After five seasons in which NCIS garnered ever better ratings, someone [CBS? NCIS: LA creator Shane Brennan] had the bright idea, “Why don’t we make a spin-off/companion series?” And so, in the fullness of time [or about a month before the end of the seventh season, take your pick], NCIS ran a two-part story, Legendary, […]
Category: DVD Reviews
The Red Riding Trilogy – Haunting Noir Movie Trilogy Not for the Faint of Heart!
The Red Riding Trilogy [Red Riding 1974, Red Riding 1980, and Red Riding 1983] is a series of movies that deal with police corruption and the kidnapping of several young girls in the Yorkshire area of England during the period of time the city was the site of a series of murders by the so-called […]
NCIS: The Seventh Season – The Cases Are Interesting But The Investigators Keep Us Coming Back!
Season seven of NCIS was, quite possibly, the show’s best yet. Over the course of the season, characters faced personal challenges that more than rivalled the cases they were working on. Throughout, the writing, performances and direction kept things moving and the audience involved.
Date Night Best Comedy of 2010, To Date!
The Other Guys may be the funniest film of the summer, so far, but the funniest movie of the year, to this point, is April’s Date Night. The slightly unhinged [in a good way] fusion of romantic comedy and action flick starring Steve Carell and Tina Fey as an old married couple trying to kick […]
Numb3rs: The Final Season – Series Pulls Out All The Stops In Final Season!
Numb3rs has always been a bit of a weird step-sibling in the world of procedurals. With its innovative use of higher math to solve/prevent crimes, it could have been boring. With its emphasis on family – both at home and, in a surrogate fashion, in the workplace, it could have been smarmy – or worse, […]
The Joneses: Scathing Satire Loses to Hollywood Ending!
Steve and Kate Jones are a happily married couple with two perfect teenaged children, Jenn and Mick. When they move into the neighborhood, their exquisite taste in clothes, furniture, electronics and automobiles – not to mention golf clubs, videogames and food – are soon the envy of all their neighbors. But The Joneses isn’t just […]
DVD Review: The Losers is Out On Combo Pack, But Special Features Are Limited to The Blu-Ray Disc
Available on Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD, On Demand and for Download 7/20! It’s tough to do just a DVD review anymore since many movies, especially those being released by Warner Home Video, are being packaged as combos that include DVD, Blu-Ray and Digital Download. So this is really a review of both the DVD and […]
DVD Review: Cop Out Rolls Out The Laughs, But The Bonus Features Don’t Rock
Available from Warner Home Video as a DVD/Blu-Ray/Digital Down load Combo Pack beginning July 20th. Cop Out had all the makings of a box office action/comedy hit when it was released into theaters back in February. It starred action movie veteran Bruce Willis and the very comedic Tracy Morgan and had Kevin Smith in the […]
DVD Review: The Closer: The Complete Fifth Season
Available on DVD from Warner Home Video beginning June 29th, 2010 Darn that Kyra Sedgwick, she looks good even wearing yellow crime scene tape! It seems like season five of The Closer had just begun airing on TNT, but it was actually over a year ago with the first episode Products of Discovery premiering on […]
DVD REVIEW: The 41-Year Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It!
Who needs a headline when you’ve got a movie with that title? I’m reminded of a World War II song called I’m a Cranky Old Yank in My Clanky Old Tank Doing The Beato, Beato Flat on My Seato Home Again Blues [real song, not kidding]. I have no idea what the song sounded like, […]
DVD REVIEW: Burn Notice: Season Three – Long on Entertainment; Short on Extras!
Season two of Burn Notice ended with Michael Westen [Jeffrey Donovan] making a perhaps not so clean break with Management [John Mahoney], head of the clandestine government agency that burned him. This after learning that the very agency that burned him had protected him from his enemies – and seen to it that the police […]