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<b>Made for Each Other (1971) DVD Review</b><p><p>Robert B. Bean’s <em class='bbc'>Made for Each Other</em> takes the comedy of neuroses and beats it to within an inch of its life. The two main characters in the film are painfully flawed and sometimes almost dangerously dysfunctional, and...

<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>Justice League: Gods and Monsters Blu-ray/DVD Review</b><p><p>A Justice League that uses lethal force: an alternate universe with a Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman that are much different from the heroes with which we are familiar forms the basis of <em class='bbc'>Justice League: Gods...

<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>Lego DC Super Heroes - Justice League: Attack of the Legion of Doom&#33; Blu-ray Review</b><p><p>The Lego Justice League returns in Attack of the Legion of Doom! The latest Lego Justice League film introduces the Martian Manhunter to the League while Lex Luthor recruits villains into his...

<b>Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem Blu-ray Review</b><p><p><em class='bbc'>Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem </em>continues the adventures of Bruce Wayne/Batman in a near future Gotham City first introduced in <em class='bbc'>Batman Unlimited: Animal Instincts</em>. The near future depicted...

<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...

<p>Thomas Cailley's first feature film, as director, is a charmingly modern romantic comedy, with ties firmly to (as the NY Times' Stephen Holden notes) those of Tracy and Hepburn, or possibly Stewart or Grant and Jean Arthur.<br /> <br /> And that's all good.<br /> <br /> One of the nice things...

<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...

I recently went on Shout! Factory's Facebook Page to ask them a couple of questions on some stalled "Holy Grail" Shows being released on DVD. I specifically asked about "One Day At A Time" and "The Drew Carey Show". But I did see someone else asked about the Cloris Leachman sitcom "Phyllis"...

<p>William Dieterle's Satan Met a Lady, starring Warren William, and a young Bette Davis, is an interesting film.</p> <p>I had read about it when I was in my teens, but somehow the ability to view it always escaped me.</p> <p>I finally caught up with it courtesy of its release via the Warner...

<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...

Just curious if anyone went to Comic Con (San Diego) to hear the panel discussions for Shout Factory! Were there any upcoming T.V. shows on DVD announcements? If so, please let us know (for those who could not attend) Thank you.

<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...

<p>John Farrow's 1939 (there's that year again) aircraft in jeopardy film, Five Came Back, shows what a quality script, and a select group of actors, can do with 75 minutes.</p> <p>Of the credited screenwriters, one stands out - Dalton Trumbo - the blacklisted writer of Bill of Divorcement...

<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...