2012年1月31日星期二

Man vs. Wild Seasons

Man vs. Wild dvd also called Born Survivor: Bear Grylls or Ultimate Survival is a survival television series hosted by Bear Grylls on the Discovery Channel. In the United Kingdom the series is shown on both the Discovery Channel and on Channel 4.
The series is produced by British television production company Diverse Bristol. The show was first broadcast on November 10 2006 after airing a pilot episode titled The Rockies on October 27 2006. In a special first aired on June 2 2009 Will Ferrell joined Grylls on a survival trip to Northern Sweden.Grylls also said he has been approached about doing a Man vs. Wild urban disaster 3-D feature film an idea he said he would "really like to do." Ben Stiller has also signed on for an episode later in 2009 as the season finale.Bear Grylls has signed on to showcase urban survival techniques in a new Discovery show called Worst-Case Scenario which premiered on May 5 2010 on the network. More in Man vs. Wild Seasons 1-4
In Man vs. Wild, Bear Grylls demonstrates all manner of survival techniques when faced with nature's extremes--from crossing piranha-infested rivers to fighting off grizzly bears. He shows us how, armed with the correct know-how and a determination to stay alive, all of us have the potential to beat the elements in even the bleakest of situations.
Bear Grylls is the ultimate modern-day adventurer. He spent three years with the British Special Forces (21 SAS), only leaving when a near-fatal parachuting accident broke his back in three places. Just two years later, Grylls followed his childhood dream and became one of the youngest climbers ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest. He is the host of the Discovery Channel series Man vs. Wild, where viewers tune in to watch Grylls show what it takes to find your way out of the most inhospitable places on earth with little more than the clothes on your back.
Now, in his book, he shows his millions of fans worldwide how to do what he does in an utterly entertaining crash course in surviving every kind of hard ecosystem--mountain, sub-zero terrain, jungle, desert, and the sea. Grylls takes readers on a journey to the corners of the earth and recreates disaster scenarios such as being stranded on a desert island or lost in the snowy Arctic. Perfect for armchair adventurers and extreme sports buffs alike, Man vs. Wild season dvd boxset is destined to become a classic in adventure literature.

MacGyver Seasons

Angus Macgyver season dvd boxset  is a secret agent with a difference. He is quiet mild mannered deeply principled and refuses to carry a gun on his missions. Fortunately the last detail is unimportant when compared to his astounding mind. Drawing on a vast practical knowledge of science Macgyver Season 1-6 DVD is able to make use of any mundane materials around him to create unorthodox solutions to any problem he faces. The enemies of world peace and justice continually learn that underestimating this man is a fatal mistake for their plans
That’s really it. Over the last few years at conventions, I’ve not been backwards about coming forwards on my love for the TV series. I own the T shirt. I own the seven seasons on DVD. I even have, hanging under my calendar, the ‘Phoenix Foundation ID’ of MacGyver season dvd boxset , made a few years ago when I went as the mullet-haired icon to a fancy dress party. And, at these conventions, when I’ve been asked who I’d love to write for? MacGyver was always the answer. If Doctor Who was my #1 all time dream job? Then MacGyver was running a very close #2.
Fast forward to May 2011. I’m at the MCM Expo, a comic / movies / anime convention in London, and late on the Saturday night I’m in the bar with a few people including Becky Cloonan. I mention in passing that I would write a MacGyver book for free if the opportunity arose. To my surprise, Becky chimed in with ‘And I would draw it!’
Of course, we never thought anything would come of it, but nevertheless, I contacted Stephanie Johnston, my LA manager and asked if she knew who had the rights. And, as I’ve always known, she’s damned good, because within a couple of days she came back with ‘it’s Lee Zlotoff, I’ve spoken to him and he’s happy to talk to you next Wednesday about this.’ In shock, I checked with Becky if she was still on board. She was. So, that Wednesday I spoke to Lee, who turned out to be nothing like I imagined from stories of ‘Hollywood writers’ that you hear – in fact he was easygoing, enthusiastic and very open to suggestions. By the end of the discussion, not only had he agreed that we could write a MacGyver comic without paying him any money for the privilage, but he would actually come on board, with John Potter, the original ‘MacGyverisms’ creator

Lost Season

In Lost Season 5 DVD  After a mysterious and bloody airplane crash 48 survivors are left stranded on a PacificIsland... miles off course. It soon becomes apparent that they will not have to cope only with the forces of nature but with the island's secrets including the Dharma Initiative the ' Lost Numbers' the "others" (or hostiles) and the strange black smoke- to name a few. There is also much more than meets the eye as it becomes apparent that everyone is connected in some way and that everyone has a purpose to live on the island... and for some to die
On the island, following the events of the previous episode, "The Little Prince", the latest time jump which has brought the survivors to 1988, Jin-Soo Kwon (Daniel Dae Kim) and Danielle Rousseau's (Melissa Farman) science team go in search of a radio tower that is broadcasting the Numbers. They are attacked by the smoke monster, which kills Nadine and drags Montand (Marc Menard) into a tunnel that leads to a temple, severing his arm in the process. Robert Rousseau (Guillaume Dabinpons), Brennan (Bruno Bruni Jr.) and Lacombe follow him into the tunnel and another time jump brings Jin forward two months in time. He first encounters the recently killed bodies of Brennan and Lacombe. He then witnesses Danielle confronting her lover Robert because she believes that the rest of the team became infected while inside the temple. Each of them has a gun pointed at the other. Robert convinces her that they should lower their weapons, then raises his and pulls the trigger. The gun does not fire, as Danielle had removed the firing pin from it (revealed in Solitary). She shoots him. Danielle also attempts to kill Jin, but another time shift occurs and Jin is reunited with the other survivors: James "Sawyer" Ford (Josh Holloway), John Locke (Terry O'Quinn), Juliet Burke (Elizabeth Mitchell), Miles Straume (Ken Leung), Charlotte Lewis (Rebecca Mader) and Daniel Faraday (Jeremy Davies).
In late 2007, Sun-Hwa Kwon (Yunjin Kim) confronts Benjamin Linus (Michael Emerson) during his meeting with Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly), Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) and Sayid Jarrah (Naveen Andrews). She intends to kill him; however, he reveals to her that Jin is still alive on the island. She reluctantly agrees to go with him and Jack to another location, where he can substantiate his claims. They go to a church, where Ben shows her Jin's wedding ring, which Ben took from Locke as proof that Jin is alive. Desmond Hume (Henry Ian Cusick) arrives at the church, in his search for the mother of Daniel Faraday, Eloise Hawking (Fionnula Flanagan). The four go inside the church, where Eloise is disappointed that Ben did not bring the rest of the Oceanic Six.
The new season of "Misfits" has delivered nearly everything it promised. The "funny guy" character has been replaced rather seamlessly, and the storylines for the individual Lost Season dvd boxset  continue to be well written. Continuity remains something of an issue, but previews for the rest of the season imply that this season is poised to wrap up unexplained events of the previous seasons nicely.

2012年1月30日星期一

Are We There Yet Seasons

Are We There Yet  DVD Are We There Yet? is an American television sitcom which premiered on TBS on June 2 2010. Based on the 2005 feature film of the same name it revolves around a family adjusting to the new addition of the matriarch's new husband and trying to deal with normal family situations. Ice Cube Ali LeRoi Matt Alvarez Vince Totino and Joe Roth serve as the show's executive producers.
On August 16 2010 it was announced that Are We There Yet? has been renewed for 90 additional episodes.In August 2010 interviews both Ice Cube and star Terry Crews expressed excitement about the show being picked up for the run which will pan out to around five or six seasons.
The 2005 movie Are We There Yet? is a family-oriented comedy about man who tries to woe a single mother. It was not well received by film reviewers, but still did quite well in theaters. In fact, a sequel Are We Done Yet? is coming to theaters soon, which is partly why this movie being re-released on DVD. The movie was originally released on DVD in mid-2005 (read the review by Aaron Beierle. This release is a shameless promotion that coincides with the sequel's theatrical debut, which is in April 2007.
Are We There Yet season dvd boxset ? stars bad-ass rapper Ice Cube in a slapstick role that sometimes works, but more often than not doesn't. Ice Cube is Nick Persons, a man who loves the ladies. He hopes his sweet new ride, a Lincoln Navigator, will help him get more women. He is an aging bachelor who runs a high-end sports collectible store. His life changes when he meets beautiful Suzanne Kingston (Nia Long), who works across the street. It is love at first sight. They become fast friends and Nick plans that one day they will be more than just friends. Unfortunately for him, he gets stuck in the friend zone.
One day, Suzanne asks Nick for a big favor, which he agrees to in hope of winning her over. She wants him to pick up her kids Lindsey and Kevin, and take them to Vancouver. She is going there to setup a party for New Year's Eve. Reluctantly, he agrees to take them. The kids are resistance and give Nick all kinds of trouble. They don't like their mom dating guys and hope their dad will come back into the picture. Too bad for Nick. The simple journey of getting on a plane and making a short trip from Portland, Oregon to Vancouver, Canada turns into an awful mess. Nick ends up doing the Planes, Trains, and Automobiles gambit.

Barbie Complete Series

Barbie dvd is a fashion doll manufactured by the American toy-company Mattel Inc. and launched in March 1959. American businesswoman Ruth Handler (1916-2002) is credited with the creation of the doll using a German doll called Bild Lilli as her inspiration.
Barbie has been an important part of the toy fashion doll market for fifty years and has been the subject of numerous controversies and lawsuits often involving parody of the doll and her lifestyle. In recent years Barbie has faced increasing competition from the Bratz range of dolls.
Now I've reviewed quite a few these straight-to-DVD Barbie? movies, and Barbie?: Princess Charm School is an adequate addition to the line. As I wrote in another review, I don't like to go too deep into these as I would with a regular movie...because who the hell is expecting an in-depth analysis of Barbie?: Princess Charm School? As I watched this one with my 9 and 5-year-old daughters, pretty much the same questions came up from previous viewings. My youngest didn't understand that Blair was Barbie?, a reasonable confusion that frankly I never understand with these movies, either. In the two previous outings, Barbie? was an actress, so it makes sense, her playing the part of another girl. Is she playing a part here, too, or is Blair a new character, or...oh, who cares: Blair, Barbie?, whatever. A couple of times my 9-year-old asked where Gardenia was, and why the movie didn't show the kingdom, or who ruled it, or where all those princesses were coming from, or where they went once they graduated (are their principalities of Gardenia?), and quite frankly, I didn't have an answer for her on any of that (I suppose we could have discussed the story's weird inequalities and how they're strangely resolved...but who wants to discuss gender and socio-economic politics with a five-year-old?). Barbie season dvd boxset ?: Princess Charm School is a little light on logic when it comes to its paper-thin retelling of the Anastasia story, with a little Cinderella thrown in for familiarity.

Brainy Baby Complete Series

Infant learning pack: shapes and colors animals art and more.
Helping children develop a love of learning for a lifetime is the mantra behind the Brainy Baby line of products. Exposing children to a variety of engaging concepts like music, the alphabet, shapes and colors is essential to encouraging learning and promoting positive habits. Brainy Baby is a firm believer in developing tools to expose and support children throughout their infant and preschool years of discovery, which is why they are giving away one million DVD's in 2009. Brainy Baby hopes to reach households across the country to help expose young children to basic educational concepts like ABCs, music, shapes and colors.
Due to the overwhelming response of Brainy Baby's DVD giveaway since it launched in July, the company is now extending the DVD Giveaway until the end of the year to help support families, childcare centers, teachers, and grandparents that have not already participated. According to a recent article in the Dawson County News, Laura Crews, a Pre-K teacher at Kilough Elementary School began using the DVD's in a pilot program for her class. "The DVD's hold their attention and relate to the things they know," Crews said. "The kids are enraptured by them. I use the Brainy Baby line of DVD's with my own kids and even the DVD on Sign Language (Talking Hands) keeps the attention of my 8-year old," she says.
Created by a team of early childhood educators and using a time-tested and proven method of introducing and reinforcing preschool concepts, Brainy Baby season DVDs boxset  have won more than 75 awards and offer a highly effective supplemental tutorial for parents who have children entering kindergarten. "We are constantly hearing from parents that kids are learning at an early age" says president and founder, Dennis Fedoruk. "It's all about teach and repeat, teach and repeat, and then review. Our DVD's emulate this teaching method. That's how children learn."

2012年1月15日星期日

Daria The Complete Animated

Daria dvd centered on a smart overtly sardonic and extremely pessimistic upper-middle-class teenage girl Daria Morgendorffer dealing with day-to-day life in her suburban American town Lawndale. In a 2005 interview series co-creator Glenn Eichler described the otherwise unspecified locale as "a mid-Atlantic suburb outside somewhere like Baltimore. They could have lived in Pennsylvania near the Main Line though."
Daria. In the late 1990s, one incurable cynic who always told it like it was, stepped forward. For animation enthusiasts who clearly recall the teen's monotonous vocal pattern and unrelenting contempt for idiocy, the MTV animation Daria was a genuine little capsule of the high school years, indeed "the best years of our lives." Daria was written with a critical edge whose sole purpose was to censure intellectual malfeasance; the cartoon, as a result, earned high praise for coalescing all the angst, cynicism, and flight-of-mind of gen-X and gen-Y into one little padded room. Now, finally, MTV/Paramount are releasing the entire series onto home video.
Daria, the girl, doesn't like people. Actually, there are many more things that get on her nerves, but stupid people are likely at the top of her list. To this end, Daria wanders through high school the epitome of apathy, refusing to cave-in to the hypersensitive and using logic to backtalk the high-strung or self-conscious. But the girl isn't a bad apple for the sake of being so; Daria was clearly the most well-read and well-informed kid in her school. Her dry, abrupt, dark humor is uncanny and rubs a lot of people the wrong way.... but when one's ambitions are sucked dry by much of the real world's plastic, whitewashed, upper-classness, there are so few options left available.
Daria: The Complete Animated Series will be available May 11, 2010 ($72.99); an eight-disc DVD Set containing all five TV seasons and both seasonal specials (65 episodes). Anticipated bonus features include the original series pilot ("Sealed with a Kick"), TV spots, and a Mystik Spiral music video, among others. Delayed for countless years due to the series' extensive licensing of 90s-era-specific rock tunes common to airwaves of the time, Daria: The Complete Animated Series season dvd boxset should be worth the wait. Those close to the DVD Set's production note a number of tracks, license unrenewed, will either be replaced or included as cover tracks by more contemporary bands as an alternative.
Daria enjoyed poking fun at the underlying dysfunction of Middle America, often including a snappy artist ("Jane"), a deliberately over-achieving minority ("Jodie"), a cryptically stressed-out History teacher ("Mr. DeMartino"), and several other marvelous sycophants, in its cast. The series featured sharp writing and very memorable, if at times cliched, character dynamics. Daria is an animated comedy, but only pursued said genre by pulling back the curtain a little, hoping to display for its audience both the incorrigible and the ignorant, with a few cynical comments interspersed for good measure.