The Muppet Show Season 3 / 2008 Buena Vista / 612 Minutes / http://www.wdig.com / I am not old enough to remember or even be alive when The Muppet Show was being aired for the first time. I used to watch some of the episodes that they showed on Nick at Nite or TV Land, but I was a little young to get some of the jokes. Being able to…
Wrestlemania XXIV / 2008 WWE / 8 Hours / http://www.wwe.com / When the WWE wants to do something up right, they really know how to do just that. That means that the set for the latest Wrestlemania (XXIV, if you are counting), is a massive three-disc affair that runs for over one-third of a day, if individuals sit straight through all of the features. Of course, all of the matches,…
Story of the Year – Our Time Is Now / 2008 Image / 100 Minutes / http://www.image-entertainment.com / I had no idea that Story of the Year had been around since 1995. I also thought, for whatever reason, that the band was from Canada. Anyways, “Our Time Is Now†showcases what happened to the band in the two years after SOTY enjoyed their tenth anniversary as a band. October 2005…
ROH – Rising Above / 2008 Ring of Honor / http://www.rohwrestling.com / I know that I’m not the biggest fan of a number of different promos before an event, but the way that Ring of Honor starts out -Rising Above is solid in the way that they create interest in the event to follow. For those individuals that are not familiar with the Rising Above event, it was one of…
Drawn Together – Uncensored: Season Three / 2008 Comedy Central / 308 Minutes / http://www.comedycentral.com This is the last season of Drawn Together that is set to air. To be honest, it is a pretty good decision that this show was put out to pasture, as pretty much any parody of reality TV shows had been explored and properly dissected. Saying that, this season of Drawn Together is stronger than…
The Clash Live: Revolution Rock / 2008 PBS / 81 Minutes / http://www.theclashonline.com / I think that as the years that The Clash were a viable force in music pass, the fame and knowledge held by the public about the band decreases considerably. This is the reason why a documentary like “Revolution Rock†is absolutely necessary. Director Don Letts (known for “Westway to the Worldâ€) shows how the band really…
How She Move / 2008 Paramount / 94 Minutes / http://www.paramount.com / There have been a number of films that have the same general premise as How She Move, including Drumline and Save the Last Dance. However, How She Move varies from these films in that How She Moves is actually a pretty good film. This film, which deals with an individual that, after eir sister dies, is looking to…
African American Lives 2 / 2008 PBS Paramount / 240 Minutes / http://www.paramount.com / African American Lives 2 was a mini-series created by PBS that showcased a number of prominent African Americans in the United States, a group that included Chris Rock, Don Cheadle, Morgan Freeman, Peter Gomes, and Jackie Joyner-Kersee. This DVD captures 4 hours – 240 minutes – of documentary footage, and focused on the need for the…
Moneen – It All Started With A Red Stripe / 2008 Vagrant / http://www.moneen.com / http://www.vagrant.com / Moneen said it all started with a red stripe. I have to disagree; it all started with a gray stripe (“Are We Really Happy With Who We Are Right Now†was their first (and best) album). However, what did start with a red stripe was Moneen’s rapid rise to fame, and this documentary…
Doodlebops Live in Concert / 2008 Lionsgate / 75 Minutes / http://www.lionsgate.com / Despite the fact that this performance is less than an hour long, Doodlebops Live in Concert fits in 25 different performances into that time. With a price that is well below that of a normal DVD, parents should feel that this is a solid buy for their child. Factor in the fact that this DVD comes with…
Bella / 2008 Lionsgate / 91 Minutes / http://www.bellathemovie.com / http://www.lionsgate.com / Alejandro Gomez Monteverde introduced individuals to eir innovative style of film direction, and individuals have continually said that eir style is stellar; Bella was a winner of MovieGuide’s Best Picture, the Heartland Film Festival’s Grand Prize Award and was selected for the film festival at Austin’s own SXSW. The film features the story of a star soccer player…
Summertime Fun! / 2008 Fox / 57 Minutes / http://www.hitentertainment.com / I know that individuals like getting entire series of shows and typically look down when there are compilations of shows present on a DVD, but I really like what Hit Entertainment and Fox have done on Summertime Fun!. This is due to the fact that this DVD features five different shows – Barney, Angelina Ballerina, Bob The Builder, Thomas…
Van Morrison – Under Review 1964-1974 / 2008 MVD / 112 Minutes / http://www.mvdb2b.com / Van Morrison is a name that individuals will know even if their tastes of music in no way are comparable to the works that Van Morrison has created over the last forty-plus years. “Under Review†has went and covered Van Morrison’s earliest years, giving individuals a documentary that covers the period where Astral Weeks, Moondance,…
How To Cook Your Life / 2008 Lionsgate / 93 Minutes / http://www.lionsgate.com / Doris Dorrie is a name that is not too commonly known in the United States. Much of what Dorrie has done in the last twenty-years has been for the German market. Eir movies were titled Geld, Paradies, and Keiner Liebt Mich. “Enlightenment Guaranteedâ€, eir 2002 film, was the first time that Dorrie broke in a major…
Allan Holdsworth and Alan Pasqua Featuring Chad Wackerman and Jimmy Haslip / 2008 MVD / 85 Minutes / http://www.mvdb2b.com / This DVD features a number of individuals that have been around the rock scene for an incredibly long time. Allan Holdsworth started releasing music in 1969, presenting eirself on an Igginbottom recording; eir solo career began in 1976, with “Velvet Darknessâ€. Alan Pasqua has spent time in both Eddie Money’s…
National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets (2-Disc Collector’s Edition) / 2008 Disney / 125 Minutes / http://www.disneydvd.com / National Treasure 2 is obviously the sequel to the 2004 film that starred Nicolas Cage. While I thought it was a flop in terms of ticket sales, I guess I was wrong: it has racked up nearly 500 million in ticket revenues since it was originally released. The story itself revolves around…
National Lampoon Presents Cattle Call / 2008 Lionsgate / 87 Minutes / http://www.lionsgate.com / “Cattle Call†is a film where Sherman (Andrew Katos, a relative newcomer to acting) and Glenn (Diedrich Baker, from The Drew Carey Show) attempt to find the girl of their dreams – their wet dreams. By creating a fake casting company, they are able to find a number of females that will hopefully fulfill their desires.…
The Last Detective, Series 4 / 2008 Acorn Media / 342 Minutes / http://www.acornmedia.com / The Last Detective originally started as a mystery/drama show on ITV, before being shown at different times on different channels in different countries. The series is centered around Constable “Dangerous Daviesâ€, and takes a great deal of influence from the similarly named set of novels by Leslie Thomas. Peter Davison (fifth Doctor Who, All Creatures…
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Volume 3 / 2008 Paramount / 660 Minutes / http://www.paramount.com / With the new Indiana Jones movie coming out very soon, it makes tremendously good business set to release the final installment of the “The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones†box sets. What individuals may not know that, while this boxed set closes out the episodes that were actually aired, that George Lucas had…
Cloverfield / 2008 Paramount / 84 Minutes / http://www.paramount.com / Pretty much anyone that is savvy in pop culture knew about the buzz that was surrounding Cloverfield when it first came out. However, the buzz actually was correct in portraying Cloverfield as this new, almost visionary, type of film. Where the shaky camcorder style is obviously reminiscent of The Blair Witch Project, the rapid shift in the moviue’s plot shows…