Blu-ray Review: Smallville: The Complete Ninth Season
We've been with Clark Kent through a lot. We've seen his Superbaby crash and Smallville High School years, we've seen him through his tempestuous "will they or won't they?" relationships with Lana Lang, Lois Lane, and arguably Chloe Sullivan and Lex Luthor as well (The subtext is in there, just ask any Smallville slash writer!). We've seen him go from meteor freaks to DC's D-List to the nascent Justice League to the Legion of Super-Heroes and even Doomsday, and yet he survives for yet another season.
News: Ninth Circuit Strikes Down Oregon Censorship Law!
CBLDF & Dark Horse Cheer Free Speech Victory!
Blu-ray Review: The Matrix: Reloaded
I am a leaf on the… WAAAALT!
As the groundbreaking 1999 film The Matrix drew to a close…
DVD Review: Chuck- Season 3
Coming in strong off its amazing and impressive second season, NBC's Chuck had a lot to live up to in its third season. With no single bad episode yet, viewers kept wondering not if but when Chuck would finally stumble. Viewers figured it was a inevitability, and with its title character now a full-fledged spy – and not just a bank of information but also a Swiss Army knife set of skills – would this cause the show's title character to lose his odd man out/underdog appeal he had in the first two seasons?
Blu-ray Review: Lost In Space
Hollywood sure went sci-fi remake crazy after CGI hit the scene, didn't it? The Day the Earth Stood Still, War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, Planet of the Apes: All classic science fiction films from the 50s and 60s that have earned remakes in the past ten years. Among the earlier CG-heavy sci-fi remakes is Lost in Space, the 1998 film recreating the universe of the 1960s TV show of the same name.
Now Lost in Space is available on Blu-ray!
DVD Review: The Middle – Season One
For Frankie Heck (Patricia Heaton), life is ordinary. She has a husband and three kids. She has a house and a job. She balances work and home. The difference between her and everyone else is that Frankie’s kids are oddballs, her husband is overly honest, she is terrible at her job, her idea of dinner is a drive-thru and she lives in the middle of nowhere: Orson, Indiana. Welcome to The Middle- Season One, now available on DVD!
CC2010: TV News- The Event (Pilot Review)
The panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2010 was not “The Event.” Although the deepest intricacies of the show were not revealed, the pilot succeeded in flexing the show’s special effects and acting talent’s muscle, while providing enough of a story to whet any now-defunct LOST fan’s appetite for mystery.
SPOILERS BELOW
Blu-ray Review: A Scanner Darkly
What does a scanner see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does it see into me, into us? Clearly or darkly? I hope it sees clearly, because I can't any longer see into myself. I see only murk. I hope for everyone's sake the scanners do better. Because if the scanner sees only darkly, the way I do, then I'm cursed and cursed again. I'll only wind up dead this way, knowing very little, and getting that little fragment wrong too.
Podcast show notes
should we bring them back? I'm thinking we should but I'm not sure if you read them.
Fall 2010 New Shows!
What are you looking forward to?
Personally, I can't wait for The Walking Dead on AMC. I'm already enjoying Terriers on FX, and I'm looking forward to Chuck's new season and of course Dexter.
What about you?
Blu-ray Review: The Third Man
The Flick
A 1949 classic brought to new life in Blu-ray, The Third Man stars Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins, an out-of-work novelist visiting his old friend Harry Lime in Vienna. Upon arriving, however, he learns that Harry was struck and killed in a car accident. After some careful question-and-answer sessions with friends and associates, Holly realizes that there may be much more to his friend’s death than meets the eye. Is Harry even dead?
