A summer replacement for The Smothers Brothers Show, Hee Haw premiered on Sunday, June 15th, 1969. Over at NBC, Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In was a controversial, but undeniable smash, and CBS hoped to strike their own pot of gold with…
The popularity of The Walking Dead has heightened the profile of the zombie subgenre. It feels like paint-by-the-numbers zombie apocalypse movies have become a dime a dozen. Like this falls Maggie—though that film did it better—Extinction takes the standard formula…
Mike & Molly: The Complete Fifth Season is available now from as a three-disc set via Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. Created by Chuck Lorre (The Big Bang Theory, Mom) the series, renewed for a sixth season, and has benefited from…
A mix of Cliffhanger and Air Force One, Big Game is ridiculous, but much more fun than the aforementioned films because it takes itself far less seriously. Samuel L. Jackson manages to keep a straight face through the whole thing,…
A visual wonder and gorgeous to watch, George Miller’s latest installment of the Mad Max series, Fury Road, sucks you in from the opening moments and doesn’t let go until the closing credits. Miller has maintained the feel of the…
The first American Western to be filmed in Israel, director Ted Kotcheff’s (Life at the Top, Fun With Dick and Jane, North Dallas Forty) Billy Two Hats has made its way to Blu-ray courtesy of Kino Lorber Studio Classics. Released…
Largely panned by critics, 2 Broke Girls has won two People’s Choice, and earned enough of a following to warrant a fifth season on CBS. Full of crass hit-or-miss one-liners, certainly isn’t for the easily offended and tends to recycle…
The shorts gathered together for the Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection run the gamut from silly to somber. While Frozen Fever and Tangled Ever After are tie-ins to two popular Disney films and will attract buyers—which isn’t a…
The first of three film versions of the Ben Hecht/Charles MacArthur play, 1931’s The Front Page presents a sharp, insightful look at journalism of the day. Watching the film more than eighty years after its initial release, it’s both sad…
Showtime’s The Affair begins on a summer morning in Manhattan, as teacher and first-time novelist Noah Solloway (Dominic West), his wife, Helen (Maura Tierney), and their four children get ready to spend the summer at her parents’ Long Island mansion…