Bambi
2-Disc Diamond Edition Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack
DVD Packaging | Blu-ray Packaging
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Release date: March 1, 2011
End date: April 30, 2012

This Bambi: Diamond Edition is going back into the Disney Vault on April 30, 2012, so if you’re a fan of the film, it’s definitely worth grabbing before it’s put out of circulation. Once it goes into the Vault, the price on existing stock will shoot up (possibly as high as $70) and no new copies will be made and sold. The Diamond Edition includes both DVD and Blu-ray edition of the film (with a choice of two different packagings) and is packed with bonus features, which I detail here below. If you’re a fan of Disney animation, the extras included here will be a real treat.

If your children have already learned about the Circle of Life from The Lion King, there’s more harsh life lessons to be learned from Bambi. While the 70-minute Disney animated feature is high quality and beautiful, it’s certainly managed to traumatized plenty of youngsters since its release in 1942. The film follows a young deer named Bambi from his birth through his adulthood, and while it’s a touching story of life’s adversities being overcome by love and the power of friendship, watching Bambi’s struggles will make you cry. If you don’t cry, well, then you don’t have a heart.

As part of Amazon’s monthly $5 MP3 Album Deals for April 2012, Boston is on sale for only $5.

Originally released a few weeks after America celebrated its 200th birthday all in the Summer of 1976, eponymous debut album by the band Boston has become one of the more memorable classic rock albums of all time. Every song by this Beantown group has gotten radio play thousands of times, the opening track “More Than A Feeling” spawned would-be and successful guitar heroes all across the continent, it’s definitely one of those dividedly “feel good” rock and roll albums of the 1970s.

Disney has been known to restore and re-release critically acclaimed works to the public for a very limited amount of time. And if you haven’t reserved the time to purchase the Beauty and the Beast Diamond Edition and Bambi: Diamond Edition at your local video store or favorite website, then you have to hurry, because are heading back to the vault on April 30th, 2012. That’s less than two days away, so if you have been meaning to add these two titles to your library, then you better stop reading this post and buy it now before time runs out.

Also going back into the Disney Vault at the end of this month is Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas: Special Edition and Beauty and the Beast: Belle’s Magical World: Special Edition.

The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at TeeFury today is a mash-up of Harry Potter and H.P. Lovecraft called “Howard Phillip” by NikHolmes.

The sale began at Teefury today, Saturday, April 28, 2012, at midnight EST, and will continue for 24 hours from then, and once it’s over, it will not be sold on the site anymore.

The First Grader
Netflix Streaming
DVD
Directed by Justin Chadwick
Starring Oliver Litondo, Naomie Harris, Tony Kgoroge, Vusi Kunene
National Geographic Entertainment
Originally Released: September 4, 2010

The First Grader is one of those rare dramas that is such enthralling viewing; you cannot turn away from the screen. The performances in this movie are well above standards and expectations, with some moving moments sure to bring some viewers to tears. Coupled with some extraordinary cinematography and an exceptional score, The First Grader is a film based on true events that is not to be missed.

In 2003, the People’s Republic of Kenya officially announced that they were introducing free primary education (what Americans refer to as Elementary School) across the country. The result saw a massive increase in enrollment and attendance (Wikipedia cites this as high as 70%), ushering forth a new era of potential for the children of the country.