When it aired on ABC, the first season of Marvel’s Agents Of SHIELD started off so slow that it almost lost a lot of people (myself included). But watching it again in rapid succession on the Marvel’s Agents Of SHIELD: The Complete First Season Blu-ray and DVD — which means you get to the good post-Captain America: The Winter Soldier episodes a lot quicker — you realize that while this show isn’t as good as that movie or The Avengers, it’s still pretty entertaining.
One of the problems with such video game-inspired movies as Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life and the Resident Evil flicks is that they usually just pay lip service to the original games. But the CGI animated Heavenly Sword movie — based on the 2007 game of the same name, and being released on Blu-ray and DVD by Cinedigm — goes so far in the other direction that it ends up being little more than a curious artifact.
Earlier this year, Viz Media announced that they’d gotten the rights to 2007’s Moribito: Guardian Of The Spirit, the excellent action anime from Production I.G. (Blood: The Last Vampire, Attack On Titan) and director Kenji Kamiyama (Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex). But while they’ve just rereleased the series on Blu-ray and DVD, this new version isn’t an improvement over the original editions.
I make no bones about the fact that the third season of The Walking Dead pissed me off. Watching two guys make stupid decisions because of their egos is not my idea of a good time. But while the aftermath of their idiocy continues for a while in The Walking Dead The Complete Fourth Season — which Anchor Bay are releasing on Blu-ray, DVD, and as a special limited edition Blu-ray — the second half goes in such a different direction that it’s renewed my hope for this show.
FUNimation have announced what anime Blu-rays and DVDs they’ll be releasing this September, October, and November. Which brings good news for fans of Ghost In The Shell, Attack On Titan, Dragon Ball Z, and One Piece, among others.
Warner Home Video have announced that the sci-fi movie Edge Of Tomorrow will be released as a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, as a 3D Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, on DVD, and digitally on October 7th.
Over the years, there’s been a lot of bad movies based on good video games. And some of the worst have been animated. But Batman: Assault On Arkham — which Warner Home Video has released as a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, on DVD, and digitally — bucks this trend by not only being a great ’toon based on a game, but by also being a great animated movie for Batman fans who don’t play the games that inspired it.
In NBC’s espionage thriller show The Blacklist, a former intelligence officer turned master criminal turns himself into the FBI, but will only speak to an profiler named Elizabeth Keene, even though she hasn’t been on the job long enough to find the coffee machine. Which may sound ridiculous and unrealistic, and it is, but in rewatching the show on The Blacklist: The Complete First Season DVD (or, if you prefer, Blu-ray), it’s clear that the ridiculous unrealism is what makes this show so much fun.