Tag: Television

DVD Review: ER – The Complete Tenth Season

As ER gets ready to air its final episode on April 2, 2009 after a very successful fifteen year run, Warner Bros. recently released the complete tenth season of the multi-Emmy Award winning show. Created by the late novelist Michael…

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DVD Review: Room 222 – Season One

Room 222 was a half-hour comedy-drama that aired on ABC from 1969-74. Set at integrated Walt Whitman High School in Los Angeles, Room 222 is credited with breaking new narrative ground in television. The series, created by James L. Brooks…

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DVD Review: Being There – Deluxe Edition

For most, Peter Sellers is regarded as strictly a comic actor. This is understandable, given his iconic role as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau. However, Sellers had lobbied for years to play the lead role in 1979’s Being There. Sellers had…

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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,…

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Blu-ray Review: The Women

Writer/director Diane English is best known for creating the television series Murphy Brown, which ran from 1988-1998. After years of working in television, English decided to make her big screen directorial debut with The Women. The film is based on…

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DVD Review: Studio One Anthology

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been writing about a lot of different boxed sets that might be the perfect gift for someone on your list this holiday season. Over the past three weeks, I have been completely engrossed…

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