Showtime’s relentlessly peculiar comedy The Big C is now available on DVD and Blu-ray. Centered around the character of Cathy Jamison, it is the story of how a woman diagnosed with terminal cancer [stage four melanoma] only learns how to live once she learns she’s dying.
Category: DVD Reviews
DVD: Burn Notice Season Four – Book Codes And Bombs!
For three seasons, Burn Notice’s Michael Westen has sought the person[s] responsible for his being burned and stuck in the last place he ever wanted to be – Miami. Now a menacingly charming, bullet-headed black guy with a booming voice and ten thousand dollar suits has offered to help him do just that – if […]
DVD: White Collar: The Complete Season Two – White Collar Crime Equals Entertainment Gold!
USA Network’s White Collar has a fun premise: Jailed white collar supercrook helps FBI Agent catch other white collar crooks. Thus con man/forger Neal Caffrey is released from prison into the custody of the FBI [more accurately, Peter Burke, the FBI agent who caught him – twice] as long as he works with Burke to […]
The Rite: This Movie Was In Need of More Devil Fighting In The Details
The Rite available on Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD, On Demand and for Download as of 5/17. From the start, The Rite, directed by Mikael Håfström and written by Matt Baglio and Michael Petroni, seems to present a duel personality. The press release tells us that the story was inspired by true events involving exorcism. […]
DVD Roundup I: The Civil War, The Ten Commandments & Morning Glory
I’m playing catch-up in DVD reviews, this week, thanks to circumstances beyond my control. We’ll start with three entertaining titles from Paramount Home Entertainment: the slight, but entertaining Morning Glory; Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 religious epic, The Ten Commandments, and the innovative documentary series that raised the bar for all documentarians since its release, Ken […]
DVD/Blu_ray/Digital Download Review – Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Pt.1- No More Kidding Around!
Available on DVD/Blu_ray/Digital Download Combo Pack From Warner Home Video as of 4/15/2011 It’s been eleven years since Harry Potter the young half-blood wizard came onto the movie screen in the physical form of Daniel Racliffe. Back in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Harry and his friends were kids attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft […]
DVD Review-Scarecrow & Mrs. King: The Complete Second Season – Reliving Lighthearted Eighties Television
Own It On DVD as of March 22, 2011 It was the Eighties, a time when beautiful housewives with big hair were too busy getting into escapades with handsome spies with manly names to worry about being desperate! It was a time when shows with a touch of innocence to them like Scarecrow and Mrs. […]
DVD/Blue_Ray Review: Hereafter Explores Afterlife Possibilities- Special Features Focus on Director Clint Eastwood
Available on DVD & DVD/Blu_Ray Digital Download Combo Pack on March 15th The synopsis for this 2010 movie tells us that it’s a story about a guy named George (Matt Damon)who is an average Joe with a special connection to the afterlife dating from his childhood. Along the way, Joe meets up with others who […]
DVD/Blu-Ray Review: Life as We Know It- Good Romantic Fun
Available on DVD/Blu_ray/Digital Download Combo Pack as of February 8th Two single adults become caregivers to an orphaned baby girl when their mutual best friends die in an accident. Ever since I first saw her in ‘My Father, the Hero’ opposite Gerard Depardieu and Dalton James, I have always liked Katherine Heigl. She has […]
The Traveler Is For Val Kilmer Fans Only!
Like Nicolas Cage, Val Kilmer has made a number of really good, even great, movies – and twice as many dogs. Also like Cage, even a majority of Kilmer’s duds are worth watching just because he has that same kind of crazy lurking beneath the surface and you just don’t know what he’s going to […]
Louis CK – Hilarious… Really Is!
Louis CK is a forty-something stand-up comedian who deals with relatable stuff – like suddenly becoming single again at forty-one – in a manner that is, like it says on the box, hilarious.