Tag: DVD

DVD Review: Hotel – The First Season

Paramount | 1169 mins. | 1983 | Not Rated Based on Arthur Hailey’s 1965 novel of the same name (which had also inspired a 1967 feature film), Hotel was created and produced by Aaron Spelling. Set in the elegant (and fictitious) St. Gregory Hotel in San Francisco, the show centered around the issues surrounding the […]

DVD Review: Star Wars, The Clone Wars – A Galaxy Divided

The 2008 television series, The Clone Wars is set in the fictional Star Wars galaxy, during the same time period as the previous 2003 Star Wars: Clone Wars series. Star Wars creator George Lucas says “there will be at least 100 episodes produced of the series, regardless of whether the ratings are good or bad. […]

Blu-ray Review: Babylon A.D.

Based on the novel Babylon Babies by Maurice Georges Dantec, Babylon A.D. was directed by Mathieu Kassovitz (La Haine), who worked on an English language adaptation of the film for five years, until it finally hit theaters in August of 2008. Kassovitz wrote the screenplay, along with screenwriter Éric Besnard. It has been widely reported […]

DVD Review: RocknRolla – Two Disc Digital Copy Special Edition

In all honesty, considering the title, I had no idea what to think of RocknRolla. I thought maybe it was some sort of gangsta-rap flick. The director, writer producer, Guy Ritchie (Two Smoking Barrels) was married to Madonna, so it seemed like a pretty good guess. The film had come and gone from theaters in […]

DVD Review: Samantha Who? – The Complete First Season

ABC’s Samantha Who? Os a comedy about a young woman who wakes up from an eight day coma only to discover she has no recollection of who she is or the people who have been in an out of her life. Every day is a revelation, and what she discovers about herself isn’t pretty. “I […]

DVD Review: Bette Davis Collection – Volume Three

In over one hundred years of film making, Hollywood has seen a lot of stars come and go. A lot of them burst on to the scene, make a few films and fade away as quickly as they appear. That’s how celebrity works a lot of the time; we worship someone for a few years […]

DVD Review: 1968 With Tom Brokaw

1968 was a tumultuous year. It’s hard not to look back forty years later and wonder how the America and the world would have been different if 1968 hadn’t unfolded the way it did. What if Martin Luther King hadn’t been shot or Bobby Kennedy hadn’t been assassinated? Would the riots at the 1968 democratic […]

DVD Review: Mork & Mindy – The Third Season

I will readily admit that I was a huge fan of Mork & Mindy almost from the day it premiered on September 14, 1978. It seemed everyone at my elementary school was Mork crazy for awhile; there where Mork lunchboxes, thermos, and t-shirts. I even had a pair of Mork suspenders I wore almost everyday […]