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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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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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25 Apr

Eclipse Series 46: Ingrid Bergman’s Swedish Years

Max SchindlerNew DVD release, , , , ,
Recommended Ingrid Bergman Swedish Years DVD ReviewIngrid Bergman's Swedish Years is acollection of sixearly works from one of the best actresses in film history, who is mostfamously known for her countless Hollywood classics (including Casablancaand Hitchcock's Notorious) and later collaborations with herhusband,director Roberto Rossellini.  With this collection, audiences can explore someof her veryfirst performances, seeing works made in her home country of Sweden.The set startsout with smaller roles where she is a big supporting player beforedevelopinginto lead roles where it's clear she was becoming a leading star.  It isn't difficult to see why Bergman went onto carry entir...Read the entire…
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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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18 Mar

Eclipse Series 45: Claude Autant-Lara – Four Romantic Escapes from Occupied France

Max SchindlerNew DVD release, , , , , ,
Recommended The Collection: The four films in Criterion's most recent Eclipse set, Claude Autant-Lara: Four Romantic Escapes from Occupied France, are interesting for two historical reasons*. The first reason is right there in the title of the set: these films were made (or in the case of the last entry, conceived) during the Nazi occupation of France during World War II. Only escapist films that didn't comment upon the war were permitted to be made, which proved to be a balm to shell-shocked French audiences anyway. The second cause for notability is that director Claude Autant-Lara's handsomely mounted productions are…
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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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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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26 Oct

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Complete Series

Max SchindlerNew DVD release, , , ,
Highly Recommended The Show:In today's installment of you are old, did you know that the then-UPN show Buffy the Vampire Slayer quietly celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. Yes, it's 20 years old. Inspired by the 1992 film, the show was received with initial adoration and better than expected critical praise, and exploded into a show that helped dwarf its cinematic older sister with humor and romance sort of in the same vein as the film, but bringing larger themes and conflicts for its characters into larger light, one or two of them being notable historically. With this time marker…
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19 Oct

Green Acres: The Complete Series

Max SchindlerNew DVD release, , ,
DVD Talk Collector Series The Dick Van Dyke Show is the best American sitcom of the 1960s, but Green Acres is by all odds the funniest. Somewhat unfortunately lumped in with CBS's other, lesser rural comedies of the time, notably The Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction, from which it was spun off, Green Acres is most definitely not the show it initially appears to be. The basic premise, wealthy New Yorkers move to a ramshackle farmhouse, was the inverse of Beverly Hillbillies, a one-joke sitcom run into the ground by the end of its first season, while also springing from…
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01 Oct

Ned and Stacey: The Complete Series

Max SchindlerNew DVD release, , ,
Highly Recommended The Show: The 1995-97 sitcom Ned and Stacey has long had a reputation as a funny and smart show that deserved a larger audience than it ever attracted. The series stars a post-Wings Thomas Haden Church and a pre-Will & Grace Debra Messing in the title roles, and it was created by Michael J. Weithorn before he teamed up with Ned and Stacey writer David Litt to create the syndication staple The King of Queens</em...Read the entire review  
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26 Sep

Just Shoot Me!: The Complete Series

Max SchindlerNew DVD release, ,
Rent It The Series:It's always a gamble to revisit some of your favorite shows from decades ago, since it might shock you with not only how dated they have become, but how much your taste has grown since. This is doubly the case with sit-coms. Humor is very subjective and dependant on the culture within the time period it exposes. What you once thought to be funny might not be the case a couple of decades later. My guess is that those who were genuinely tickled by The Brady Bunch in the 70s might have had trouble arguing its relevance…
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16 Sep

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: The Vault Series (6 DVD Set)

Max SchindlerNew DVD release, , , , ,
DVD Talk Collector Series We have no idea why Time-Life chose to send us a screener of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: The Vault Series (6 DVD Set Collector's Edition). It appears to be a very slight repackaging of a set they released three years ago, but this reviewer is nonetheless more than happy to sing its praises. After Carson left the program in 1992, excerpts have turned up on places like YouTube, and there have been DVD clip show releases. This, however, is altogether different, a boxed set of 12 complete shows (along with some bonus clips) running…
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