DVD Review: Magic & Bird – A Courtship of Rivals
HBO | 2010 | 90 mins. | MA As a huge basketball fan on the East coast, my blood runs Celtic green. As a kid growing up in the late 1970’s and ‘80’s, I looked forward to every game between…
HBO | 2010 | 90 mins. | MA As a huge basketball fan on the East coast, my blood runs Celtic green. As a kid growing up in the late 1970’s and ‘80’s, I looked forward to every game between…
Warner Bros. | 2009 | 817 mins. | NR Chuck Bartowski (Zachary Levi) was your average lovable nerd. A brilliant student at Stanford, life as he knew it came to a crashing halt. It all happened when his roommate and…
Criterion | 1983 | 124 mins. | R Don’t be fooled by the title; this movie isn’t the type to put you in the Christmas spirit. Set in World War II Japan at a P.O.W. camp where the guards regularly…
Eagle Rock | 1983 | 120 mins. | NR The Everly Brothers, Don and Phil, are country influenced rock ‘n roll performers known for steel-string guitar playing and close harmony singing. The Brothers are the most successful U.S. rock and…
20th Century Fox | 2009 | 974 mins. | NR It seems unbelievable now, but when Glee was picked up by Fox, the show’s creators—Ryan Murphy (Nip/Tuck), Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan—were just hoping the show would avoid cancelation before…
Disney/Buena Vista | 1985 | 80 mins. | PG By the mid-eighties, Disney had released a string of lackluster films. In 1985, the ‘House of Mouse’ was poised to release The Black Cauldron. Their most expensive project since Pinocchio, and…
Warner Bros. | 2009 | 935 mins. | NR As we’ve come to expect, the third season of Gossip Girl offered plenty of drama–a marriage, threesomes, ‘chair’ parties, etc.–the producers and writers gave viewers a little bit of everything. The…
Warner Bros. | 2009 | 528 mins. | NR For the 2009-2010 television season, ABC decided to do away with their entire Wednesday night lineup and introduce an entire slate of new series. With the well-regarded but ratings-challenged shows Pushing…
Disney/Buena Vista | 2009 | 946 mins. | NR With Lost in its stretch run, ABC realized they would need a new series to reinvigorate that fanbase. In the summer of 2009, executives thought they’d found the answer in FlashForward,…
Buena Vista | 552 Minutes | 2009 | NR When Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence announced he had a new series in development, I couldn’t help but be intrigued. When he said, “The show came from not only hearing stories from…