Of any scientific documentary program in the last decade, it's doubtful that any have impacted popular culture as much as "Mythbusters." It's a simple premise: take urban legends, long-standing beliefs, or some long-standing cinematic cliches (specific and non-specific), and apply some critical thinking to find out whether or not the popular belief holds up under the scrutiny of science. Led by special-effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, "Mythbusters" quickly turned into one of the Discovery Channel's biggest and longest-running success stories.

"Mythbusters": Collection 7 is a jumble of slightly random but not completely shuffled episodes from the end of the 7th and beginning of the 8th season of the show, which aired at the end of 2009 and beginni...Read the entire review

Adventures of a Teenage Dragonslayer:
Movies can be either art, or entertainment, yet from the best of both we should expect to learn a little about our lives. For this movie, though, I've mainly been left with questions: What's up with the false advertising? And why do I continue to watch super-cheap young adult fantasy movies? I guess I'll always want to recapture the magical mystery of the real, original Dragonslayer, though I think I'm doomed to failure, as with this Dove Family approved movie, which might actually please non-discriminating seven-year-olds, but which has very little in the way of dragon adventure.

Arthur, (Hunter Allan) Shane (Eric Lutes) and Natalie (Abigail Victor) are pre-teen middle school kids obsessed with a 'Magic' style card game called 'Elixir Quest.' Crawling around in the sewers, w...Read the entire review

So you're a small video distributor looking to cash in on the impending frenzy surrounding the upcoming "Pirates of the Caribbean" sequel. More specifically, you're Gaiam, a company specializing in exercise videos looking to branch out with other fare. What do you do? Looks like you nab a pirate-related movie that's taken in more superficial changes than Ashlee Simpson, slap a low price sticker on it, and hope for some quickie returns, that's what.

The movie they nabbed is "The Pirates of Tortuga: Under the Black Flag," a cartoon that began in Germany as the 2001 release "Die Abrafaxe - Unter Schwarzer Flagge," then took on an English redub and ran on Cartoon Network as "Under the Black Flag: The Abrafaxe." ("Abrafaxe" refers to the heroes of a long-running German comic book "Mosiak;" being virtually unknown in the West, it's understandable why the name was dropped from the title.) The movie lan...Read the entire review