Editorial Product Review: :This Japanese import featuring five teenagers with superhero powers may turn out to be for older girls what Pokémon is for the pee-wee set. The fantasy-action story lines of Sailor Moon (named for the leader) is typical anime fare--which means it's far more creative than anything you'll see on Saturday morning. And far more complex--the stories are intricate and flashback sequences feature wordless narrative. Then again, what high-spirited girl wouldn't love the magical makeup that transforms hip schoolgirls into butt-kicking heroines? In this one-hour ...
Editorial Product Review: :Disney's delightful whodunnit mystery Murder She Purred is told through the eyes of two four-legged critters considerably smarter than the humans they are observing. Based on the novel by Rita Mae Brown, the film is set in a small Virginia town where secrets run as deep as Southern-style charm. Mary Minor 'Harry' Haristeen (Ricki Lake) calls the shots around town as she runs the post office. But the real brains of the burb belong to Harry's cat, the acerbic Mrs. Murphy (voiced by Blythe ...
Editorial Product Review: :The Care Bears were a line of multicolored teddy bears that racked up more than $200 million in retail sales in 1984. The Care Bears Movie was essentially a 75-minute commercial to introduce the new Care Bear Cousins, disguised as a smarmy story about sharing feelings. The film earned $23 million theatrically and ushered in a spate of cheap animated films created to sell merchandise to children. The plot interweaves the stories of Kim and Jason, two lonely orphans who have given up caring, ...
Editorial Product Review: :The Care Bears were a line of multicolored teddy bears that racked up more than $200 million in retail sales in 1984. The Care Bears Movie was essentially a 75-minute commercial to introduce the new Care Bear Cousins, disguised as a smarmy story about sharing feelings. The film earned $23 million theatrically and ushered in a spate of cheap animated films created to sell merchandise to children. The plot interweaves the stories of Kim and Jason, two lonely orphans who have given up caring, ...
Editorial Product Review: :Peter Gallagher and Jon Tenney are a pair of cousins with some simmering resentments left from childhood, so when Gallagher moves back to Chicago and in with Tenney to sort his life out, he leaves himself open for a variety of dirty tricks. Tenney shares his house with other roommates where the watchwords are 'watch it!'--meaning that everyone is fair game for increasingly cruel practical jokes. Some funny material gives Tom Sizemore and John C. McGinley, a couple of actors who don't usually get ...
Editorial Product Review: :This 4½-hour video set is an excellent introduction to the Sailor Moon series. Serena (Sailor Moon) and the other Sailor Scouts live as ordinary schoolgirls, apparently unaware of their magical powers. We learn that after their last battle with the Negaforce, they've been shocked into amnesia. When evil threatens, they must re-awaken to their powers and responsibilities in order to save the world. As Sailor Venus exclaims, 'I feel the strong urge to do something other than run around in circles!' The architects of ...
Editorial Product Review: :Japanimation goes girl crazy in this pastel-propelled series about a lovesick middle-schooler, Serena, whose alter ego, Sailor Moon, aims to triumph over evil in the name of true love. Volume Two comprises three Eros-charged episodes from the third season of the show. First up is 'Swept Off Her Feet,' wherein a doe-eyed study buddy unwittingly falls for a villain intent on robbing her of her pure-heart crystal. Next comes 'Blinded by Love's Light,' in which the shaggy- haired Melvin, who sports a couple of ...
Editorial Product Review:Amazon,com:By day she is Serena, a student at Crossroads Junior Academy. But when the safety of the world is at stake, she transforms into the magical Sailor Scout known as Sailor Moon. With the guidance and wisdom of her talking cat, Luna, Sailor Moon is one tough super hero. In this second volume of four episodes ('Computer School Blues,' 'Time Bomb,' 'An Uncharmed Life,' and 'Nightmare in Dreamland'), we are introduced to some new Sailor Scouts, Sailor Mars and Sailor Mercury. These brave girls ...
Editorial Product Review: :Gene Wilder cowrote and stars as Cash Carter, a former Broadway theatrical director since retired from the Great White Way and now running a community theater in picturesque Stamford, Connecticut, in this engaging period mystery. The year is 1938, and the sleepy little burg is woken by the murder of the abrasive, racist, almost universally disliked millionaire Sidney Lassiter (Millennium's Terry O'Quinn). Lt. Tony Rossini (amiable Mike Starr, best known for his portrayals of thick mob goons) turns to Cash for his insight into ...
Alienware's flagship gaming laptop, the Area-51 m9750, has plenty of appeal for high-end gamers, but the alien head aesthetic seems dated, and newer components are right around the corner.
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