Blu-ray Review: Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles [Season One]
Remakes of beloved classic films are often disasters. Undoubtedly the creative forces behind these endeavors start out with the best of intentions. The problem is that when you try to reformat something that so many fans already consider a masterpiece, you’re behind the eight ball before you even shoot the first frame. When I first […]
DVD Review: Transformers Animated – Season One
Transformers Animated – Season One is the latest in a long line of animated Transformers cartoon, following the disappointment that was Transformers Cybertron. Taking its cues from the Michael Bay movie (The AllSpark, Megatron crash-landed on Earth, big explosions, lots of noise) Transformers Animated has changed pretty much everything about the mythology of the series […]
DVD Review: The Wire – The Complete Fifth Season
David Simon, an author and former police reporter, created one of the finest television series I’ve had the pleasure to watch in The Wire. Simon has said that he originally set out to create a police drama loosely based on the experiences of his writing partner Ed Burns, a former homicide detective. Writing against the […]
DVD Review: South Park: The Complete Eleventh Season [Uncensored]
It’s truly amazing that South Park is currently in its twelfth season on Comedy Central. As a person who has watched countless hours of television and reviewed many of them here, I have written about long-running shows like Cheers and Frasier. However, South Park is in a class all its own. Brash, crass a patently […]
DVD Review: Muhammad Ali: Made in Miami
“Cassius Clay was born in Louisville,” says Ferdie Pacheco, “Muhammad Ali was born in Miami.” Produced by Gaspar Gonzalez and Alan Tomlinson, Muhammad Ali: Made in Miami examines the critical role the city of Miami played in the legendary boxer’s life and career. This one hour PBS documentary allows viewers to get to know the […]
Blu-ray Review: Justice League – Season One
I’m not going to beat around the bush; Justice League – Season One is a must have for any true superhero fan. Producer Bruce Timm followed Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, and Batman Beyond with Justice League. Previously, DC characters had made appearances on different series– Batman met The Creeper, Superman joined […]
Never-Before-Seen Images from The Nightmare Before Christmas!
As the loyal readers of ElasticPop have undoubtedly figured out, I’m crazy about films and television. As a child, I enjoyed going to showings of classic films put on by a film society near where I lived every Saturday morning. In the days before Turner Classic Movies and American Movie Classics, I saw High Noon, […]
DVD Review: Son of Rambow
When you watch as many DVDs as I do, the bad ones are forgotten quickly and the good one tend to linger in your mind for awhile. I remember being in a movie theater sometime around May of this year (oddly, I can’t recall the feature I saw that day), where I saw a preview […]
Blu-ray Review: Nixon – The Election Year Edition
Oliver Stone has pretty much cornered the market on films covering the time during the Vietnam War. His resume is rather impressive: Platoon (1986), Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and Heaven and Earth (1993) are all part of Stone’s Vietnam War trilogy while films including The Doors (1991), J.F.K. (1992) and Nixon (1995), […]
DVD Review: Get Smart – Season 1
Created by legendary funnyman Mel Brooks and fellow comedic actor Buck Henry, Get Smart debuted on September 18, 1965 on NBC. During the series five year run, the show won seven Emmy awards and was nominated for an additional fourteen, as well as two Golden Globe Awards. Oddly enough, Get Smart was never a huge […]