DVD Review: I Dream of Jeannie – The Complete Series
It is the holiday season friends. That means that the studios are trying to put forward their best stuff in hopes that their special editions and mega-sets will make it to your gift giving list this year; I’ve been receiving this stuff on a daily basis now for a couple of weeks. I’m on a […]
DVD Review: Supernatural – The Complete Third Season
Created by Eric Kripke, Supernatural centers on Dean and Sam Winchester (Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki, respectively); the two brothers travel around the country in a black 1967 Chevy Impala, investigating paranormal events and other unexplained happenings, many of them based on myths, American urban legends, as well as classic supernatural characters such as vampires, […]
DVD Review: Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil
Lewis Black has a rather frenetic style when delivering comedy. Much like the late George Carlin, he always seems on the verge of a nervous breakdown. While in a full on rant, Black ridicules history, politics, religion, trends and cultural phenomena. He uses sarcasm and hyperbole laced with profanity to emphasis his disgust disdain or […]
DVD Review: Ugly Betty – The Complete Second Season
Ugly Betty is an adaptation of the Colombian telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea (I am Betty, the ugly), written by Fernando Gaitán. It was adapted into a New York City setting by creator/developer Silvio Horta and co-producers Salma Hayek and Ben Silverman, whose production companies Silent H, Ventanarosa and Reveille respectively, partnered with ABC […]
Blu-ray Review: Grey’s Anatomy – Season Four (Expanded)
Season four of Grey’s Anatomy saw a few changes both on and off the screen as season four of the series got underway in the follow of 2007. Due to her producing responsibilities on both Grey’s and its spinoff Private Practice, series creator Shonda Rhimes assigned the day-to-day showrunning duties to writer and executive producer […]
DVD Review: Dirty Sexy Money – The Complete First Season
It’s shallow I know, but just the title of this series made me believe that this show had the potential to become one of my guilty pleasures. Created by Craig Wright–a writer for such shows as HBO’s Six Feet Under, ABC’s Lost and Brothers & Sisters—Dirty Sexy Money tells the story of the Darling family […]
DVD Review: Sports Night – The Complete Series 10th Anniversary Edition
Sports Night aired on ABC for two seasons, from 1998 to 2000. Created by Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip) Sports Night is a series about a fictional sports news program, much like ESPN’s Sports Center, the show broadcasts from the fictional Continental Sports Channel (CSC) a subsidiary of Continental […]
Television Preview: Oppurtunity Knocks
Check out the fun new show on ABC from executive producer Ashton Kutcher, Opportunity Knocks. Imagine a game show in your own yard. ABC is going across the country and setting up shop on different family’s yards. The family is quizzed on how well they know each other as the audience (friends and neighbors) cheer […]
DVD Review: Terminal City
HBO photo: Michael Tackett I received a copy of Terminal City in the mail sometime in early August. I have to admit that after glancing at the accompanying promotional materials, I had little to no interest in viewing the ten hour mini-series. It was about a woman with cancer, who somehow how ends up with […]
DVD Review: It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Remastered Deluxe Edition)
Christmas specials are a dime a dozen. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, literally hundreds of movies and specials liter the television landscape to mark the yuletide season. While Halloween is observed, relatively few specials are on television to mark the occasion. Fewer still, have entered the pop culture lexicon. One definite exception is, It’s the Great […]