DVD Review: South Park: The Complete Eleventh Season [Uncensored]
It’s truly amazing that South Park is currently in its twelfth season on Comedy Central. As a person who has watched countless hours of television and reviewed many of them here, I have written about long-running shows like Cheers and Frasier. However, South Park is in a class all its own. Brash, crass a patently […]
Sleeping Beauty Coming to Blu-ray October 7, 2008
Burbank, Calif., June 9, 2008 – When Walt Disney’s beloved animated classic, Sleeping Beauty was presented 50 years ago for the first time in an all new Super Technirama 70 format, it mesmerized audiences and critics alike. Now in 2008, this classic fairytale is poised to do the same for a whole new generation to […]
DVD Review: Twister (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Twister is now one of my favorite pointless movies of all time. The plot is non-existent and the characters have absolutely no substance, but it doesn’t matter. The picture and sound on Warner Brothers’ recently released two-disc special edition will rock your home theater. As any DVD collector knows, you have to have a few […]
DVD Review: Sinatra – The 2 Disc Collector’s Edition
Tina Sinatra recently said of her father, “Dad had no interest in writing a memoir: “What good would that do?” he’d say. “My life and music are the whole of me.” Of course, he was right. Film was the only way to go. His music transcends time and intensifies what the screenplay reveals in words.”Tina […]
DVD Review: The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Volume Three – The Years of Change
I never watched The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles when it began airing on television back in 1992. Now, having watched the series, repackaged as a series of films for the DVD release, I regret I didn’t watch the show much earlier. Based on the early life of Indiana Jones as he was growing up and […]
DVD Review: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2-Disc Special Collectors Edition)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is based on the Tony Award-winning musical with a book by Hugh Wheeler and words and music by Stephen Sondheim. The Broadway show originally opened on March 1, 1979. Len Cariou won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of Sweeney Todd. […]
DVD Review: Bee Movie (A Very Jerry 2-Disc Edition)
When I settled in to watch Bee Movie I really wasn’t expecting much. Seinfeld, that long running show about nothing had never really been a favorite of mine, so the presence of Jerry Seinfeld didn’t really pique my curiosity. However, I’ve enjoyed the ingenuity of Dreamworks Animation in the past in such projects as the […]
DVD Review: 101 Dalmatians: Two-Disc Platinum Edition (1961)
101 Dalmatians is loosely based on the 1956 children’s book The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith. In Smith’s book there are actually four main dalmatians, their “pets” are already married, Roger is a “financial wizard” who has been granted an exemption from income tax for life because he freed England of it’s national […]
DVD Review: Zodiac: 2-Disc Director’s Cut
The late 1960’s was a tough time in California. In 1969, Charles Manson and his family systematically murdered seven people, including actress Sharon Tate. Around that same time, during an eleven month period in 1968-69 an individual who identified himself only as the “Zodiac,” murdered at least seven people in Northern California. Given the location […]
DVD Review: Dreamgirls (Two Disc Showstopper Edition)
Bringing very successful Broadway musicals to the big screen is notoriously difficult. It is often easy to loose the power and intimacy created on a stage, when a story is magnified to fit the bigger than life proportions of a Hollywood film.