Hot off the heels of the success of A Nightmare Before Christmas, producer Tim Burton and director Henry Selick (Coraline) quickly rushed to adapt author Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach for the big screen. While the resulting film was a commercial flop, it’s still an amazing work of stop-motion art and a film [...]

A defining point in Batman’s history makes it’s animated DVD and Blu-Ray debut with Batman: Under the Red Hood and it doesn’t pull any punches. It’s a surprising that was controversial when it first appeared in the comics in 1988. More than 20 years later, the backbone of the original story provides a great modern [...]

In 1973, Hanna-Barbera brought the second (and most popular) animated version of DC Comics’ Justice League to animated life under the title Super Friends. While the series enjoyed immense popularity and aired in various incarnations until 1986, this first attempt missed the mark. Still, Super Friends! Season One, Volume Two is worth picking up if [...]

Street Hawk debuted on ABC in 1985, at the height of vehicular television popularity (Knight Rider, Airwolf). A show about a vigilante riding a super powered motorcycle, sounds like something the American public would love. Sadly, Street Hawk lasted only 12 episodes. However, thanks to the fine folks at Shout! Factory you can relive those [...]

When I heard about Marvel’s Super Hero Squad cartoon, I knew exactly they were targeting—and it wasn’t me. That’s doesn’t mean the release of The Super Hero Squad: Quest for the Infinity Sword! Volume 1 on DVD from Shout! Factory isn’t worth checking out, just the opposite really – especially if you have young kids. [...]

In the fall of 1982, ABC debuted a show that would only last one season, but almost 30 years later Tales of the Gold Monkey was one of the most requested shows to be released on DVD. Thankfully Shout! Factory heeded the call and on June 8 released Tales of the Gold Monkey: The Complete [...]

Yes, you read that title correctly, this is a quick Baseball DVD review. What’s a DVD like this doing a site about superheroes? Just ask my 6-year-old son. There’s nothing more important to him than baseball and he can rattle off baseball player names, numbers, and stats like I could details from DC Who’s Who [...]

The Greatest American Hero. If you are a child of the 80s and you were a comic book fan, there’s no doubt that you remember that TV show. This small-screen hero was the first to astound TV audiences since the Superman movie made audiences believe that a man could fly. Now, almost 30 years later, [...]