Skip It For most, a photograph of this new Underworld: The Essential Collection box will be all the review they’ll need: it’s the same discs, cases, and content made available with these guilty pleasure flicks since the first days of the Blu-ray format, only equipped with a limp, inessential bonus disc and a snazzy box to give it some gusto. I say most because, unless I’m incorrect, the majority …
Recommended THE PROGRAM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from promotional images provided by PBS, not the Blu-ray edition under review. It is both disturbing and unsurprising that The American Experience: Clinton , the recent PBS documentary on the multiple rises and falls of our 42nd president, plays like a melodrama that makes frequents dips into soap opera before righting …
Rent It “Unless.” Dr. Seuss’s prescient, cautionary environmental fable The Lorax (1971) was one of his best children’s books. Despite claims to the contrary on the disc’s single featurette, that “nobody was talking about the environment” at the time except for Seuss, in fact during the late 1960s and early ’70s concerns about the long-term effects of pollution, deforestation, and smog was on …
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the opera’s promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Animated adventure with a hint of humor Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Good animation, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis Likes: Action comedy, Antonio Banderas, the Shreck franchise Dislikes: Wasted talent Hates: Humpty Dumpty The Movie Though your humble reviewer has watched all four Shrek films, and enjoyed them to various degrees, outside of the first one, none …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Age of Heroes is the new WWII film starring Sean Bean and Danny Dyer as Ian Flemings agents of freedom and part of his “30 Commando Assault Unit.” Danny Dyer plays the role of Cpl. Bob Raynes who after a prolonged firefight in which most of his unit is decimated is quickly sent off to a UK military boot camp for punishment, and from what I gather, “retraining.” He …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from the 1997 standard-definition DVD edition , not the Blu-ray edition under review. It’s rare enough for a fondly-remembered but not recently revisited film to even live up to our lingering, benevolent but hazy recollections of it; it’s rarer still for that film to surpass them and reveal further wellsprings of …
Skip It Zoinks! Abby (Aimee Teegarden) , her kinda-sorta boyfriend Travis (Tony Oller) , and a few other clean-scrubbed fake teenager types think they’ve spotted a gh-gh- ghost ! at Old Man Ely’s creepy ol’ house. I mean, they see a couple of silhouettes dancing in an upstairs window, and…well, what else could it be? Ghosts
Recommended THE SHOW: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the series’ promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Skip It When a senator is murdered, a CIA analyst named Ben Geary (Topher Grace) connects the murders to a series of killings by a group known as the Cassius Seven. All but Cassius was caught or killed, and Geary believes Cassius is back. To assist Brandt in his investigation, the director (Martin Sheen) calls in the man who tracked down the other six: Paul Shepherdson (Richard Gere)