Jake and the Fatman was a show that ran from 1987 to 1992 on CBS, before spinning off Diagnosis: Murder. Diagnosis: Murder had a jump on Jake and the Fatman in the sense that while three complete boxed sets of Diagnosis: Murder (released in 2006 and 2007) were commissioned, this is the first boxed set of Jake and the Fatman to be released. For those individuals that either missed Jake…
The Ruins is a horror movie that, despite the fact at it follows a plot that has been well traveled, is one of the best films to come from the genre in the last few years. It is an adaption of the film from the same name by Scott Smith, whom individuals may know from eir introductory book, A Simple Plan. A group of college students come up with the…
Stop-Loss is a film that is made for this specific time, dealing with the trials and tribulations that soldiers coming from the Iraq war must face as they become normalized to society. Specifically, the policy which Stop-Loss is named after means that if the military wants a soldier to come back after their normal tour of duty is up, they have to do so or face serious charges. The main…
In much the same way that The Animatrix provided viewers with a little bit of back story to the events that gave a little bit more in the way of context to the events that happened in the Matrix trilogy, Batman Gotham Knight fills viewers in with the events that have taken place between the events of Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. There are six different stories, done in…
Death on Demand is the first outing by the Evil Twins company, and was directed by Adam Matalon (Seasons in the Valley, Sex & Camping) and it showcases another step forward in the linking of the horror genre with a current, computer-obsessed age, something that was first teased out during Untraceable. Death on Demand starts out with a scene in which Sean McIntyre, a climber, ends up killing eir family…
College Road Trip is a film that showcases Melanie Porter (Raven-Symone) and eir trip to view different colleges, a trip that is originally intended only to be a girl’s only type of event. Neurotic and obsessed father, James Porter, (played here by Martin Lawrence) intercepts Melanie and attempts to keep eir close to home, despite Melanie’s desire to spread eir wings and free eirself from the tight grasp that eir…
“Step Up 2 The Streets†is the direct sequel to 2006’s “Step Upâ€, and is a dance movie that is really made by the individuals that provided choreography. This means that Dave Scott (Stomp the Yard) and Hi-Hat (Bring It On) are present, telling the story of Andie West (Briana Evigan, from Something Sweet and Bottoms Up), and eir attempts to create a new crew separate from the 419 without…
The Bank Job starts out as a typical film of its genre, where small time criminals want to go and make that big score that will ensure them an easy (and early) retirement. However, the specific bank which they hit is home to a number of different objects that provide them with secrets about London’s upper class that, if told, would cause a number of powerful and well-known individuals a…
I understand that a great number of people know well the story of Mumia Abu-Jamal, but the amount of people that have some or all of the facts wrong are immense. For those individuals, “A Case For Reasonable Doubt?†provides all of these facts in a matter that looks to seek the truth after nearly thirty years of falsehoods and other incorrect accusations. Abu-Jamal irked a number of individuals in…
There have been a number of documentaries and similar types of material to choose from over the last few decades revolving around Joe Strummer, whether it be as a part of The Clash, of the punk genre generally, or of the last few years of eir life. However, no film really goes into the detail that “The Future Is Unwritten†goes. This is due to the fact that there are…
Saving Grace is one of the best performing shows that TNT currently has. The show itself is about Grace Hanadarko’s (Holly Hunter, whom individuals may know from eir role in The Piano) life, who has bottomed out pretty hard by the time that individuals first see eir on their screens, hitting and killing a pedestrian after a drunken journey through town Enter in Earl, an angel sent from Heaven in…
For individuals like myself, who were born a good fifteen years after The Streets of San Francisco ended, the decision to begin to place the show’s episodes in boxed sets is a great one. First off, it shows viewers a different era of police drama, compared to serious (or silly) shows like NYPD Blue and Monk. Secondly, for those viewers that had the chance to view it when it was…
Many shows end their seasons at about twenty-two episodes. However, the sheer awesomeness that was Walker, Texas Ranger – and its co-star, the incomparable Chuck Norris, made sure that the fifth season fought, kicked, and brought closure to twenty-five. The season starts off with “The Fighting McLainsâ€, an episode that pits Walker against renegade brothers of a D.E.A. agent that is killed by a drug cartel. The action continues hot…
This 1995 film from Hungary has finally made it to American shores. Directed by Janos Szasz, whom individuals may remember from 1990’s Don’t Disturb (English title), the film deals with the adventures of two adolescent (12 and 14 year old) children and their travails after their father dies. Set in the early years of the twentieth century, The Witman Boys show the drastic differences and the numerous similarities that this…
City of Men is the sequel to City of God, the 2003 film that gave the best director award to Fernando Meirelles. In much the same way, Meirelles goes back to Brazil, to the inner city (favelas), showing hopw different this part of Brazil is from the typical American city. In this area, gangs and violence are the way of life, rather than an aberration. Regardless of what happens in…
My Blueberry Nights is a film that is simply great. The basic storyline is as such. An individual that is fighting a broken heart – Elizabeth (played here by Norah Jones, who surprised me considering I thought that ey was purely a singer) – stops by a diner that represents where it all went wrong, where the boyfriend had brought another woman. The owner of the diner – Jeremy (Jude…
This 1991 film, starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze, finally makes it to the Blu-ray format. For those individuals that were either too young or not born tat the time that Point Break came out, the basic premise is as follows. Johnny Utah (played here by Reeves is a former football player and current FBI agent that has been entrusted with the duty of trying to find out the identities…
Vantage Point is an odd type of whodunit. The movie starts off with a shooting – at a televised event, the President of the United States is shot by an assassin’s bullet at a counter-terrorism conference. Eight different individuals have a clear view of what they feel to be the truth about the assassin, but their stories are all different. What viewers will begin to understand is that no one…
While there are a number of police drama shows that are on the air in the United States at this current moment, I feel that there just is not a better one to be found than The Closer. The amount of viewersd on any given week further gives that claim credence: the episodes from this season were the highest rated of any other ad-supported, fictional show of all time. Kyra…
Drillbit Taylor focuses on the interaction that three high school kids have with Owen Wilson’s character, a paid type of soldier that looks to make them into real men capable of defending themselves and getting the respect that they deserve. Along the way, there are a number of times where the trio of high schoolers start to wreak revenge on their tormenters, really giving Drillbit Taylor a feel as if…