Archive for March, 2008
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull TV Spot
This is the first TV Spot for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
DVD Review: Father Knows Best – Season One
Does father know best? When Father Knows Best debuted as an NBC radio series on August 25, 1949, the question mark was part of the title; only after the series moved to CBS television on October 3, 1954 was the question mark removed. The concept of actor Robert Young and his friend and Eugene Rodney, [...]
DVD Review: The Kite Runner
As a voracious reader, if a book is made into a film, chances are I’ve read it. Strangely, before seeing The Kite Runner I had not read the best selling novel by Khaled Hosseini. I don’t quite know why, whether it was the serious subject matter or just timing, I never got to it. After [...]
DVD Review: Bee Movie (A Very Jerry 2-Disc Edition)
When I settled in to watch Bee Movie I really wasn’t expecting much. Seinfeld, that long running show about nothing had never really been a favorite of mine, so the presence of Jerry Seinfeld didn’t really pique my curiosity. However, I’ve enjoyed the ingenuity of Dreamworks Animation in the past in such projects as the [...]
DVD Review: Lil’ Bush: Resident Of The United States – Season One
All Presidents of the United States are subject to a certain amount of ridicule. Actually, in this media driven world we live in, no politician is immune from possible scorn. Leave it to Comedy Central to figure out a way to razz current President Bush, his administration, former President Bush, his family and any other [...]
88 Minutes Trailer
In 88 Minutes, Al Pacino stars as Dr. Jack Gramm, a college professor who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI. When Gramm receives a death threat claiming he has only 88 minutes to live, he must use all his skills and training to narrow down the possible suspects — a disgruntled student, a [...]
Music Review: Yael Naïm – Yael Naïm
If you’ve seen those new Mac Air commercials you’ve heard the airy tune accompanying the ultra-thin laptops as they take their marketing now for the world. The song, “New Soul is sung by the 29-year-old Yael Naïm. Born in Paris (to Tunisian parents) and raised in Israel, Naïm brings her multilingual background to her music. [...]
Britney A Hit on Mother Set According to 3/24 Issue of TV Guide
March 19, 2008 (New York, NY) — When the cast and crew of CBS’ How I Met Your Mother were informed that Britney Spears was slated to do a guest stint on the show, no one knew what to expect.. “I kept saying, ‘You’re serious? She’s going to do it? She’s not going to back [...]
DVD Review: Things We Lost In The Fire
I’ve always thought of Benicio del Toro as a bit of a sad sack looking actor. I sort of dismissed him as a disheveled rebel wannabe who needed to get some sleep already. Recently, after re-watching his brilliant turn as Javier Rodriquez in 2000′s Traffic and his equally mesmerizing performance as Jerry Sunborne in 2007′s [...]
DVD Review: Atonement
Based on the best selling novel by Ian McEwen, Atonement is the story of 13-year-old Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan), an aspiring writer from an upper class English family who because of a mix of immaturity, misunderstanding and jealousy, tells a lie that changes her life and that of her family’s forever. Briony’s older sister Cecilia [...]
Get Smart Trailer
Get Smart is an upcoming 2008 film adaptation of Mel Brooks and Buck Henry’s hit 1960s spy parody television show Get Smart. The film will star Steve Carell as Maxwell Smart and Anne Hathaway as Agent 99. Alan Arkin will play the Chief. Masi Oka, Terence Stamp, Dwayne Johnson and Dalip “The Great Khali” Singh [...]
DVD Review: Love American Style – Season One, Volume Two
Paramount has recently released a three DVD set containing the remaining twelve episodes of the first season of Love American Style. The anthology series which usually consisted of three vignettes really broke the mold as far as what had been seen on television up to that point. Couples, married or unmarried were shown kissing in [...]
DVD Review: In To The Wild (2-Disc Special Collectors Edition)
For centuries, literary figures including Leo Tolstoy, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain Jack London and countless others have written about the importance of nature and the importance of living off the land. In turn, many people have taken these written works to heart and set off on their own journeys in search of a new [...]
Leatherheads Trailer
A romantic comedy set against the backdrop of America’s nascent pro-football league in 1925. Dodge Connolly, a charming, brash football hero, is determined to guide his team from bar brawls to packed stadiums. But after the players lose their sponsor and the entire league faces certain collapse, Dodge convinces a college football star to join [...]
DVD Review: 101 Dalmatians: Two-Disc Platinum Edition (1961)
101 Dalmatians is loosely based on the 1956 children’s book The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith. In Smith’s book there are actually four main dalmatians, their “pets” are already married, Roger is a “financial wizard” who has been granted an exemption from income tax for life because he freed England of it’s national [...]
The Love Guru Trailer
“The Love Guru” (Mike Myers), Pitka is an American who was left at the gates of an ashram in India as a child and raised by gurus. He moves back to the U.S. to seek fame and fortune in the world of self-help and spirituality. His unorthodox methods are put to the test when he [...]
DVD Review: Walker, Texas Ranger: The Complete Fourth Season
As almost everyone who knows me will tell you, I am a bona fide television junkie. I watch old shows, new shows and everything in between. Oddly enough, in my more than thirty years on this earth I had never watched a single episode of Walker, Texas Ranger until June of 2007 when Walker, Texas [...]
DVD Review: Beowulf – The Director’s Cut
Beowulf is the oldest surviving poem in the English language. The epic work was written sometime between the 8th and 11th centuries. In the poem, Beowulf battles three rivals: Grendel who is attacking the Danish mead hall known as Heorot and its citizenry; Grendel’s mother; and later in life after returning to Geatland and being [...]
DVD Review: The Love Boat: Season One, Volume One
During the 1970′s and 80′s Aaron Spelling produced shows dominated the television landscape. At one point during the 1984 season, Spelling had seven series running on the ABC network, which generated more than one-third of the networks revenues. Some critics dubbed ABC “Aaron’s Broadcasting Company.” One of those series, The Love Boat, became a solid [...]
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