Frozen in Time
Director: Alex Leung
Voice Cast: Mira Sorvino, Ed Asner, Drake Bell
Studio: ARC Entertainment
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Retail: $20.99
ASIN: B00M0JTX3O
Running Time: 46 minutes
Rating: G
Buy Link: Amazon

Review:

Yes, it is that time of year when cable channels will be overruled with made-for-TV Christmas movies and holiday specials. And of course there will be a few new direct-to-DVD titles as well, including the computer-animated film Frozen in Time, which will arrive on DVD Tuesday November 11, 2014.

Produced by Kickstart Productions, Frozen in Time centers on Eric (voiced by Valin Shinyel) and Patty (voiced by Alyssya Swales), a brother and sister who are both dreading the fact that they are practically being dragged by their parents, along with their older brother, to spend Christmas with their nutty inventor grandfather (voiced by Ed Asner). It seems everything they say or do goes terribly wrong at their grandfather's place. They even accidentally break a strange looking clock in his work shed.

Garfield: Holiday Collection
Director: Phil Roman
Voice Cast: Lorenzo Music, Thom Huge, Gregg Berger
Studio: Anderson Digtial
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Retail: $14.99
Running Time: 150 minutes
Rating: TV-Y
Buy Link: Walmart

Review:

From 1982 to 1991, twelve animated specials based on Jim Davis' comic strip Garfield aired on CBS. All of the specials have been released on DVD over the last decade, but are now out-of-print. Luckily for Garfield fans, five of the specials will appear on the Garfield Holiday Collection: Collector's Edition DVD exclusively at Walmart. As an added bonus there is a brand new featurette "The House that Garfield Built: A Visit with Jim Davis."

The five Garfield specials on the DVD are:

A Garfield Christmas (1987) - Jon drags Garfield and Odie to his family's farm to celebrate Christmas. After befriending Grandma (voiced by Pat Carroll), Garfield learns the true meaning of Christmas.

Garfield's Thanksgiving (1989) -After a visit to veterinarian, Dr. Liz Wilson, Garfield is put on a diet and somehow Jon convinces Liz to join him for Thanksgiving dinner. Jon may know how to make a dish of lasagna, but he has no clue how to make a turkey dinner. Garfield comes up with the idea to ask Grandma to help them cook the meal.

Garfield's Halloween Adventure (1985) - After hearing about Halloween on the Binky the Clown Show, Garfield is determined to go trick-or-treating, so he can get all the candy, candy, candy that he can get his paws on. He grabs some of Jon's old clothes from the attic and goes as a pirate. He brings along Odie, so he can have twice the candy, candy, candy, but he makes a mistake by crossing the river by a boat, as their are ghost pirates not to far behind them.

Garfield On The Town (1983) -When being driven to the veterinarians, Garfield accidentally falls out of Jon's car. At first he likes living on the streets that is until he meets a gang of stray cats.

Paw Patrol: Winter Rescues
Voice Cast: Owen Mason, Devan Cohen, Kallan Holley, Gage Munroe, Stuart Ralston, Tristan Samuel, Alex Thorne, Katherine Forrester, Ron Pardo
Studio: Nickelodeon
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Retail: $14.99
ASIN: B00LN8786M
Running Time: 92 minutes
Rated: Not Rated
Buy Link: Amazon

Review:

Now available on DVD fro Nickelodeon is Paw Patrol: Winter Rescues, featuring seven exciting episodes. The single disc DVD can be watched in English, Spanish and French.

Paw Patrol is an a Canadian/American preschool animated program that debuted in the fall of 2013, airing on Nickelodeon in the United States and  TVOKids in Canada. The series has become popular with children and is currently in its second season.

The series centers on six puppies, Chase, Marshall, Rocky, Zuma, Rubble, and Skye, whom all spend their days rescuing animals and humans and saving the day from whatever bad thing that comes their way. They are lead by Ryder, a tech-savvy ten-year-old boy.

Episodes on the single-disc are:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Complete First Season
Voice Cast: Jason Biggs, Rob Paulsen, Sean Astin, Greg Cipes, Mae Whitman, Hoon Lee
Studio: Nickelodeon
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Retail: $35.98
ASIN: B00LN87984
Running Time: 625 minutes
Rating: Not Rated
Buy Link: Amazon

Review:

Available to this on DVD from Nickelodeon is the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Complete First Season, featuring all 26 episodes on a 4-disc set. Special Features include 6 "Making Of" Animatics, Theme Song: Karaoke Music Video, Animated Comic Books: Tales From The Turtle Lair Part 1-6, and The Mutation of a Scene (New Girl in Town, The Pulverizer, TCRI, Cockroach Terminator, Baxter's Gambit). Included in the set is a 16-page sample of the upcoming coffee book Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Visual History by Andrew Farago.

Nobody ever imagined the kind of phenomenon that would occur when the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book was printed in 1984 by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. Now 30 years after their debut, the series is still going strong with new issues being released by IDW Publishing, this summer's blockbuster film is headed for Blu-ray in the middle of December and Nickelodeon is currently airing the third season of the third animated series on Friday nights.

The Nickelodeon series borrows the best bits from the original 1987 series and the 2003 reboot, which finds Leo, Donnie, Ralph and Mikey battling an alien race known as the Kraang, Shredder and his Foot Clan and dozens of deadly mutants. Along with their master Splinter and their human friend April O'Neil, the Turtles must protect New York City at all costs.

Episodes on the 4-disc set are:

Witch's Night Out
Voice Cast: Gilda Radner, Bob Church, John Leach, Naomi Leach
Tony Molesworth, Catherine O'Hara, Fiona Reid, Gerry Salsberg
Studio: Mill Creek Entertainment
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Retail: $9.98
ISBN: B00LU4URQM
Running Time: 124 minutes
Rating: Not Rated
Buy Link: Amazon

Review:

Arriving on DVD for the very first time is the 1978 Canadian Halloween special, titled Witch's Night Out, which is a sequel to the 1974 special The Gift of Winter. 

Witch's Night Out centers on a witch bringing two children, Small and Tender, along with their babysitter (Bazooey) to a Halloween party that is taking place at the witch's mansion. The witch decides to show them a good time by turning them into a werewolf and Frankenstein's monster. The local citizens aren't too happy about the party and they create a mob to catch any supernatural creature.

As an added bonus there are 10 bonus Halloween episodes: