After Shrek The Third, the series pretty much hit bottom. Very few fans thought a fourth movie would be a good idea, but since it had already been greenlighted, there nothing to be done. And then, a minor miracle happened – Shrek: The Final Chapter backed off the ubiquitous pop references and went back to […]
Category: DVD Reviews
DVD: United States of Tara: The Second Season – Things Get Weirder!
United States of Tara made quite a splash for Showtime when it premiered. It was [and is] the first television series to be built around a character who suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder [formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder]. While the Diablo Cody-created series is quirky fun in its original weekly format, the storytelling […]
Have Gun – Will Travel: Season Five, Volume One – More Adventures of Television’s First Existential Western Hero!
Have Gun – Will Travel’s Paladin [Richard Boone] lives by a unique code of honor that does not preclude the enjoyment of many pleasures. Wine, women, song – he loves them all. But as a greedy rancher finds out in, The Race, an episode from first half of the series’ fifth season, that also doesn’t […]
Back From Hell: Tribute To Sam Kinison – They Exposed The Wrong Guy To The Bible!
Comedy Central’s Back From Hell: Tribute to Sam Kinison may be the most honest example of its kind – which makes sense, since Kinison was probably the most honest stand-up comic there’s ever been. How honest is this tribute? Lenny Clarke, on remembering when he heard the news that Kinison was dead, ‘My first thought […]
The Six Million Dollar Man: The Complete Collection – TimeLife’s Massive Complete Set Brings The Adventure!
The iconic opening credits have been parodied ever since the show originally aired – even AOL riffed on them. Virtually everyone remembers the voiceover from those credits: ‘Steve Austin. A man barely alive… We can rebuild him… make him better than he was…’ Now TimeLife has put together what has to be one of the […]
The 4 Ed Sullivan Shows Starring The Beatles is finally on DVD! Michelle’s Review
One of the biggest Pop Cultural moments in the last 100 years happened February 9, 1964 when television host Ed Sullivan uttered the immortal words – “Ladies and Gentleman: The Beatles,” and the rest as they say is History. The funny thing about that moment is, it’s often replayed but I’ve never saw the full […]
Ugly Americans Volume One – One Man Is The System!
In the New York city of an alternate universe, Mark Lilly [voiced by Matt Oberg] is literally fighting the system from within since the Department of Integration has been downsized to one working employee [him] – as opposed to his wizard colleague [who goes out of his way to avoid working] – to give Law […]
DVD: Human Target- The Complete First Season Has Lots of Entertaining Action To Offer
AVAILABLE ON DVD FROM WARNER HOME VIDEO AS OF SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 On January 17, 2009 The FOX network debuted an action series titled Human Target. The series concept was based on a highly popular DC comic book character, Christopher Chance created by by Len Wein and Carmine Infantino. In the comic book series, Chance […]
On DVD: The Vampire Diaries- The Complete First Season Is Well Worth Owning
AVAILABLE ON DVD AS OF AUGUST 27TH, 2010 The CW Network hit series, The Vampire Diaries had it’s season 2 premiere, The Return, on Thursday September 9th at 8PM EST. According to the next day press release, the series is still going strong with the VAMPIRE DIARIES delivering its best ‘Women 18-34 Ratings ‘ since […]
On DVD: One Tree Hill-The Complete Seventh Season
Available on DVD as of August 31, 2010 When the teen angst drama One Tree Hill , created by Mark Schwahn premiered on September 23, 2003, audiences were introduced to the denizens of the fictional North Carolina town of Tree Hill. One Tree Hill, which was filmed on location in Wilmington, NC to give a […]
Clone Hunter – The Spirit of Roger Corman is Contagious!
Is it possible to make an entertaining sci-fi movie for less than it cost to outfit Johnny Depp as The Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland? Well, the folks at New Jersey’s Pandora Machine seem to think so and, judging by Clone Hunter, it would appear they are correct.