I love action movies. So does Korean film director Ryoo Seung-wan, which is made abundantly clear in the ample extras for the Dragon Dynasty two-disc Ultimate Edition release of The City of Violence. Originally I wasn’t going to review another Dragon Dynasty DVD so soon after my praise of their Hard Boiled and Crime Story…
Two of our comic friends’ posts follow up on news we reported here earlier on two ongoing contests. Becky Cloonan notes that she was selected as one of the 18 finalists in the first-ever International Manga Awards, first mentioned on ComicMix back on May 25. Way to go, Becky! The winners are listed at the…
Way back in the late 1980s, a few film producers thought it was interesting that “comedians,” like the late Andy Kaufman, amused themselves rather than entertained their audiences. After all, if people would pay actual money to be goaded and/or irritated, that might create a much simpler genre of filmmaking. This sentiment set the stage…
Can’t stay long, gotta get back to ComicMix‘er Kai Connolly’s birthday party. ComicMix columnists wrote stuff this past week. Here it is: Mike Gold – Whizzy’s Wazoo #27: Get a life? Why? Dennis O’Neil – The Four-Color Answer? #27: Spoiler Alert! Me – It’s All Good #26: Wanderlust John Ostrander – Off in the O-Zone…
ItÂ’s autumn. Yes, I know you look out the window, check the weather, glance at the calendar. ItÂ’s still summer out there. But for the fine folk who work the service industries, itÂs already fall, and their stores, movie theaters, and DVD shelves reflect that Âfact  filling ever fuller of loss leaders and also-rans….
Yesterday was a very special day for lots of folks. In the baseball world a couple of home run records were set, in the political world attendees at the progressive blogosphere’s Nerd Prom (yes, they have one too) schmoozed with the Democratic presidential candidates, and we at ComicMix celebrated head honcho Mike Gold’s 57th go-round…
Well, I’m back from the San Diego Comic-Con, and if you’ve been reading ComicMix’s coverage, you can probably guess that it was no place to actually write a DVD review column. Get info, acquire more product, see what’s happening, sure, but actually write reviews of other DVD special features? Fergettaboutit. Between my 8th Annual San…
I suppose I could have titled this pre-San Diego Comic Con installment “Popeye Hustle,” but I think that would’ve given the improper connotation. The new four-DVD boxed set from Warner – Popeye the Sailor 1933-1938 – (available July 31st) is anything but a hustle. And, in fact, the present column title is all the more…
It’s about time I got around to Tartan – specifically Tartan Asia Extreme, since they’ve been inundating the DVD market with every Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Thai “horror” movie they can get their well-manicured hands on. I put horror in quotes, because, in reality, many of their releases are actually episodes of The Twilight Zone…
Another week, another pair of good examples as to how DVD extras can enhance, deepen, and illuminate a previous viewing experience…especially when the subject matter is show business itself. First stop, north of the border, and one of Canada’s best television series. For years I’ve been enjoying Slings & Arrows, the tragicomedic travails of a…
IÂ’m spoiled already. Seven weeks into this column, and I yawn when I see a DVD with Âonly one audio commentary. It wasn’Ât even seven weeks when I succumbed to the ÂCriticÂs Disease, judging each new entertainment against the one I had seen the day, week, month, or year before. For the most part, the…
A few weeks back I was waxing enthusiastic about Sony Home Entertainment’Âs line of Columbia Classics CollectorÂs Editions, especially The Guns of Navarone two-disc set. Well, it turns out that 20th Century Fox wasnÂt going to take that lying down, so they started peppering me with flicks young and old for the old ultra-violence (yes,…
