Dragon Ball Season 4 DVD Review
The fourth season of “Dragon Ball” is filled with intense action and drama. Continue reading
Dallas Season 13 DVD Review
If you own the other 12 seasons of “Dallas,” you will want to pick up season 13. Continue reading
The Prisoner DVD Review
“The Prisoner” is an insult to fans of the original series. Continue reading
Pride and Prejudice (Restored Edition) (DVD Review)
Content Grade: A
Extras Grade: B
Specs:
US Release Date: 27 April 2010
Not Rated
Picture & Sound:
Working directly from original negatives, cutting edge technology has been used to create a picture that has been color-enhanced and completely digitally restored. The result is a hi-def picture that is cleaner and richer than ever before. Continue reading
Scarecrow and Mrs. King-Season One
Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner starred in this light hearted 80’s spy show that has a huge following even now. No sooner than Warner released this first season that fans were asking for Season Two. The show was proving ground for Jackson, who had been on Charlie’s Angel’s and took on this role to show her acting talent in areas, such as humor. Continue reading
Ripley’s Believe It Or Not
Before there was Guinness World Records, Robert Ripley was drawing and recording bizarre and unusual facts, people and events. Starting out as an artist that appeared in hundreds of newspapers, Ripley eventually took his collection of the unusual to the local theater, producing a series of 24 shorts, each around 10 minutes long. Warner Archives has released the entire collection of these shorts in a two disc set. Continue reading
Alice In Wonderland-BBC
This 60’s black and white production from the BBC is a startling and original take on the children’s classic. Led by an outstanding cast that includes Michael Redgrave, Peter Sellers, John Gielgud, Peter Cook and Leo McKern help this surreal production’s credibility. Continue reading
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (DVD Review)
Content Grade: B
Extras Grade: B
US Release Date: 9 March 2010
Rated R
It’s been ten years since we last saw The Saints. Connor (Sean Patrick Flanery) and Murphy (Norman Reedus) have disappeared from the public eye and are living the quiet life on a sheep farm in Ireland with their father (Billy Connolly) when they receive word that a priest has been brutally murdered in Boston. Moreover, the priest has been posed in death and pennies placed over his eyes. Someone is calling the boys out. The only problem with the plan, their Da says, is that it worked.
Back in Boston, there are some familiar faces and some new ones. Detectives Greenly (Bob Marley), Duffy (Brian Mahoney), and Dolly (David Ferry) are back on the case, unsure of where they’ll stand if their involvement in the courtroom climax of The Saints’ last spree were to leak. They’ve got a new FBI lead on the case, too: Special Agent Eunice Bloom (Julie Benz), a woman handed the torch by the late Agent Smecker (Willem Defoe). When the boys arrive back in town, they’ve also got a new recruit: Romeo (Clifton Collins Jr.), a scrappy Mexican who’s also a big fan.
If you’re not a fan of the first film, THE BOONDOCK SAINTS II: ALL SAINTS DAY isn’t going to pull out a wealth of new tricks to try to change your mind. Fans will find a lot to love, and it’s apparent in every frame that this movie is meant for the fans. The sequel mirrors the first film in much of its progression, ramping up the body count and cranking the film’s signature style up to 11.
Extras:
- Commentary with Writer/Director Troy Duffy, Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus, and Billy Connolly
- Commentary with Writer/Director Troy Duffy and Willem Defoe
- Unprecedented Access: Behind the Scenes – Wherein Clifton Collins Jr. compares Troy Duffy to Fellini. I kid you not.
- Billy Connolly and Troy Duffy: Unedited
- Merchandise/Games
- Previews: HARRY BROWN (red band), DEFENDOR, THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS
The Brothers Warner
“The Brothers Warner” is a well done documentary about the four brothers that started the famous studio as told by friends and family. With lots of archival footage, Cass Warner , the granddaughter of Harry Warner, narrates this fascinating look at the brothers who started back in nickelodeon days and built it into a powerful empire in Hollywood. Each brother is carefully examined and family difficulties are not smoothed over by Warner, along with interviews from famous Warner aquaintances Debbie Reynolds, Dennis Hopper, Norman Lear, Sherry Lansing and others. Family members are also interviewed in this 94 minutes documentary. Excerpts from famous Warner films are also featured, as Warner Studios took risks; they introduced a lot of genres (gangster films)and political ideas(the first studio to produce an anti Nazi film) into film even though it wasn’t popular at the time. Other studios actually pressured Warner not to put out “Confessions Of A Nazi Spy” because they didn’t want to lose Germany’s box office funds.
This high interest documentary kept me riveted to my chair as it will for most film buffs. Recommended viewing. This DVD will be released March 9, 2010.
FlashForward Part One Season One
The first 10 episodes of this original show on ABC are released on DVD, before the return of the show on March 18th. I have found the show worth watching, and the show follows the calendar as the weeks go by. For anyone not familiar with it, a world wide blackout of humans occurs for 2 minutes and 17 seconds in the opening show and FBI agents Joseph Fiennes and John Cho must deal with the aftermath and try to find out the mystery behind it. During this blackout period, people experience a vision of their future, that have devastating results to relationships and the way people feel about life. The show deals more with these visions and the clues they contain then anything else. The audience discovers along with the characters when secrets are revealed. Continue reading
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