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23 Mar

Complete Pixar Movie Disney Plus UK Streaming Guide

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When Disney+ launched in the US last November, it was still shaking off the remnants of its former Netflix deal. Lingering ties to the streaming competitor meant that a few completist-irking gaps were left in the US Disney+ Pixar catalogue. At launch, Coco, Up and Incredibles 2 weren’t available to American subscribers. Not so for the UK. When Disney+ arrives on March 24th, it’s getting the full complement of Pixar. Films, shorts, you name it. That catalogue is fuller than Emile the Rat in a binful of tainted Camembert. Don’t miss out on this Disney+ PRE-ORDER DEAL, on us! So if you’re…
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23 Mar

Complete Star Wars Disney Plus UK Streaming Guide

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We’re not saying the UK has been waiting long for the arrival of Disney Plus, just that since its US launch last November, human life has changed beyond all recognition. Back in November, you’d hug a mate, share a bag of crisps and lick a doorknob without giving it a second thought. Now? Those are just fond memories. Now, we stay in. Don’t miss out on this Disney+ PRE-ORDER DEAL, on us! All our patience (stern look to anyone currently cradling a Baby Yoda doll) has finally paid off. Disney Plus is here and brings with it a host of staying-in entertainment.…
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05 Feb

Gunsmoke: The Complete Seventeenth Season

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Highly Recommended (Note: Reviews of Gunsmoke: The Sixteenth Season and Gunsmoke: The Seventeenth Season are identical. In preparing them I watched at episodes and the extras from both sets. Give me a break.)Despite the steady decline of the DVD format, CBS/Paramount deserves a lot of credit for seeing the 20-season run of Gunsmoke (1955-1975) through all the way to the finish line. For the show's last five seasons, it appears that the label has decided to release full- rather than half-season sets, a wise decision, and they've even added a most welcome supplement. I've been reviewing Gunsmoke sets since the…
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05 Feb

Gunsmoke: The Complete Sixteenth Season

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Highly Recommended (Note: Reviews of Gunsmoke: The Sixteenth Season and Gunsmoke: The Seventeenth Season are identical. In preparing them I watched at episodes and the extras from both sets. Give me a break.)Despite the steady decline of the DVD format, CBS/Paramount deserves a lot of credit for seeing the 20-season run of Gunsmoke (1955-1975) through all the way to the finish line. For the show's last five seasons, it appears that the label has decided to release full- rather than half-season sets, a wise decision, and they've even added a most welcome supplement. I've been reviewing Gunsmoke sets since the…
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29 Oct

Life with Lucy: The Complete Series

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Recommended For Lucille Ball completists, the release of Life with Lucy (1986), her ill-fated final sitcom, is most welcome. I Love Lucy/The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (1951-60), The Lucy Show (1962-68), and Here's Lucy (1968-74) kept her on the network airwaves nearly constantly for a quarter of a century, but her return to theatrical features with Mame (1974) flopped badly, with Ball singled out for atypically harsh reviews. After that she did annual television specials for a few years, and was a frequent presenter at award shows. In November 1985 she starred in The Stone Pillow, a TV-movie in which she…
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02 Jul

Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In: The Complete Fourth Season

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Rent It Well, I guess I had to see it to believe it. After reviewing Time-Life's set of Laugh-In's third season, where all 26 episodes were affected by a serious mastering error, I didn't think the problem would have carried over to any of the other sets. In this set of the fourth season with 26 more episodes from the show's 1970-71 season, ONE episode (#22) seems to have come out right but the remaining 25 are still afflicted. I'll talk more about that in the quality section, but first a bit about the show itself:Dan Rowan and Dick Martin…
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28 Nov

Community – The Complete Series – DVD

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Highly Recommended The Show:Over the last five decades or so, there has been no shortage of sitcoms that take place in educational institutions. They're mostly centered on high school, but college also gets its occasional turn in the form of quirky shows about early adults struggling to find their place in life. Community is special amongst them because it's mainly about misfits of various ages who are trying to grasp a second chance at life. That insightful premise is wrapped about a heightened high concept tone that borderlines on a live action cartoon narrative. The formula that creator Dan Harmon…
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25 Oct

Saved By The Bell: The Complete Collection

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Highly Recommended Originally created by TV writer Sam Bobrick and developed by producer Peter Engel, Saved by the Bell (1989-93) outgrew humble origins to quickly become an enduring and popular teen sitcom -- which, at the time, was a genre that didn't exist. First envisioned as a teacher-focused series called Good Morning, Miss Bliss in 1988, it was retooled for younger audiences with a bigger spotlight on the (mostly new) students and a more fun and colorful atmosphere. Both were necessary with the show's new timeslot on NBC: Saturday mornings, where it was head-to-head against cartoons that had dominated the…
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06 Aug

Bosom Buddies: The Complete Series

Max SchindlerNew DVD release, , ,
Recommended In 10 Words or LessGuys in dresses get cheap rent and learn about womenReviewer's Bias*Loves: Wendie Jo Sperber, sitcomsLikes: Tom HanksDislikes: How old favorites tend to ageHates: Missing the original theme songThe ShowBefore watching these discs, it had been decades since seeing an episode of Bosom Buddies, and there was a sense of trepidation considering how the world has changed in that time. An early 1980s show about a couple of guys who pretend to be women has a real likelihood of having aged quite badly over the years (as 2012's quickly-cancelled drag sitcom Work It proved so readily.)…
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06 Jun

The Strain: the Complete Series

Max SchindlerNew DVD release, ,
Highly Recommended The Strain: The Complete Series:Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan managed to breathe a bit of new life into the Vampire genre a few years back with a series of horror novels turned into this FX television series which lasted four seasons. Their fresh, genre-bending take on bloodsuckers moves fast while throwing a few deep thoughts your way, with fun three-dimensional characters, suspense, and enough CGI gore to please indiscriminate Fangoria fans.This DVD box-set breathes slightly less life into the gods of commerce, as it simply repackages the four seasons as previously released, while the show is also…
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22 Apr

Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In: The Complete Third Season

Max SchindlerNew DVD release, , , , ,
Rent It Time-Life releases the seven discs comprising the 1969-1970 season of "Laugh-In" from the complete series set put out last summer separately here. I hadn't seen much of the show aside from a few brief clips and had always wanted to see more of it; I'd even contemplated springing for the big set myself but got a chance to review this individual volume. Unfortunately there's a serious flaw with the picture quality that now makes me glad I didn't buy the whole set, which I'll discuss in the details below, but first some words about the show itself:"The Brady…
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09 Apr

Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In: The Complete Second Season

Max SchindlerNew DVD release, , , , ,
Recommended The Show: Last year, Time-Life released a complete series box set of the classic neo-vaudeville comedy series, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (DVD Talk has a review right here). Now, Time-Life is breaking down the big box into season sets; seasons 1 through 3 are currently available, with season four due in May. Up for discussion currently is the show's second season, which originally ran from September 16, 1968, to March 31, 1969.Hosted by nightclub comics Dan Rowan and Dick Martin, Laugh-In is an unusual hybrid of old-style showbiz and (then-)modern sensibilities. Sort of a sketch show, sort of a…
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29 Mar

Steven Universe: The Complete First Season

Max SchindlerNew DVD release, , , ,
Highly Recommended In the town of Beach City, life is pretty quiet, except for the adventures of Steven Universe (Zach Callison) and a band of warriors known as the Crystal Gems -- Garnet (Estelle), Amethyst (Michaela Dietz), and Pearl (Deedee Magno). With the support of Steven's concerned father Greg (Tom Scharpling), who keeps an eye out from his home/van, Steven goes on adventures with the Crystal Gems to help protect Earth from mysterious forces from out in the deeper reaches of the galaxy. Between missions, Steven also finds time to befriend a local girl, Connie (Grace Rolek), and get into…
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22 Mar

Dynasty: The Complete Series

Max SchindlerNew DVD release, , ,
<class="posted"> Recommended   The genesis of Dynasty begins not in Denver, Colorado, in January of 1981, but out in Dallas, Texas, in the spring of 1980. That's when primetime soap Dallas put a bullet in its dastardly lead character and "Who Shot J.R.?" fever took off not just in the United States, but all over the world. ABC wanted a piece of that audience, so the king of TV producers, Aaron Spelling, took on Richard and Esther Shapiro's idea of another oil-rich family with another morally vacant patriarch: Blake Carrington. Actor George Peppard was originally cast in the role, but…
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05 Feb

Duckman: The Complete Series

Max SchindlerNew DVD release, ,
Recommended In 10 Words or LessThe animated adventures of a sexually-obsessed duckReviewer's Bias*Loves: animation, surreal comedy, CornfedLikes: Klasky Csupo animationDislikes: SeinfeldHates: Unmotivated crudenessThe Story So Far...Duckman (voiced by Jason Alexander) is an altogether awful person, whose sole focus is his own unlimited libido. That self-absorption creates unending pain and suffering for his family--including his two-headed sons Charles and Mambo, his dim child Ajax and his dead wife's sister Bernice--and his one friend, Cornfed Pig. Duckman ran for four seasons on USA Network from 1994-1997, and was released on DVD in a pair of two-season box sets in 2008 and 2009,
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31 Dec

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: The Complete Second Season

Max SchindlerNew DVD release, , , ,
Recommended In 10 Words or LessRebecca got Josh--now what?Reviewer's Bias*Loves: musicals, surreal comedyLikes: Rachel BloomDislikes: girl dramaHates: How awful Rebecca is to her friendsThe Story So Far...Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom) saw her camp crush Josh Chan (Vincent Rodriguez III) on the streets of New York one day, and it was enough to prompt her to ditch her high-paying job as an attorney and fly across the country to re-settle in West Covina, California...which just so happened to be where Josh lives--with his yoga-teaching girlfriend Valencia (Gabrielle Ruiz.) Rebecca set down roots in this small city--much to the chagrin of her…
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27 Dec

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: The Complete First Season

Max SchindlerNetflix, New DVD release, , , , ,
The ShowRebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom) saw her camp crush Josh Chen (Vincent Rodriguez III) on the streets of New York one day, and it was enough to prompt her to ditch her high-paying job as an attorney and fly across the country to re-settle in West Covina, California...which just so happens to be where Josh lives--with his yoga-teaching girlfriend Valencia (Gabrielle Ruiz.) Rebecca set down roots in this small city--much to the chagrin of her domineering mother--getting a new job and new friends, bu...Read the entire review Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is a country wide treasure, and so is its superstar and…
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21 Dec

The Streets of San Francisco – The Complete Series

Max SchindlerNew DVD release, , ,
Recommended A Quinn Martin Production starring Karl Malden. Also starring Michael Douglas.With Guest Stars James Gregory, Leslie Nielsen...Special Guest Star Andrew DugganAct IThe Streets of San Francisco (1972-77), previously available only as half-season sets, has been repackaged using the same masters, indeed the very same discs, as those releases, but at an astonishingly reduced price - currently around $50 for the entire series, versus $39 back in the day for just one of the half-season sets, or about 40 cents per episode. As noted above, the show was the product of Quinn Martin Productions, whose other shows of the period…
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