Blu-ray Review: Life (U.S. Version)
BBC – Discovery | 2009 | 484 mins. | Rated PG Four years in the making, shot entirely in high definition and helmed by the BBC Natural History Unit, Life comes to Blu-ray in two distinctly different releases. The first, courtesy of Warner Brothers, offers the original UK version of the series, and features narration […]
DVD Review: October Road – The Complete Second Season
Created by André Nemec (Alias), Scott Rosenberg (wrote the film Beautiful Girls) and Josh Applebaum (LIFE ON MARS), who also serve as the series’ executive producers, asks the question, can you really go home again? Written by Scott Rosenberg, he freely admits that the show is semi-autobiographical and based on what happened after Beautiful Girls […]
DVD Review: The Secret Life of an American Teenager, Season One
Created and produced by Brenda Hampton (7th Heaven),The Secret Life of An American Teenager was proposed to the Fox network nearly a decade ago. Fox eventually passed on the show, as did Lifetime. Not wanting to give up on the idea, Hampton eventually drafted six scripts for the show and submitted them to a variety […]
Blu-ray Review: Married Life
The snappy animated credits over Doris Day’s recording of “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love,” suggests that Married Life might be a sophisticated comedy about love in the 1950’s. The opening scene tells us that yes, Married Life is about love, but the situation is anything but snappy. It’s Nov. 5, 1949, and in […]