Doctor Who, Story 29: The Tenth Planet

At long last...
If you only own one other Dr. Who video, your collection is incomplete without The Tenth Planet. It depicts, of course, the most significant turning point in the history of the show, the departure of William Hartnell as the Doctor. That, in itself is more than enough reason to buy this video.
As a special bonus, there are the Cybermen. Don't be fooled as I was by the still photos which gave them a cheesy appearance. They don't appear terrifying at all until you see them in action. The lip action and voice characterization are nothing less than chilling. I first saw the Cybermen in "Revenge" then later in "Earthshock" and "Attack" and found them scary enough then. Now that I've seen "Tenth" I realize that they actually got less and less scary as time went on, which makes this one the scariest ever.
The reconstruction of the unfortunately missing final episode is surprisingly and absolutely brilliant. The audio track is complete and...
A Must For Fans, But Over-Hyped
Make no mistake: Doctor Who fans are well justified in purchasing this video. The first appearance of the wonderful Cybermen and the final regular appearance of the legendary William Hartnell is now finally available to own and the reconstruction of the missing final episode is superb. But what has been overlooked for all these years is the fact that the actual plot concocted by the talented Gerry Davis and Kit Pedler is hardly amazing. The storyline has all the requisite misunderstandings and escapes and diabolical schemes, but very little of it is executed with any real enthusiasm. Until the Cybermen arrive the first episode is surprisingly slow, with many scenes involving two incredibly dull actors portraying two incredibly lifeless astronauts in trouble. Things are not helped by a hammy performance by the actor portraying General Cutler, whose road to madness is unconvincing to say the least. While William Hartnell gives a bravura performance, he is not entirely essential to the...
A new body, at last!
Whether you grew up watching "Doctor Who" as it was first broadcast in the UK, or in endless 1980s US PBS reruns, "The Tenth Planet" is one of those stories you were dying to see again and again. Annoyingly, you couldn't, because the BBC destroyed all prints of the fourth and final episode, and the story was thus "incomplete" and never re-aired.
The recent BBC releases of stories featuring William Hartnell, the First Doctor, have been exemplary, and this VHS continues the trend. The first 3 episodes of "Tenth Planet" -- long seen only on dim, bootlegged, Nth generation copies of the original -- are nearly pristine. Episode 4 is reconstructed using existing still photos, the audio track, and a few well-used video effects which serve to add to the pictures, not detract from them. (It's heartening to note that for this story, the "restoration" team did not seek to alter the existing footage by replacing scenes with outtakes, or...
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The Devil Inside

Not nearly as bad as most peoPle are saying
I'm honestly shocked too see so many bad reviews. This movie was clever, disturbing, original, convincing and well-acted. There was nothing pedestrian about it, and it seems most people who dislike it tend to like the average, predictable films there are too many of. Many, not all seem to enjoy these. I for one love scary movies but hate gore, and hate predictable, disposable movies with a passion. I typically agree with the audience when there's a massive number of thumbs-down, but in this particular case, I completely disagree. Someone even said it was "boring". I wasn't bored for a second, so I have no idea what they're talking about, but I guess if you don't like movies about exorcisms or hauntings, you'll dislike this as well, obviously. As far as exorcism films go, it's one of the better I've seen.
Avoid This Demonic Possession Flick
The trailer for this film looked very promising when I saw it last December. The movie was released in early January and I went to see it the day it came out. What a mistake. This is another one of those shaky-cam movies that are all the fashion these days in the horror business. The plot is really unoriginal and very predictable. If you have seen several recent horror films over the past few years, you can probably predict what is going to happen while this movie unfolds. The ending has to be the lamest I have ever seen. The audience groaned through out the theater when I saw it and apparently that was the typical reaction at many other screenings. Don't pay attention too much to the cover art. The woman on the cover appears for only about one or two seconds and is not actually possessed. Sure she looks strange but she is not a major character in the movie. She's more of an extra really. That is a very misleading cover. Save your money and buy a film that you will...
90 minutes of your life you won't get back
I never write a product review but I wanted to write one to warn others about this movie. Everything you need to know about this is in the trailer. The nun on the front is actually a passerby in a scene and nothing to do with the film at all. If you want to see a really poor exorcist meets blair witch then this is for you. I regret watching this as my neither my wife nor myself enjoyed it despite the beautiful italian architecture that it doesn't even appreciate.
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Pitbulls In A Skirt-THE MOVIE

SMH
This movie has been in production since 2010. How many times are you going to push the release date back??? Do you need me to edit it? Do you need help with distribution? PLEASE do better!
Waiting :)
I LOVED THE BOOKS LOOKING FORWARD TO THE MOVIE ALREADY PRE-ORDERED PATIENTLY WAITING NOW FOR MY MOVIE TO COME AND TO HEAR WHEN PART 5 Is COMING OUT !!!
what I think
It would be nice when this movie finally comes out every time I check on it The dates push back and just noticed The 4th books out off to read that
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Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 5 [Blu-ray]

STNG Season Five - On cruise control!
Season five in so many ways, is just an absolutely incredible season that is packed with stunning, thought provoking episodes. As one watched these shows aired for the first time or is working their way through the DVD's, the quality of the writing and the actors comfort with their characters just becomes better and better by the episode. The shows popularity is at an all time high during this season. This is evidenced by the high quality of the scripts and shows that deal with so many issues brilliantly. The one true oddity about the season is the lack of a "Q" episode due to the lack of a good script for the character. Of key interest is the fact that more and more of Hollywood's big names were inquiring about and or getting spots on the show. In my opinion, many of the series best episodes of its seven year run came from this season.
The following is a list with a synopsis of episodes that stand out among all of the great episodes of the season:
Redemption part II - The...
A Very Good Season
Redemption, Part II -- Believing the Romulans are behind a Klingon civil war, Picard involves Starfleet in the conflict. (Return of Denise Crosby as Sela formerly Tasha Yar)
Darmok -- Picard is forced into a dangerous encounter with the captain of an alien starship. (Stars Paul Winfield from Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan, The Terminator, and Cliffhanger. Also stars Ashley Judd from Heat, and High Crimes)
Ensign Ro -- The Enterprise crew becomes an unwitting pawn in a deadly conspiracy masterminded by a Starfleet admiral.
Silicon Avatar -- The crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise risks all in an attempt to communicate with a destructive force known as the Crystalline Entity before a visiting scientist can destroy it.
Disaster -- Troi holds the lives of the crew in her hands when she is forced to act as captain after the Enterprise is seriously damaged by a rare, natural phenomenon.
The Game -- The fate of the Federation is in Wesley Crusher's hands when he returns to the...
Still very good, but some wasted opportunities
This season of Star Trek: The Next Generation is full of "society episodes" for example, Violations, the Masterpiece Society, the Outcast and the Cost of Living. They're all actually very good, it's the other episodes that the writers can't seem to get right this season. For a start the 2 part special "Unification" featuring Spock is long, drawn out and only has the last 5 minutes with any action. It's still good as a thriller but nothing really happens.
Jonathan Frakes continues his directing with "Cause and Effect" - the Enterprise caught in a temporal loop, leading to it's continual destruction each time. Frakes manages to film each of the 5 or 6 times it happens from a different perspective stopping it from grating. "I Borg" features the return of the Borg with the twist - a faction of them are individuals now. We didn't expect another Borg episode to take such a different stance, that's why it works. "Power Play" and "Disaster" are action packed - Die Hard - type episodes, and...
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Mary Poppins: 50th Anniversary Edition (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy)

Now available in a 2-disc DVD edition!
Mary Poppins may be =the= stand-out live-action movie that Disney has ever produced. Or will ever produce.

All the songs are very memorable. Who out there does not find themselves humming or even singing along with the likes of "Chim-Chim-Cheree" or "Spoonful of Sugar"?

Julie Andrews will always be remembered for her role as Mary Poppins, and Dick Van Dyke absolutely shines as Bert the Chimney Sweep. Van Dyke also plays the senior officer of the bank - and has his very best scene where he realizes that the punchline - "A wooden leg named Smith" - is funny. Andrews won an Academy Award for Mary Poppins, and the movie also won Best Visual Effects, and Best Music Score, as well as Best Song ("Chim Chim Cher-ee").

The scene where "I love to laugh" is particularly poignant. Ed Wynn died not long after the release of Mary Poppins, and shows some of his best comedy style in this scene. Very laughable.

The story is top-notch and has a wonderful...
Disney's Live Masterpiece Shines More Brightly than Ever!
"Mary Poppins" is one of that select group of films that can truly be called 'Classic', a project conceived in love and filled with so much child-like wonder that it will never grow old or 'out-of-date'. Certainly the crowning achievement of Walt Disney's remarkable career, the "Mary Poppins" 40th Anniversary Special Edition is simply magnificent!

Based on P.L. Travers' tales of a magical nanny who arrives to bring families closer, the rights to the stories had been pursued by Disney since 1938, but Travers had seen what studios had done to other authors' works, and withheld her approval unless she could maintain some creative control. Years of negotiations only whetted Disney's desire to make a definitive, truly 'special' film, and by 1960, despite the box office failure of another fantasy-themed 'pet' project, "Darby O'Gill and the Little People", he was more confident than ever in the story's potential, bringing together a remarkable array of talent, including...
Great for 1st Time Buyers; extras emphasize Broadway Musical
Is there really much new to say about this classic Disney film that helped launch the movie career of Julie Andrews? Probably not, but for the handful of people who haven't seen this film, this DVD is a must-buy. Strangely enough, Disney is not releasing a Blu-ray version just yet, so this edition will have to tide over video buffs until that occurs. The 1964 classic is based on the books of P. L. Travers, with a few Disney liberties thrown in. Travers' nanny, Mary Poppins, is somewhat more harsh and unpleasant in the books than in the film version. However, it is obvious that she is hiding a heart of gold inside and that she truly does love the children she takes care. Two of the children did not make the transition from the book, but they are definitely not missed. Julie Andrews is able to bring out the many facets of Mary Poppins without compromising the character, and of course her voice is legendary. The Sherman Brothers whipped up some of their most memorable tunes including...
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World's Greatest Super Friends: Season 4

World's Greatest Super Friends! (Season 4) on DVD Finally gets a Wide Retail Release!
For those fans who missed out on the exclusive Season 4 release of "World's Greatest Super Friends!" from Target, the DVD is now available to order from Amazon (and other retail stores) for a November 12th release date.

Season 4 is comprised of 8 thirty-minute cartoons (about 22 minutes without commercials):

1. "Rub Three Times For Disaster" (Original air date 9/22/79)
2. "Lex Luthor Strikes Back" (Original air date 9/29/79)
3. "Space Knights of Camelon" (Original air date 10/06/79)
4. "The Lord of Middle Earth" (Original air date 10/13/79)
5. "Universe of Evil" (Original air date 10/20/79)
6. "Terror At 20,000 Fathoms" (Original air date 10/27/29)
7. "The Super Friends Meet Frankenstein" (Original air date 11/03/79)
8. "The Planet of OZ" (Original air date 11/10/79)

(1 disc) Total running time approximately 3 hours.

Having already purchased this item from Target, I have to say that the picture and sound...
The Classics and the Super Friends...
This particular season of the Super Friends, out of it's entire 1973-1985 run on Saturday morning, had for so many years been held back from DVD release for whatever reason. A lot of us felt copyright issues had a big influence over the lack of 1979's episodes being available. Apparently the powers that be are fully aware of how sought after this season is that the release has gone through a rather unique process. Available as a Target exclusive several months ago it's now being made available for pre-order on Amazon for a November release (a month AFTER the DVD release of the 1981 short episodes titled "Legacy of Super Powers").

**SPOILERS ARE ABUNDANT**

I love all the episodes! I can't really pick out an absolute favorite but I will lean heavily on the episode titled "Universe of Evil". It's just such a drastically different kind of episode from those have come before and those that came after with the possible exception being the 1985 episode, "The Death of...

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Pound Puppies: Holiday Hijinks

Great show
This new version of Pound Puppies (from The Hub Network and Hasbro Studios) is a great, extremely underrated show. The series has sharp humor, appealing characters, a terrific voice cast, and sweet, touching story-lines.

The series stars the voices of Eric McCormack, Yvette Nicole Brown, Michael Rapaport, John DiMaggio, Alanna Ubach, René Auberjonois, and M. Emmet Walsh.

According to the Shout Factory website, the episodes on this disc will be

"I Heard the Barks on Christmas Eve"
"I Never Barked for My Father"
"Barlow"
"Good, Dog McLeish!"
"The Prince and the Pupper"

(You will notice that the last episode, "The Prince and the Pupper", has very rough, rigid animation compared to the rest of the episodes on the disc. After the airing of it, the animation studio changed, and the series now has clean, fluid animation)

If you are a fan of this show, then you will definitely want to pre-order this DVD.


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Touched By an Angel: Ninth & Final Season

TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL THE NINTH AND FINAL SEASON GETS A RELEASE DATE - NOVEMBER 19, 2013
Wow! This is the day I've been waiting for - to complete my collection of TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL. Airing for 211 episodes and nine seasons ('94-'03), Touched By An Angel was/is a wonderful family friendly series that starred Roma Downey, Della Reese (who sang the show's inspiring and melodic theme song "I Will Walk With You"), John Dye and Valerie Bertinelli. The show maintained strong scripting and acting talent that had cross generational appeal for viewing audiences from all stratosphere's of society. This same audience longed for and desired quality programming that was rich with meaning and that would contain content that could be identified with (rather than the 'minus I.Q' programming that generally left us feeling as though we'd wasted an hour of precious time) and TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL delivered on the goods! When season 4 was released to DVD in December '07 and no forthcoming releases were announced, many fans (like myself) were devastated and disappointed, thinking that we would...
Finally the Complete Series will be available!
After such a long hiatus, I was beginning to doubt we'd get the entire series. I'm so glad I was proven wrong! No other show touched me like one does! Thank you CBS and Paramount for making my favorite show available!
I think I need cooling down.
Having been warmed through our southern winter by Touched By An Angel The Eighth Season, I think I need cooling down now with this announcement of The Ninth and Final Season. Thank you so So SO much CBS Paramount and Amazon for this perfect Christmas gift. I so look forward to reliving the heartwrenching two part "Remembering Me"; "As It Is In Heaven" (featuring a compellingly beautiful performance by Lesley Ann Warren); Wynonna Judd's outstanding performance as she brings her character's storyline to a conclusion in "At The End Of The Aisle"; and the fan favourite "I Will Walk With You". Although there can never be another tv series quite like Touched By An Angel, fans who were hooked when it first went to air, PLUS, a whole new generation can now be "Touched" by the fact that the complete series is now available to enjoy for many years to come.
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Power Rangers: Zeo, Vol. 1

zeo
zeo is a good season of power rangers but this is milking it half of zeo I am going to buy the season 4-7 box set so I have all of zeo at once
Milking the cow
Buy the box sets not the volumes. They are taking advantage of the fans and milking the money just like twilight.
Are volumes really necessary?
does it really need to be in volumes? why not just release the complete season by its self? i think Shout Factory is getting a little greedy. i already have plans to buy the 4-7 season pack, so there is no need for me to have this. 5 stars because its power rangers but im going to minus 2 stars cause we all know that the complete season can be put in one box set.
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Cagney & Lacey: The Complete Collection (Limited Edition)

WHEN IS THIS GOING TO BE ON DVD???????
All of my tapes are wearing out. I taped the show when it was on Lifetime, which edited the show for their commercials. Please bring back the best show ever on television with complete episodes. With all of the dreck put out on DVD I can't understand why this one is not out on DVD. Thanks, Anita
Come on already!!! BRING THIS OUT ON DVD!!!!
This is one the best if not THE BEST shows of the 80's .... I cannot believe the 'crap' shows that are out on DVD and this classic police drama showing 2 x excellent role model females as their lead actors is not out on DVD .... WHEN IS IT COMING OUT!!!!
Cagney & Lacey a must for current TV on DVD fans.
This is one of the best police drama series of its time. Multi-emmy award winning actress awards for its leading women characters is enough to say that series is among those devoted to DVD release. I have many if not most of the episodes recorded on VHS, but can not wait for the official release on DVD. Not only does this show portrait women in the field of the police force, but women in all walks of life in their professional fields. This was one of the greatest shows to air in its time era and deserves the time honored deliverance to DVD.
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