During World War II every able-bodied person helped in the fight against the enemy. While the men served on the front lines, the women did whatever necessary back home to support the troops. The popular Canadian-made TV drama Bomb Girls follows the stories of four women working in a Canadian munitions factory while the conflict...
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Blu-ray Review: Star Trek: Enterprise – Season One
Star Trek: Enterprise – Season One arrives on Blu-ray, a six-disc set housed in a standard case with slipcover (just like the Next Generation Blu-rays so far), carrying a fair amount of baggage. To date, Enterprise is the final Trek television series. After seven seasons each of Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager, the...
Comics: Eric R. Gignac on Robert Heinlein’s Citizen of the Galaxy Kickstarter Campaign
Every now and then a project comes along that captures not only your attention, but imagination, too. In my case, they’re often based upon something startlingly new, or a combination of known elements that offers intriguing possibilities or expanded horizons. And then there are those instances which hit home with their obvious compatibility, what I...
Blu-ray Review: In Like Flint – Twilight Time Limited Edition
January saw the Blu-ray debut of the 1966 spy spoof Our Man Flint. Now the same boutique label that brought us that cult favorite has followed up with its sequel, the 1967 In Like Flint. Twilight Time has released the film as one of their traditional limited edition runs of 3,000 copies. Despite a change...
Comics: Rick Geary on A Treasury of Victorian Murder Compendium, Volume 1
For the better part of a generation, Rick Geary has explored some of the darkest corners of the human experience and recorded his findings in a series of critically acclaimed books of graphic nonfiction. To create those volumes he’s researched and reported on some of the most famous and gruesome murders of the past, including...
Blu-ray Review: Schindler’s List
As Steven Spielberg’s Holocaust epic Schindler’s List makes its Blu-ray debut 20 years after its original release, it’s very likely that most everyone already knows whether this is a film they need to have as part of their collection. For many moviegoers, it was a once-is-enough kind of experience due to its harsh depiction of...
Comics: Keu Cha on Hex: The Lost Tribe
I first met Keu Cha about a decade ago, just after he accepted his first major assignment, penciling Witchblade for Top Cow. I still remember being blown away by his highly detailed, stylish approach to that character and her world. As is typical, he moved on from there, taking on one plum assignment after another,...
Books: Warren Ellis on Gun Machine
While he’s widely recognized by comics aficionados as the author of such critically acclaimed hit series as Planetary, Transmetropolitan and Astonishing X-Men, Warren Ellis is perhaps best known by the general public as the co-creator of RED, a three-issue comic mini-series that saw life as a rather successful film starring Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, and...
Blu-ray Review: Jack & Diane
Following a troubled preproduction history that saw the recasting of its two leads, Jack & Diane landed in all of two cinemas in November, 2012. It deserves to find a much wider audience now that it’s available on home video. It gained a misleading reputation as a “lesbian werewolf” film; a kind of romance-horror hybrid....
Blu-ray Review: The Jackson 5ive – The Complete Animated Series
Classic Media has revived a true gem for fans of The Jackson Five. Now available on Blu-ray is The Jackson 5ive, an animated series produced by Rankin/Bass (best known for their stop-motion holiday specials) that ran for two seasons in 1971-72. All 23 episodes (17 from season one, the remaining six from season two) are...
