I think by now most readers are familiar with my intense love for this year's Kung Fu Panda. I've written reviews, referenced it in just about every write-up I've done on children's movies this year, as well as discussed kung-fu movies from the aspect of introducing new fans to the genre -- all after learning about its awesomeness from Po the Panda himself. Despite all the great films that have been released, despite all the fun, fantasy-filled romps we've been treated to in the theater, Kung Fu Panda is my favorite film of the year to date. I love it. It makes the little eight-year-old geek inside of me smile, careen, and kung-fu spin-kick the cockles of my heart.

So yeah, it's good. I'm done reviewing it now.

The full-on, two-disc-set DVD treatment of the film is no less impressive. They spared no (OK, almost no) expense putting together a fun package filled with a number of extra…

"There's the famous moment that Louis B. Mayer became absolutely incensed and went up to Billy and said, How can you do this to your own people, to our industry? ... And Billy had a famous retort that I cannot, uh, quote, but he said something like oh, you know, go something to yourself."
-- Nancy…

I've just spent the afternoon going through the new Doctor Who Series 4 DVD set, just out from Waner/BBC Video, and I think I might have to go lie down for a while. I've gotten a bit overexcited, a bit overwhelmed. There's so much stuff in it, so much beyond just the episodes, that my fan-girl…

One imagines that DVD marketers spend a good, long time thinking about what discs need to be released, and which older films have a big enough audience to justify putting together a massive "Super-Special Get Out Your Wallet Edition" with all sorts of extra features and inserts.

At least, I like to…

General Pugh: "But the end justifies the means, eh?"
Lieutenant Brackenbury: "Even when those means include torture, General?"

It may be news to some DVD collectors, but one of the most anticipated titles of 2008 is…

"You know why this movie got made? Because of the much despised Porky's!" -- Director Bob Clark

Film.com…

Why, if we are granted four "experiments" in the brand-new Mystery Science Theater 3000: 20th Anniversary Edition DVD set recently released by Shout Factory, do three of them feature host Mike Nelson? I like Mike fine, but Joel Hodgson, the original host, was the soul of the show, and a package…

If the name Larry Bishop doesn't ring a bell to you, you're not alone. He's one of those rare breed of cult actors that gets spoken of in "exploitation"-literate film circles and pretty much nowhere else. He made a series of biker movies back in the late '60s and early '70s, only to get a…

Romania, 1987, before the fall of Communism. There's a thriving black market in luxury items like Tic Tacs, shampoo, cigarettes ... and birth control pills. For a woman for whom that side of the black market fails, there's a specialty sideline in illegal abortions.

It's downright Owellian is what…

It seems like forever ago that I reviewed the stellar sex comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall at the South By Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival. But the film has stayed with me, making me chuckle now and then at a stray line or reference tossed out by a friend. Well, now it's finally out on DVD, and…

It's possible that autumn would still be my favorite season of the year even without Halloween. But my hot fave of all the big holidays sure does put this time of year over the top in the "Now I get to decorate the house my way" department. My home theater chamber now has the skull on…

I've been trying to figure out why A&E Home Video bothered to release yet another "Collector's Edition" of the Horatio Hornblower movies only three years after the last "Collector's Edition," when the only thing that differs between this brand-new set and the older one, as far I can tell, is some…

"Film printing is really a contact sport."

That's a quote from Robert A. Harris, explaining how old film negatives accrue damage through lab handling. Harris and other film experts, in a featurette on…