Sometimes, when you watch a show you loved years ago, you wonder why you loved it so much in the first place. Wiseguy is not one of those shows. The Stephen J. Cannell series revolved around Vincenzo Terranova [Ken Wahl], an undercover member of the Organized Crime Bureau. Terranova had just come out of eighteen-months […]
DVD REVIEW: The Return of The Adventures of Robin Hood!
In the late fifties [1955-60], there was a fair bit of swashbuckling on TV – Zorro, Elfego Baca, The Scarecrow [all courtesy of Walt Disney] and more. Of the lot, none was more popular than the British import, The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Richard Greene [who bore a passing resemblance to Errol Flynn] as […]
DVD REVIEW: Dungeons & Dragons: The Complete Series – Animated, Saturday Morning Mayhem!
The premise was simple: a bunch of kids who play Dungeons & Dragons suddenly find themselves in a world where the roles they’ve played become real – and they gain the abilities of those characters for real.
DVD REVIEW: GoreHouse Greats: A Dozen Horror B-Movies The Price of Two!
One of the great things about Mill Creek Entertainment [besides their commitment to make available inexpensive volumes of cult TV shows] is that they also collect and release B-movies… lots and lots of B-movies. GoreHouse Greats is their latest such collection of horror movies. To review all twelve titles would kill a bit too much […]
TELEVISION RECAP – Gossip Girl, Reversals of Fortune – Season 3, Episode 1
Summer is coming to a close Blair (Leighton Meester) and Chuck (Ed Westwick) spent their summer being a couple. Chuck is in a coffee shop where a blond picks him up; Blair comes in and tells the woman Chuck is taken and stay away from her man. Turns spice up their relationship by playing games […]
INTERVIEW: Guiding Light’s Jessica Leccia
Earlier this year I had the distinct pleasure of scoring one of the first interviews with actress Jessica Leccia who over the better part of a year has so beautifully played one half of the Guiding Light super couple affectionately referred to as Otalia. Jessica (as Natalia Rivera) along side veteran soap Goddess Crystal Chappell […]
TELEVISION RECAP: 90120 To Sext or Not to Sext, S2 Ep 2 Recap
The show starts where we left off last week. Naomi (AnnaLynne McCord) has Annie’s (Shenae Grimes) nude photos on her cell phone the problem is she doesn’t know how to send it anonymously so she flirts with a computer geek to get him to show her how. Her fellow mean girls, Silver (Jessica Stroup) and […]
DVD REVIEW: Sanctuary: The Complete First Season – Myths and Legends Come to Life!
Sanctuary is a science fiction show that postulates that the creatures of legend, myth and nightmare really exist – that “here be monsters” is not hyperbole. It’s an ambitious series, technically, being shot with the RED camera [the current top of the line digital camera] against a great deal of green screen – in the […]
DVD REVIEW: Grey’s Anatomy Slips A Bit In Season 5!
The usually consistently very good Grey’s Anatomy suffered a major dip in quality in season five because of two poorly thought character arcs – one that went on far too long, and one that was truncated for no really good reason – and a conspicuous by his absence arc for another character.
INTERVIEW: A Conversation with the Girls from Big Purple Dreams
If you’re a fan of daytime television and have been following Guiding Light’s break through storyline over the past year between Olivia Spencer (Crystal Chappell) and Natalia Rivera (Jessica Leccia) affectionately know as Otalia, then you most definitely know about the fan forum Big Purple Dreams. BPD was created by a group of soap fans […]
Video Game Releases: Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 and Wet
This week we have one huge game and another fun game hitting the store shelves. WET Wet is a game that hasn’t gotten much of a marketing push but promises to be an interesting shooter. It’s the game Quentin Tarantino would make if he was a game developer, or maybe the game developers watched one […]