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DVD/Blu-ray Breakdown: October 25, 2011

Mike Eisenberg — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:50:32 +0000

This week brings some great titles to DVD and Blu-ray. Comic fans will be happy to see Captain America fill out the Marvel universe on home video as The Avengers continues to pick up steam in the headlines.

Attack the Block turned heads as the sleeper action movie of the summer and Winnie the Pooh gave families something to fall in love with. But this week’s real stars are the Blu-ray re-releases.

Jurassic Park finally makes its way to high definition and Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation earns high marks with a great transfer.

The following titles can be found on DVD and Blu-ray.

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DVD/Blu-ray Breakdown: July 12, 2011

Mike Eisenberg — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:42:45 +0000

Some great titles hit DVD and Blu-ray this week. Nearly every genre is accounted for, which should leave at least one solid pick to add to your collection.

Every once in a while, a studio releases one of their more popular films on home video later in the week. This week, Rango and Arthur both hit shelves on Friday. But the rest of the notable titles will release on Tuesday as usual, including The Lincoln Lawyer, Insidious, Entourage and Robot Chicken.

Two other intriguing films that few got the chance to see in theaters will also be available on both DVD and Blu-ray – Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives and Miral.

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Robot Chicken Meets Voltron In ‘Titan Maximum’

John Scott Lewinski — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:06:43 +0000

The brains behind the sci-fi, super-hero and action figure-stuffed animated comedy Robot Chicken are taking a spin-off to Saturn’s biggest moon with Titan Maximum.

Co-head writer/producer Tom Root and co-creator/executive producer Matthew Senreich created the spin-off series, which pits a collection of dysfunctional heroes and their Voltron-style assembled robot (pronounced “RO-bet,” if you’re cool and from the 1950s) against a solar system-conquering villain and crippling budget cuts. The comedy adventure’s animation will resemble Chicken’s stop motion style.

While Robot Chicken is a rapid-fire, short attention span-friendly sketch show, Titan will feature full plots per episode and an overall story arc for the series’ ongoing war of attrition.

Adult Swim ordered up nine episodes, and the show is set to premiere in September, just in time for the new fall season. With the Voltron live action movie mired in an ongoing ...

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Is Marvel Ripping Off ‘Robot Chicken?’

Kofi Outlaw — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:24:32 +0000

So… have you SEEN the teaser trailer for Marvel’s internet series Marvel Super Heroes: What The–?!

Ok, well, if you haven’t seen the trailer yet, you need to go ahead and check it out here so that you can help Screen Rant answer the question: is Marvel blatantly copying off Robot Chicken???

So now that you’ve had a chance to see the trailer let’s just go ahead and put it out there: this is totally Robot Chicken’s M.O. Totally. Like, no doubt about it. I mean… the topical sketch spoofing the Christian Bale blowup; the use of action figures… It’s like somebody up at Marvel suddenly realized, “Hey, people are watching this Robot Chicken show… ...

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