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Posted on 05.12.05 by Widge @ 11:44 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  A couple of TV titles that hit this week: In Living Color: Season Three. From Fox, the further adventures of The Army of Wayans and their many comrades in arms, including David Alan Grier, Jim Carrey, Jamie Foxx, and more. Twenty-eight episodes are here on three double-sided discs. Which means more of Fire Marshall Bill, Homey, Wanda, and of course...Men on Film. If you're a fan of the show, you're going to want to grab this. The third year was probably their best. No features. (US) (CAN)  Quantum Leap: The Complete Third Season. Universal throws all twenty-two episodes of the third season at you in this set, spread across three discs. There's no features, but you do get to see Scott Bakula do a bunch of embarrassing things, getting ready to really embarrass himself in Star Trek lo those many years later. Here you get the episodes where Sam is a beauty paegant contestant, a black man in love with a white woman in 1965, a guy about to be executed and a pregnant teen. No features, but now that Bakula has some time freed up maybe we can hope for some later. (US) (CAN) Categorized as: DVD and Headsup
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Posted on 05.10.05 by Widge @ 4:28 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. Three releases to point you to for Paramount this week: Bad Apple. Well, we're Law & Order junkies, so anything with Chris Noth in it is going to get our attention. Besides Sex and the City, of course. This TV movie had Noth as an executive producer as well as playing the lead, an undercover FBI agent who manages to get involved with the sister of his informant. It's a decent cop flick, with some nice actors behind it: Colm Meaney, Mercedes Ruehl, Robert Patrick, and Elliott Gould. No features. (US) (CAN) Joan of Arcadia: The First Season. This series has been getting a lot of attention, and not just the Touched By An Angel goody-goody-has-God-in-it-so-it-must-be-good type. Amber Tamblyn stars as a teenager who gets tasks given to her by God. Not sometimes-mistaken-for-Jack-Kirby's-Highfather God, but by folks who claim to be God. I know what you're thinking: it's Wonderfalls meets Highway to Heaven! Well, kinda. Anyway, this series also has Joe Mantegna, Mary Steenburgen and Jason Ritter among the cast. The six-disc set comes with deleted scenes, cast and crew commentaries, and three behind-the-scenes featurettes. (US)(CAN) The Longest Yard. The best football movie ever, in my opinion. And I'm not a sports guy. But "I think I broke his fucking neck!" is priceless and there is no need to debate. There is a need, however, to be afraid of he upcoming sequel. Therefore, take comfort in this new "Lockdown Edition," which comes with an audio commentary by Burt Reynolds and scribe Albert S. Ruddy along with two featurettes and a look at the aforementioned remake. We're not even counting the British soccer version. (US)(CAN) Categorized as: DVD and Headsup
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Posted on 05.04.05 by Widge @ 4:56 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Well, remember when we were talking about the evil Parents Television Council and their lovely little survey? Well, finally, the JLA to their Legion of Doom has arrived, or so it seems. Or so it has the potential to become. Jeff Jarvis pointed out (and has endorsed, him and a bunch of others) TV Watch. They're going to counter the PTC's efforts to sanitize and lobotomize television in the U.S. Check out their mission statement:
Sounds like a winner to me. I've signed their petition, and urge our reader in the U.S. to do the same. Categorized as: Headsup and TV
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Posted on 04.11.05 by Widge @ 5:16 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. Now that we've moved to this new version and nothing's exploded (knock on formica), it's time to catchup on the Headsup and finish out March, then move to Version 4. You get all that? Good. Here's March 15th's releases. Categorized as: Headsup
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Posted on 04.10.05 by Widge @ 1:43 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  This review of the Hitchhiker's Guide movie is pretty damn damning. Why should you care? Well, because it's written by a Douglas Adams biographer, M.J. Simpson. Spoiler-ridden, but there's a link there to a non-spoiler version if you're so reclined. Categorized as: Headsup and Movies and Stimuli
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