in the summer of '71,

Recommended Like most of Retromedia/Infinity's recent boxed sets, including their Hercules Collection and War Gods Collections, the playfully-titled Muscle Madness is a simple repackaging of previously released material. Included are Hercules Against the Moon Men, from October 2005; a double-bill

Recommended Gi-gan-tor!Gi-gan-tor!Gi-ga-ah-ahn-tor!Bigger than big! Taller than tall!Quicker than quick! Stronger than strong!Ready to fight for right - against wrong!Along with Astroboy (Tetsuwan atomu, 1963-66), Speed Racer (Mahha GoGoGo, 1966-68), and Kimba the White Lion (Jyanguru taitei, 1965-66) - Gigantor (Tetsujin

Skip It THE MOVIE: "Love is a feeling." "So is a toothache." So is watching this movie! Not love, but a toothache. Long, agonizing, painful. The cover declares that Jack Cardiff's 1968 wankfest Girl on a Motorcycle is a "A

a tense, emotionally complicated Korean War courtroom drama originally released through United Artists, and starring Richard Widmark, Richard Basehart, Martin Balsam and Rip Torn, with Oscar-winning actor Karl Malden at the helm for his only directorial effort. Adapted (by Denker)

was easily in my top five films of 2008, and I was more than happy to revisit it again on DVD. It seems like it was unfairly lost in the shuffle amongst the other high-profile material that came out around

Highly Recommended The Movie:Based on the 'Sookie Stackhouse' novels by author Charlaine Harris, HBO's True Blood is a fun mix of horror, drama, romance, comedy and, well, it's got pretty much everything, including a kitchen sink or two. It isn't

Rent It I liked "The Invisibles." But I should've loved it.All the right elements were in place: a terrific cast, clever characters, a solid backstory, a breezy premise. But creator William Ivory doesn't do enough in the right places, and

Rent It I've been trying do explain the concept of Saturday morning cartoons to my daughter, age nine. It's a futile attempt, although not as bad as when I had to describe such alien concepts as "broadcast television" or "LPs"

lacks in filmmaking refinement, it makes up for in sheer jazz-hands-extended thespian determination. A bustling romantic comedy that plays off the well-worn narrative concept of poisonous friendships, the film isn't the wittiest in the screenwriting department, the sharpest in the

Recommended Click and to read our reviews of "Tiny Toon Adventures: Season 1 Volume 1."The big fear for animation fans in 1990 was that the new "Tiny Toon Adventures" would be a cheap "cartoons as kids" trend-follower cashing in on

Highly Recommended The Show:If you haven't checked out Claymore by now then you're missing out on one of FUNimation's best new releases. The show channels Berserk in just about every way. Its dark fantasy setting is incredible, the action is

Recommended The Movies:FUNimation's Dragon Ball license continues to go strong. Granted most all of the franchise has already been release somewhere along the way, but it's safe to say that the series has enjoyed recent success regardless of that fact.

Rent It The Show:When FUNimation took over a bevy of titles from ADV they got a lot a lot of great stuff. Unfortunately they also got a lot of the mediocirty that plagued ADV's catalogue and undoubtedly led to their

Highly Recommended TheSeries: The fourth season of The Closerpresents the show at the topof its game, firing on all cylinders. Thewriters are playing up the show's strengths (how Lt. Deputy Johnsongets aconfession) while eliminating the things that didn't work well

Rent It The Movie:They say that if you wait long enough, everything old becomes new again. Well, guess what? A couple of enterprising Pittsburgh film students have gone and made a silent film. Now, I don't mean a low budget,

Highly Recommended It's the beginning of the end for "Doctor Who." Broadcast in September 1989, the four-part serial "Battlefield" was the debut story for the long-running BBC sci-fi program's twenty-sixth - and final - season. The decade saw shrinking budgets

Recommended Dragon Ball is the world's most popular anime franchise. With over 500 combined episodes, a bunch of movies, some OVA, and manga to boot you'd be hard-pressed to say that it was anything but. In fact it's so mainstream