Todd Erwin
Big Hero Six: The Series – Back in Action! DVD Review
Disney Channel’s Big Hero 6: The Series – Back in Action brings the first seven episodes from the currently airing first season, including the 43-minute pilot movie, to DVD.
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Matt Hough
The Complete Hal Roach/Thelma Todd/Patsy Kelly Comedy Collection DVD Review
The Complete Hal Roach/Thelma Todd/Patsy Kelly Comedy Collection fills a worthwhile space on the shelf of comedy lovers everywhere.
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Todd Erwin
Z-O-M-B-I-E-S DVD Review
Z-O-M-B-I-E-S is a Disney Channel Original Movie that doesn't try all that hard to put forth its message on segregation and racism, and instead wants to play it light while singing and dancing.
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Todd Erwin
LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures Complete Season Two DVD Review
Taking place between The Empire Strikes Back and through Return of the Jedi, the Disney XD series LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures is an often hilarious, family-friendly animated sitcom.
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Matt Hough
NCIS: The Fourteenth Season DVD Review
NCIS continued along for its fourteenth season without missing a beat despite the loss of a favorite longtime character and the passing of its much-loved showrunner.
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Matt Hough
NCIS: Los Angeles - Season 8 DVD Review
Unquestionably the most creative and enjoyable season of NCIS: Los Angeles in many years, season eight made forward movements for all of its many characters and featured interesting and surprisingly well-plotted surprises for viewers that...
Matt Hough
Absolutely Anything DVD Review
With a cast that boasts the likes of the usually reliably funny Simon Pegg, American comedian Rob Riggle, the voice of Robin Williams, and the surviving members of Monty Python, Terry Jones’ Absolutely Anything should have been a lot funnier and a...
Matt Hough
Money DVD Review
Martín Rosete’s Money is one of those films that insists it’s smarter than its audience, the kind of film that makes one irritated at its pretensions, disgusted with its characters, and frustrated at its narrative incompetence.
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Matt Hough
All Nighter DVD Review
Gavin Wiesen’s All Nighter is obviously trying to be the zany, comic all night spree that made Martin Scorsese’s After Hours such a memorably bizarre but entertaining enterprise, but the film doesn’t have the story, characters, or likability factor going...
Matt Hough
The Hangman: Shepherds and Butchers DVD Review
Like many courtroom dramas, Oliver Schmitz’s The Hangman: Shepherds and Butchers focuses as much on character investigation as it does on the nature of the trial itself, and while the verdict is one of those that could truly go...
Matt Hough
I Love Lucy Superstar Special #2 DVD Review
In the spring of 2016, CBS once again presented two newly colorized episodes of its legendary sitcom I Love Lucy under the banner Superstar Special #2. These colorized episodes of one of the all-time great comedy series have always been...
Matt Hough
Bones: The Complete Eleventh Season DVD Review
Among the darkest of its eleven seasons on the air, Fox’s Bones and its producers explored new and sometimes off-putting personal and professional territory in bringing their penultimate season to television screens.
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Matt Hough
Hairspray Live! DVD Review
A sure cure for what ails you, NBC’s Hairspray Live! is the fourth and in many ways most ambitious of the network’s live holiday musical presentations.
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Matt Hough
The Disappointments Room DVD Review
The Disappointments Room may be named aptly: it’s a reasonably well set-up thriller that devolves into a disappointing ghost story with an unsatisfying and unsubstantiated denouement.
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Matt Hough
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (2016) DVD Review
This new made-for-TV version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a disappointing, ill-conceived misfire on the original material.
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Matt Hough
I Am Bolt DVD Review
An inside look at the career of the fastest man on Earth, Usain Bolt, distinguishes the new documentary I Am Bolt though, as with many sports documentaries, the emphasis is mostly on the triumphs without much of the agony it takes to get there.
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Papa: Hemingway in Cuba DVD Review
Ernest Hemingway was one of the most fascinating of the 20th century Nobel Prize-winning authors, so anything that helps further our knowledge about him is sure to be interesting. Bob Yari’s Papa: Hemingway in Cuba is based on the real-life...
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Who Gets the Dog? DVD Review
A romantic comedy lacking in both romance and comic flair, Huck Botko’s Who Gets the Dog? features personable actors in a forgettable, disposable domestic situation that doesn’t have one real shred of wit or a genuine belly laugh.
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I Love Lucy Superstar Special #1 DVD Review
CBS’ most recent foray into colorization was two more episodes of its classic I Love Lucy show, a network mainstay since the early 1950s and still a ratings champion each time the network finds some new way to package the outrageous...
matt-hough
The Andy Griffith Show Christmas Special DVD Review
Though The Andy Griffith Show Christmas Special was broadcast in high definition which is naturally missing on this standard definition DVD, the quality of the comedy is what’s foremost of importance, and this disc serves as a...
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Modern Family: The Complete Seventh Season DVD Review
The wacky adventures of the Pritchetts and the Dunphys continue unabated in the seventh season of ABC’s hit sitcom Modern Family.
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The Good Wife: The Final Season DVD Review
A grand and glorious network drama comes to its end with the seventh and final season of CBS’ The Good Wife.
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Gunsmoke: The Twelfth Season, Volume 1 DVD Review
While Matt Dillion’s presence is always missed when he’s not a part of the main action, his absence usually doesn’t dissipate the purely entertaining dramatic value of the episodes in the first volume of season twelve of Gunsmoke...
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Scorpion: Season Two DVD Review
CBS’ Scorpion, which was one of the surprise hits of the 2014-2015 season, obviously tried to up its ante for its sophomore run. Thus, the missions became more complex and far more international in scope, and there was far more emphasis on the...
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NCIS: New Orleans - The Second Season DVD Review
There was no sophomore slump for NCIS: New Orleans as the program continued to offer in its second season tasty views of one of America’s favorite cities along with some intriguing crime solving and more than acceptable mysteries...
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CSI: Cyber - The Final Season DVD Review
Beginning in 2000, the CSI franchise revolutionized television crime procedurals, but that legacy came to a sad and discomfiting end with the cancellation of CSI: Cyber at the end of its second season.
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Limitless: Season One DVD Review
Based on the 2011 film thriller, CBS’ Limitless took some of the basic tropes from the movie and developed them into one of network television’s quirkiest and most appealing new series.
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NCIS: Los Angeles - Season 7 DVD Review
Probably the weakest of the NCIS series, NCIS: Los Angeles continues along its loud and violent path for its seventh season.
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NCIS: The Thirteenth Season DVD Review
The thirteenth season was a tumultuous one for CBS’ hit procedural NCIS. In addition to the announcement early in this year’s run that one of its original cast members would be leaving at the end of the season, the show’s writers gave almost...
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Castle: The Complete Eighth and Final Season DVD Review
Unquestionably the most popular crime procedural ABC has fronted in many years, the final season of Castle unfortunately got too caught up in its unsatisfying on-going mystery arcs taking time away from the single episode...