CliqueClack » DVDs https://cliqueclack.com/p Big voices. Little censors. Thu, 02 Apr 2015 13:00:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 2013 Black Friday Amazon deals in TV and movies on DVD (Day 1) https://cliqueclack.com/p/2013-amazon-black-friday/ https://cliqueclack.com/p/2013-amazon-black-friday/#comments Thu, 28 Nov 2013 22:00:59 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=13599 Dark Shadows DVDIt's that time of year again for getting in on some great DVD deals over at Amazon (and elsewhere). We'll highlight a bunch throughout the next week, so check back later!]]> Dark Shadows DVD
It’s that time of year again for getting in on some great DVD deals over at Amazon (and elsewhere). We’ll highlight a bunch throughout the next week, so check back later!

Here are the TV and Movie DVD deals at Amazon.com for Friday, November 29, 2013 and at what times the deals start. Make sure you head over when the deal starts, or you could miss out. The below list is clickable. Come back and let us know what you get yourself your loved ones:

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]]> https://cliqueclack.com/p/2013-amazon-black-friday/feed/ 0 We’re giving away Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Complete Classic Series Collection DVDs https://cliqueclack.com/p/tmnt-complete-series-giveaway/ https://cliqueclack.com/p/tmnt-complete-series-giveaway/#comments Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:00:13 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=3725 ninja-turtles-boxHoly cowabunga, dude! Ahem. We're giving away this radical box set of the entire 'TMNT' classic cartoon series to one lucky random commenter to this post. You can earn another entry using Twitter too!]]> ninja-turtles-box
Holy cowabunga, dude! Ahem. We’re giving away this radical box set of the entire ‘TMNT’ classic cartoon series to one lucky random commenter to this post. You can earn another entry using Twitter too!

When this box set arrived at the quiet offices at CliqueClack HQ, sleepy heads rose from keyboards, cobwebs were brushed aside from brows, and mayhem broke loose. You’d have thought The Walking Dead became real, as the Clackers amassed and clawed at the surrounding packaging in hopes of being the one to keep this set for themselves. Lucky for you readers, I was five javas ahead of everyone else and got away with the prize … and my life. All for you!

Yes, we’re giving away this incredible collectible set of DVDs, containing all ten seasons of the classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon and more. What’s more, take a look at the packaging! Pretty freakin’ sweet, right?

All you need to do is leave a comment to this post saying something cool about the series or why you want the set — more than just “I want it.” To have a better chance at it, you can also (or only) tweet the following on Twitter:

I’m entering the #TMNT complete series DVD giveaway via @CliqueClack https://clak.us/p2vh

We’ll pick one commenter amongst the comments to this post and from the eligible Twitter tweets, completely at random, and alert them after the giveaway ends on Wednesday, November 21st at Midnight ET (make sure your spam filters aren’t blocking mail from @cliqueclack.com!). Only one entry per person per method and you must have a valid U.S.-based mailing address. This giveaway is open to U.S. residents of 18 years of age or older only. Not following these guidelines voids your entry. Good luck!

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]]> https://cliqueclack.com/p/tmnt-complete-series-giveaway/feed/ 32 The Liquidator & The Cool Ones DVDs return you to the Swingin’ Sixties https://cliqueclack.com/p/cool-ones-liquidator-dvd/ https://cliqueclack.com/p/cool-ones-liquidator-dvd/#comments Wed, 19 Sep 2012 03:18:02 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=620 cool-ones-2Mod fashions and swinging bachelor pads make a comeback in a pair of new DVD releases from the Warner Archive Collection.]]> cool-ones-2
Mod fashions and swinging bachelor pads make a comeback in a pair of new DVD releases from the Warner Archive Collection.

If you’re a fan of movie musicals and secret agent flicks, have I got a pair of doozies for you! The folks at the Warner Archive Collection have dug deep into the vault to bring some (rightfully?) forgotten films from the 1960s back to glorious life through their Manufacture on Demand DVD program. The Liquidator stars Rod Taylor as kind of a James Bond knock-off, and The Cool Ones is a 60s rock-and-roll musical that seems to be anything but rock-and-roll. Neither film was a success upon their initial theatrical releases, but one of them fares much better today as an entertaining curio than the other.

The Liquidator (1966) is the lesser of the two titles. Aussie Rod Taylor stars as a US soldier who accidentally saves Colonel Mostyn (Trevor Howard) of British Intelligence from an attack in Paris during World War II. Twenty-some years later, a spy scandal rocks Britain so Mostyn and his superior (Wilfred Hyde White) come up with a plan to eliminate the known double agents … in an unofficial capacity. Mostyn remembers his savior, Boysie Oakes, tracks him down in a small country cafe, and offers him a well-paying government job that comes with a swinging bachelor pad. Oakes accepts the offer and the training that comes with it, but is appalled when he learns he is on the payroll as an assassin. Not having the stomach to actually kill people, but not wanting to give up his new digs and all the “birds” that come with it, Boysie hires a real killer to do his dirty work while he tries to put the moves on Mostyn’s assistant, Iris (Jill St. John), something that is strictly forbidden in the employee handbook. Boysie and Iris slip away to the Cote d’Azur, but get entangled in some other confusing caper that totally derails the entire movie with its confusing who is double-crossing whom plot.

The Liquidator was obviously an attempt by MGM to launch another spy movie franchise.

The Liquidator was obviously an attempt by MGM to launch another spy movie franchise, particularly as this came about around the time Sean Connery was making his (first) exit from the Bond franchise. Like the Bond films, The Liquidator is also based on a series of books featuring the Boysie Oakes character, but the books nor the film ever reached the same kind of popularity as the Bond novels and films. One of the biggest problems with the film is its star, Rod Taylor. Oakes is supposed to be British, Taylor is Australian, but by that time he’d been working in American films using an American accent, so he insisted on changing the character to an American soldier so he didn’t have to revert to his natural accent (while Jill St. John adopts a Brit accent). This probably did not sit well with the British fans of the books. Another problem is that the film gets pretty convoluted (although it apparently follows the first novel very closely) once Boysie and Iris head to France and more spies than you can shake a stick at are introduced into the story, talking about some major mission that never becomes clear until the last 15 minutes or so of the movie. There was one surprising reveal of a double agent working in the midst of British Intelligence, but at that point it seemed rather nonsensical, and only made the rest of the film even more baffling. In the end, Boysie Oakes is no James Bond, and a legal dispute over the novels and film rights scuttled any further films. If nothing else, the movie is worth a look for some of the surprisingly risque humor and Oakes’ smashing residence. Warner’s DVD looks and sounds just fine, but like most Archive releases this is a bare-bones affair with only a trailer (which gives away most of the movie’s major deaths) as an extra.

Photo Credit: Warner Brothers

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