DVD Review: Prep & Landing

DVD Review: Prep & Landing
Release Date: November 22nd, 2011 Running Time: 22 minutes The Film In the coming month viewers will be inundated with endless Christmas specials, holiday themed episodes, and movie marathons. However, very few of these celebratory stories hold up for repeated viewings year after year. Disney bucked...
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Psych

Psych
Crime Watcher Psych’s been back for a few weeks now, and I’m not sure how I feel about the season this far. There was one standout episode- “Last Night Gus,” wherein Shawn, Gus, Lassiter, Henry and the Coroner had to backtrack over crime scenes - and donut shops- to get at...
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House Finale Preview

House Finale Preview
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Review: My Week with Marilyn

Review: My Week with Marilyn
My Week with Marilyn, featuring Michelle Williams as the tragic icon during a brief period in London filming The Prince and the Showgirl with Sir Laurence Olivier, is a gorgeously mounted and frequently touching film with a real star turn at its center. With its decidedly minor story, focused on the...
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Review: The Descendants

Review: The Descendants
The Descendants, starring George Clooney as a successful Hawaiian real-estate lawyer whose world unravels after his wife falls into a coma, is one of the year’s best films—a moving testament to the glue that binds a family in crisis, the dynamics between fathers and daughters, how love transcends...
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Interview: Judy Greer, The Descendants

Interview: Judy Greer, The Descendants
Judy Greer, the workman like actress with the knockout looks of a leading lady but the offbeat comedy of a character actress, has been dressing up marginal movies and television for the last decade or so in supporting roles commonly referred to as friend/sister/coworker parts. But in these roles she...
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DVD Review: Conan the Adventurer - Season Two: Part 1

DVD Review: Conan the Adventurer - Season Two: Part 1
Release Date: November 15th, 2011 Running Time: 5 hours The Show Though produced by animation superstar Sunbow, Conan the Adventurer is not as revered as other Sunbow efforts such as Transformers yet has a strong fan following to this day. Sixty-four episodes were produced in the early ‘90s, and...
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Blu-ray Review: Beginners

Blu-ray Review: Beginners
Release Date: November 15th, 2011 Running Time: 104 minutes The Film Ewan McGregor stars as Oliver, a graphic designer struggling with loneliness after his father, Hal (Christopher Plummer), dies from cancer. Years earlier after the death of Oliver’s mother (Mary Page Keller), Hal came out of the...
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Blu-ray Review: Super 8

Blu-ray Review: Super 8
Release Date: November 22nd, 2011 Running Time: 111 minutes The Film In a time where filmmaking is more obsessed with grand visuals than story, it can often seem like the wonderment of films like Stand By Me or The Goonies is a thing of the past. Not if J.J. Abrams has anything to say about it. Super...
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