Posted in No Huddle by J C on July 16th, 2013
“You want to end this once and for all? Now’s your f—ing chance.” And with those words, spoken during the closing minutes of the fifth and final season premiere of Damages, Patty Hewes sets the stage for her ultimate showdown with protégé/frenemy/surrogate daughter Ellen Parsons. (As you can see, Patty also takes advantage of the fact that […]
Posted in No Huddle by Jeremy Butler on June 25th, 2013
Burned, Recruited, Coerced, Betrayed, and Framed; in the past five seasons of Burn Notice, Michael Westen has been all of these things. The constant fluctuation in his ever-changing status is enough to drive a person mad, but through it all Michael has managed to stay level-headed and remain confident that he would find a way […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Brent Lorentson on June 7th, 2013
With most of my teen years spent during the 90’s it’s no surprise that still many of the bands I grew up with manage to remain on my playlist. Garbage is a band of the 90’s you couldn’t help but take notice of because though the airwaves were saturated with alternative music, Garbage was doing […]
Posted in No Huddle by Brent Lorentson on June 3rd, 2013
I was starting to think the only comedians that get hour long specials any more were the ones with obscenity-soaked acts that were sprinkled with sexual humor (or riddled with just as much). But then Pete Holmes came along. Throughout his hour long special that was recorded in Austin, Texas sure, there are a few […]
Posted in No Huddle by Gino Sassani on May 14th, 2013
All good things must come to an end, and for the fans of Private Practice the end has come. I’d like to think that the series deserved a little better than the final season provides. Of course, you get pretty much the kind of stories and production you’ve come to expect in six years, but […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by J C on January 24th, 2013
I see an Oscar nominee, an Emmy nominee, an actor who has carried two successful TV shows, and the bad guy from the highest-grossing movie of all time. In other words, I see more talent than you would ordinarily expect from a straight-to-DVD drama. Then again, I also see Soulja Boy, but he’s not the problem. […]
Posted in No Huddle by J C on January 18th, 2013
TNT prides itself on “knowing drama,” but as far as I’m concerned the network’s best series was also its most woefully underappreciated. It didn’t have any cops, lawyers or doctors. It wasn’t as light or slick as some of the channel’s hits like The Closer (cops), Franklin & Bash (lawyers) and Rizzoli & Isles (a […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Jonathan Foster on January 3rd, 2013
In the financial world, the term “arbitrage” refers to the possibility of risk-free profit at zero cost. This seems to be the goal for Robert Miller (Richard Gere), a hedge fund manager desperate to sell his business and retire. The reason for his desperation is that his business is completely broke due to a bad […]
Posted in No Huddle by J C on December 11th, 2012
Even if you managed to catch the little-seen Budz House when it was released on DVD earlier this year, chances are you weren’t exactly begging for more. (At least not if you’re one of my esteemed colleagues.) The cast of the wannabe cult stoner comedy featured a handful of comedians, some of whom have reunited […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Michael Durr on November 30th, 2012
So you say Shipping Wars was not enough Waring for you? Are you back for more? Alright, let us dig through the review pile and get some more action for you reality show freaks. How about Hamster Wars? Okay, okay perhaps Paper Airplane Wars? Never mind, I can not stand paper cuts. Ah I have […]
Posted in No Huddle by Gino Sassani on November 15th, 2012
“Early to rise, early to bed. And in and between I cooked and cleaned and went out of my head.” There was a new girl in town for the 1976 television season. Well, she wasn’t exactly new. The whole thing started out as a feature film called Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore starring Ellen Burstyn […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by J C on November 13th, 2012
People make fun of us Floridians for a variety of reasons. (Some of them don’t even involve our performance in presidential elections.) One of the most popular ways out-of-staters in the northern part of the country — as well as our Canadian readers — mock us is by chuckling whenever we dash to our closets […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on October 30th, 2012
“Somewhere in the valley, there is a woman living in a basement. She’s actually amassing followers. These people believe that she will actually lead them to salvation, or whatever. And yes, she’s dangerous – but we have to see this thing through. All the way.” When The Sound Of My Voice opens you really don’t […]
Posted in No Huddle by Brent Lorentson on October 24th, 2012
When a movie claims to be based on a true story, I tend to take this with a grain of salt. In some form or another, any movie can have some basis in reality; the writer simply puts their own spin on it. With a movie like The Cottage, I’m not too sure what part […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on September 14th, 2012
Shonda Rhimes had a big hit on her hands with Grey’s Anatomy, so after five years she did what comes naturally in her situation. You spin the success off in the hope that the fans can’t get enough in just one night. At first it appeared to me she had chosen the wrong character to […]
Posted in No Huddle by Gino Sassani on August 1st, 2012
“Corporations… They have all the money. They have all the power, and they use it to make people like you go away. Right now you’re suffering under an enormous weight. We provide the Leverage.” The series centers on Nathan Ford (Hutton), an ex-insurance investigator. His life was turned around when the very insurance company he […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Michael Durr on July 10th, 2012
One of my favorite television pastimes is watching some Storage Wars episodes. Initially, it was the lure of finding that goldmine buried beneath a pile of trash in a storage locker. But as I got more into it, I realized that it was the people who kept me coming back episode after episode. Barry, Jarrod, […]
Posted in Disc Reviews, No Huddle Reviews by Gino Sassani on July 7th, 2012
“Early to rise, early to bed. And in and between I cooked and cleaned and went out of my head.” There was a new girl in town for the 1976 television season. Well, she wasn’t exactly new. The whole thing started out as a feature film called Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore starring Ellen Burstyn […]
Posted in The Reel World by Brent Lorentson on July 6th, 2012
When I first saw the trailer for Savages I was more than a little unimpressed; in fact I was beginning to accept that there were no more great films to come from one of the directors I believe was in the top five working directors of the 80s and the 90s. Over the past decade […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by J C on June 20th, 2012
When I saw that Nicolas Cage and January Jones were headlining a little-seen/straight-to-DVD-caliber title, part of me was perversely excited. This had the potential to be a historic summit of bad acting! To be fair, I generally enjoy the — shall we say — avant garde stylings of Cage’s performances, but I’m much less impressed […]
Posted in The Reel World by J C on June 15th, 2012
Even those of us who enjoy movie musicals concede there’s a certain degree of eye-rolling that comes with the territory. Some of the greatest musicals of all time — from classics like Singin’ in the Rain and West Side Story to more modern hits like Chicago — are not immune to audible groans from jaded […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by M. W. Phillips on June 13th, 2012
“You’re the good kind of addict. You’re the I-got-messed-up-with-the-wrong-girl-and-ended-up-on-a-blow-bender addict. But Ertz is the Skeevy-old-man-who-got-caught with-a-crack-pipe-and-the-17-year-old-from-Speed-Racer addict.” Where season seven of Entourage was all about the hard life and times of Vinnie Chase (Adrian Grenier) and company stumbling through the shallow traps of an impossibly expensive Hollywood lifestyle: i.e. growing addictions, porn star girlfriends, and […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on April 24th, 2012
“At the top of the world, there’s a job only a few would dare. The Ice Road Truckers are back..” It was the peak of the 1970’s, and CW McCall was teaching ordinary people like us about Cabover Petes with reefers on and getting by those Smokeys. The man practically started a new genre of […]
Posted in No Huddle by J C on March 16th, 2012
Carnage is the (un)true story of two couples who’ve agreed to meet in a Brooklyn apartment — drink together and have their lives filmed (by Roman Polanski) — to find out what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real. If you had told me that one day I would be relating a […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Michael Durr on February 19th, 2012
Make no bones about it, Storage Wars is one of my favorite television shows of all time. Most people would refer to it as a modern day treasure hunt, but when it comes down to it, the cast of characters is what keeps me watching. Of course, the “what is behind Storage Locker #1?” is […]
