Like The Simpsons, Family Guy, and other cartoons that have been on the air a long time, South Park may not be as good as it used to be, but it’s still funny and even occasionally has flashes of its old brilliance. What hasn’t changed, though, is how the South Park The Complete Eighteenth Season Blu-ray and DVD has the same shortcomings as The Complete First Season DVD and all the other seasonal sets in between.
In the years since Return Of The Jedi came out in 1983, and especially after Revenge Of The Sith was released in 2005, the writers of the Star Wars books, comics, and games have often explored what happened before and after the two trilogies, but have left the time between them largely untouched. Which is part of what makes Star Wars Rebels so compelling, since this cartoon explores the early days of the rebellion in the years leading up to the first movie, 1977’s A New Hope. But while Star Wars Rebels Complete Season One Blu-ray and DVD do a good job presenting the show, it doesn’t do as good a job in showing how it was made.
At a time when CGI spectaculars are the norm, the vehicular action movie Mad Max Fury Road stood out for largely using real stunt people and practical effects…and still being just as exciting as one of those CGI spectaculars. But while the Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, 3D Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, and DVD pair the film with some informative extras, they still come up a little short.
Warner Home Video will release The Hobbit The Battle Of The Five Armies Extended Edition through digital services on October 20th, while the Blu-ray and DVD will be released on November 17th.
The hope in a zombie apocalypse is to have things return to normal. Or, at the very least, to find some semblance of what used to be normal. But as we see in The Walking Dead The Complete Fifth Season — which is now available on Blu-ray, DVD, and in a special limited edition Blu-ray — sometimes getting back to normal isn’t easy. Though, apparently, neither is putting together a Blu-ray or DVD or for a TV show about zombies.
Universal Home Video have announced that Jurassic World will be released digitally on October 1st, and then on Blu-ray, 3D Blu-ray, limited edition Blu-ray, and DVD on October 20th.
Warner Home Video have announced that Mad Max Fury Road will be released on Blu-ray, 3D Blu-ray, and DVD on September 1st, and through digital services on August 11th, while the Mad Max 4-FIlm Blu-ray Anthology — which collects all four Mad Max movies, obviously — will be out September 1st as well.
In 2000, writer Brian Michael Bendis (Ultimate Spider-Man) and artist Michael Avon Oeming (B.P.R.D.: The Soul of Venice & Other Stories) combined the police procedural tenets of Law & Order with superhero archetypes for their comic book series Powers. Well, now — after fourteen collected editions and two spin-off collections — things are coming full circle with Powers Season 1 (Blu-ray, DVD), which collects the first season of the superheroic police procedural TV show that originally aired on the PlayStation Network (via PS3, PS3, and Vita). It’s just too bad the show is a pale imitation of the original comic.
