Sony to Release sex, lies, and videotape on Blu-ray November 17
Culver City, Calif. (September 7, 2009) – Steady your gaze when Sony Pictures Home Entertainment releases the voyeuristic and sexually charged comedy sex, lies and videotape on Blu-ray™ High-Def November 17th, 2009 for the SRP of 24.95. Written and directed by Oscar® winner Steven Soderbergh (Best Director, Traffic, 2001), this film is credited with ushering […]
DVD Review: Secret Diary of a Call Girl – Season One
” I’m very high class, which means I charge by the hour, and I charge a lot. ” — Belle Created by British writer Lucy Prebble, Secret Diary of a Call Girl originally debuted on ITV2 in the United Kingdom in 2007, before being broadcast on Showtime in June 2008. The series is loosely based […]
DVD Review: Blossom – Seasons 1 &2
Created by Don Reo (My Wife and Kids), Blossom ran on NBC from 1991 to 1995. The half hour sitcom starred Mayim Bialik as Blossom Russo, a teenage girl living with her father and two brothers. As the series began, Blossom’s mother had recently left the family, leaving the rest of them to try and […]
DVD Review: Skins – Volume 1
Here in the United States shows like Gossip Girl and the new 90210 serve to give television viewers a healthy dose of teen angst, sex and debauchery. For years, networks have tried to deal with issues concerning teens openly and honestly. However, FCC rules about what can and can’t be shown; said and not said, […]
DVD Review: Nip/Tuck – Season Five, Part One
Since Nip/Tuck debuted on FX back in 2003, the series has steadfastly remained one of my guilty pleasures. From the start, I found the show addictive–creator Ryan Murphy constantly pushed the boundaries of cable television, with plentiful amounts of sex, gore and violence. Beyond the obvious, Nip/Tuck was revolutionary because in the midst of all […]
DVD Review: Towelhead
Few would question Alan Ball’s talent. He wrote the Oscar winning screenplay for American Beauty (2000), and created and produced the popular television series’ Six Feet Under and True Blood for HBO. Ball made his directorial debut with one of the more controversial films in recent memory, Towelhead. While Ball may have intended to make […]
Blu-ray Review: Black Christmas – Special Edition
Writer/director Bob Clark is probably best known to movie audiences as the writer/director of Porky’s (1982) and as the director of A Christmas Story (1983), for which he also wrote the screenplay with Jean Shepherd. Despite these forays into teenage sex comedy’s and sweet Christmas classics, Clark actually got his start in the movie business […]
DVD Review: The Boys in the Band
Written by Mart Crowley, The Boys in the Band opened off Broadway on April 14, 1968 at Theater Four. The show played to many standing room only crowds during its 1000 performance run. In 1970, Crowley adapted his play for into a film directed by a young William Friedkin and produced by future Vanity Fair […]
DVD Review: Pathology
Directed by Marc Schoelermann and written by Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor, creators of Crank (a 2006 film that has developed a bit of a cult following), Pathology received mixed reviews and a tepid box office response upon its release in April of 2008. Milo Ventmiglia stars as Dr. Ted Grey, a brilliant graduate of […]
DVD Review: Deception
Deception has been used as a film title several times, so perhaps the name of this 2008 offering should have tipped me off to its unoriginal story. However with the star power of Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor, I figured any film that described itself as an “erotic thriller” couldn’t be all bad. I envisioned […]