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 Crichton (who was also a physician), ER is NBC’s second longest-running drama (after Law & […]
DVD Review: Escape to Witch Mountain (Special Edition)
I absolutely loved Escape to Witch Mountain as a child, so I was pretty excited when I heard it was being released on DVD again. The release is undoubtedly timed to coincide with the remake, Race to Witch Mountain starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Alexander Ludwig and AnnaSophia Robb. Judging by the trailer, the remake […]
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 (Rhoda, Taxi) was one of the first shows to deal with such hot button issues […]
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 the rights to the Jerzy Kosinski novel before the movie went before the cameras. Sellers […]
Blu-ray Review: Dexter – The Complete First Season
As a fan of Blu-ray, I was thrilled when learned that Showtime was releasing Dexter in the high-definition format. For those of you not familiar with the series, the show is based on the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay and adapted for television by James Manos, Jr. (The Soprano’s, The Shield). The series […]
DVD Review: The Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget (Uncensored)
I was a teenager when Full House made its debut on ABC back in 1987. Although I wasn’t what you’d you call a dedicated viewer, for awhile there, the show was nearly impossible to avoid, so I knew all about it. For me, Bob Saget was Danny Tanner, the loving, widowed father of three precocious […]
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 […]
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 Claire Boothe Luce’s 1936 stage success of the same name, and was subsequently made into […]
Blu-ray Review: The X – Files, Fight the Future
I am one of those people who didn’t become a fan of the X – Files until a couple of years ago, when I started watching the series on DVD. In all honesty, I still haven’t watched all nine seasons yet. That being said, I guess I was a good person to test the theory […]
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 in the six DVD, approximately 982 minute, Studio One Anthology put out by Koch Vision […]