Category: Video Reviews

Posted on: August 10, 2010 Posted by: John B. Moore Comments: 0

My Appetite for Destruction: Sex Drugs & Guns N’ Roses By Steven Adler (Book)

Just how fucked up do you have to be to get kicked out of Guns N’ Roses for being a druggie? If you’re originally drummer Steven Adler, pretty fucked up. In his highly addictive (see what I did there?) memoir, Adler with a little help from co-author Lawrence J. Spagnola, will likely garner very little sympathy from most. Yes, he had a rough childhood, kicked out of the house as…

Posted on: August 10, 2010 Posted by: John B. Moore Comments: 0

The New Adventures of Old Christine (DVD)

CBS clearly had a sadomasochistic relationship with the sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine for the entire five season run of the show before finally putting the often hilarious show out of its misery earlier this year. The show, centering on Julie Louis-Dreyfus in a role even better than her iconic Seinfeld character, has her as a single mom still close with her ex-husband (Clark Gregg), and her clueless…

Posted on: August 5, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

The Good Guy (DVD)

Very few in the way of romantic comedies can more largely be enjoyed by a movie-going audience. In fact, late-nineties/early aughts films in the vein, including Bridget Jones’ Diary or My Big Fat Greek Wedding seem incredibly dated. The Good Guy, a romantic comedy featuring Alexis Bledel as a person in charge of eir destiny, matched up with both mogul (Scott Porter) and timid one (Bryan Greenberg). The tension that…

Posted on: August 1, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Saving Grace: The Final Season (DVD)

Saving Grace was a series that I felt was ended too abruptly. The show itself premiered in 2007, and only got 3 full seasons before it was taken away from viewers. This DVD set, released by Fox, captures the last 19 episodes of the series. During this season, Grace (Holly Hunter) starts off fighting against a terrorist plot (“We’re Already Here”), looks into the suspicious death of a court reporter…

Posted on: July 31, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall And Felt Superbad About It (DVD)

There are a number of different films that have mashed together the corpus of a specific genre. The Wayans Brothers have literally made a career of it, and The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall And Felt Superbad About It looks to be a film that improves on the spoof films that preceded it. While obvious from the film’s title, this Craig Moss production is a sex-charged romp through…

Posted on: July 31, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Hot Tub Time Machine (Blu-Ray)

It seems almost as if those individuals that made such great adult comedies back in the eighties were teleported to 2009 in much the same way as the characters in Hot Tub Time Machine were transported back in time. Where The Hangover was a solid film based on the established actors that made up the cast and crew, I feel that the more up and coming ensemble here really bring…

Posted on: July 23, 2010 Posted by: John B. Moore Comments: 0

Paranormal Cops – The Complete Season One (DVD)

I’ll readily confess up front that I call bullshit on the entire premise of Paranormal Cops. But my cynicism aside, there is no denying that this realty show is immensely fun to watch. The series features a crew of real Chicago cops who use their investigative and forensic experience to look at alleged hauntings across the state in their free time. Forget needing to actually believe in ghosts, the real…

Posted on: July 16, 2010 Posted by: John B. Moore Comments: 0

Dark Blue – The Complete First Season (DVD)

In 2009, TNT’s cop drama Dark Blue quietly flew under the radar while paint-by-number police shows on the major networks got the lion’s share of the publicity. Thankfully TNT has the patience to let their shows mature and ordered a second season. The series centers on Carter Shaw (Dylan McDermott), who heads up an undercover unit for the LAPD. His crew includes a trio of brooding young cops and while…

Posted on: June 25, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Nip/Tuck: The Sixth and Final Season (DVD Set)

There were a number of different storylines to be cleaned up when Nip/Tuck entered its sixth and final season, but I feel as if the creators of the show were able to do this. For those individuals that may have missed this season of the show the first time around, Warner Brothers has just released a DVD set of these episodes. The biggest shakeup to the cast has to be…

Posted on: June 11, 2010 Posted by: John B. Moore Comments: 0

Entourage – The Complete Sixth Season (DVD)

The long-running (by cable standards) buddy comedy Entourage caught some flak last year from Seth Rogan for… well, slamming Seth Rogan. Yes the Knocked Up joke was more than a bit stale by the time this season aired last year, but the occasional dated references aside (including one about Christian Bale’s rant), the series is still remarkably satisfying.

Posted on: June 4, 2010 Posted by: John B. Moore Comments: 0

Life (DVD)

The BBC and the Discovery Channel have a solid track record so far having produced Planet Earth and The Blue Planet: Seas of Life, both surprisingly enthralling documentaries on topics that could easily come off as simply dull.

Posted on: May 25, 2010 Posted by: Jay NeuFutur Comments: 0

Defendor (DVD)

It is unfortunate that the home video release of Defendor came at a time when the media machine for Kick-Ass was kicking into high gear, as this film will unfairly be linked to the superhero / comedy genre in a way that it should not be. Arthur Poppington (Woody Harrelson) is an absolutely demented individual that thinks that ey is a superhero, shifting into the titular role with a panoply…

Posted on: May 25, 2010 Posted by: Jay NeuFutur Comments: 0

True Blood: The Complete Second Season (Blu-Ray)

True Blood has to be one of the most talked-about shows of this new decade, and this is for good reason. Where a number of vampire-themed shows and television shows have been hokey or more intended for a juvenile case, True Blood injects all the drama, sex, and violence that the genre demands. True Blood’s second season is able to succeed due to tremendous arcs and storytelling that were laid…

Posted on: May 24, 2010 Posted by: John B. Moore Comments: 0

Daria – The Complete Animated Series (DVD)

Eight years after the animated show Daria ended its five seasons run, the series – tailor-made for Generation X – is finally being released in its entirety. The collection includes the pilot, episodes from all five seasons and a slew of extras. They may have taken their time rolling this one out, but they did it right.

Posted on: May 23, 2010 Posted by: Jay NeuFutur Comments: 0

Dragonball Season Four (DVD Box Set)

It has been a long while since I Had the chance to watch any of the original series of Dragonball. I still recall that my sister was a fan of it while we were both in school, so it has been a few years. Funimation has stoked my interest in the show with their re-mastering of the fourth season of Dragonball. This season surrounds the lead up to the major…

Posted on: May 21, 2010 Posted by: John B. Moore Comments: 0

Dirt – Season Two (DVD)

Much like the tabloids it parodies, the Courtney Cox-starring cable show Dirt, is a guilty pleasure: Pure trash, little redeeming valuable, but extremely hard to turn away from. Cox does the nearly impossible playing cold-as-ice Lucy Spiller, editor-in-chief of the glossy celeb tabloid Dirt Now, and manages to actually come off as likeable. She might just be one of TV’s ultimate antiheroes.