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, […]
Category: DVD
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 […]
DVD NEWS: LOST: Season Six and The Complete Series Available in Blu-ray and DVD on August 24!
Both LOST: The Complete Series and LOST: The Complete Sixth Season will be released on August 24, 2010.The big question is in regard to the complete series package – to wit, what the heck is in it? The official word from Disney follows the jump [note that there is no mention of the sixteen-minute epilogue […]
New On DVD: The Louis L’Amour Collection
COMING TO DVD FROM WARNER HOME VIDEO ON MAY 18th Three hard-riding movie adaptations of the legendary author’s novels. CATLOW – A renegade outlaw wants to pull off a gold heist but finds it hard because he’s such a wanted man by the Mexican Army, his hellcat girlfriend, an Indian war party, a vengeful killer […]
DVD REVIEW: The Virginian: The Complete First Season – Epic Western Series Sprawls Across the Small Screen!
At one point in time, there were thirty seven westerns airing in primetime. Everyone knows that Gunsmoke was the longest-running of them all [and America’s longest-running TV series – tied just this year by Law & Order] and Bonanza is perhaps the most fondly remembered [as well the second longest-running western]. Coming in third, though, […]
DVD News: 24: The Complete Series – and 24: Season Eight – Arrive on DVD and Blu-ray In Time for Christmas!
Time may have run out on 24, one of the most innovative and acclaimed [not to mention harrowing] dramas on television, but fans can relive every pulse-pounding minute of the show’s final season when 24 Season Eight arrives – just in time for Christmas – on December 7, 2010 to Blu-ray and DVD from Twentieth […]
DVD REVIEW: Stargate Atlantis: The Complete Series – Edgier Then the Original; More Fun Than the Latest Flavor!
Stargate Atlantis premiered as the original Stargate series, SG-1, was going into its eighth season. It was immediately darker than the original – there was a key death in the premiere, and the alien race they encountered, the Wraith, didn’t require technology to suck the life from their victims. There was also the possibility that […]
Coming To DVD: Edge of Darkness
Gibson is back, taking us to the edge and into the sinister darkness beyond on Tuesday May 11, 2010 as Edge of Darkness comes to DVD, Combo Pack, Blu_Ray and Download The bullet that killed his daughter was meant for Boston cop Thomas Craven or that’s what police brass and Craven himself think, but that’s […]
DVD REVIEW: Avatar – Pretty Dazzling Even in Good Old 2D!
Even for those of us who haven’t yet made the switch to Blu-ray and HDTV, Avatar, James Cameron’s half-a-billion-dollar extravaganza makes for one entertaining evening on old-fashioned DVD.
Baltimore boy Jimmy Traynor is back with a New Flick – Welcome Home: The Jay Randall Story
One of the major mistakes independent filmmakers always make is that instead of going out and making a movie that’s unique and different they settle for the tired story about breaking into Hollywood. Local Baltimore boy Jimmy Duke Traynor has made dozens of self-financed movies over the last few years, none of which tackled this […]
DVD REVIEW: I Sell the Dead is a Merrily Horrific Tale About a Couple of Ghouls!
Told in a series of flashbacks by a condemned man, to a priest, I Sell the Dead is the tale of two graverobbers – Willie Grimes [Larry Fessenden] and Arthur Blake [Dominic Monaghan] – who become ghouls – sellers of the dead whether stationary or not.