Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment announced today that it will launch director James Cameron’s history-making motion picture AVATAR on Blu-ray Disc and DVD on Thursday, April 22.
Category: DVD
DVD REVIEW: Breaking Bad: The Complete Second Season – Now Darker and More Twisted!
Season one of Breaking Bad had Walt White [Bryan Cranston], meek chemistry teacher, learning he had terminal cancer and deciding that he had to go into the crystal meth business to provide for his family after his death. It was all about a decent man making all the wrong decisions. The second season finds Walt […]
FlashForward Part One, Season One DVD is not worth your money. Michelle’s Review
FlashFoward is one of those high concept shows that I was initially excited for, but then let me down. I tried watching the first few episodes when they originally aired but could not get into it. The pacing was too slow, it took forever to establish the characters and it’s way too serious. I decided […]
DVD REVIEW: Ponyo’s 2-Disc Combo Pack Leaves DVD Viewers With Little More Than The Movie!
Considering the bonus-filled reissues of three Hayao Miyazaki masterpieces alongside the release of Ponyo, it is a wonder that the DVD in this Combo Pack contains only the movie and a five-minute look at its creation. The film itself is brilliant with its reimagining [in the truest sense] of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid […]
DVD REVIEW: Miyazaki Masterpieces Get Re-issues with Lots of Bonus Features!
Maybe it’s because Ponyo did four times the box office of any North American release of any previous film by Hayao Miyazaki, maybe it’s because they are just such wonderful films. Whatever the case, Disney DVD has re-issued the director’s Castle in the Air, Kiki’s Delivery Service and My Neighbor Totoro in two-disc special editions […]
DVD REVIEW: Up in the Air Soars on DVD!
Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air is a great film. What makes it so remarkable isn’t just that it’s timely and brilliant – it’s that it started out to be one thing and then, when the world’s financial climate changed radically, Reitman adapted it to fit the times in a way that is, topically at […]
DVD REVIEW: FlashForward: Season One, Part One – Fast Start; Dwindling Returns; Still Lots of Potential!
When it premiered last fall, FlashForward was considered to be one of two potential replacements for the departing Lost – at least in terms of epic, serialized storytelling. The series premiere set out the basics – for two minutes and seventeen seconds, everyone on the planet lost consciousness. In that time, they experienced visions of […]
DVD REVIEW: Pie in the Sky: Series 2 – A Mystery Doesn’t Have to be About Murder to Entertain!
The ten episodes that comprise Series [season] Two of Pie in the Sky originally aired in the winter of 1995. Such is the show’s writing, direction and acting that it remains as entertaining now as it was then. The series stars Richard Griffiths [best know as Harry Potter’s Uncle Vernon] as Henry Crabbe; a semi-retired […]
DVD REVIEW: A Mind to Kill – CSI’s Ancestor and Just as Intriguing!
Half-a-dozen years, or so, before CSI: Crime Scene Investigation premiered, a little Welsh series called A Mind to Kill presented us with Detective Inspector Noah Bain [Philip Madoc], a Welsh cop who headed a team that used a combination of cutting edge forensics technology and his own unique thought processes and instincts to solve murders.
DVD REVIEW; VEGA$: The First Season, Volume 2 – Michael Mann’s First Series Picks Up Steam!
Although he only wrote one episode, VEGA$ bore the stamp of series creator Michael Mann. It was a slick detective series set in Las Vegas – a place where, especially then, the flashy façade hid a grittier reality. The big hotels and casinos [like the long gone Stardust Hotel and The Sands] where not family […]
DVD REVIEW: The Sarah Silverman Program: Season 2, Volume 2 – Whimsically Shocking Series is Hit or Miss!
Sarah Silverman is an actor/stand-up comic who looks like an especially pretty girl next door while writing material that can best be described as whimsically shocking. How else to explain an episode of her The Sarah Silverman Program that weds a low-budget animated Little Mermaid spoof with bedwetting?