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Latest DVD Reviews Genre: television

DVD Review: CHINA BEACH: THE COMPLETE SERIES

China Beach is an outstanding television show with great production, writing and acting. It is dramas like this that make the DVD format worthwhile. There is a delicious opportunity for those who didn't see it, hardly remember it or loved it to experience the show all over again. Highly recommended.

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Posted by: Joseph Burke - April 27, 2013, 8:19 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: television, drama, war, medical

DVD Review: A HAUNTING: THE 2012 SEASON

I haven't exactly heard great things about this show, and it seems awfully derivative of other supernatural reality series, but if it's even the least bit spooky, then I'm definitely on board.

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Posted by: Chuck Aliaga - May 5, 2013, 7:57 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: mystifying, supernatural, chilling

DVD Review: FEMME FATALES: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON

I like the premise of this sexy Cinemax anthology quasi-noir series more than I like the actual eps themselves, which is essentially attractive women taking control of various nasty situations, as well as being nude most of the time. They don't call it Skinemax for nothing.

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Posted by: Rich Rosell - February 23, 2013, 8:57 am - DVD Review
Keywords: pulp, noir, femme fatales, tanit phoenix, anthology

DVD Review: STORAGE WARS: VOLUME THREE

One of the hottest shows on cable returns in this 2-disc set featuring the second half of season two. It may be reality television, though recent events have raised questions about whether there's more "television" than "reality."

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Posted by: Mark Zimmer - January 9, 2013, 8:22 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: television, reality, storage, lockers

DVD Review: WOLF LAKE: THE COMPLETE SERIES

Werewolves. Shapeshifters. That is usually enough to get my interest, but the hook for this set complete series set (nine episodes) of a show dropped after just five episodes were broadcast is the inclusion of the unaired pilot, which shows a path the show could have taken and didn't. Could things have been different?

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Posted by: Rich Rosell - December 8, 2012, 8:51 am - DVD Review
Keywords: television, werewolves, wolfen, shapeshifters, supernatural, the vampire diaries, twilight, true blood

DVD Review: ANCIENT ALIENS: SEASON FOUR (BLU-RAY)

Series writers might be stretching sometimes to fill an hour on a topic occasionally, but pound-for-pound this is easily my favorite History Channel series. Mock it if you want, but this show always makes me think about the big picture just a little bit differently.

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Posted by: Rich Rosell - December 2, 2012, 9:00 am - DVD Review
Keywords: ancient aliens, ufos, bigfoot, mayans, doomsday, da vinci, time travel

DVD Review: BEST OF ANCIENT ALIENS (BLU-RAY)

Being a completist I'm not much of a fan of 'best of' collections, especially for a series I enjoy like Ancient Aliens. Give me the season sets on Blu-Ray or give me nothing.

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Posted by: Rich Rosell - October 28, 2012, 6:46 am - DVD Review
Keywords: aliens, history channel

DVD Review: SQUIDBILLIES: VOLUME FIVE

I'm a huge fan of a handful of Adult Swim shows, but this is one I've yet to see even a single episode of. What better excuse to finally do so than via Warner's fifth DVD collection.

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Posted by: Chuck Aliaga - September 14, 2012, 4:49 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: impoverished, dysfunctional, squids

DVD Review: THE ROOKIES: THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON

The Rookies was a memorable series from the middle Seventies that both well-written and well-acted. Its second season include many intriguing plot lines and guest stars like Don Johnson, Nick Nolte, Strother Martin, John Travolta and Jim Nabors.

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Posted by: Joseph Burke - July 22, 2012, 12:50 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: television, crime, police

DVD Review: THE DEAN MARTIN VARIETY SHOW UNCUT

Campy, shlocky, silly and imminently entertaining, The Dean Martin Variety Show roped in viewers week after week during its entire run. This set contains six full episodes in all their uncut glory.

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Posted by: Jesse Shanks - June 17, 2012, 4:57 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: television, comedy

DVD Review: DARK SHADOWS: THE BEST OF BARNABAS

If you're looking for something to clear your palate after having been exposed to the Depp/Burton reimagining of the classic series Dark Shadows as a brainless sex comedy, you can hardly do better than this collection of nine of the episodes of that original series featuring the late great Jonathan Frid. Barnabas Collins, as portrayed by Frid, was the original tormented vampire, making possible the empires of Anne Rice and Twilight, and this selection points up some of what made him so irresistible all those years ago.

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Posted by: Mark Zimmer - May 20, 2012, 5:54 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: gothic, soap, vampire, ghost, mansion, barnabas, collins

DVD Review: TITANIC (BLU-RAY/DVD COMBO)

Clever and ultimately entertaining, this melodrama still barely manages to do its subject justice.

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Posted by: Ross Johnson - May 24, 2012, 3:45 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: titanic, miniseries