I have managed to ignore the seemingly inexplicable pull of the Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch up until now. Watching a show about fishing sounds about as exciting as… well, watching someone fish. Man was I ever wrong!
Doc Martin, for those that have missed it up to this point, is an ITV-shown comedy/drama that surrounds the culture clash that general practicioner Martin Ellingham (Martin Clunes, of Men Behaving Badly and Hunting Venus) has with eir new assignment in Portwenn, a backwards type of town. The third season of Doc Martin continues this formula but contains more than enough new material to keep individuals watching through.
There have been enough in the way of documentaries about every aspect of Hitler’s life, leadership style, personal relationships, and the like to fill a warehouse. However, a great many of these releases have been on the poor side, either ignoring entire lines of reasoning or coming forth as badly researched. Hitler’s Bodyguard, a ten-hour documentary, originally was aired on the Military Channel (which itself is held by Discovery).
Fox has released two modern classics on Blu-Ray for the first time: 1985’s Cocoon and 1999’s The Thomas Crown Affair. Where it will still take a number of years to transfer the contents of Fox/MGM’s library to the Blu-Ray format, releasing these two titles from different decades will hopefully garner enough sales to merit further journeys into the vaults. The Thomas Crown Affair (Blu-Ray) / 2010 Fox / 113 Minutes…
Throughout the course of the last twenty-five or so years, Tim Allen has rapidly moved up from time as a stand-up comedian to a television and even to a silver screen star. It is thus not surprising that Allen’s next challenge would be as a director, so here we are with eir own, self-funded title Crazy on the Outside. In this film, Allen plays Tommy, an individual that was sent…
It seems as if Deadly Impact was a film that went under a great many radars when it was first released, but Fox / MGM has looked to rectify that with the release of the movie’s unrated version. In Deadly Impact, a set of hard-nosed individuals played by The Sopranos star Joe Pantoliano and Sean Patrick Flanery (from The Boondock Saints) strike out against one another. This is because Thomas…
While the character that Stone Cold Steve Austin plays whenever ey comes back to the WWE is beyond stale, I feel that the budding actor Steve Austin can take a lead role and change things enough to keep things interesting in a longer format. Damage is the first bit of evidence that I have for this, as Austin plays John Brickner. Starting out the movie as an inmate, Brickner realizes…
I was a fan of the Alvin and the Chipmunks show that originally aired in the eighties, and to be honest, hadn’t caught much of the Chipmunks revival fever that had gripped the country in the last few years. However, I was given a copy of the latest film – The Squeakquel – in the Blu-Ray and DVD combo pack. First off, the blend of real and CGI actors –…
I like odd and challenging movies. Hell, one of my favorite movies is Salo: 120 Days of Sodom. I was excited to receive a copy of Gold from Wild Eye Releasing, representing a title that has been viewed by such a small segment of individuals that it feels lke a forbidden delight. However, there are good as well as bad sides to this movie that should be addressed. First off,…
John Krasinski, best known for playing Jim on The Office, faced an uphill battle even before sitting down in the director’s chair to move Brief Interviews with Hideous Men from book to screen.
You’d think with The Simpsons, three offerings from Seth McFarland and every other show on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim we’d have enough adult cartoons by now. But HBO’s The Life and Times of Tim shows we have room for at least one more.
It is nice to see that Fox is sticking with the placement of subsequent seasons of their most well-remembered shows on DVD in a time when Blu-Ray has rapidly snatched up market share. The sixth season is the penultimate one, as the seventh season will ultimately close things up. All twenty-four episodes of this season are present on three discs, no mean feat considering the fact that the video footage…
Gary Unmarried is currently working on its second season, after initially premiering in late September of 2008. The show itself begins with Jay Mohr as a newly ex-married individual, trying to ensure that eir business (painting houses) stays above water. This comedy is one of tension, as Gary has to interact with the woman that broke eir heart owing to the two progeny that they spawned. Furthermore, Gary is not…
The political Right may have Ann Rand, but the Left has always had Howard Zinn, author of the fantastically inspirational A People’s History of the United States – a Bible of sorts to anyone who has ever questioned the way American history has always been neatly wrapped and presented to us in a red, white and blue flag. This beautifully-crafted documentary features passages from Zinn’s best-selling history book, read by…
There is a lot of information on this DVD set. Mill Creek has put together fully three-fourths of a day of footage about the mob. The DVD set ties together two previous releases in Hollywood Vs The Mob and Vegas: The City The Mob Made, which were each originally 2 DVD sets. The price point at which this 4-DVD set is placed ensures that a love for all things mob-related…
The allure of folding paper is an interesting one, as evidenced by Between The Folds. With this hour-long special, viewers will get the opportunity to go into the minds of ten individuals that ultimately decided tot drop whatever it was that they were doing with their lives (including well-paying careers and graduate studies) to learn a skill that is extremely difficult. Each individual shown by those at Green Fuse Films…
For those that either have forgotten or missed the movie when it first was released, Air Bud: Golden Receiver was the 1998 sequel to the original Air Bud. The film stars Kevin Zegers as Josh, who begins the film incredibly angry at eir mom for dating Dr. Patrick Sullivan (Gregory Harrison), the town’s premiere veterinarian. Without anyone to really talk to, it soon becomes apparent that Buddy, Josh’s dog, is…
Callan was one of the most popular television series on in Britain in the late sixties and early seventies. It deftly linked together the different spy realms of James Bond with the more mundane cop-lead shows like Dragnet, all while keeping a brisk momentum throughout. This ITV show lasted five series, and Callan Set 2 collects the twelve episodes of series four (the previous black & white episodes have not…
Bonekickers was a single-series show that aired on the prime BBC station in 2008, and represents the next step in the evolution of Ashley Pharoah and Matthew Graham’s writing after Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes. The show itself is filled out by actors both veteran (Adrian Lester (Hustle) and Hugh Bonneville (The Emperor’s New Clothes) and relatively new (Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Spooks)), using each actor’s unique skills to make…
It has been a few months since we reviewed the last volume of Army Wives, and we were very excited to get the latest volume released on DVD a few days back. This release covers the last aired season of Army Wives (Season 4 begins in the middle of April), with 18 episodes tied together with a tremendous amount of additional features. The season itself is incredibly nuanced, as Denise…