2D animation is becoming a thing of the past, but there are a few them still around cable channels, including Phineas & Ferb, which its fourth season is currently being aired on Disney XD. While the future of the series is in limbo, fans can grab their hands on Phineas & Ferb: Star Wars that will arrive on DVD this Tueaday November 11, 2014. As an added bonus there are 5 bonus episode along with a Perry-In-Carbonite Keychain.

The Star Wars special aired back in July on the Disney Channel and Disney XD. There have several other series (Robot Chicken, Family Guy) that have crossed over with the Star Wars franchise, mostly retelling the original trilogy, but that isn't the case with this special. Here we get an original Phineas & Ferb adventure that happens to take place during Star Wars - Episode IV: A New Hope.


In the new spin on the tale, Phineas and Ferb are living with their parents on the planet Tattooin and they happen to be living close to Luke Skywalker (voiced by Christopher Corey Smith). Meanwhile, Perry the platypus is part the Rebel Alliance and steals a CD containing the Death Star plans and gives the plans to Princess Leia. After the Star Destroyer intercepts their ship, Princess Leia inserts the CD into R2-D2 for safe keeping. C-3PO (voiced by Simon Pegg) and R2-D2 hop into an escape pod, but three Imperial stormtroopers, Candace Flynn, Baljeet Tjinder and Buford van Stomm, are hot on their trail and of course Perry isn't too far behind them either.

Drive Hard
Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith
Starring: John Cusack and Thomas Jane
Studio: Image Entertainment
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Retail: $29.96
ASIN: B00MHATLHO
Running Time: 96 minutes
Rating: Not Rated
Buy Link: Amazon

Review:

Arriving on DVD & Blu-ray on Tuesday November 11, 2014 from Image Entertainment is the action-comedy Drive Hard. The film is directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith and stars John Cusack and Thomas Jane. There are no exras or special features.

Originally the film was suppose to be set in the United States with  Jean Claude Van Damme, but after the actor dropped out of the project, the director, Brian Trenchard-Smith, rewrote the script when John Cusack became available. The movie was filmed in 18 days in Queensland, Australia.


Drive Hard centers on a former American race car driver, Peter Roberts (played by Thomas Jane), who now spends his days as a driving instructor in Australia that is until his newest student Simon Keller (played by John Cusack) steps into his life. He is unaware that Simon is a thief, well, until he is forced by gunpoint to be a getaway driver when Simon steals $9 million dollars.

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  This week's question is submitted by Stephanie!

Should book bloggers be doing more to support bookshops rather than just give links to Amazon or B&N as a place to buy the printed version of books they read?

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My Answer: 

Well, technically, B&N is a bookstore and I'm not for sure what else we could do besides for providing "Buy Links" in a review post.

Becoming Bea
The Courtships of Lancaster County, book 4
By Leslie Gould
Publisher: Bethany House
Pub. Date: October 21, 2014
ISBN: 978-0764210341
Pages: 352
Buy Link: http://ow.ly/Dcnfl
Blog Tour: http://litfusegroup.com/author/lgould

Review:

Yep, Amish fiction is one my favorite genres to read, which may seem a little odd to some since I'm a male. I stumbled upon the genre back in 2002, a time when there were only a few authors writing Amish titles. Fast forward to 2014 and there are several new titles being released every month by different authors.

Becoming Bea by Leslie Gould arrived in bookstores a few weeks ago. It is the fourth installment in The Courtship of Lancaster County series. I remember reading the first two installments, Courting Cate and Adoring Addie, but for some unknown reason I didn't know about the third novel, Minding Molly. Nevertheless, I still signed up to read the fourth book in the series.

Becoming Bea centers on Beatrice Zook, a young Amish woman who  could care less about getting married and starting a family as she would rather have her own bookstore. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she agrees to assist a family by helping take care of their triplets, which is a little odd as she doesn't know too much about children.

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.

Tons of Adverbs and Adjectives

Overuse of a Single Word

“Telling” Actions

Too Many Passive Sentences

Too Many Lazy Words

• Stuff
• Went
• Was
• Got
• Very
• Are
• A lot

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.