You never forget Ann-Margret writhing around in baked beans spewing out of a television set in Tommy, no matter if you’re in high school, as I was, or any age really. Once you’ve seen that, you’re ready for anything else…
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel does what movies are supposed to do: Show us something different; show us something new. The different is in Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy and Tom Wilkinson appearing together, along with Ronald Pickup, Celia…
With respect to the copywriters at Shout! Factory who summarize plots of TV shows so succinctly for the episode lists you find on the inside of their DVD cases and on the back of separate cases for some multi-disc sets…
Amidst the debate about the quality of movies today, there’s the loud, wailing lament that because of frenetic action epics (not epics in the traditional sense, but sometimes as big as them) like Battleship and the Transformers franchise, we might…
Brought to us by super-producer Aaron Spelling and his partner Leonard Goldberg, The Rookies revolved around three newly minted police officers: streetwise African-American Terry Webster (Georg Stanford Brown), naive recent college graduate Willie Gillis (Michael Ontkean) and U.S. military veteran…
The husband, Ray Tisdale (Jeff Fahey), gets up from the bed early in the morning to sneak out to go fishing at Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia, where he and his family live. A small town where everybody knows each…
“Who would want to live in a city with no sense of its own past? I wouldn’t.” – British journalist Andrew Marr The Santa Clarita Valley, 30 minutes north of Los Angeles and totally isolated from it, is considered a…
On the way back from a few days in Las Vegas this past January, my family and I stopped at the Fashion Outlets of Las Vegas, on the Nevada/California border in Primm. My sister wanted to see what the Williams-Sonoma…
So far this year, the Year of the Acorn, which is 60% of the way to becoming Acorn Media’s best year ever, establishing it as a rip-roaring competitor to BBC Home Video, there has been the Criterion Collection-level I Claudius:…
Two years ago, Acorn Media released on DVD Backstairs at the White House, a star-studded portrayal of life at the White House through Lillian Rogers Park (Leslie Uggams), a real-life maid at the White House, who wrote a book about…