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We’re getting short changed with the latest “Dora The Explorer” DVD release. I don’t care how good the episodes are, but we are only getting 3 episodes. In the past when Nickelodeon and Paramount put out a 3 episode DVD, one of them would be a double-length episode. Not this time. Just over 60 minutes…
The 1953 film Titanic stars a great deal of fantastic actors on a sinking ship. That’s a fantastic analogy for the film itself. Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner, Thelma Ritter, Richard Basehart and several other recognizable names and faces show up in this melodrama. At just over an hour and a half, the film…
Hit & Run takes a bit to get started. It promises to be a comedic road trip type of film, and part of it is. At its heart it’s a sort of romantic comedy with Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell in the leads. Supporting players include Tom Arnold, Kristen Chenoweth, Bradley Cooper, Michael Rosenbaum, and…
So I put Trouble With The Curve in my Blu-ray player, trying to satiate my baseball appetite until Spring Training. I was supposed to review it a while ago, but so many different things got in the way. It seems much more appropriate now, however, with the winter meetings over, trades and other backroom deals…
I like Jackie Chan and think he got a raw deal in Hollywood. His work in the late 70s and on through the 80s are some of the best martial arts/action films to come out of Hong Kong. He exploded in the 90s and made the transition to Hollywood actor with the success of 1993’s…
The Seven Per-Cent Solution is partly a Sherlock Holmes story, but also it is much more than that, it is a story about Sherlock Holmes. It is notable for a number of reasons, but perhaps most of which is the fact that it was not written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, but instead Nicholas Meyer….
Bruce Lee is arguably the most iconic martial arts figure of the modern age, and perhaps of all time. A new documentary, I Am Bruce Lee, is the latest in a line of documentaries about the man who was an actor, fight choreographer, director, teacher, and so much more. What makes this one different? It offers insight…
I’ve been watching these “SpongeBob SquarePants” DVDs for a few years now, and it’s hard to get excited about these random episode/segment compilations. Now we are getting a selection of segments from the last couple of years. While I find the randomness of these releases frustrating, the show is still funny and there is some…
I’m bummed that Nick Jr. started showing commercials. Sure, there were some sponsorship messages, but those were very limited in quantity. The promotional items for other programs airing on Nickelodeon didn’t bother me much either. But now that Nick Jr. airs commercials, we don’t watch that channel much. Now we get two new DVDs of…
I’ve been playing Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition for a while now, and I have to say, it’s a wonderful throwback to the heyday of PC RPGs from 10-15 years ago. There’s a lot to the game, and so much of it remains the same, it’s definitely a game for fans of “classic” RPGs to purchase,…