FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS The Third Season DVD Review
When last we saw the cast of "Friday Night Lights," they were suffering from a particularly brutal version of the sophomore jinx. Barely renewed for a second season after a low-rated (but critically...
View ArticleTHERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY Blu-ray Review
When we say a movie is influential, it's normally meant as a compliment; fans point back to films like Alien, Die Hard, or The Manchurian Candidate to give them credit for inspiring entire genres, and...
View ArticleFANBOYS DVD Review
In his book Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, Chuck Klosterman lays out what is essentially the unifying theory of Johnny Carson - the idea that the advent of cable and the home video market, not to mention...
View ArticleEddie Murphy’s DELIRIOUS DVD Review
Unspeakably vulgar, unbelievably rude, and the virtual textbook definition of "politically incorrect," Eddie Murphy's Delirious is not only a classic piece of standup, but an honest-to-goodness...
View ArticleTHE OFFICE Season Five Blu-ray Review
Though it's never been a ratings powerhouse, finishing outside the Nielsen Top 50 in each of its five seasons, NBC's "The Office" has everything else a network could want in this increasingly...
View ArticleLABYRINTH and THE DARK CRYSTAL Blu-ray Reviews
For most people, just coming up with a cast of characters as wonderfully lovable as the Muppets - to say nothing of helping spearhead a pair of television classics as durable as The Muppet Show and...
View ArticleMARY AND MAX Review
It was created with Claymation, its main characters speak with adorable accents, and funny-looking animals are involved - but "Wallace and Gromit" this ain't. Director Adam Elliot won an Oscar for...
View ArticleASSASSINATION OF A HIGH SCHOOL PRESIDENT DVD Review
Despite an interesting cast and passionate pleas from more than one film critic, Brett Simon's Assassination of a High School President is the latest project to be burped out of the gaping, bankrupt...
View ArticleBEST WORST MOVIE Review
We bitch about them all the time, but there's really something kind of special about a bad movie -- unlike books, and to a far greater extent than most pieces of music, a bad movie requires the...
View ArticleFUNNY FARM and SPIES LIKE US Blu-ray Reviews
Before he was the scene-stealing old guy on NBC’s Community, Chevy Chase was one of the biggest movie stars on the planet. Between 1978’s Foul Play and 1989’s National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation,...
View ArticleRAMBO: THE COMPLETE COLLECTOR’S SET Blu-ray Review
You’ve got to give Lionsgate points for chutzpah. The Rambo movies are all already available on Blu-ray, but with The Expendables heading to theaters and a vault full of action flicks to exploit, the...
View ArticleLOST: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION Blu-ray Review
We’ve heard a lot about dirty shenanigans in the financial sector over the last few years, but if you really want to know about a high-risk investment that hardly ever pays off, forget about the Ponzi...
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