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After telling ghost stories after school, an accident forces Mai Taniyama to worj as an assistant for a local paranormal investigation company, run by 19-year-old, self-confident, arrogant, ultra-reserved Kazuya Shibuya. Their very first case? Find out the reason behind all the weird occurrences at the very same abandoned school she just heard stories about!

Love Looney Tunes, but not so enamored with all that black-and-white stuff?  Don't be ashamed; this review's for you.

Warner Brothers’ famed series returns with another exhaustive romp through 75 cartoons (and a ton of special features to boot).

Oh, how the maturity of a show can really... well... show. 

Mythical. A drug. The Italian Star Wars. The touchstone for films about organized crime. So say the contemporaries of Francis Ford Coppola. Referenced in everything from "South Park" to "The Sopranos," this trilogy has achieved an unrivaled infiltration of popular culture. Collectively nominated for 29 Academy Awards, the films won nine Oscars in total. In short, this makes for some damn fine viewing, and this latest collection gives us even more supplements to feed our obsession. This series makes you WISH you were Italian. When first handed the boxed set, I figured that, having seen the films enough to reenact scenes at holiday gatherings, I'd just watch the supplements and then whip something together. However, with the first reference to leaving guns and taking cannolis, I popped in the first DVD…and have been awake and watching ever since. This saga is timeless, compelling, and touching in unexpected ways.The GodfatherThe second greatest American movie of all time, right after Citizen Kane, the movie opens on the day of Don Vito Corleone's daughter's wedding. The story arcs to Shakespearean heights with dialogue that often has double innuendos—multiple viewings are necessary to catch all of the subtleties that create...

Busby Berkeley was known in the early days of Hollywood forhis lavish musicals featuring lots and lots of leggy girls (mostly blondes),silly story lines, and dialogue with all sorts of sexual innuendo. A new Busby Berkeley musical was causefor great audience enthusiasm. Warner has gathered four of Berkeley’s films from the late1930s for this collection. All arein black and white (although, interestingly, most of the shorts and cartoons thataccompany them are in color) and all but one of this group feature crooner DickPowell. Two of the four films highlight Berkeley’s famous “golddiggers,” the girls doing their best to snare silly rich men. Those two are Gold Diggers of 1937 and GoldDiggers in Paris. (The latteris the film without Powell; instead, Rudy Vallee takes over leading manduties.) The other two films inthis collection are Hollywood Hotel (which brought the world “Hooray for Hollywood”) and Varsity Show. The special effects seem oh-so-quaint by today’s standards,but Berkeley was known for his innovations. No CGI here – the large casts are all real, and it’simpressive just to imagine wrangling (and choreographing for) that manyhoofers. Besides Powell and...

A dirty, cursing show about four losers living in one of the worst parts of Philadelphia, running a run-down bar, contributing nothing to anyone in this lifetime!? Sounds like an FX show! Why, it is. The title may not be sunny, but the show sure has some bright spots I took a taste of this show around three seasons ago and found it to be incredibly childish, offensive and funny as hell. It's a simple concept of three grown-up kids raised by their warped father, who end up doing more harm and damage to themselves and society through crazy schemes. If you want a comparison, it's like a live-action version of Family Guy mixed with a tad bit of Seinfeld. Now the show itself has grown in gigantic leaps and bounds; sort of like a sea monkey. The first two seasons were kind of like, "Hey, how far can we take this before someone gets upset?" The third season, this season, is certainly the, "No one got upset! Let's up it a notch!" Believe me, the notch has been upped. Season three really takes a turn for...

Ah, the Stooges. This bungling trio has brought side-splitting laughter to people (okay, mostly men) for decades. After a long seven month wait between the release of volume one and two, Sony has picked up the pace putting this third volume out just three months after volume two, and volume four scheduled for release early in October. Volume three brings us another batch of twenty-three shorts from 1940-1942, and it’s another must-have addition to any Stooges fan DVD library.

Kouhei is a photographer for a paranormal magazine with an unlikelyskill: he has never actually seen the ghosts that he shoots! Hisco-workers Seiji (who is also his cousin) and Hiromi think that he isjust exceptionally dense when it comes to paranormal activity. Hisgrandfather Ryuuhei, however, knows better. Kouhei has grown-up withmagic surrounding him, seeing as his grandfather is very powerful withhis magic and is also a skilled exorcist. Because of this Kouhei hasdeveloped a sort of immunity to the powers of magic, much to Hazuki’sdislike. Hazuki is Kouhei’s Vampire master, or so she’s supposed to be. While Kouhei was in Germany searching for paranormal activityaround Schwartz Quelle castle he came across an adorable young girl,sitting atop of a tower, and tried to snap a photo. But when hedeveloped the film, she was nowhere to be found. He returns to thecastle later with his co-workers to see if he can find her again, andhe does but the circumstances aren’t favorable for a photo shoot.=20The castle is protected by it’s powerful owner named Vigo who fendsoff any unwanted visitors, while his barrier keeps Hazuki a prisoner.She is the cute little girl that Kouhei saw on his first night outthere....

Particle physicists, unite! CBS’ new series is without a doubt the smartest sitcom out there.

Slayers Try is the third installment in the Slayers television series and the continuation of the story of Lina Inverse and her ragtag band of companions. Several months have passed since the events of Slayers Next, and Lina and Goury Gabriev (idiot swordsman extraordinaire) are off enjoying some R&R when a prophecy is brought to the tiny sorceress’s attention. The gates to a dark world are opening, and the weapons of light are all that can stop it. At first she is going to blow off the message and its bearer, but after a rather convincing letter from her older sister Luna, Lina eagerly accepts the job to check into things. (Under fear of much pain from her sister, I presume.) So, old friends reunite much as they did in Next and new faces join the cast. And much like before, they all band together to save the world from being destroyed unbeknownst to the world at large.

Fans of the TV series and the Top Cow comic book rejoice! Witchblade is finally available on DVD, bringing Yancy Butler back in all her motorcycle-riding, armor-wearing, sword-brandishing glory. One of the hottest female cops on TV, she leads a diverse cast of characters in a series of crime-fighting adventures, using her newfound special powers to aid her quest for justice. Add in a mix of martial arts, "bullet time" style special effects, snappy dialogue, and lots of gratuitous shots of Butler's well-toned abdomen and what you have is some good clean fun, neatly packaged for your viewing pleasure.

After a close encounter Sasuke is recovering in the hospital. The arrival of Naruto, the loud obnoxious teammate, has awakened more in Sasuke than strength. As jealousy and insecurity fill Sasuke, he and Naruto end up in a potentially deadly battle. Darkened by his encounter with Orochimaru even his teacher and loved ones can not stop Sasuke’s unquenchable thirst for power. Leaving the village and squad behind the Hokage (village leader) sees to it that a team is immediately gathered to rescue Sasuke from Orochimaru’s evil grasp. As a member of the leaf village which stands out for its strength in team work and community, it is no wonder that Sasuke’s friends would go to any lengths to return him to the safety and love of their village.

The story of Rin is a complicated one. Rin has won the hearts of so many girls as he naturally tends to be caring, compassionate and considerate. His gentle approach to each event and crisis tends to make him the prefect suitor for every girl. I can’t blame them, he really does care for each of them individually and always tries his best to do everything he can for them. Kaede, his roommate has been taking care of him for a long tie. She often forgets her self and is overjoyed to work hard to take care of Rin. Having lived together for a long time Kaede has come to learn what Rin needs and is always prepared with a meal or tea and gets him started for the day. It’s shocking to discover in this series that underneath the sweet and caring exterior Kaede hides a dark past. Lying dormant for years Kaede begins to remember her cruelty to Rin when they were younger as Asa-senpai (a classmate) begins to capture Rin's heart. He begins spending all of his time with her and this causes a lot of problems. When one falls in deeply in love, the...

Magus, Femina, Insania. Negima delivers to you magic and a whole school full of crazy girls. The story revolves around a 10 year old wizard (in training), Negi Springfield, and his student teaching at Mahora Academy. This is Negi’s final step in completing his training to become a prodigious Magister Magorum. No harm in that, right? Wrong. Negi immediately gets off on the wrong food with Asuna, a temperamental girl who’d just as soon as strangle Negi as look at him for all the panty mishaps he creates on his first day. And then she learns Negi’s secret life as a wizard. If word gets out to the students that Negi’s a wizard, then he will not only be expelled from his studies, but likely turned into an ermine. So, with the bribe of creating a love potion, Asuna vows to keep his secret. From there on, Negi begins the long path of getting to know each of his students. He was set to room with Asuna and Konoko (the archaic dean’s granddaughter), and, so, he and Asuna begin to form a sort of brother-sister relationship. He projects some of the fondness he...