The Digital Movie Collector

  https://www.playstation.com/en-us/legal/psvideocontent/ Read the Fine Print      My first experience with loosing digital content was back around 2013. I had bought a digital game for 99 cents from the Apple App store. The content was not updated for the latest OS so it was digitally removed from the store. I never went after the company because I was not playing hardly at all by then. I had another time where I may have gotten digital codes from an online company and noticed a few weeks later that the content was back in my wish list. Fortunately, the online company gave me new codes that are still working today.     So what is the fine print? If you read about digital content, the companies  license and distribute from the studios. While this relationship has gone on for years with hardly any notice, Sony PlayStation users are taking notice now of the fine print as their purchased digital content from the Discovery Channel will be removed at the end of 2023.     I always questioned

  Change Is Coming Recently Disney+ has been cancelling content like the Willow series among other content on their service. This has given me pause as to what will happen to this content if you want to watch it. Series like the Mandalorian and the final season of Clone Wars were on available through the streaming service. The new idea that this content might eventually be removed from the service to never be seen again was a real possibility. Now we have some hope. I recently received an emailed from Marvel Entertainment. Generally, I would take a quick look and discard it but this one I had to look into more. The link pointed towards Best Buy or Walmart to preorder but I did find Loki Season 1 and WandaVision Season 1 available on Amazon. My hopes started to get raised. So with some quick searches, I did find in fact the Mandalorian Season 1 and 2 will be released on disc later this year. Here are the release dates per the email and what I found at the retailers. Loki - September 26,

 Content May Be Removed  I know it has been a while since I posted a review let alone any other content. The current events of today seam to be relevant for some commentary and facts. Netflix was the only streaming service for the longest time. I was mistaken back then to think everything they streamed would be there forever. Alas, my mistake was realized when I sold a TV series on DVD that my son had watched eleven times on Netflix and not once on DVD. Within months of selling the series, Netflix removed the series from their lineup.  Fast forward to the likes of MAX (formerly HBOMax), Paramount+, and Disney+ (who seams to own everything these days) and now we see content you might not be able to stream anywhere else. In the case of Disney+, content you can't even buy on physical media so that users are locked in to their subscription plans. For MAX and Paramount+ just to name a few, sell their content on physical media along with streaming options on Vudu and Amazon. As for the h

 Surprise Ticket I recently purchased The Doom That Came To Gotham and Justice League x RWBY animated movies that were on sale at Vudu this week.  I received a bonus of $8 off to go see The Flash movie from each movie.  So both my brother and I utilized the discounts for a rare trip to the movies.  Of the two animated movies I purchased, I highly recommend the Justice League x RWBY crossover movie even though it is Part 1 and Part 2 does not currently have a release date yet. Review While The Flash movie was decent, positive reviewers of the movie have obviously not seen The Flash TV series that just completed its run on The CW network.  The story in the movie and the special effects were much better in the TV series than in this movie.  Obviously, TV series has a longer time to tell a story.  Some of the movie’s special effects looked like they were from a couple of decades ago.  While this was only mildly distracting from the movie, it is definitely worth noting.  Obviously, Disney i

  Not The Story I Remember I admit my knowledge of Black Adam comes from the animated movie "Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam". I have done my some research and found there was a mixture of comic story and creative licensing for this movie. Obviously, Dwayne Johnson would not want to be a full fledged villain but the later evolved anti-hero like Venom (I know Venom is Marvel not DC). I did find this new story interesting. Review The movie was pretty action packed through out with only a few times that it slowed down. The story was interesting and refreshing. I very much enjoyed seeing characters like Dr Fate and Hawkman. I loved Pierce Brosnan as Dr Fate. One of the best casting choices in my opinion next to Dwayne Johnson as Black Adam. There was a point in the story I had to look at my watch and realized the movie was not over yet. It could have been made into two movies with the amount of content but I am glad they made a single long movie. Although, I do suspect

  Split Reviews My children said they could not finish this movie. Others said it was one of the best Batman movies. So I of course had to watch it...free on HBOMax. Robert Patinson was definitely a reason I was skeptical. Surprisingly, he did make a decent young Batman. His Bruce Wayne was okay. Zoe Kravitz, Colin Farrell (unrecognizable as Penquin), Jeffrey Wright, and Andy Serkis made this an amazing cast. John Turturro was good but I am still getting over his character from the Transformers franchise. His character is much better in this movie. Review I felt like this was based in the early days of Christian Bale's Dark Knight, if you skip the part that Batman meets Selina Kyle in his second year as Batman and he forgets who she is by The Dark Knight Rises. So this is obviously a different version of Batman. I enjoyed the more realistic versions of Riddler and Penguin vs the ones from the 1990s. Although, I have to admit I loved Danny DeVito in the role back in the 1990s. There