When you have produced as many features as Disney, there are going to end up being greater works in the pantheon and lesser ones. Today, Disney is releasing to DVD in a “25th Anniversary” edition, a film that is somewhere… Read More ›
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Timmy Time is Upon Us (or at Least is Upon Playhouse Disney)
One of the greatest strengths of Aardman Animations is that the stop-motion tales they deliver are amusing to every age group. Watching an entry in the Wallace & Gromit franchise or an episode of Shaun the Sheep is something you… Read More ›
Tim Robbins is Totally The Player (1992)
Robert Altman’s 1992 film The Player represents another outstanding achievement in a directorial career that has had many richly deserved accolades over the course of more than a half-century’s work. The film follows Tim Robbins’ Griffon Mill, a Hollywood movie… Read More ›
The Office: Season Six – Dunder Mifflin Delivers on Blu-ray
Ever since first premiering in March of 2005, NBC’s The Office has managed to consistently be funny even if it has never been a massive ratings hit. Based on the Ricky Gervais/Stephen Merchant British series of the same name, the… Read More ›
Prime Suspect – The Complete Collection: A Whole Lotta Jane Tennison in a Single Box
How exactly do you end up with a wonderful television series? Is it cast? Is it writing? Is it the production values in general? Is it a combination of all these things? Or, does it require all of them and,… Read More ›
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Has a Road Rally
Over the course of its three season existence, Disney Channel’s Mickey Mouse Clubhouse has undergone a number of changes. Some of the songs sung in every episode have been tweaked; the animation has improved; and, among other things (and perhaps… Read More ›
Stepping into the Arena with Lucha Libre AAA: Heroes del Ring
Despite the fact that while growing up we were fans of professional wrestling, our knowledge of lucha libre is somewhere approaching zero. It is not that we actively avoided Mexican professional wrestling in our fanboy days, it is much more… Read More ›
Grease Makes its way to the Wii
Some films are just crying to be made into videogames, and not just new films, old ones. Look at Star Wars, even before the film franchise was expanded, there were incredibly successful – and some very good – videogames made… Read More ›
Going Gleek with Karaoke Revolution: Glee
There are some things we simply will not do in public – they just go against our nature. First on that list is dancing, we don’t dance in public. It’s not that we don’t appreciate good dancing, it’s quite the… Read More ›
Testing the Pitch on Pro Evolution Soccer 2011
The first thing we did upon entering the space for Konami’s Gamers’ Day was take a spin around the room, checking out what there was to see and where we could quickly grab a controller and get started. Upon completing… Read More ›
Samus Aran Returns (Again) in Metroid: Other M
Often when I look at the cool toys today’s youth gets to play with, I think of how great it must be to be a kid today. It’s a feeling only enhanced when I focus my sights on today’s videogames. … Read More ›
A Quick Look at Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
Out of all the vampire hunting heroes in the world, Reinhardt Schneider holds a special place in my heart. Okay, fine, call me names, but I remember playing Castlevania on my Nintendo 64 over and over again so that I… Read More ›
Finding Freedom with Deca Sports, Adrenalin Misfits, and the Kinect
Today we were lucky enough today to spend several hours in the basement of a New York City midtown hotel. Okay, that may not sound particularly lucky on the face of it, but this was actually a pretty nice hotel… Read More ›
Les Stroud Goes Beyond Survival
By now we are all well-versed in the ways of the indigenous-people-with-the-modern-world-encroaching documentary. I in no way mean to suggest that the issue is an unimportant one, nor that it should in any way be minimized, simply that the manner… Read More ›
Persons Unknown – The Missing Episode Found
I am, as I know I’ve stated in the past, a fan of serialized television. I like being able to come back to a show week after week, month after month, (hopefully) year after year, and watch things unfold. I’m… Read More ›
AMC’s Mad Men and Rubicon – Two Summer Standouts
My internal calendar has informed me that the new television season is right around the corner. Okay, fine, it’s less my internal calendar and much more the fact that the original cable series I’m watching this summer are promoing upcoming… Read More ›
Ugly Betty: The Fourth and Final Season Makes its DVD Debut
For the past four Summers I have looked forward to the week every August when a new Ugly Betty complete season hits DVD. I have never been head over heels in love with the series, but I certainly have greatly… Read More ›
My DVD Shelf as a Picture Album
I have, as I think all people should, a semi-extensive DVD collection. I’d actually argue that it’s not terribly extensive – it doesn’t come anywhere near equaling what is available – but others would say that once you get somewhere… Read More ›
More may be on Soon
Sometimes I feel like the world has my back (not always, but sometimes). Earlier this week I wrote up a little ditty all about programming and how it didn’t seem to matter how many channels I had there was, quite… Read More ›
I Have how Many Channels? Why is There Nothing on?
I cannot lie to you, from where I sit (on the sofa with remote in hand) I tend to have one thought when I watch television – more. That’s right, more. I know, I currently have a few hundred channels,… Read More ›
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