Dan Curtis’ Dead of Night (1977) Blu-ray Review: Trilogy of Terror Redux
By Kent Conrad |
Throughout the '70s, Dan Curtis was the go-to man for network TV horror. From Dark Shadows to The Night Stalker ...
Read More Touché Turtle and Dum Dum: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: A Fun Cartoon Filled with Heroic Slapstick
By Gordon S. Miller |
Touché Turtle and Dum Dum is one of three cartoons, along with Wally Gator and Lippy the Lion and Hardy ...
Read More Dan Curtis’ Classic Monsters Blu-ray Review: Made-for-TV Mayhem
By Kent Conrad |
Dan Curtis was a television producer and director of the '60s and '70s. While his actual output was varied, he ...
Read More Knight Rider (1982): The Complete Series 4K UHD Review: Boy Meets Car
By Gordon S. Miller |
Glen A. Larson had a prolific career in television as a writer and producer in a variety of genres, and ...
Read More Spenser: For Hire: The Complete Series DVD Review: Robert Urich Is on the Case
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels, Spenser: For Hire is a Boston-based detective series starring Robert Urich as the ...
Read More La Femme Nikita: The Complete Series DVD Box Set Review: Viva Peta
By Steve Geise |
I’ve watched every iteration of the Nikita spy character except the ‘97-’01 TV series, making this new box set a ...
Read More Emergency!: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: The Paramedic Adventures of Gage and DeSoto
By Gordon S. Miller |
Robert A. Cinader assisted Jack Webb in producing the 1967–70 revival of Dragnet. Together, they created Adam-12 (1968–1975), another Los ...
Read More The Lake Trilogy DVD Review: Nordic Noir Moves South
By Steve Geise |
I know nothing about Slovenia, but this new DVD set billed as “the first Slovenian crime noir series” caught my ...
Read More The Huckleberry Hound Show: The Complete Original Series Blu-ray Review: A Cartoon Classic from the Vaults
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Huckleberry Hound Show: The Complete Original Series presents all four seasons, 68 episodes across eleven Blu-ray discs, of the ...
Read More Interview: Darcy Staniforth in Conversation with Barbara Butcher About The Death Investigator with Barbara Butcher
By Darcy Staniforth |
Barbara Butcher spent more than twenty years as a death investigator with the NYPD. Over the span of her accomplished ...
Read More The Last of Us: The Complete Second Season 4K UHD Steelbook Review: Terrific Television
By Mat Brewster |
Sequels are hard. Television series past season number one are hard. The moment right before you start to tell a ...
Read More The White Lotus: The Complete Third Season DVD Review: Thai Spice
By Steve Geise |
HBO’s buzzy limited series continues with its third iteration, this time traveling to an idyllic resort in Thailand. As in ...
Read More PAW Patrol: Fire Rescue DVD Review: Adventure Bay Has a Fire Problem
By Greg Hammond |
Welcome to Adventure Bay, the town where PAW Patrol: Fire Rescue takes place. Ryder is the boy who runs the ...
Read More Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman – The Complete Series Blu-ray Box Set Review
By Steve Geise |
Not to be confused with the recently concluded Superman & Lois series, this new Blu-ray box set compiles the full ...
Read More See: Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Blind Game of Thrones
By Steve Geise |
You know how it’s generally annoying whenever a sighted actor plays a blind character? Now imagine an entire cast fumbling ...
Read More The 100: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Review: Post-Apocalyptic Lord of the Flies
By Steve Geise |
After drifting out of print over the last decade, the first season of this sci-fi series is once again available ...
Read More Mr. Peabody & Sherman: The Complete Collection DVD Review: A Dog and His Boy
By Gordon S. Miller |
Produced by Jay Ward Productions, the animated adventures of Rocket J. (“Rocky”) Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose originally aired from ...
Read More Salem’s Lot (1979) DVD Review: Good Movie, Weird Release
By Mat Brewster |
Stephen King has said that the idea for his novel 'Salem's Lot came to him during his teaching days. He'd ...
Read More Murder, She Wrote: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: There’s No Mystery That Angela Lansbury Is the Key to the Series’ Success
By Gordon S. Miller |
Murder, She Wrote is an hour-long mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as widowed author Jessica Fletcher, a resident of Cabot ...
Read More Cheyenne: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: The Man with a Known Name
By Gordon S. Miller |
Starring Clint Walker, Cheyenne was the first hour-long Western. Now available on Blu-ray from the Warner Archive Collection, The Complete ...
Read More Happy Valley: Series One DVD Review: Happy Viewers, Miserable Characters
By Steve Geise |
Catherine Cawood is a determined police sergeant in her grim small UK town of Yorkshire. She’s haunted by the suicide ...
Read More Captain Planet and the Planeteers: The Complete Franchise Blu-ray Review: “Saving Our Planet Is the Thing to Do”
By Gordon S. Miller |
Captain Planet and the Planeteers: The Complete Franchise collects the three seasons of Captain Planet and the Planeteers, which was ...
Read More Mr. Show: The Complete Collection DVD Review: Sketch Comedy That Is Both Topical and Timeless
By Gordon S. Miller |
Previously released in 2006 and 2014, Mr. Show: The Complete Collection returns to DVD on a six-disc set, which is ...
Read More Wacky Races: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: A Dastardly Good Time
By Gordon S. Miller |
Inspired by Blake Edwards's The Great Race, Wacky Races debuted in 1968. The Complete Series Blu-ray presents all 17 episodes, ...
Read More The Magilla Gorilla Show: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: This Monkey’s Gone to Heaven
By Steve Geise |
This classic Hanna-Barbera series finally gets a Blu-ray release, and the results should finally satisfy fans disappointed by previous DVD ...
Read More Dune: Prophecy: The Complete First Season 4K UHD Review: Spice World
By David Wangberg |
The resurgence of Dune in the cultural lexicon has been awesome to see in recent years, thanks to Denis Villeneuve’s ...
Read More Landman: Season One Blu-ray Review: Billy Bob Thornton Hits a Gusher
By Steve Geise |
Following the successes of his Yellowstone universe, as well as Mayor of Kingstown, Tulsa King, and Lioness, Taylor Sheridan’s latest ...
Read More Earth II Blu-ray Review: A Science Fiction Pilot That Fails to Engage
By Gordon S. Miller |
Earth II (1971) is a television pilot that didn't make it to series. Within the TV movie, Earth II is ...
Read More The Last of Us: The Complete First Season 4K UHD Steelbook Review: The Best of TV
By Mat Brewster |
Who would have thought that Craig Mazin, writer of lowbrow comedies such as Scary Movie 3 & 4 and The ...
Read More I Love Lucy: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Arguably the Greatest Sitcom of All Time
By Gordon S. Miller |
After only the first two seasons were previously released on Blu-ray, I Love Lucy: The Complete Series now presents all ...
Read More Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: A Fun Show Geared Towards a Young Audience
By Gordon S. Miller |
As Hanna-Barbera was transitioning from cartoon shows about funny animals to adventure stories, Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles initially ran ...
Read More Wait Till Your Father Gets Home: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Father Tries His Best
By Gordon S. Miller |
Initially appearing as a segment on the anthology show Love, American Style entitled “Love and the Old Fashioned Father,” Hanna-Barbera's ...
Read More Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie Blu-ray Review: A Solid Mix of Humor and Seriousness
By Davy |
Normally, I don't care for most reboots, but I really loved Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie (2023), a ...
Read More Dario Argento’s Deep Cuts Blu-ray Review: B-Sides from the Great Italian Director
By Mat Brewster |
A little less than ten years ago my wife and I bought our first house. Before then we'd lived in ...
Read More Top Cat: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Amusing in That ’60s-Sitcom Way
By Gordon S. Miller |
Following the success of The Flinstones, Hanna Barbera tried to replicate the formula by unofficially adapting another successful sitcom. For ...
Read More Evil: The Complete Series DVD Review: Well Worth Your Time
By Mat Brewster |
If I told you the basic synopsis of Evil - a priest in training, a lapsed Catholic psychologist, and a ...
Read More Super Friends: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Justice League Cartoons Assemble
By Gordon S. Miller |
Super Friends was Hanna-Barbera's animated adaptation of Justice League of America, a superhero team that frequently featured DC Comics' Big ...
Read More Hanna-Barbera’s Superstars 10 Blu-ray Review: A Good Collection for Young Cartoon-Watchers
By Gordon S. Miller |
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 ...
Read More The Alaskans: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: The Man with the Golden Dream
By Steve Geise |
It’s common knowledge that Roger Moore rose to fame as the star of the British TV series The Saint before ...
Read More Arctic Circle: Season 1-3 DVD Review: Panic in Lapland
By Steve Geise |
This Finnish crime series has two big draws: an eerily prescient focus in 2018 on an emerging global pandemic, and ...
Read More Knuckles Blu-ray Review: Strong TV Show Bolsters Sonic Universe
By Greg Hammond |
Knuckles is a limited TV series consisting of six total episodes following the story of Knuckles the Echidna (voiced by ...
Read More Call My Agent!: The Complete Series DVD Review: Wonderfully Fun
By Mat Brewster |
As far back as I can remember, I always loved the movies. Some of my fondest memories are of going ...
Read More Warehouse 13: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: All of the Artifacts in One Place
By Steve Geise |
Version 1.0.0 A decade after the conclusion of its five-season broadcast run, Warehouse 13 has finally been compiled into one ...
Read More True Detective: Night Country Blu-ray Review: Frozen Over
By David Wangberg |
When True Detective first premiered in 2014, it was unlike anything that had been on television at the time. Two ...
Read More The Flash: The Original Series Blu-ray Review: A Flashback to a Simpler Time for Superheroes
By Gordon S. Miller |
Coming out a year after Tim Burton's Batman (1989) helped elevate the comic book genre to be taken more seriously ...
Read More Monk: Season Eight Blu-ray Review: Monk’s Journey Comes to an End
By Davy |
With Season Eight, our favorite agoraphobic detective's journey (emotional, physical, and mental) comes to an end, with tears and all. ...
Read More Dexter’s Laboratory: The Complete Series DVD Review: As Inventive As Its Main Character
By Gordon S. Miller |
With its origins in an animated short film he made while attending CalArts, Genndy Tartakovsky created Dexter's Laboratory, a sci-fi ...
Read More Welcome Back, Kotter: The Complete Series DVD Review: A Funny Show Even When Dealing with Serious Topics
By Gordon S. Miller |
Welcome Back, Kotter is a reference to Gabe Kotter (co-creator Gabe Kaplan, whose life and stand-up material inspired the show), ...
Read More Monk: Season Six Blu-ray Review: A Particularly Winning Season
By Davy |
As I have mentioned in reviews of past seasons of Monk (2002-2009), there is a formula and familiarity there, but ...
Read More Monk: Season Five Blu-ray Review: This Season Showcases Monk’s Self-absorption and Selfishness
By Davy |
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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