Articles by Bill Binder

Talladega comes to DVD

October 2, 2006 // 0 Comments

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is ready for the release fo Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby on rated and unrated DVDs, a Blu-Ray and a UMD release. The fastest man on four wheels, Ricky Bobby is one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history. [...]

A Tale of Spacemen & Go-Go Girls

October 2, 2006 // 0 Comments

In tribute to the second-rate films of the 1950s, Tempe Entertainment is releasing the double feature of Spacemen, Go-Go Girls & The True Meaning of Christmas and Spacemen, Go-Go Girls & The Great Easter Egg Hunt this fall. In the Christmas [...]

DVD: From the Files of Police Squad

September 29, 2006 // 0 Comments

The 1982 show Police Squad was cancelled after only six episodes in 1982, which normally means it would have faded into complete obscurity. But the movie Naked Gun changed all that. 24 years after it’s tv premiere, the show comes to DVD for the first [...]

DVD Advances Dungeons & Dragons

September 28, 2006 // 0 Comments

In the eighties, parents were concerned that Dungeons & Dragons would cause their children to all commit suicide. So it’s pretty amazing that a Saturday morning cartoon on the subject was made. Following the idea of “role playing” the cartoon [...]

Look! Down by your feet! It’s Little Man!

September 25, 2006 // 0 Comments

The Wayans Brothers continue to roll with Little Man arriving on DVD this fall. Little Man follows the adventures and mishaps of Calvin Sims, a recently paroled, tough-as-nails-though not quite three-feet-tall-jewel thief who has decided to retire from a [...]

Get Smart.. all the way

September 25, 2006 // 0 Comments

Get Smart is taking an unusual tact in releasing DVDs. The entire five season run of the show will be released as one box set. Individual seasons will follow in the future. The 1965-1970 show has been restored and remastered including scenes not scene [...]

Feast gets the Greenlight

September 21, 2006 // 0 Comments

Season Three of the series Project Greenlight followed the production of the Weinstein Company’s horror film Feast. The film comes to DVD this Halloween. Somewhere near a small desert town, its business as usual at the local tavern. That is, until a [...]

We keep asking What’s New Scooby-Doo?

September 20, 2006 // 0 Comments

Scooby keeps on coming with What’s New Scooby-Doo? Volume 10: Monstrous Tails this December. This tenth volume of What’s New Scooby-Doo? features four television episodes plus one bonus fifth episode. In “Uncle Scooby and Antarctica, ” the gang [...]

New format is a triple-threat

September 20, 2006 // 0 Comments

Still skeptical over the format wars for high definition. Three engineers have thrown their idea into the ring. The engineers employed by Warner have patented an application for a disc which carries Blu-Ray, HD-DVD and DVD data on the same disc. The disc [...]

Ahoy Me Mateys, Pirates announced in good time

September 19, 2006 // 0 Comments

Buena Vista Home Entertainment be spillin’ their guts on details for the DVD release of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. And they jolly well made the announcement today; on National Talk Like a Pirate Day. Two versions of the film will [...]
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