We had a couple of friends over for an Avengers DVD preview party, with pizza and the movie we already knew we’d enjoy. That’s the best way to watch this film, I think — with fellow fans. I saw it in the theatre the same way, and the shared reactions make it all the more fun. (This was also the first blockbuster I watched on my new 55″ TV, and boy, that was fun, too.) Plus, given that it’s a […]

Just as happened with Captain America, a big company is bringing out a superhero catalog movie to tie into the upcoming release of a much better relaunch. This time, it’s Disney putting the 1995 Sylvester Stallone Judge Dredd on Blu-ray just before the new film opens in theaters. This Blu-ray will be available Tuesday, September 18. (It’s also timely with Stallone’s career renaissance in The Expendables movies.) My favorite part was the opening credits, which took place over images of […]

Judge Dredd, according to Wikipedia, is an immensely successful comic, running since 1977 in the British anthology 2000 AD. Yet the character and the series has never quite caught on over here in the U.S. Perhaps it’s because we don’t get the satire, liking the idea of a tough-guy enforcer instead of being scared by it. Regardless of the relatively small sales of the comic here, the concept is immediately striking, as shown by the kind of art that can […]