DVD Review: 24 Season 7
WHO ARE YOU WORKING FOR??!?!
Fans had to wait a long time to see Season 7 of 24 due to the Writer's Strike of 2007/2008. Several promotions had already aired in the US and had indicated the dismantling of CTU, as well as the return of a key player to the 24 Universe, TONY ALMEDA! But wait... wasn't he dead? Well unfortunately for us, only a few of the 24 episodes had been filmed before the strike began and production had to be postponed. After the strike ended, producers at Fox decided to postpone the airing of Season 7 until early 2009... The Power That Be decided that 2009 was a bit too long to wait for new adventures of our hero and made a two hour TV movie called "24: Redemption" (aka Jack Bauer's Adventures in Africa!) to serve as a prequel to the upcoming season. Now that the new season of 24 has been aired in the US, Fox has released the complete 7th season set!
DVD Review: Forever Funny
Forever Funny is a new DVD collection featuring several classic sitcoms from the past.
It took a long time to sit down and watch seven of the "best" comedies starting from the tarnished golden years of the Honeymooners to the rainy day hijinxs of Dr. Frasier Crane and his Seattle crew. The episodes, which also include I Love Lucy (I didn't), The Odd Couple (not about Bush and Cheney), Taxi (a show you probably couldn't get on a rainy Friday night in the City), The Brady Bunch (a little like the Palin Family) and of course Cheers (a bar where everybody may know your name but not the location of the nearest A.A. meeting). All of these shows put the sit in sitcom.
DVD Review: Action Packed
Action Packed is a special DVD collection of Four adventure TV shows of yesteryear. All are the original pilots of Mission Impossible, Macgyver, Walker Texas Ranger and NCIS. You can see what made each of these series terrific or moronic from the get go.
DVD Review: Galaxy Quest: 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
Remember when you were young how it felt watching Star Trek for the first time? All those times that you thought about new races and new civilizations out in the universe? Remember when you thought, what if this was actually real? What would happen if you took the "trained" crew of actors from Star Trek and put them on a real version of the ship? Now replace the name Star Trek with Galaxy Quest and you have yourself an incredible movie! To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the release of the Tim Allen film Galaxy Quest, Paramount has released a new Deluxe Edition DVD loaded with brand new interviews and features!
Blu-ray Review: Saturday Night Fever
"You make it with some of these chicks, they think you gotta dance with them."
Saturday Night Fever was originally released in 1977. As I was a little kid at the time, and it was perceived as just some film about disco dancing, a pastime that was much-derided in my adolescence, I never got around to seeing it until now. That's kind of a shame really, as I might have really enjoyed it's themes as a teenager.
Blu-ray Review: Dexter The Second Season
"There are moments when I feel the mask is slipping. "
DVD Review: Karin: The Complete Series
Karin is a 24 episode comedy on six discs, about a growing relationship between two people in two different situations, and the connection of two worlds, vampires and humans.
Blu-ray Review: CSI: The First Season
Just in time for the announcement of the show’s tenth season, Paramount has released the CSI [Crime Scene Investigation] The First Season on Blu-Ray.
C.S.I. first aired in ’00 and in just 9 seasons had two spin-off shows (CSI: Miami and CSI: NY) a series of mystery novels, comic books, and even the occasional video games. It’s easy to see why when watching the first season. Known for being one of the first shows to be filmed and presented in HDTV format, Paramount finally releases all 23 episodes in the original 16:9 wide-screen.
Blu-ray Review: S. Darko
S. Darko: A Donnie Darko Tale is now available on DVD and Blu-ray.
Somethings are better off being left alone...and the tale of Donnie Darko is definitely one of those things you shouldn't mess with unless you really have a good grasp on the film, the characters, and why the story was such a success in the first place. When it was announced that there would be a Direct to Dvd sequel to the cult classic film Donnie Darko I was pretty surprised. It is one of those films that really doesn't have more to tell (especially when the title character doesn't survive the film). With most movies that are released in this fashion you know going into it that it might not be the greatest or maybe just not live up to expectations. You must have a totally open mind when watching a film like this. This film was supposed to be a stand alone story within the world of Donnie Darko.
