Author: Rebecca Wright

DVD Review: Dallas: The Complete Eighth Season

Debauchery, double-crossing, divorce, adultery, kidnapping, assassination attempts! Dallas had it all. The Ewing family lived at the ostentatious Southfork ranch in Braddock County just outside Dallas. Miss Ellie, long played by veteran actress Barbara Bel Geddes, was the matriarch of the clan. J.R. (Larry Hagman)

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DVD Review: Margot At The Wedding

Writer/director Noah Baumbach seems to enjoy exploring the dark underbelly of family dynamics and relationships. Baumbach wrote the 2005 film The Squid and the Whale, in which the father (Jeff Daniels) of an intellectual, if slightly eccentric Brooklyn family claims to have been a great

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DVD Review: Michael Clayton

Films that center on greed are hardly new. Hollywood has long been fascinated by man’s thirst for money and power. Often in these films, the spotlight shines on someone with one last shot at redemption. Sometimes the struggle is played out in the courtroom, sans

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“Chicago 10” Trailer

Synopsis: From his Academy Award-nominated “On the Ropes”, to his singular blend of fact and legend in the Robert Evans portrait “The Kid Stays in the Picture,” Brett Morgen has explored increasingly provocative ways to transform documentary materials into new and exhilarating kinds of movies.

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DVD Review: ER: The Complete Eighth Season

While ER can occasionally veer off into soap opera territory, the long running series about the medical staff and patients of Chicago’s fictional County General Hospital remains one of the best written shows on television today. One of the reasons ER has been able to

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DVD Review: Family Ties: The Third Season

Though Family Ties debuted in September of 1982, it wasn’t until the series third season that the show really took off. Aided by its position behind The Cosby Show on Thursday nights, Family Ties reached #5 in the Nielsen ratings during the 1984-85 season. Family

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DVD Review: Beauty And The Beast: The Final Season

Beauty and the Beast was one of those shows that never did that well in the ratings but had a loyal following. When the show premiered in 1987, Catherine (Linda Hamilton) was a wealthy Assistant District Attorney looking for meaning in her life. Vincent (Ron

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Writers’ Strike: Why the Web Wins

From Newsweek.com via Forbes.com ‘Strike’ One for the Web: According to industry projections, video streaming revenue and video downloading revenue is expected to reach $3 billion and $1 billion by 2010 and 2011, respectively. And while that’s a fraction of the revenue for entertainment as

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