Blu-ray Review: The Dentist Collection
Does anyone like visiting the dentist? There’s something disturbing about someone poking a sharp instrument around in your mouth. Its creepy, besides, they can probably scrape your brain if they try hard enough. Filmmaker Brian Yuzna (Society) effectively taps into those fears with his 1996 direct-to-video film The Dentist and it’s 1998 sequel, The Dentist […]
LA Law: Season One (DVD)
Co-created by Stephen Bochco (Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue) and Terry Louise Fisher (Cagney & Lacey), LA Law was one of the most critically acclaimed series of the mid 1980’s and early 1990’s. Bochco and Fisher took us out of the precincts they had explored so well, and into the going on of Los Angeles […]
Blu-ray Review: Lay the Favorite
After the dull Chéri and the uneven Tamara Drewe, the generally reliable Stephen Frears appears to be in something of a slump. Unfortunately, his frivolous, superficial adaptation of Lay the Favorite, Beth Raymer’s memoir about her path from stripper to bookie isn’t going to change that trend. Rebecca Hall plays Beth Raymer, a private […]