As the 2005 theatrical release of Serenity made clear, Firefly was a science fiction concept that deserved a second chance. Devoted fans (or "Browncoats") knew it all along, and with this well-packaged DVD set, those who missed the show's original broadcasts can see what they missed. Creator Joss Whedon's ambitious science-fiction Western (Whedon's third series after Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel) was canceled after only 11 of these 14 episodes had aired on the Fox network, but history has proven that its demise was woefully premature. Whedon's generic hybrid got off to a shaky start when network executives demanded an action-packed one-hour premiere ("The Train Job"); in hindsight the intended two-hour pilot (also titled "Serenity," and oddly enough, the... Learn More
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With its brisk 83-minute running time, An American Haunting is compact enough to be recommended as an occasionally spooky sampling of historical horror. Based on Brent Monahan's novel The Bell Witch: An American Haunting, which in turn was inspired by the only known case (from 1818-20) in which the U.S. government officially acknowledged a death by supernatural forces, writer-director Courtney Solomon's film is a well-crafted 19th-century case study involving Tennessee land-owner John Bell (Donald Sutherland), his worried wife Lucy (Sissy Spacek), and the terrifying abuse of their daughter Betsy (Rachel Hurd-Wood) by a malicious poltergeist. Intensified by excessive sound effects and a nerve-jangling score, these nightly hauntings won't scare anyone who's seen The... More Info About This DVD Director(s): Courtney Solomon DVD Release Date: Released the 24 October 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Filter a Twilight Zone vibe through Stephen King's brain and you get Nightmares & Dreamscapes, an uneven but generally entertaining collection of eight tales that originally (2006) aired on TNT. There is no unifying theme here; although King's short stories provided the source material, there are six directors and seven screenwriters represented, so the episodes offer a variety of looks and styles, with content ranging from monsters to mind games, from pure fantasy to pulp fiction, from genuinely scary to merely unsettling. Still, a certain ineffably "King-ian" sensibility, combining elements of horror, terror, suspense, and whimsy, is always in evidence, as are the popular writer's own preoccupations (with authors who may or not be stand-ins for King himself, rock 'n' roll,... More Info About This DVD Director(s): Mikael Salomon - Sergio Mimica-Gezzan - Rob Bowman DVD Release Date: Released the 24 October 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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In need of some good old-fashioned gore? You'll find it by the bucketload in the low-budget monsterfest Feast, which arrives on DVD in an even bloodier unrated edition. The winning entry in the third season of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's reality series/talent contest Project Greenlight (Wes Craven is also on board as an advisor/producer), Feast is a wall-to-wall splatterthon that operates on an agreeably simple premise: A crew of motley characters is trapped in a remote location (in this case, a desert bar) by ravenous, flesh-eating monsters (here, a quartet of toothy and astoundingly fecund humanoids). The result? Lots of gruesome deaths and plenty of manic action, delivered with kinetic style by first-time feature director John Gulager. Not everything about... More Info About This DVD Director(s): John Gulager DVD Release Date: Released the 17 October 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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I may buy this some day. I am sure the picture quality will be much better than the VHS copies I made from the SCI-FI Channel. It took me 18 months to do it. Two episodes are banned from being telecast: "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", and "The Encounter". I had to buy the DVD for these. It took 44 VHS tapes to hold the rest. Having to fast forward the commercials may drive me to buy the complete DVD set sooner than I expect.
After cataloging all 156 episodes from info off the SCI-Fi Channel website, and The Twilight Zone website, I narrowed down my top 10 favorites. Oddly enough the top three happened to be written not by Rod Serling, but Richard Matheson. When it comes to interpreting the essence of the fifth dimension that Rod Serling created, Richard Matheson... More Info About This DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 03 October 2006 Usually ships in 4 to 6 weeks
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Stargate SG-1 soldiers on with this five-disc, 20-episode set from the sturdy franchise's ninth season (2005-06), incorporating numerous changes while continuing to distinguish itself as one of the television's best sci-fi shows. Longtime star Richard Dean Anderson makes only brief cameos these days, after seven seasons as Lieutenant Colonel and one as Brigadier General Jack O'Neill. Stalwarts Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, and Michael Shanks (as Samantha Carter, Teal'c, and Daniel Jackson, respectively), are still on hand, but with Season 9, Ben Browder (known to many genre fans for his lead role in the excellent Farscape series) takes over as leader of SG-1, the Stargate project's ace team in the field. As Lt. Col. Cameron Mitchell, Browder effectively projects the... More Info About This DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 03 October 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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I think I must have watched the entire season two within a week after buying it. It is true that the picture and sound qualities could definitely be better, moreso the sound. It is hard to understand why such things would ever be poor these days with dvd technology. One can only think to blame Big Vision. Hopefully season three will get better treatment as the show becomes more popular. Having said this, I would recommend to anyone who is a fan of the show that you not let the negative comments stop you from picking up a copy of season two. While the sound and picture were noticeably imperfect it doesn't stop you from enjoying the episodes just the same and with the reduced price it is a good value. More Info About This DVD Director(s): Peter Zasuly - Jay Bluemke - Tom Thayer DVD Release Date: Released the 19 September 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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