New Girl: The Complete Second Season DVD Review: Another Great Season
By Darcy Staniforth |
New Girl is one of the best shows on television today. To just refer to it as sitcom is to ...
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Nightmare Honeymoon DVD Review: Can I Get an Annulment Over Here?
By Luigi Bastardo |
As events near and far forever altered the world throughout the '60s and '70s, the well-known face of cinema began ...
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Modern Family: The Complete Fourth Season Blu-ray Review: Yet Another Mouth to Feed
By Luigi Bastardo |
Were the average individual to take the time to peruse the annals of sitcoms from both the past and present, ...
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It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Remastered Deluxe Edition) DVD Review: Maybe This Year He’ll Show
By Gordon S. Miller |
On this Deluxe Edition from Warner Brothers, It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is paired with the lesser-known It's Magic, ...
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Waking the Dead: Season Eight DVD Review: Forensic Cop Show, Overwrought and Desperate
By Kent Conrad |
An advantage many British shows have over American television is that they usually have far fewer episodes. A show will ...
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Family Guy: Volume Eleven DVD Review: Okay, Not Spectacular
By Darcy Staniforth |
I love Family Guy and watch both the new episodes as well as those in syndication. However Volume Eleven of ...
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American Horror Story: Asylum Blu-ray Review: Absolutely Insane, but It Works
By Kent Conrad |
American Horror Story is more about horror than it is horror. It has the tropes, and the imagery, of real ...
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TV Review: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: “Girl in the Flower Dress”
By Cinema Sentries |
Todd Karella writes... When Chan Ho Yin, a man with the ability to create fire, disappears off the S.H.I.E.L.D. radar, ...
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Nikita: The Complete Third Season Blu-ray Review: La Reine Nikita
By Steve Geise |
Shows airing on CW aren't generally known for the strength or complexity of their writing, but Nikita has been a ...
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Robot Chicken: Season 6 Blu-ray Review: Back for More Irreverent Channel Changing
By Todd Karella |
Robot Chicken is an animated television series using stop motion, Claymation, and small puppets known mainly as action figures, and ...
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Luther: Series 3 DVD Review: Panic on the Streets of London
By Steve Geise |
If you're looking for a feel-good cop show with a tidy resolution at the end of every episode, this is ...
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The Ghost Busters: The Complete Series DVD Review: Laughs over Logic
By Gordon S. Miller |
Filmation's The Ghost Busters was a live-action Saturday morning kid's show that aired in 1975, well before Bill Murray and ...
Read More Groovie Goolies: The Saturday Mourning Collection DVD Review: I Needed This
By Gordon S. Miller |
Filmation's Groovie Goolies was created by the team behind The Archie Show to take advantage of CBS' success of Scooby-Doo. ...
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TV Review: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: “Eye-Spy”
By Cinema Sentries |
Gordon S. Miller writes... I know this might be faint praise considering my reaction to the previous three episodes, but ...
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Bones: The Complete Eighth Season Blu-ray Review: Going Through the Motions
By Steve Geise |
Bones is the TV equivalent of comfort food. You know what you're getting, you know you won't be challenged in ...
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Tarzan (1966): The Complete Second Season DVD Review: Wither Ron Ely
By Luigi Bastardo |
As the old saying goes, "The more things change, the more they stay the same." When motion pictures first came ...
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How I Met Your Mother: The Complete Season 8 DVD Review: Just Meet Her Already!
By Sombrero Grande |
There are times when a story is so good, so well-told, so full of fun and laughter that you just ...
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TV Review: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: ‘0-8-4’
By Cinema Sentries |
Gordon S. Miller files his report “0-8-4,” the name of the episode, is a S.H.I.E.L.D. code for an object of ...
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TV Review: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: “The Asset”
By Cinema Sentries |
Todd Karella writes... The third episode opens with a truck hijacking. It's not your typical everyday crime as the two ...
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Detective Montalbano: Episodes 23-26 DVDs Review: Murder and Fun in the Sicilian Sun
By Mat Brewster |
Inspector Montalbano (Il commissario Montalbano) is a popular Italian crime drama based upon the detective novels of Andrea Camilleri. It ...
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Sinbad: The Complete First Season DVD Review: A Unique Version with a BBC Twist
By Todd Karella |
Most people's idea of Sinbad is of the swashbuckling hero from the Ray Harryhausen films of the 1970s. But the ...
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In the Flesh: Series One DVD Review: Leave It to the Brits to Make Zombies Human Again
By Luigi Bastardo |
Anymore, it seems the word "zombie" is synonymous with a well-placed sigh of exasperated annoyance - garnished with a complete ...
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White Collar: The Complete Fourth Season DVD Review: Charming Cons Carry This Uneven but Entertaining Show
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Chris Morgan White Collar is pretty indicative of what kind of show the USA network likes to do. ...
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It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The Complete Season 8 DVD Review
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Mike Bruno Goodbye, Fat Mac. Hello, more hilarity. I always enjoy what the Gang is up to and ...
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Doctor Who: The Complete Seventh Series DVD Review: Lots of Changes Make for a Less Than Steller Doctor
By Mat Brewster |
The seventh series of Doctor Who was unusual for several reasons. It was broken in half with the first part ...
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TV Review: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: “Pilot”
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has now expanded into television with the debut of the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. pilot episode written ...
Read More The League: The Complete Season Four DVD Review: A Bad Season for the Gang Makes for a Good Season for Viewers
By Todd Karella |
It's that time of year again when gladiators of the gridiron strap on their armor and march boldly onto the ...
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Two and a Half Men: The Complete Tenth Season DVD Review: Getting Better
By Greg Barbrick |
The fact that Two and a Half Men survived the firing of Charlie Sheen is nothing short of a miracle. ...
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Adventure Time: Jake the Dad DVD Review: The Fun Hasn’t Ended
By Gordon S. Miller |
Coming in at just over three hours, the 16 episodes on Adventure Time: Jake the Dad, the fifth DVD volume ...
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Homeland: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray Review: Falling Short of Greatness
By Mat Brewster |
The line between a great show and a really good one is a thin one. For me it is all ...
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Sinbad: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Review: Harmless Fun on the Well-dressed Seas
By Critical curmudgeon |
Many of television's heavy-hitters are filled with wrenching moments, whether "red weddings" or situations so presumably staggering that they set ...
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Revolution: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Review: The Revolution Is Televised
By Greg Barbrick |
How does one describe a show as wild as Revolution? It is one of the most action-packed, science fiction programs ...
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Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka DVD Review: A Cartoon Doctor For the 40th Anniversary
By Mat Brewster |
In 1989 after 26 seasons, Doctor Who was cancelled. There continued to be various radio programs and novels, but the ...
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The Twilight Zone: The Complete Fifth Season DVD Review: The End of the Line
By Greg Barbrick |
The fifth and final season of The Twilight Zone aired during the 1963-1964 season, almost exactly 50 years ago. I ...
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The Walking Dead: The Complete Third Season DVD Review: For Those Who Enjoy Good Storytelling
By Rons Reviews |
After an amazing first season in which the landscape of horror, gore, and to an extent, drama, on television changed, ...
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The Walking Dead: The Complete Third Season Blu-ray Review: High Expectations Result in Unsatisfying Season
By Todd Karella |
The end of Season Two left high expectations for what was to come in the third season of the highly ...
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The Big Bang Theory: The Complete Sixth Season DVD Review: Best Sitcom Since Seinfeld
By Greg Barbrick |
Is The Big Bang Theory the funniest show on network TV? It is to me, and apparently to a whole ...
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Haven: The Complete Third Season DVD Review: Supernatural TV Series Dives into Some Pitfalls
By Kent Conrad |
There are two major pitfalls that supernaturally themed TV shows can easily fall into. First, since these shows have to ...
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Blandings: Series 1 DVD Review: The Great Wodehouse (Somewhat) Well Adapted
By Kent Conrad |
P. G. Wodehouse, an incredibly prolific British humorist (writing nearly 100 books, and many plays, movies and short stories) was ...
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The Twilight Zone: The Complete Fourth Season DVD Review: Charles Beaumont Is the Star of This Season
By Greg Barbrick |
The original Twilight Zone aired for five seasons (1959-64), on CBS. Like most of the people I know, the first-run ...
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Prime Suspect: The Complete Collection Blu-ray Review: An Excellent Series
By Mat Brewster |
At the time Prime Suspect first aired In 1991, there were only four female DCIs (Detective Chief Inspector) working in ...
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Bill Moyers: Faith & Reason Collection DVD Review: The Intersection of Belief and Logic
By Critical curmudgeon |
An extensive and intelligent collection that should be part of the library of any Bill Moyers fan, the Faith & ...
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Doctor Who: The Green Death: Special Edition DVD Review: Hello, Giant Maggots; Goodbye, Jo Grant
By Greg Barbrick |
“So the fledgling flies the coop,” states the Doctor in one of the opening scenes of The Green Death. It ...
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Doctor Who: Spearhead From Space Blu-ray Review: New Doctor, New Everything Really
By Mat Brewster |
There is a lot of trivia connected to Spearhead from Space but it is not at all a trivial episode. ...
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The Thick of It: Seasons 1-4 DVD Review: More Than Just Creative Swearing
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Chris Morgan If you are familiar with the works of Armando Ianucci, and you are American, it is ...
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Smiley’s People Blu-ray Review: The Man with the Olden Gun
By Steve Geise |
George Smiley is the polar opposite of James Bond. They're both spies for the British Secret Intelligence Service, but Smiley ...
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Strike Back: Cinemax Season Two Blu-ray Review: 21st Century Production Values, ’80s Action Sensibility
By Kent Conrad |
Throughout Strike Back's second season, a single episode did not go by where someone was not shot in the head ...
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Dragons: Riders of Berk Part 1 and 2 DVDs Review: More Vikings, More Dragons
By Kent Conrad |
How To Train Your Dragon was a surprise, a CGI-animated action adventure story with humor and real heart coming from ...
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Detective Inspector Irene Huss, Episodes 7-9 and 10-12 DVD Review: Cliched Plots, Excellent Execution
By Mat Brewster |
In my recent review of Annika Bengtzon, I noted that there are many crime dramas able to push through the ...
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Annika Bengtzon, Crime Reporter: Episodes 1-3 and 4-6 Review: By-the-Book Swedish Crime Drama Needs a New Author
By Mat Brewster |
If you are a TV producer looking to make a new, popular, and successful new show, the logical choice is ...
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