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10.13.04 by Widge @ 11:37 pm   Film: Written by: Peter Filardi, based on the novel by Stephen King Released by: Warner Brothers My Advice: Rental. Ben Mears (Lowe) is a writer in a bit of a slump. Trying to kick start his creativity (and re-kick his career), he returns to his hometown of Jerusalem's Lot. He figures there might be a story in the freaky old town and its even freakier "haunted house," the Marsten place. There he runs into his old mentor, Matt Burke (Braugher), a possible love interest, Susan Norton (Mathis), and the mysterious Straker (Sutherland), who's apparently the vanguard for a vampire invasion. Categorized as: Reviews and TV
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09.17.04 by Widge @ 6:19 pm  Film: Created by David Jacobs Features:
Released by: Warner Brothers My Advice: Fans should own.  Welcome to Dallas. Meet the Ewings. They're the wealthy family behind Ewing Oil and they are flat out rich. Just like any family, though, they have their problems. J.R. (Hagman) is a machiavellian bastard who looks out for himself and is utterly irredeemable. Bobby (Duffy) is the nice son of the bunch, but he's gone and married Pamela (Principal), the daughter of the Ewings' chief rival. Niece Lucy (Tilton), the roiling sexpot, who's got nothing but trouble in her future. And so forth, and so on. Let the backstabbing begin. Ah, the Golden Era of prime time soaps. Dallas is what really kicked it off, spawning a spinoff and many pretenders to the throne. What started off as a five-part mini-series would only end many years later in 1991, after becoming a worldwide sensation. But even then, it wouldn't die: two more TV movies followed. With cable and its ever expanding spectrum of channels, it's apparently still got an audience. And now, with DVD, the fans' thirst for the complete run will be slaked. Categorized as: TV
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09.17.04 by Doc @ 11:19 am  Film: Created by Gene Roddenberry Features:
Released by: Paramount My Advice: It's freakin' Star Trek...own it. There's really not much I could say by way of an introduction to this one, folks. Long before the franchise had to resort to showering Vulcans to attract viewers, before falling so far as to rip off the laughable Lost in Space for series ideas, there was James Tiberius Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise, on their five-year mission to explore strange new worlds. Every legend begins somewhere, and for Star Trek, this DVD set shows us that beginning. Categorized as: Reviews and TV
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08.10.04 by ScottC @ 7:11 pm  Film: Written by: Robert Ben Garant, Kerri Kenney & Thomas Lennon Features:
Released by: Paramount My Advice: Rent it. Categorized as: Reviews and TV
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08.03.04 by Widge @ 10:06 pm  Film: Created by: Glen A. Larson Features:
Released by: Universal My Advice: Fans should own Categorized as: Reviews and TV
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