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Dario Argento’s Deep Cuts Blu-ray Review: B-Sides from the Great Italian Director

A little less than ten years ago my wife and I bought our first house. Before then we'd lived in ...
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Top Cat: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Amusing in That ’60s-Sitcom Way

Following the success of The Flinstones, Hanna Barbera tried to replicate the formula by unofficially adapting another successful sitcom. For ...
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Evil: The Complete Series DVD Review: Well Worth Your Time

If I told you the basic synopsis of Evil - a priest in training, a lapsed Catholic psychologist, and a ...
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Super Friends: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Justice League Cartoons Assemble

Super Friends was Hanna-Barbera's animated adaptation of Justice League of America, a superhero team that frequently featured DC Comics' Big ...
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Hanna-Barbera’s Superstars 10 Blu-ray Review: A Good Collection for Young Cartoon-Watchers

Hanna-Barbera's Superstars 10 collects 10 made-for-TV animated films that aired on The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera, a syndicated program that ...
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The Alaskans: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: The Man with the Golden Dream

It’s common knowledge that Roger Moore rose to fame as the star of the British TV series The Saint before ...
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Arctic Circle: Season 1-3 DVD Review: Panic in Lapland

This Finnish crime series has two big draws: an eerily prescient focus in 2018 on an emerging global pandemic, and ...
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Knuckles Blu-ray Review: Strong TV Show Bolsters Sonic Universe

Knuckles is a limited TV series consisting of six total episodes following the story of Knuckles the Echidna (voiced by ...
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Call My Agent!: The Complete Series DVD Review: Wonderfully Fun

As far back as I can remember, I always loved the movies. Some of my fondest memories are of going ...
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Warehouse 13: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: All of the Artifacts in One Place

Version 1.0.0 A decade after the conclusion of its five-season broadcast run, Warehouse 13 has finally been compiled into one ...
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True Detective: Night Country Blu-ray Review: Frozen Over

When True Detective first premiered in 2014, it was unlike anything that had been on television at the time. Two ...
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The Flash: The Original Series Blu-ray Review: A Flashback to a Simpler Time for Superheroes

Coming out a year after Tim Burton's Batman (1989) helped elevate the comic book genre to be taken more seriously ...
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Monk: Season Eight Blu-ray Review: Monk’s Journey Comes to an End

With Season Eight, our favorite agoraphobic detective's journey (emotional, physical, and mental) comes to an end, with tears and all. ...
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Dexter’s Laboratory: The Complete Series DVD Review: As Inventive As Its Main Character

With its origins in an animated short film he made while attending CalArts, Genndy Tartakovsky created Dexter's Laboratory, a sci-fi ...
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Welcome Back, Kotter: The Complete Series DVD Review: A Funny Show Even When Dealing with Serious Topics

Welcome Back, Kotter is a reference to Gabe Kotter (co-creator Gabe Kaplan, whose life and stand-up material inspired the show), ...
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Monk: Season Six Blu-ray Review: A Particularly Winning Season

As I have mentioned in reviews of past seasons of Monk (2002-2009), there is a formula and familiarity there, but ...
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Monk: Season Five Blu-ray Review: This Season Showcases Monk’s Self-absorption and Selfishness

Despite the fact there isn't any real character growth and the show's formula is still there, Season Five of Monk ...
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The Soldier’s Tale Blu-ray Review: Will Make One Miss Hand-drawn Animation

There have been many cinematic iterations of the ordinary man selling his soul to the Devil for instant wealth and ...
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Monk: Season Four Blu-ray Review: Pretty Entertaining

Despite the fact that season four of Monk (2002-2009) is not as strong as season three (arguably the best of ...
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Interview with Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black on The Spiderwick Chronicles

From 2003 through 2004, Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black released a series of five children's fantasy books called The Spiderwick ...
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Heroes: The Complete Collection Blu-ray Review: Save the Cardboard, Save the World

“Save the cheerleader, save the world.” With that simple theme, NBC’s superhero TV series captured the nation’s attention years before ...
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Colt .45: The Complete Series Blu-ray Box Set Review: Revolving Peacemaker

Ask anyone not collecting Social Security to name an old Western TV series and you’ll likely get one of two ...
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Wednesday: Season 1 Blu-ray Review: Two Snaps Up

The Addams Family empire has quite a streak going. Starting with 150 single-panel comics (mostly published in The New Yorker) ...
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The Questor Tapes Blu-ray Review: An Android Seeks Its Creator in This TV Pilot from Gene Roddenberry

With a story by Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and a screenplay credited to Roddenberry and Star Trek show runner ...
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Suits: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Game of Phones

Suits completed its nine-season broadcast run in 2019, but following its addition to Netflix last year, it’s more popular than ...
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The Bridge: The Complete Series DVD Box Set Review: The Saga of Saga

After a four-season, 38-episode run originally broadcast between 2011-2018, the full story of Swedish detective Saga Noren is now available ...
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Monk: Season Three Blu-ray Review: Bigger Stakes and More Colorful Characters

Having previously reviewed Season One and watching Season Two during its original broadcast, I have to say that after revisiting ...
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The Odd Couple: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Opposites Attract Laughs

The Odd Couple, which earned playwright Neil Simon his first Tony, is about a pair of mismatched divorcees sharing an ...
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TV Review: Star Wars Holiday Special

In 1978, Star Wars fans had little content beyond the film to immerse themselves. There was the movie novelization ghost ...
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From the Couch Hole: Best of TV/Streaming 2023 – Every Day Here Is the Freakin’ Super Bowl

From 2005-2013 and 2017-2020, I punctuated each year with an ever increasingly complex Best Of List. In 2021, I returned ...
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Farscape: The Complete Series 25th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Review: Wild Ride in Outer and Inner Space

Westerns were a big thing for a very long time. The West (capital W very much intended) meant the frontier. ...
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Shaun the Sheep: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: A Cracking Collection of Agricultural Mayhem

Just in time for your last-minute holiday shopping needs, Shout! Factory has released a new Blu-ray box set of the ...
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The Office (2005): Complete Christmas Collection DVD Review: Ain’t No Party Like a Dunder Mifflin Party

Based on the highly acclaimed British TV series created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, The Office is a mockumentary ...
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Spin: The Complete Series DVD Review: French Political Intrigue

This French TV series takes a look into the halls of power at the top tier of French government. Our ...
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Monk: Season One Blu-ray Review: An Engaging, Grounded Comic Mystery Series

Honestly, there are way too many detective/cop shows on TV, especially those that are rough, brutal, and too adult for ...
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Poker Face: Season One Blu-ray Review: An Extremely Clever TV Series

I am a crime junkie and it is rare that something comes along in this genre that is new and ...
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RWBY Volume 9 Blu-ray Review: Beware the Jabberwocky

RWBY Volume 9 continues the story of Team RWBY (pronounced Ruby), who are made up of Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, ...
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Robot Monster: 70th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Review: A Dream Release for 3-D Fans

Bayview Entertainment celebrates the 70th anniversary of Robot Monster with an impressive release that features a quality restoration by 3-D ...
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Aber Bergen: Complete Series DVD Review: Divorce Norwegian Style

When married partners of a law firm divorce, their office is left in flux as they try to continue working ...
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The Venture Bros.: The Complete Series DVD Review: The Magnum Opus of Jackson Publick & Doc Hammer

The Venture Bros.: The Complete Series is a repackaging of the previously released seven seasons of the cult favorite, Adult ...
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Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray Review: The End of a Prehistoric Era

In my review of Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal: The Complete First Season, I called the series an “animation masterpiece.” As the ...
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The Hunters: Complete Seasons 1 & 2 DVD Review: A Man Called Backström

A grumpy old retired cop is slogging through his golden years as a security guard at a start-up gold mine ...
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The Adventures of Batman: The Complete Collection Blu-ray Review: Filmation’s First Animated Iteration of the Caped Crusader

Filmation followed up The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure (1967) with The Batman/Superman Hour (1968), securing the rights to the first ...
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Maigret (1960): Season 2 Blu-ray Review: This Series Keeps Getting Better

While I was writing my review for Season 1 of Maigret, I kept wondering if I'd be able to find ...
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From the Couch Hole: Best of TV/Streaming 2022 – Let Justice Be Done Though the Heavens Fall

From 2005-2013 and 2017-2020, I punctuated each year with an ever increasingly complex Best Of List. In 2021, I returned ...
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Maigret (1960): Season 1 Blu-ray Review: Scores Big for Solid Entertainment Value

Maigret, the French detective created by Belgian writer Georges Simenon, is one of my all-time fictional detectives. Second only, perhaps, ...
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South Park: Post Covid Blu-ray Review: An Entertaining Mix of Goofy and Serious

The South Park: Post Covid Blu-ray presents two extended episodes that debuted on Paramount+ in the Fall of 2021: “Post ...
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Euphoria: Seasons 1 & 2 DVD Review: Full of Candor, Humor, and Empathy

To be honest with you, I didn't exactly understand all the hoopla over the TV show Euphoria, and mainly that's ...
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Stargirl: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray Review: A Wonderful Continuation of the Series

The second season of Stargirl is subtitled “Summer School,” which Courtney (Brec Bassinger) has to enroll in because she is ...
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TV Review: Doctor Who: “The Power of the Doctor”

Doctor Who: “The Power of the Doctor” ends Jodie Whittaker's tenure as the Thirteenth Doctor on the ongoing series. Considering ...
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