Lewis Black has a rather frenetic style when delivering comedy. Much like the late George Carlin, he always seems on the verge of a nervous breakdown. While in a full on rant, Black ridicules history, politics, religion, trends and cultural phenomena. He uses sarcasm and…
The Godfather Collection – The Coppola Restoration has to be one of the best Blu-ray releases of 2008. Parts I and II are arguably two of the greatest films ever made, and now the entire trilogy is available remastered, with a high-definition Blu-ray picture and…
Back in November of 2007, I reviewed Serena Ryder’s EP I Told You in a Whispered Song. That was my introduction to the Canadian born singer. Nearly two years later, Ryder is set to release a new three song EP titled Sweeping the Ashes that…
ABC’s Samantha Who? Os a comedy about a young woman who wakes up from an eight day coma only to discover she has no recollection of who she is or the people who have been in an out of her life. Every day is a…
Debuting in 2001, Shrek was a CG animated feature loosely based off the children’s book of the same name by William Steig. Telling the story of a hermitic swamp-dwelling ogre whose territory is overrun by displaced faerie tale creatures, the film was a wild and…
Directed by Marc Schoelermann and written by Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor, creators of Crank (a 2006 film that has developed a bit of a cult following), Pathology received mixed reviews and a tepid box office response upon its release in April of 2008. Milo…
Created by Chuck Lorre and Lee Aronsohn, Two and a Half Men centers on Charlie Harper (Charlie Sheen) whose carefree lifestyle is interrupted when his newly separated brother Alan (Jon Cryer) moves in, along with his son Jake (Angus T. Jones) who lives with them…
Ordinarily, I hate double dipping. In this case, double dipping means releasing the same DVD twice with exactly the same bonus material. Paramount released Grease: Rockin’ Rydell Edition back in September of 2006. Now, just two years later, the same edition has been released again,…
Deception has been used as a film title several times, so perhaps the name of this 2008 offering should have tipped me off to its unoriginal story. However with the star power of Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor, I figured any film that described itself…
Production began on Sleeping Beauty in 1951, voices were recorded in 1952, animation production took from 1953 until 1958, and the stereophonic musical score, partially based on Tchaikovsky’s ballet of the same name, was recorded in 1957. The film holds a notable position in Disney…