Africa (2012) Blu-ray Review: Remarkable, Vast, Deadly Wilderness, Now in High Definition
By Mark Buckingham |
Sir David Attenborough and the BBC Earth team are at it again, capturing some unbelievable footage in high definition and ...
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1978) DVD Review: A Stunning Achievement
By Greg Barbrick |
Muriel Spark's Miss Jean Brodie was one of the great literary characters of the 20th century. Her book, The Prime ...
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Africa (2012) DVD Review: Insert Preferred Toto Reference Here
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Brandie Ashe Since the 2006 release of the popular documentary series Planet Earth, the BBC has produced a ...
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She-Wolves: England’s Early Queens DVD Review: Goddesses and Monsters
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Brandie Ashe In the history of the modern world, challenging male authority has always been something of a ...
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Maigret (1992) Complete Collection DVD Review: Does What You Expect and with Great Satisfaction
By Mat Brewster |
I quite literally discovered Maigret by stumbling over him. Let me explain: for a couple of semesters my wife and ...
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Slugterra: Return of the Shane Gang DVD Review: Pre-Teenage Dream
By Steve Geise |
Deep beneath Earth's surface, tribes of various humanoid characters live and do battle with adorable little slugs. Why slugs? Because ...
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Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror DVD Review: Re-Animating the Doctor
By Greg Barbrick |
When it comes to resurrecting lost Doctor Who episodes, the people at BBC Home Video have come up with some ...
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House of Cards (UK) Trilogy Blu-ray Review: Long Live the King
By Steve Geise |
Have you finished your binge marathon viewing session of the new Netflix series starring Kevin Spacey? If so, you're ready ...
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Undersea Edens DVD Review: A Marvelous Viewing Experience
By Greg Barbrick |
The Smithsonian Channel are known for their documentary programs, and Undersea Edens is an example of what they do best. ...
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The Origins of Oz DVD Review: The Story of the True Man Behind the Curtain
By Greg Barbrick |
The Wizard of Oz (1939) is one of the most beloved films of all time. It is hard to believe ...
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Misfits: Season Two DVD Review: Last of the Greats
By Steve Geise |
What is it about the BBC that makes them incapable of maintaining original casts on their shows for prolonged periods ...
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Twenty Twelve: The Complete Series DVD Review: Past Its Sell-By Date
By Steve Geise |
This irreverent British mockumentary series about the inner workings of the London Olympics planning committee takes a fantastic premise and ...
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Agatha Christie’s Poirot and Marple Fan Favorites Collection DVD Review: Super Tales of Super Sleuths
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Brandie Ashe In her 85 years on this earth, celebrated novelist Agatha Christie published just about as many ...
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Midsomer Murders: Set 21 DVD Review: The Fictional British County of Midsomer Is Beautiful and Deadly
By Greg Barbrick |
The fictional Midsomer County is one of the most beautiful areas on British television. It is also home to a ...
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Doctor Zhivago (2002) DVD Review: Decidedly Less Than Epic
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Brandie Ashe Upon its controversial publication in 1957, Dr. Zhivago—an epic tale of love and betrayal set amidst ...
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Young Justice: Invasion: Destiny Calling DVD Review: The Students Have Finally Become the Masters
By Todd Karella |
If you're looking for a continuation of the previous Season One you're going to be in for quite a shock. ...
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Red Dwarf X DVD Review: Who Would Have Thought Being The Last Human in Existence Could Be This Fun?
By Todd Karella |
Once again the crazy adventures of the misfit crew aboard the mining ship, Red Dwarf, have been released on DVD. ...
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Bill Moyers: Becoming American DVD Review: An Engrossing, Absorbing Documentary
By Critical curmudgeon |
Now available on DVD from the good people at Athena, Bill Moyers: Becoming American is an engrossing three-part documentary about ...
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Hanna-Barbera and Rankin/Bass Christmas Collections Review: A Belated Animated Christmas
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Brandie Ashe Yeah, yeah—Christmas is over, the holidays have passed once again, and it's too late (or too ...
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Red Dwarf X Blu-ray Review: Series IX? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Series IX!
By Luigi Bastardo |
More than 24 years after it first hit the airwaves of a perplexed BBC and delighted jaded science-fiction comedy viewers ...
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Archer: The Complete Season Three DVD Review: Not Just Your Ordinary International Spy, He’s Much Worse
By Todd Karella |
I've never been a big fan of the spy genre. I couldn't care less if they made another James Bond ...
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Doctor Who: Shada DVD Review: The Doctor Goes to Cambridge to Save the Universe
By Greg Barbrick |
The story behind Shada is one of the strangest in the long history of Doctor Who. The six-part serial was ...
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Police Academy: The Animated Series, Volume One DVD Review: From Caddish to Kiddie
By Luigi Bastardo |
It never fails to amuse me how something so decidedly adult in nature can sometimes turn into a franchise aimed ...
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The Hour 2 Blu-ray Review: Six Gripping Hours of Corruption, Blackmail, and Love Triangles
By Michelle Prather |
After having viewed the second six-episode installment of one of the BBC's most little-known and underrated shows in the United ...
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The Hour 2 DVD Review: Some of the Best Drama from Either Side of the Pond
By Mat Brewster |
In my Pick of the Week, I called The Hour “Mad Men who tell the news,” and that is an ...
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The Story of Math Collection DVD Review: Informative, Fascinating, and Entertaining Study of Mathematics
By Greg Barbrick |
I would like to preface this review by mentioning that I was about as far from being a “math-lete” in ...
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The Point Definitive Collector’s Edition DVD Review: Celebrating Non-Conformity
By Greg Barbrick |
I must confess that I never really “got” Harry Nilsson. Now don't get me wrong, I like what I have ...
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TV Review: Doctor Who: The Snowmen
By Steve Geise |
Santa Claus brought Doctor Who fans a new companion this year, and she proves to be a keeper. As 19th ...
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Quincy, M.E.: Seasons 1 & 2 DVD Review: Lightning Strikes Twice for Jack Klugman
By Gordon S. Miller |
Quincy, M.E., ran from 1976 to 1983 on NBC. The first four episodes of this three-disc set were part of ...
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The Hour Series 1 Blu-ray Review: Would Have Been Better at That Length
By Steve Geise |
As we gear up for the imminent home video release of series 2, let's take a look back at series ...
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The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show: The Complete Animated Series Review: Put on a Smile and Stay for a While
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Brandie Ashe In my review of Happiness is…Peanuts: Go Snoopy Go! in October, I mentioned that the disc ...
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The Point DVD Review: A Lesson in Tolerance
By Kit O'Toole |
In 1971, ABC aired the first animated special aired on primetime television, The Point, a lesson in tolerance told through ...
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The Simpsons: The Fifteenth Season DVD Review: Don’t Have a Cow, Man, or Any Hope That This Season Will Be Better Than the Last Five
By Sombrero Grande |
Any Simpsons fan worth his or her--okay, let's be honest here--his salt knows that once The Simpsons went into double ...
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Fathom Events Presents Star Trek: The Next Generation: A Season Two Celebration
By Todd Karella |
It's hard to believe that it's been 25 years since Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the crew of the Enterprise-D ...
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Call the Midwife: Season One Blu-ray Review: Call a Doctor, My Retinas Are Burned
By Steve Geise |
Author Ayelet Waldman calls the memoirs that served as the basis for this series “tremendously moving”. I agree, but in ...
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Kaijudo: Rise Of The Duel Masters: Creatures Unleashed DVD Review: Rise of the Enjoyable Merchandising Tie-In
By Steve Geise |
What do you get when you cross giant monsters and sweet martial arts fighting? Kaijudo! I didn't initially figure out ...
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Doctor Who Series Seven, Part One Blu-ray Review: A Confusing Mess
By Todd Karella |
The Doctor (Matt Smith) is back on DVD and Blu-ray for more adventures through time and space with his companions, ...
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Eight is Enough: The Complete Second Season DVD Review: And Abby Makes Nine
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on the book by syndicated newspaper columnist Thomas Braden, a real-life parent of eight children, Eight is Enough is ...
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Hawkins: The Complete TV-Movie Collection DVD Review: Jimmy Stewart, TV Star
By Steve Geise |
Did you know Jimmy Stewart starred in a TV show? Actually, he headlined two series during his illustrious career, with ...
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Transformers: Prime: Season Two Blu-ray Review: A More Mature Series
By Chad Derdowski |
What feels like the 5,000th animated iteration of one of Hasbro's most successful toy lines will see its second season ...
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Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos Special Edition DVD Review: Earthbound Doctor Saves the Day Again
By Greg Barbrick |
The budgetary constraints placed upon the BBC during the early '70s resulted in an interesting chapter in the long saga ...
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Prep & Landing: Totally Tinsel Collection DVD Review: A Totally Tinsel Way to Spend Christmas
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez In 2009 ABC put out a Christmas special that blended the wit and animation of Pixar ...
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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Complete Series DVD Review: Everything but the Zord
By Chad Derdowski |
It seems almost impossible to believe that it's been nearly two decades since the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers took the ...
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Alice: The Complete Second Season DVD Review: Alice Still Lives Here but the Writers Should Be Evicted
By Rons Reviews |
Just in time for Christmas and less than four months after the release of Season One, Warner Archive delivers the ...
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Family Guy: Volume Ten DVD Review: Seth MacFarlane and Company Deliver Holiday Classics
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Mike Bruno I am not here to debate the differences between The Simpsons and Family Guy; save it ...
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DreamWorks Dragons: Riders of Berk DVD Review: New Series Soars Above the Competition
By Steve Geise |
DreamWorks Animation finally has a truly great animated series. While they have previously produced the Penguins of Madagascar and Kung ...
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I, Claudius: 35th Anniversary DVD Review: An Outstanding Television Series
By Gordon S. Miller |
Sex and murder are integral components in the story of mankind, so it's no surprise the two are just as ...
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Shazam!: The Complete Live Action Series DVD Review: Well Intentioned but Poorly Produced
By Gordon S. Miller |
Now available from the Warner Archive Collection, Shazam!: The Complete Live Action Series collects all 28 episodes of the Filmation program, which ...
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Vera: Set 2 DVD Review: Murder, She Grumbled
By Steve Geise |
There's something irresistible about old-timers solving crimes, although the quality of those crime shows isn't always timeless. Thankfully, this vehicle ...
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Bones: The Complete Seventh Season Blu-ray Review: Enter the Pregnant Lady
By Luigi Bastardo |
It's always been said that, should your television series be showing some serious signs of redundancy or you just can't ...
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