Girlfriends – the word usually calls to mind a group of girls/women in their teens to early twenties, despite the fact that it does, in fact, encompass all ages. Girlfriends: Series One (now available on Acorn DVD) follows three women ‘of a certain age’ as their lives seem to be collapsing around them.
Tag: DVD Reviews
13 Reasons Why: Season 1 Is Equally Devastating On Home Video!
13 Reasons Why, based on a YA novel by Jay Asher (which I have not read), details the suicide of a high school junior and causes and consequences of her death. It’s one of the most powerful and important shows to stream on Netflix – and it’s now available on DVD (but not Blu-ray for […]
Wallander: The Complete Collection – ScandiNoir at Its Finest!
The Wallander novels of Henning Mankell are the basis for the fine British crime series Wallander. The four series (seasons) of the show contain fifteen ninety-minute episodes – nine adaptations of one of the nine novels – that follow Wallander through seven years of his life. The stark, serene and occasionally eerie landscapes of Sweden […]
The BBC Shakespeare 400th Anniversary Gift Set: As Good As It Gets!
Shakespeare lovers will definitely want to add The BBC Shakespeare 400th Anniversary Gift Set to their collections. The collection includes: Bill (Shakespeare’s lost years as a lute player – think Pythonesque farce), Hamlet (the Royal Shakespeare Company TV film starring Patrick Stewart and David Tennant), Shakespeare ReTold (exactly what it says on the tin), and […]
DVD Review: Kubo and the Two Strings – Still Brilliant!
Kubo and the Two Strings is a genuinely amazing film. It’s a story of family on both an intimate and mythic level. It’s also absolutely gorgeous to look at. If not for the Pixar release Zootopia, it would be almost certainly a lock for this year’s best animated film Oscar®. The DVD is now available […]
Into the Badlands – Mad Martial Arts Drama On DVD!
Into the Badlands is a solid drama with a great martial arts edge. It’s like nothing else on television – and that’s a Good Thing. We gave it an A based on the premiere and the remaining five episodes did nothing to cut into that initial score. The DVD release of the first season – […]
Swiss Army Man: A WTF Movie With an Unexpected Sweetness and Cool Extras!
There are movies that come out of nowhere and delight some while totally disgusting others. A movie that features a flatulent corpse and a suicidal castaway might just be that. Swiss Army Man has come to home video and it gets the kind of package a WTF movie deserves – including a commentary track so […]
Longmire: The Complete Fourth Season: Bare Bones DVD Gets Full Marks!
When A&E canceled Longmire the outcry was sufficient for Netflix to pick up the series – where it got even better! Episodes are longer, even more nuanced and the characters even more fully explored over the course of some of the most interesting cases ever. The fourth season DVD set has no featurettes – not […]
Scorpion: Season Two – Geeks & Gadgets Saving The World So We Don’t Have To!
The second season DVD set of CBS’ Scorpion shows it to be something other than a pure procedural – and combine’s its storytelling flexibility with character development in a way that keeps it fresh even after 23 episodes. Scorpion: Season Two also has a number of solid bonus features and two of the worst commentary […]
Limitless: Brilliant But Canceled; Now On DVD!
The CBS procedural Limitless was the story of Brian Finch, the guy who followed the movie’s Eddie Morra into the land of complete mastery of the brain via the drug NZT. NZT enabled Brian to do some amazing things, including: solving the murder for which he had been framed; save his father’s life; work with […]
Night of the Living Deb – Zomromcoms Are a Thing Now?
Night of the Living Deb is a zombie-romantic-comedy, or zomromcom. So that’s a thing. It’s also smart, funny, occasionally genuinely creepy and occasionally a bit too awkward for its own good – especially at the beginning, when we haven’t actually twigged to what the rules are.