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. John B. Moorewww.neufutur.com
Ken Wahl was the main star of this show, but there were a significant amount of actors that got their first role on this show, which was a prominent fixture on CBS from 1987 to 1990. This means that Elsa Rabin was able to take the role of Vincent’s mother years before ey was Ida on Titanic while Gerald Anthony ratcheted up eir daytime-honed skill for eir role as Father…
I grew up well after the civil rights movement, so my knowledge of history from that era is a little shaky. It is thus great to see that an individual as important as William Kunstler is able to be immortalized in celluloid with the April release of Disturbing The Universe. For those, like myself, that were fuzzy about why exactly William Kunstler was important, the facts are laid out from…
The release of this three and a half hour special on gospel singer Mahalia Jackson is vitally needed. As Jackson passed on in 1972, each year that passes ensures that that many more individuals never saw eir perform or otherwise were graced with eir skill. “A Gospel Calling” is a video that may be long for some, but should be required watching for anyone studying African-American or gospel history. Jay…
Penn & Teller have been a comedic powerhouse for well over twenty years by this point, and their show, Bullshit!, has been on the air since 2003. Where some of the earliest episodes seemed to have the duo provide the pros and (many) cons of major issues such as alien abductions, second hand smoke, and feng shui, the seventh season seems to focus on a little bit more specific of…
A Mind To Kill is a show that I’ve been curious about for a while now; off the top of my head, it is one of the few shows that ran for as long as it did to not receive an American DVD release. Acorn Media has taken the first step to engendering a love for the show in American audiences by the releasing of the first season’s DVD set.…
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! John B. Moorewww.neufutur.com
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. Jay NeuFuturwww.neufutur.com
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). Jay…
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. John B. Moorewww.neufutur.com
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. John B. Moorewww.neufutur.com
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…