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<b>When the Legends Die DVD Review</b><p><p>An interesting premise for a film trails off in its later reels leaving the drama rather inert and unsatisfying in Stuart Millar’s <em class='bbc'>When the Legends Die. </em>Featuring a wonderfully undemonstrative film debut and a superb star character...

<b>CSI: Cyber - The First Season DVD Review</b><p><p>The fourth entry in CBS’ lucrative <em class='bbc'>CSI</em> franchise leaves the world of physical forensic evidence and dives deeply into the world of device hacking, a world of cybernetics where rules don’t apply and rogue programmers have a...

<b>Woman&#39;s World DVD Review</b><p><p>1954 was a year of businessmen in the movies making important executive decisions concerning leadership at the top of important corporations. MGM’s <em class='bbc'>Executive Suite</em> and Fox’s <em class='bbc'>Woman’s World</em> were two such films, but...

<b>Good Morning, Miss Dove DVD Review</b><p><p>Another of the memorable literary school teachers comes to the screen in Henry Koster’s <em class='bbc'>Good Morning, Miss Dove</em>. Like her male counterpart Arthur Chipping in <em class='bbc'>Goodbye, Mr. Chips</em>, Miss Dove is a no-nonsense...

<b>Descendants DVD Review</b><p><p>The Disney Channel has mounted several made-for-TV musicals (<em class='bbc'>High School Musical, Camp Rock, Lemonade Mouth</em>) over the last decade that drew tremendous audiences and had significant cultural impact for a time, and its latest <em...

<b>Castle: The Complete Seventh Season DVD Review</b><p><p>Despite two miscalculations for story arcs during its seventh season on the air, ABC’s hit procedural <em class='bbc'>Castle</em> otherwise remained one of the breeziest and most ingratiating of all network mystery series. The cast is as...

<b>Elementary: The Third Season DVD Review</b><p><p>The producers of CBS' hit series <em class='bbc'>Elementary</em> seem to have an incessant desire to continually shake up their series. Never content to establish its procedural formula and simply let it run, in each of its three seasons on the...

<b>NCIS: New Orleans - The First Season DVD Review</b><p><p>CBS’ highest rated new show of the 2014-2015 season was <em class='bbc'>NCIS: New Orleans</em>, an entertaining if very familiar spin-off of the network’s most popular drama <em class='bbc'>NCIS</em>. Set in The Big Easy with an...

<b>NCIS: The Twelfth Season DVD Review</b><p><p>With its popularity unwavering and its writers continuing to delve into the psyches of each of its core characters, CBS’ number one drama <em class='bbc'>NCIS</em> had a sterling twelfth season. Delivering wonderfully involving puzzles each week...

<b>The Good Wife: The Sixth Season DVD Review</b><p><p>After its stellar fifth season which surely ranked as one of the most outstanding single seasons in the history of American television, CBS’ <em class='bbc'>The Good Wife</em> really had nowhere to go but down. To its credit, the show...

<b>How to Get Away With Murder: The Complete First Season DVD Review</b><p><p>ABC’s highest-rated new series for the 2014-2015 season was <em class='bbc'>How to Get Away With Murder</em>, the brainchild of Shonda Rhimes protégé Pete Nowalk who brings to the project all of the positives and...

<b>Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume XXXIII DVD Review</b><p><p><em class='bbc'>Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume XXXIII</em> benefits from a better selection of episodes than the last few sets, including fan favorites <em class='bbc'>Daddy-O</em> and <em class='bbc'>Agent For...

<b>Fearless Frank DVD Review</b><p><p>Filmed four years before he leapt to international stardom as the title character in the Oscar-winning <em class='bbc'>Midnight Cowboy</em> but shelved after completion and only released afterward, Philip Kaufman's <em class='bbc'>Fearless Frank</em> did no...

<b>Sodom and Gomorrah DVD Review</b><p><p>A Biblical epic lacking in the size, scope, and technical skill of Hollywood productions such as those mounted by Cecil B. DeMille, Robert Aldrich’s <em class='bbc'>Sodom and Gomorrah</em> takes potentially juicy source material and stretches it out...

<b>Awaken (2015) DVD Review</b><p><p>A young woman, in search of her lost sister, awakens on the shore of an island in director Mark Atkins' latest exploitation actioner, <em class='bbc'>Awaken</em>, starring Natalie Burn and a host of 1980s action sidekicks, including Robert Davi, Michael Pare...

<b>Dear Brigitte DVD Review</b><p><p>In addition to a steady stream of dramas and westerns during the 1960s, James Stewart would return to family comedies from time to time and usually score pretty well. Henry Koster’s <em class='bbc'>Dear Brigitte</em> was pretty much the last of this type of...

<b>Wabash Avenue/That Lady in Ermine/Sweet Rosie O&#39;Grady DVD Review</b><p><p>For a decade, Betty Grable ranked as one of the top box-office stars in the country and certainly Twentieth Century Fox's highest placing member of the movie star elite outdistancing other Fox stars like Tyrone...

<b>Johnny Angel DVD Review</b><p><p><em class='bbc'> </em></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p> <em class='bbc'>Johnny Angel</em> is an entertaining RKO film noir which has been released on DVD-R by the Warner Archive. It features a hard-nosed performance by George Raft and some striking...

<b>The Cowboy and the Blonde DVD Review</b><p><p>A spoiled Hollywood star and a naïve rodeo cowboy butting heads on a studio lot: there are the makings for a potentially riotous screwball comedy, but in the hands of B-movie director Ray McCarey, it amounts to very little in <em class='bbc'>The...

<b>Tooken DVD Review</b><p><p>Remember those sensational movie parodies that <em class='bbc'>MAD </em>magazine used to churn out in almost every issue? Find any popular movie or epic-length film, and <em class='bbc'>MAD</em> was likely to have a gut-busting satirical take on it. The movies...

<b>Parks and Recreation: Season Seven DVD Review</b><p><p>In February of this year, <em class='bbc'>Parks and Recreation</em> ended its seven season run on NBC. Universal brings all 13 episodes to DVD in this 2-disc set, which includes alternate Producer’s cuts of three episodes, behind the...

<b>Bones: The Complete Ninth Season DVD Review</b><p><p>The producers of Fox’s <em class='bbc'>Bones</em> had no sooner dispensed with their ridiculously overdrawn, omnipotent serial killer Christopher Pelant (who had hung around for three seasons) when they introduced yet another one, The Ghost...

<b>In Love and War (1958) DVD Review</b><p><p>Fighting men during wartime and their families back home: it’s a scenario that has worked on stage and screen for centuries. Philip Dunne’s <em class='bbc'>In Love and War</em> does a decent job of establishing the family dynamics but falters...

<b>Glee: The Final Season DVD Review</b><p><p>Once the critical and popular darling of the American airwaves with millions of iTunes downloads, Emmy Award and Golden Globe wins, a cherished Peabody Award, and Program of the Year honors from the Television Critics’ Association, <em...

<b>International Settlement DVD Review</b><p>The B-picture units at the major Hollywood studios often turned out cracking good yarns that ran on either the top or bottom half of double bills, and Eugene Forde’s 1938 adventure thriller <em class='bbc'>International Settlement</em> is one such...

The Creation of the Universe Studio: Paramount Year: 1985 Rated: NR Length: 92 minutes Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audio: English Dolby Stereo, Commentary track English subtitles; Closed Captioned in English Special Features: Commentary by Timothy Ferris SRP: $19.99 USD...

Studio: Paramount Home Video Year: 1982 Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Discs: 4, 22 episodes Audio: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo) Subtitles: None MSRP: $38.99 Street Date: 20 February 2007 The sitcom is a standard on American television, though every generation features a different iteration. “Family...

<p><strong>Welcome Back Kotter: The Complete Series - Recommended</strong></p> <p><em>Welcome Back, Kotter: The Complete Series</em> shoots its paper airplanes onto DVD in this comprehensive set from Shout Factory. The release, which has officially gone on sale this week, presents all four...

NIGHT GALLERY SEASON TWO Studio: Universal Original Broadcast: 1971-1972 Length: 18 hours 40 mins Genre: Mystery/Suspense/Fantasy/Horror/Comedy Anthology Series Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Full Frame Color/B&W: Color Audio: English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Subtitles: English SDH Rating: Unrated...

Law and Order: Special Victims Unit – The First Year Studio: Universal Year: 1999-2000 Rated: Not Rated Box Set Length: 17 Hours 23 Minutes Aspect Ratio: Full-Frame (4:3) Subtitles: English (Captioned), French, and Spanish Audio: English - Dolby...