Pet Shop of Horrors - DVD review

CoverIn New York’s Chinatown there is a little pet shop that specializes in particularly exotic animals. The owner, a mysterious man known as Count D, has a pet to suit almost any taste. But if you come seeking an animal to help cope with a tragic loss or fill a gap in your life, beware. The Count may have what you're looking for, but if you're not careful about taking care of it, your pet may get the better of you in the end... [click here...]

 

DC Comics 75th Anniversary Poster Book - Book

CoverThis anniversary poster book celebrates 75 years of the most famous comics in history by showcasing 500 of their most memorable covers - including 100 full-size posters, ready-to-frame. Arranged in chronological order, each poster is a milestone in DC comics history, and possibly in cultural history, too... [click here...]

 

Sweet Tooth: Book 1 - Out of the Deep Woods

CoverA decade ago the Affliction raged like a forest fire, killing billions, and the only children born since are a new breed of human/animal hybrid. Gus is one of these endangered children, a boy with a sweet soul, a sweeter tooth - and the features of a deer. But kids like Gus have a price on their heads. When vicious hunters descend on his isolated forest home, a mysterious and violent man called Jepperd rescues Gus. The hulking drifter promises to lead Gus to "The Preserve," a fabled safe-haven for hybrid children. As the two cross this dangerous new American frontier, will Jepperd corrupt "Sweet Tooth," as the killer has nicknamed him, or will it be Gus's heart that changes Jepperd... [click here...]

 

Ah! My Goddess: Season 2 - Part 2 - DVD review

CoverKeiichi grants Peorth's wish for a date. Of course, the Fourth Goddess has some "extra fun" planned. Too bad the other three goddesses tag along for the ride. As Peorth continues to vie for Keiichi's affections he decides to confront her and ends up having to make a wish: for his desires to be fulfilled, but by who? Meanwhile, Otaki and Tamiya suddenly announce that they have to hide, it seems that someone that scares even them is coming for a visit. That someone is the founder of the Motor Club, Chihiro Fujimi, who challenges Keiichi to a race. Love triangles, the accidental birth of a new Goddess and a communal bath house trip! Just another average day in the life of mild-mannered student Keiichi Morisato and his harem of heavenly delights... [click here...]

 

Donnie Darko - Blu-ray review

CoverDonnie is a disturbed young man having therapy. Although he suffers from sleep walking, this takes on a much stranger aspect when one night he is called from his bed by Frank, a six foot rabbit, who tells Donnie that the world is about to end in twenty eight days... [click here...]

 

Picnic at Hanging Rock - Blu-ray review

Cover St Valentine’s Day 1900 and a group of genteel young ladies, from the local school, decide to go on a picnic to Hanging Rock. During the course of a dreamy day a number of the girls disappear, along with one of their teachers. Only one of the girls returns, but even though she is hysterical she has no memory why. Searches are made, but the girls are never found. With the mystery unresolved, its impact starts to destroy the school... [click here...]

 

Mahoromatic: Volume 2 - DVD review

Cover Mahoro, once a deadly android constructed by Vesper to counteract an alien incursion now has an equally difficult task to undertake, to clean and take care of Suguru as his live in maid. As her body clock ticks down to termination she has to deal with teenage life in all its forms... [click here...]

 

Naruto Shippuden The Movie - DVD review

Cover When a rogue ninja unlocks the secrets of a powerful and ancient evil, the inhabitants of the Hidden Leaf Village are mobilized into action as a seemingly unstoppable army of animated terracotta warriors marches across the land decimating everything in its path. Naruto and the rest of Team 7 are given the unenviable task of acting as bodyguards assigned to protect a brash and arrogant young princess named Shion, the only one with the powers to overcome and seal away forever the malevolent forces... [click here...]

 

The Talisman: Volume 1 - Graphic novel review

CoverIn a run-down amusement park on a desolate beach in New Hampshire, thirteen-year-old Jack Sawyer is about to learn some hard truths-about his father's death, about why he and his mother are on the run from his sinister uncle Morgan, and about the real nature of the mysterious realm Jack once called the Daydreams. Now, with help from his newfound friend Speedy Parker, this young man will reclaim his identity as Travellin' Jack and make his first foray back into the Territories to retrieve the magical Talisman, an object of immense cosmic significance. Yet even more important to Jack, the Talisman holds the key to saving his mother's life. In the Terrorities, where monsters lurk, evil watches, and an unbelievably precious prize awaits, Jack embarks upon a desperate quest to fulfil a destiny he never sought but cannot escape... [click here...]

 

Neil Young's Greendale - Graphic novel review

CoverIn the Fall of 2003, as the nation blindly gallops into a war most of the world doesn't seem to want, a politically active teenage girl named Sun Green lives, loves and dreams in a small southern California town named after her family - a place called Greendale. Sun has always been different. Maybe it's because of her heritage. There's been talk that the Green family women have always had a preternatural communion with nature. It's not something Sun has ever really wondered too much about. That is, until a Stranger comes to town, a character whose arrival triggers everything in Greendale to... well... go to hell. To combat it, Sun will find herself on a surreal, transformative journey to unearth the mystery of the Green family women, not just to face the nefarious Stranger in her home, but to confront the mounting injustice that's gathering outside it as well... [click here...]