DVD Reviews
Todays reviews are a real mixed bag with classic episodes of short thrillers introduced by the master himself Alfred Hitchcock and also some of the best of Beavis and Butthead? well I did say it was a mixed bag didn’t I ?
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Ghost Whisperer – The Complete First Season
28 Oct 2006 at 11:38am
Highly Recommended“My name is Melinda Gordon. I just got married. I just moved to a small town. I just opened an antique shop. I might be just like you, except from the time I was a little girl I knew I could talk to the dead. Earthbound spirits my grandmother called them. The ones who have not crossed over because they have unfinished business with the living and they come to me for help. To tell you my story, I have to tell you theirs.”
-Melinda Gordon
The First Season
CBS’s drama Ghost Whisperer, which first aired in 2005, stars Jennifer Love Hewitt in a television series inspired by real-life medium James Van Praagh and paranormal investigator Mary Ann Winkowski. The show is about a woman who has had a special gift since she was a young girl. Her gift is the ability to …Read the entire review
Stairway To Heaven (SBS TV Series)
28 Oct 2006 at 11:38am
Recommended“A world with no sadness, no separation, and no pain. Heaven.”
-Cha Song-Joo
The Mini-Series
Stairway to Heaven is a romantic Korean television drama about four individuals and their quests for heaven–eternal happiness. The paths these four individuals take to happiness dramatically impacts each others’ journey. While on their search, the individuals will suffer, sacrifice, love, hate, pine, desire, and scheme. Their actions are sometimes dark and other times altruistic, but they always have a huge impact on everyone else. The story is intriguing enough that viewers who enjoy soapy, overly melodramatic content will be glued to their seats wanting to know what happens next.
In the opening of the series, the story introduces the two of the main charact…Read the entire review
The Swan – The Complete Series
27 Oct 2006 at 11:14pm
Rent It“He who filters your good name steals trash”
- Stan Laurel, Tit for Tat
And trash, albeit fascinating-like-a-car-wreck trash, is the operative word for The Swan, a two-season wonder that aired on Fox in 2004-05. (Don’t count this one out, however, despite the DVD’s name more episodes may be on the way.) The series grafts the basic premise of the ABC series Extreme Makeover with the tacky cliches of a beauty pageant, “the most unusual ever devised,” so says host Amanda Byram. Both seasons along with an entire disc of extras have been compiled into a 5-DVD boxed set by Xenon Pictures and gaLAn Entertainment.
The 44-minute episodes, originally airing in an hour time slot, work like this: Each week, two women offer tearful stories about how acne-scarred skin or pointy noses or paunchy bellies are ruining their sex lives, their self-esteem, and how a chance to physicall…Read the entire review
Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Season Two
27 Oct 2006 at 4:17pm
RecommendedReviewed by Glenn Erickson
Each of the 39 episodes in Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season Two begins with a musical piece that became Hitchock’s personal signature tune, Funeral March of a Marionette by Charles Gounod. According to an online source about the TV show, Hitchcock liked the tune when he heard it in 1927’s Sunrise.
The music brought our heads up out of our homework for a chance to see Hitchcock in person, a stout man with a vacant expression and a controlled English voice. Hitch’s funny on-screen intros made one reach to ‘get’ his brand of humor. They were a perfect kind of ‘product branding’ that made him easily the most visible film director working in Hollywood. By 1959 Hitchcock’s screen persona was so well established that he carried it over to the trailers for his major feature films.
Every Hitchcock intro is different….Read the entire review
Beavis and Butt-Head – The Mike Judge Collection
27 Oct 2006 at 4:17pm
RecommendedThe Collection:
First Things First! – This collection simply compiles the three volumes of Beavis And Butt-Head cartoons that were released under The Mike Judge Collection banner in 2005 and throws in the anniversary edition of Beavis And Butt-Head Do America. If you’ve already got those, you’ll find nothing new in this collection save for a nice gold box which houses the individually wrapped releases. The content and packaging, aside from that gold box, is completely identical to the individual releases of this material.
The Series:
From 1993 through 1997, Beavis And Butt-Head was a staple of MTV programming which turned into an unlikely international phenomena. The foul mouthed fools’ visage was plastered on everything from a Marvel Comics series to video games (the goal was to make it to the Gwar concert on time) to toys to cards to …Read the entire review
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