My daughter Hannah and I had a chance to check out the new apps for the Disney/Pixar movie “Brave”:

Brave - Storybook Deluxe ($6.99)
Brave Interactive Comic ($1.99)

Like most 8 year old girls, Hannah is very excited about seeing this movie. I asked her to sit down with me and tell me what she thought about each of the apps.

The GI Joe: Renegades season 1, volume 1 DVD comes out June 5^th and we had a chance to check it out. I’m not going to spend too much time on the series itself, which while isn’t terrible, it really never seems to rise above mediocre in terms of story, pacing and dialog. The series starts out with Scarlett recruiting a small squad of military soldiers to go on a mission to prove that the benevolent Cobra Corporation is hiding some pretty dirty secrets. Turns out, the mission wasn’t sanctioned and in the midst of gathering proof to bring Cobra down, the “Joes” accidently blow up one of their facilities. To add insult to injury, Cobra agents confiscate the only evidence they had to prove their story and clear their names. This setup is what puts the “Joes” into a position as the titular renegades who now have to evade both Cobra, who wants to silence them, and the US military, who wants to incarcerate them as terrorists.

They spend a lot of time trying to gather evidence that never seems to pan out, are always on the run and in memory of one of their fallen comrades refer to each other by the nicknames that were given to them in the most painful way possible. Their objectives are rarely clear and rarely make sense and each episode ends in the return to the status quo in this “A-Team” style narrative.

The “Transformers: Prime” season 1 DVD and Blu-Ray was released today and I have to say I like what I see. In the interest of full disclosure, I’ll tell you up front that I’m a huge fan of this series. Visually, it is stunning – a fact that is even more pronounced in HD. The voice acting is top notch and as a whole, the season really finds its ground by the conclusion.

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