Weird: The Al Yankovic Story makes its arrival on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD and it is stacked with plenty of bonus content. Shout! Studios is handling the home entertainment release. What follows is my original review from last year’s Roku Channel release: Weird: The Al Yankovic Story turns the musical biopic genre on its head as the film is the first major parody of the genre since 2007. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox…
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Following its theatrical release, A Disturbance in the Force is now available for fans to bring home on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital. The home release comes a few weeks after marking the Star Wars Holiday Special‘s 45th anniversary. As far as I can tell, there are no bonus features for the home video release. That’s a shame because I would have loved to have seen the expanded interviews that usually end up being cut for time.…
"A Disturbance in the Force Arrives on Blu-ray, DVD, Digital" A Disturbance in the Force is the Star Wars Holiday Special documentary that Star Wars fans have been waiting years to watch. November 17th will mark the 45th anniversary of the Star Wars Holiday Special. Thirteen million viewers would tune into the 98-minute disaster in the making on CBS. What better time than now than to present a documentary? At long last, fans might begin to get answers. How did this happen? Why did this…
"A Disturbance in the Force – SXSW 2023" Weird: The Al Yankovic Story turns the musical biopic genre on its head as the film is the first major parody of the genre since 2007. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story turns 15 years old in December. It was the musical biopic to end all musical biopics because of how much it parodied the genre. Since its release, every major musical biopic has hit all the checkmarks. Nearly 15 years later, along comes Weird…
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LEGO Star Wars Summer Vacation is the newest canon-adjacent special to follow the sequel trilogy crew in a post-TROS adventure. The Skywalker saga may have come to an end but there’s no shortage of new adventures with Rey, Poe, and Finn. Where Rey (Helen Sadler) had the big focus in the LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special, Finn (Omar Miller) gets the biggest focus in this one. Overall, this one is fine. Viewers are getting exactly…
"LEGO Star Wars Summer Vacation Is Fine"
Animation Outlaws is a documentary that manages to revisit the touring film festival that is Spike and Mike’s Festival of Animation. If you aren’t familiar with Spike Decker or Mike Gribble, you’re in for a treat. Many now-famous animators got their start thanks to Spike and Mike’s Festival of Animation. The original touring festival–started in 1977–would soon gave way to the Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation later on. The promotion techniques they used would get…
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