DVD Review: Risky Business (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
I would never say that Risky Business ranks up there with classics such as Casablanca, Bonnie and Clyde or even Rocky. However, the film that is largely credited with making Tom Cruise a star deserve a place in film history, for so vividly capturing a slice of early 1980’s culture. It was 1983, Ronald Reagan […]
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 […]
DVD Review: Californication – The First Season
I’m not quite sure why, but Californication is a series I had never watched before I received a copy of the first season, sometime on early June. I’ve never been a big fan of the series’ star David Duchovny, who has always struck me as a bit snide and ego-centric and X-Files just never caught […]
DVD Review: Drawn Together – Uncensored! Season Three
Comedy Central’s Drawn Together was originally conceived as a cartoon spoof of reality television series such as Big Brother and The Real World–eight distinctly different characters are flu8ng together and forced to put up with each other . Throughout many strange and outright bizarre adventures, the eight roommates push each other’s buttons and tear each […]
DVD Review: Lars and the Real Girl
After being nominated for a for a Best Actor in 2007 for his role as Dan Dunne in Half Nelson, no one would have been surprised if Ryan Gosling took the opportunity to cash in and make a series of big budget blockbusters. At only 27, with boyish good looks, the Canadian-born actor could no […]
DVD Review: Tell Me You Love Me – The Complete First Season
Before Tell Me You Love Me debuted on HBO in September of 2008, the show got a lot of press for the amount of explicit sex the series contained. While that is indeed true, Tell Me You Love Me is geared at an adult audience, to call it simply a show about sex, misses the […]
DVD Review: Love American Style – Season One, Volume Two
Paramount has recently released a three DVD set containing the remaining twelve episodes of the first season of Love American Style. The anthology series which usually consisted of three vignettes really broke the mold as far as what had been seen on television up to that point. Couples, married or unmarried were shown kissing in […]
Rita Moreno, Turns 76 Today
Born Rosita Dolores Alverio, in Humacao, Puerto Rico on December 11, 1931, actress Rita Moreno was the first performer to win an Oscar, Emmy, Tony and a Grammy. Moreno and her mother moved to New York City in 1937. Rita got her first taste of show business at the tender age of eleven, when she […]
DVD Review: Love American Style – Season One, Volume 1
In the fall of 1969, the American landscape was changing. Earlier that year, “the summer of love” had changed how many of the youth and their elders discussed such previously taboo subjects as dating and sex. With the seventies upon us, there was a new openness associated with social issues that was being reflected in […]
DVD Review: Nip/Tuck: The Complete Third Season
From the day Nip/Tuck premiered on FX on July 22, 2003, it was clear this wasn’t your run of the mill standard cable medical show. Nip/Tuck pushed the boundaries of medical ethics, sex, and family values and seemed to enjoy every minute of it — kind of E.R. meets the sex of N.Y.P.D. Blue meets […]