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<strong class='bbc'>Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman: The Complete Series DVD Review</strong><p>First things first - the Shout! Factory box set of <em class='bbc'>Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman: The Complete Series</em> appears to have rectified all of the problems which plagued the 2007 set of the show's...

<strong class='bbc'>LA Law Season One DVD Review</strong><p>The 80s are fond memories for me. Middle school and High school and everything that captured youth. My parents and I would watch a lot of programming; but NBC was a staple in our household, and it didn't take me long to fall for a hip...

<strong class='bbc'>Dallas: The Complete Second Season - Recommended</strong><p>The modern day iteration of the classic primetime soap opera keeps on pumpin’ as <em class='bbc'>Dallas: The Complete Second Season</em> arrives on DVD. The release, which hit store shelves in mid February, is...

<strong class='bbc'>Perry Mason Movie Collection: Volume 1 DVD Review</strong><p>After appearing for nine years as America’s most famous defense attorney Perry Mason, Raymond Burr went on to other TV series both successful and unsuccessful, made sporadic appearances in TV-movies and feature...

<strong class='bbc'>The Gambler from Natchez DVD Review</strong><p>For those of us of a certain age, actor Dale Robertson will always be thought of as a television star rather than a top-billed movie star, but he certainly did have a film career both before and after his long-running success on...

<strong class='bbc'>Mystery Science Theater 3000 25th Anniversary Edition DVD Review</strong><p>It’s hard to believe it’s been 25 years since <em class='bbc'>Mystery Science Theater 3000</em> first hit the airwaves. Shout! Factory is celebrating with a big 25th anniversary set, which includes...

<strong class='bbc'>Maverick: The Complete Season Three DVD Review</strong><p>With the release of <em class='bbc'>Maverick: The Complete Third Season</em> Warner Brothers has shifted the distribution of the program to the Warner Archive. The good news is that Warner has announced that it intends...

<strong class='bbc'>Paris After Dark DVD Review</strong><p>The work of the French Underground was grist for the Hollywood production mill both during and for many years after World War II. While Leonide Moguy’s <em class='bbc'>Paris After Dark</em> doesn’t rank as the best of those films where...

<strong class='bbc'>The Cisco Kid and the Lady DVD Review</strong><p>After Warner Baxter relinquished the role of the Cisco Kid after winning an Oscar for his first and making two subsequent films, Fox contract player Cesar Romero was signed to play the role. <em class='bbc'>The Cisco Kid and...

<strong class='bbc'>As I Lay Dying DVD Review</strong><p>When William Faulkner wrote 'As I Lay Dying', we can be assured he never imagined it as a play. The story, told from the perspective of 59 different characters presents a real narrative problem when taken off of the page. Because of...

<strong class='bbc'>The Gay Caballero (1940) DVD Review</strong><p>After starring in three films for Fox as the Cisco Kid, Oscar winner Warner Baxter relinquished the role to Cesar Romero for the remainder of the character’s tenure with the studio. Romero starred in a half dozen or so B-movie...

<strong class='bbc'>Home Alone: The Holiday Heist DVD Review</strong><p>There comes a time when every studio with a multi-film franchise must realize that the boat has sailed and it’s time to call it a day. If Peter Hewitt’s <em class='bbc'>Home Alone: The Holiday Heist</em>’s quality is any...

<strong class='bbc'>Decision Before Dawn DVD Review</strong><p>For all of the horrors it spawned during the years of its occurrence, World War II was a veritable gold mine of film subjects for Hollywood. Anatole Litvak’s <em class='bbc'>Decision Before Dawn</em>, based on a true story of...

<strong class='bbc'>White Collar: The Complete Fourth Season DVD Review</strong><p>The basic premise behind USA’s very successful caper series <em class='bbc'>White Collar</em> remained the same during its fourth season: an FBI agent and his con man confidential informant/partner go about...

<strong class='bbc'>China Beach Season 1 DVD Review</strong><p>The acclaimed Warner Brothers Vietnam War television series <em class='bbc'>China Beach</em> was released in a complete series set by StarVista/Time-Life earlier this year. While devoted fans of the series had mostly nothing but...

<strong class='bbc'>We Steal Secrets - The Story of Wikileaks DVD Review</strong><p><em class='bbc'>We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks</em> presents its evidence on DVD, showcasing the latest documentary work of Alex Gibney. This time out, he’s tackling the real life details around the...

<strong class='bbc'>Chicago Fire Season 1 DVD Review</strong><p><em class='bbc'>Chicago Fire: Season 1</em> burns its first season onto DVD with this collection, which became available within the last month. The 5-disc collection presents all 24 episodes in anamorphic picture and 5.1 sound...

<strong class='bbc'>Parks and Recreation Season Five DVD Review</strong><p><em class='bbc'>Parks and Recreation: Season 5</em> provides a role call on DVD of the most recent season of the NBC comedy. The 3-disc collection presents all 22 episodes in anamorphic picture and 5.1 sound, along with...

<strong class='bbc'>Three Little Girls in Blue DVD Review</strong><p>Unmarried, penniless girls on the prowl for millionaires: it was a plot that 20<sup class='bbc'>th</sup> Century Fox used for at least four major films, and H. Bruce Humberstone’s <em class='bbc'>Three Little Girls in...

<strong class='bbc'>Western Union DVD Review</strong><p>Fritz Lang captures the spirit and tone of the Old West just about as well as any then-contemporary American director in <em class='bbc'>Western Union</em>, an entertaining 1941 western dealing with the problems facing the men responsible...

<strong class='bbc'>Castle: The Complete Fifth Season DVD Review</strong><p>ABC’s <em class='bbc'>Castle</em> is one of the breeziest and most ingratiating of all the network procedurals, and its fifth season has turned out to be its strongest one yet. A terrific collection of baffling...

<strong class='bbc'>It&#39;s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The Complete Season 8 DVD Review</strong><p>The nincompoops at Paddy’s Pub continue their own unique brand of idiocy in season eight of <em class='bbc'>It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia</em>. With the cast members of the long-running FX...

<strong class='bbc'>Bird of Paradise (1951) DVD Review</strong><p>Polynesian culture comes to pictorially splendid if dramatically insipid life in Delmer Daves’ 1951 remake of <em class='bbc'>Bird of Paradise</em>. Based on an old warhorse of a play and a 1932 film, the new film’s writer and...

The 4400 - The Complete First Season Studio: Paramount Year: 2004 Rated: NR Length: 4 Hours, 16 Minutes Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Audio: English Digital 5.1, English 2.0 Subtitles: None Closed Captioned Special Features: None Price: around $20 USD, street Release Date: December...

The 4400: The Complete Series Studio: CBS Year: 2004-2007 US Rating: Not Rated Film Length: 1938 Minutes Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Subtitles: English US Release Date: October 18, 2008 The Show - :star::star::star::star: out of...

THE BORDER SEASON ONE DVD SET Studio: Video Service Corp. Year: 2008 Rated: Unrated Film Length: 10 hours, 4 minutes Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1) Subtitles: None Release Date: November 18, 2008 The Series (:star: :star: :star: :star: out of :star: :star: :star: :star...

<strong class='bbc'>Perry Mason: Season 9, Volume 2 DVD Review</strong><p>The first television incarnation of Earl Stanley Gardner’s fictional defense attorney Perry Mason came to a grand and glorious end in its ninth season after 245 episodes. Though it had ceased to be a top ranked show for...

<strong class='bbc'>The Good Wife: The Fourth Season DVD Review</strong><p>Four years in and CBS’ <em class='bbc'>The Good Wife </em>continues its winning ways turning in another near-perfect season craftily balancing riveting legal cases with the continually interesting personal lives of all of...

<strong class='bbc'>Early Fassbinder: Eclipse Series 39 DVD Review</strong><p>In his first year and a half as a professional filmmaker, German wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder directed ten films. Five of those have been collected in the latest Eclipse box set <em class='bbc'>Early...

<strong class='bbc'>Elementary: The First Season DVD Review</strong><p>Since he made his first appearance in 1887 in the pages of the <em class='bbc'>Strand</em> magazine in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "A Study in Scarlet," Sherlock Holmes has rarely been without an audience. Whether in the pages...