DVD Review: Knots Landing – The Complete Second Season
The eighties was definitely the decade of the nighttime soap. Fans flocked to Dallas, Dynasty and Falcon Crest to see how the super rich lived, worked and played. Created by David Jacobs (one-time writer of Family and later producer of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman) in conjunction with producer Michael Filerman (who […]
DVD Review: Brideshead Revisited
As a fan of British history and films, I was curious to check out the latest film incarnation of Evelyn Waugh’s 1945 novel, Brideshead Revisited. Set in England during World War II, much of the story is told through a series of flashbacks from several decades earlier. Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) is studying history at […]
Blu-ray Review: Coach Carter
I like Samuel L. Jackson. I think he’s a talented actor; the only problem is, sometimes I think he spreads himself a bit too thin. It seems like every time you turn around, there’s another movie with Sam in it. For every Pulp Fiction he seems to make two clunkers, who loved Snakes on a […]
DVD Review: Atonement
Based on the best selling novel by Ian McEwen, Atonement is the story of 13-year-old Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan), an aspiring writer from an upper class English family who because of a mix of immaturity, misunderstanding and jealousy, tells a lie that changes her life and that of her family’s forever. Briony’s older sister Cecilia […]