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New Scooby-Doo Movies, The: The (Almost) Complete Collection (Blu-ray)

Kids who fell in love with the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? TV series were growing up and could now enjoy more sophisticated plots and characters, so along came the hour-long The New Scooby-Doo Movies, and what sets them delightfully and hilariously apart is the marvelous lineup of celebrity guest stars - The Harlem Globetrotters, Dick Van Dyke, The Three Stooges, Jonathan Winters, Don Knotts, "Mama" Cass Elliot, and Laurel and Hardy, plus the participation of other animated action heroes like Batman and Robin and Speed Buggy. It's no mystery that you're in for a classic good time!

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The New Scooby-Doo Movies: The (Almost) Complete Collection

Perhaps the biggest potential handicap of The New Scooby-Doo Movies: The (Almost) Complete Collection is the fact that all 23 episodes are crammed on two meager discs: it doesn't take much math to figure out that adds up to more than eight hours of HD content on each one, which sounds like a recipe for disaster. Surprisingly, it's not: this Blu-ray collection manages to maintain a rather respectable 1080p picture from start to finish, deftly avoiding the major compression issues that plagued a lot of overloaded DVD collections back in the day. Several factors are the reason this is possible. For starters, The New Scooby-Doo Movies are hardly loaded with detail, mostly favoring sketchy linework and flat colors; close-up shots rarely display more than a few unique hues and maybe one or two subtle background gradients. Of course, wide shots are a different story: many of these locales and establishing shots boast a higher level of detail, with the variable bit rate responding accordingly. It's not uncommon for a low-level shot to dip into a single digit figures -- barely above DVD standards, in some cases -- only to leap up into more comfortable territory a few seconds later. (The same was true of Warner Bros.' recent release of The Venture Bros. Season 7, perhaps to an even greater degree.) Other factors at work include the show's tube-TV friendly 1.33:1 aspect ratio, which has thankfully been maintained here, as well as the extra room afforded by going with Dolby Digital audio rather than lossless -- another space- saving measure that really doesn't affect its overall quality in a substantial way.

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Five years after the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd (Academy Award® winner Tom Hanks) moves from town to town as a non-fiction storyteller, sharing the news from the far reaches of the globe. In the plains of Texas, he crosses paths with a 10-year-old girl taken in by the Kiowa people and raised as one of their own. Kidd agrees to deliver the child where the law says she belongs. As they travel hundreds of miles into the unforgiving wilderness, the two face tremendous challenges of both human and natural forces as they search for a place they can call home.

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Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd

A former 3rd Texas Battalion captain in the Civil War, Captain Kidd finds himself roaming from town to town in the Deep South sharing the news from the far reaches of the globe as a non-fiction storyteller.

Johanna Leonberger (aka Cicada)

Raised by the Kiowa people, Johanna has forgotten everything about her earlier life as a German immigrant. Now scared and alone, she seeks refuge in Captain Kidd and trusts that he will help her find her way back home.

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Abby McWilliams' (Lori Loughlin, TV's Full House) nightmare begins when she attracts the unwanted attention of teenage psychopath Eddie Dutra (James Spader, TV's The Blacklist). Turned down for a date, Eddie destroys Abby's home, vandalizes her uncle's car and nearly stomps her brother to death. But it's only when he kidnaps Abby from the school dance, that Eddie shows his true feelings. Fueled by cocaine and armed with a shotgun, Eddie's lust turns to uncontrollable rage, as he takes Abby on a date from hell, in this terror-packed thrill-ride from the director of Friday the 13th



"an effective, tense little thriller" - Exploitation Retrospect



Starring: James Spader, Lori Loughlin, Shannon Presby, Eric Stolz

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The New Kids - Retro VHS Style (Blu-ray)

They can't afford to lose

Abby McWilliams' (Lori Loughlin, TV's Full House) nightmare begins when she attracts the unwanted attention of teenage psychopath Eddie Dutra (James Spader, TV’s The Blacklist). Turned down for a date, Eddie destroys Abby's home, vandalizes her uncle's car and nearly stomps her brother to death. But it's only when he kidnaps Abby from the school dance, that Eddie shows his true feelings. Fueled by cocaine and armed with a shotgun, Eddie's lust turns to uncontrollable rage, as he takes Abby on a date from hell, in this terror-packed thrill-ride from the director of Friday the 13th.

Starring: Lori Loughlin, James Spader, Shannon Presby

Co-Starring: John Philbin, David H. MacDonald, Eric Stoltz

Director: Sean S. Cunningham

Writer: Stephen Gyllenhaal, Brian Taggert