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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

News 'Downton Abbey' team tries to reassure fans after criticism over death of Dan Stevens' Matthew Crawley

- NY Daily News

Posted by: News Editor - February 20, 2013, 10:43 am - News
Keywords: television, british soap opera, downton abbey, michelle dockery, dan stevens

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

PR Celebrity Trials in the Media on DVD Nov 6

Celebrity trials are big business, and when the news media comes to town to cover sensational cases, lives are changed and ethical barriers are shattered. If a celebrity is involved, an otherwise unnoticed case of drunk driving, insider trading, rape, or even murder gets more national and local coverage than the real news of the day.

Cinema Libre

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Posted by: News Editor - November 10, 2012, 9:36 am - PR
Keywords: documentary

PR Sunny on DVD Aug 21

Featuring an '80s pop hits soundtrack, this heartwarming film will alternately make you laugh and cry as these long-lost friends discover they can still change one another"s lives...

CJ Entertainment

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Posted by: News Editor - August 18, 2012, 10:13 am - PR
Keywords: drama

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 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

News Tim Burton Brings TV's 'Dark Shadows' Back, as a Movie

- NYTimes.com

Posted by: News Editor - May 6, 2012, 4:10 pm - News
Keywords: movie, television, dark shadows, daytime soap, tim burton, supernatural drama, jonathon frid, dan curtis

DVD Review A NIGHT TO REMEMBER

A century after the disaster, this 1958 masterpiece remains the most thoughtful and accurate account of the Titanic's final night, as well as a gripping film in its own right.

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Posted by: Ross Johnson - April 25, 2012, 12:30 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: titanic

DVD Review DARK SHADOWS: THE GREATEST EPISODES COLLECTION - FAN FAVORITES

Some entertainment franchises go on and on. A new movie version and a new Complete Series Collection helps keep Dark Shadows on top of the heap. Barnabas and friends chilled us as children and now reaches a whole new generation of fans in a whole new form. This sampler of nine episode drawn from the entire run of the show provides a taste of the shows recipe of mixing soap opera, Gothic horror and supernatural horror. From the angst of cursed vampire Barnabas Collins to the iron-willed witchcraft of Angelique Bouchard to the wide-eyed horror of the haunted and hunted Maggie Evans to the glib tortured soul Quentin Collins, the shows characters and themes created a rich tapestry of occult television that resonates to this day.

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Posted by: Jesse Shanks - April 15, 2012, 12:52 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: television, horror, occult, soap opera

DVD Review LEON MORIN, PRIEST

Jean-Paul Belmondo and Richard Chamberlain: separated at birth? A consideration.

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Posted by: Jon Danziger - November 21, 2011, 2:22 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: melville, criterion, belmondo, neorealism

News Carol Burnett Returns To All My Children

contactmusic.com

Posted by: News Editor - September 6, 2011, 6:25 am - News
Keywords: television, daytime soap opera, carol burnett, high school reunion

PR New Episode of Keeping up with the Kardashians Sunday Jun 19 (clips, pics)

On this episode, Kim pushes Kendall to a breaking point when trying to help with her modeling career in NY. Kris & Scott come to blows when Scott keeps Kris from having a key to his and Kourtney’s house. Check out a sneak peek of Kim overseeing Kendall’s big photo shoot in NYC, as well as a clip of Kourtney trying to get her house key back from her mother because Scott is fed up with her having complete access to his home.

E!

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Posted by: News Editor - June 17, 2011, 11:10 am - PR
Keywords: television, reality

News 'All My Children', 'One Life To Live' Canceled By ABC

Huffington Post

Posted by: News Editor - April 14, 2011, 1:05 pm - News
Keywords: television, daytime soap opera, susan lucci, all my children, one life to live

PR Goodnight for Justice on DVD Apr 12

Luke Perry and Jason Priestley worked together on the legendary 90's TV show "Beverly Hills, 90210," and in this acclaimed Western which premiered on the Hallmark Channel in January 2011, they reunite for the very first time with Priestley behind the camera and Perry in the lead role.

Entertainment One

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Posted by: News Editor - April 6, 2011, 1:39 pm - PR
Keywords: western

DVD Review PRESENTING ROGER CORMAN'S BEST OF THE B's: COLLECTION 2

These aren't going to be confused as being great movies, but this budget-priced set includes seven groovy drive-in sexploitation titles about nurses and teachers with a fair amount of skin and pretty ladies. What more did you expect?

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Posted by: Rich Rosell - May 30, 2010, 12:16 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: roger corman, nurses, teachers, drive-in movies

DVD Review TRUE BLOOD: THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON

The second season of HBO's vampire series based on the Charlaine Harris novels ratchets up the supernatural nutty in a big way, as the sleepy town of Bon Temps, Louisiana undergoes a very dark awakening. The saving grace is that there are so many colorful characters that I didn't really care how ridiculously wacky this season became because I enjoyed their company.

An easy suggestion for fans of the first season, because it's more of the same. Plus more.

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Posted by: Rich Rosell - May 23, 2010, 7:49 am - DVD Review
Keywords: vampires, anna paquin, charlaine harris, stephen moyer, allan ball, hbo