DVD Review: The Waltons – The Complete Ninth Season
When The Waltons hit the air in 1972, producers Earl Hamner Jr., Lee Rich and the series other executives constructed the show to emphasize both the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Great Depression in an effort to evoke a kind of nostalgia for the recent past. Hamner, Jr. understood that while it should be obvious […]
DVD Review: Dallas – The Complete Eleventh Season
If Dallas didn’t completely “jump the shark” after the tenth season, “it was all a dream” fiasco, the producers made sure they finished the job during the eleventh year. After ten years on the series, Victoria Principal, who played the popular character of Pam Ewing and had appeared in almost every episode of the series, […]
Blu-ray Review: Boondock Saints
Boondock Saints is one of those films with a back story almost more interesting than the film itself. Writer/Director Troy Duffy had originally moved to Los Angeles in an effort to find gigs for his band The Brood. He claims he was inspired to write the screenplay for Boondock Saints when he came home from […]
DVD Review: Dallas – The Complete Tenth Season
Dynasty, The Colby’s, Falcon Crest, I loved ’em all! The eighties was the heyday of the nighttime soap. Rich families jockeying for money, power and position, willing to take out one of their own to get it; of all the nighttime soaps, Dallas was the undisputed King. Centered on the Ewing clan, anchored by Larry […]
The Incredible Hulk Trailer
A cure is in reach for the world’s most primal force of fury: THE INCREDIBLE HULK. We find scientist Bruce Banner, living in shadows, scouring the planet for an antidote. But the warmongers who dream of abusing his powers won’t leave him alone, nor will his need to be with the only woman he has […]
DVD Review: No Reservations
Watching a remake of the 2002 German film Mostly Martha, No Reservations is like getting up at midnight and raiding the fridge – it feels good while you’re doing it, but you wouldn’t dream of telling your friends about it the next day. Kate (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is the master chef at the upscale New York […]