My television historian friend and colleague Stephen Bowie likes to call The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-66) the "Rolls-Royce of situation comedies," a good description. It is, more than half a century since its debut, still the Gold Standard, more so than the over-lauded, variable I Love Lucy, or performance-driven (but at least equally hilarious) iconic sitcoms like The Honeymooners and Sgt. Bilko. The Dick Van Dyke Show not only had its four peerless leading performers (Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie, and Morey Amsterdam), five if you count, as I would, Richard Deacon, they were equal to the show's consistently clever-yet-identifiable writing, particularly from creator Carl Reiner and the team of Bill Persky & Sam Denoff. Of its 158 episodes there are maybe three all-out clunkers and, in some ways, more important than its classic episodes, the average...Read the entire review

For me, there's a fine line for immature humor that separates being actually funny from just being stupid and annoying. Although Tom Green walks that line pretty finely at times, I usually place him on the side of funny. In fact, I'm one of the few people who actually "got" his 2001 movie Freddy Got Fingered . On the other hand, in Road Trip where I first saw him, I found his part largely unnecessary and just slightly amusing. At least from what I can see, Tom Green is aware that what he does can be perceived as "stupid" by many people, and that awareness is what makes such humor work for me, as opposed to other comedians (who I won't name here) who are just simply not funny at all and don't seem aware of their own stupidity.

"Tom Green Live" presents an hourlon...Read the entire review

In 10 Words or Less
Another surreal trip from Quentin Dupieux

The Movie
Quentin Dupieux's 2010 English-language debut Rubber is a striking film, telling the story of a homicidal tire with psychic powers, on a killing spree, as an audience watches from a "safe" distance. If that description doesn't make it clear, it's an unusual film, a neat example of just where Dupieux' coming from as a surreal artist unbound by the traditional "rules" of filmmaking. For anyone who enjoyed it (which is decidedly not a wide swath of mainstream audiences) the idea of Dupieux...Read the entire review

While I've always associated John Cusack mainly with comedies, including the absolutely hilarious Better Off Dead, he's done well in many more serious roles as well although somehow not many of them have stuck with me. In The Numbers Station, he plays Emerson Kent, a CIA black ops agent who has been increasingly bothered with issues of the morality of his job. He reaches a breaking point when on a mission he is first forced to kill a man at his home as his daughter watches, and his partner then kills the daughter in the name of "no loose ends" after Emerson refuses to do so. After this episode, his superiors feel that a less stressful position is in his best interest, and is transferred to the town of Suffolk in England to guard the film's title location- a numbers station set up in a defunct US Army base that "officially doesn't exist." Text at the beginning of the movie explains just...Read the entire review

Charlie Rankin (Stephen Dorff) has just spent four years in prison. Without the help of his mentor, William "The Buddha" Pettigrew (Willem Dafoe), he wouldn't have survived, and now that he's free, he knows he owes The Buddha a favor. He finds himself a place to stay by dropping The Buddha's name, picks up the cash, a gun, and some instructions from a train station locker, and he's all ready to head across town and wipe his slate clean when he runs into a beautiful young woman named Florence Jane (Michelle Monaghan), who invites him to her house to make him some dinner and show him a video she made as her alter ego. Head filled with thoughts about his new lady friend, Charlie botches the job, sending him into a strange spiral of guilt and unexpected compassion, all while an inevitable visit from The Buddha asking what went wrong looms on the horizon.

Adapted from the novel Boot Tracks by the a...Read the entire review

THE SHOW:

Pure dumb curiosity. That's what compelled me to watch Tom Green Live. The very idea that the oddball comedian who was responsible for The Tom Green Show and Freddy Got Fingered could do something as mainstream as stand up in front of an audience and tell them jokes for an hour was hard to grasp. And yet, that's exactly what we have here. Not only does Green do the whole stand-up thing, he actually fares quite well. Cohesive, silly, pointed and just a touch poignant; Green's act marks yet another turning point in his career.

It's hard to appreciate just how far Green has come until you give some thought to exactly where he's been. While Green traces his comedy roots back to doing stand up in small clubs as a teenager, his big break really came in the late 90s when he went from having a public access show on Canadian television to hosting The Tom G...Read the entire review

The Movie:

I first remember seeing Harland Williams in the (I think) underrated comedy ensemble film Down Periscope, but he has also gotten a few lines to chew on in Farrelly Brothers movies like Dumb And Dumber. I was remotely aware of his knack for impersonations and his stand-up comedy, and when I heard he had a new special that was available to view, I figured I would roll the dice and take a chance on it.

The special, titled A Force Of Nature, is a change of pace from the normal stand-up comedy specials filmed in either a small comedy club or a slightly larger, more production-friendly theatre for the comic to show his wares. Williams decides to take the production out to the Mojave Desert, performing on top of a mountain in the middle of nowhere as perhaps some attempt at comedy deconstruction. He...Read the entire review

The TV Show:

"There are eight million stories in the Naked City. This has been one of them."

Naked City, based on the 1948 film noir staple and running on ABC in 1958-1963, is one vintage detective show that benefited greatly from being filmed on location throughout New York City. As with the cinematic effort it's based on, the setting is a much of a character in TV's Naked City as the central group of NYPD detectives who spend each episode uncovering those "eight million stories." There was another benefit to the series being an East coast-based production, as well. Having a New York-based police series shot right there in the neighborhoods where the stories took place was a nice enough advantage over their sterile, studio-bound...Read the entire review

The Series:

Naked City graced the airwaves of America from its debut in September of 1958 until it was cancelled in June of 1963. Every week for those five years, the series would place hardboiled Detective Adam Flint (Paul Burke) on the streets of New York City, fighting crime and solving mysteries. Under the command of his boss, Lt. Mike Parker (Horace McMahon), Burke often dealt with a seedier element than cop shows had before on network television, which made Naked City a grittier, dirtier, and all around tougher show than anything that had been seen before.

In addition to pushing the envelope content-wise, the series also had a cast of great writers working on it and it wasn't long before the public and the critics started taking notice. Once the show had proven itself, it was able to line up some serious star power to appear on the show and throughout the run of the series t...Read the entire review

One after another, four masked superheroes groggily wake up in some hopelessly remote speck on the map. Disoriented. Isolated. Alone. Surrounded by blood-spattered corpses. Costumes in tatters. Each with a bandage covering some fresh, circular, hackjob of a wound on his or her wrist. The game is underway.

Rickshaw (James Remar) was their Lex Luthor-type arch-nemesis once upon a time, with every last moustache-twirlingly nefarious scheme foiled over and over and over and

Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=59658 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 03:41:06 PST Skip It THE SHOW: Harland Williams is one odd duck. At least that's the impression I used to have of him after watching him in movies like Half Baked and RocketMan and catching his interviews on late night talk shows. That's okay, I like odd. After sitting through his unorthodox comedy special A Force of Nature, I'd like to amend my earlier statement. Harland Williams is one seriously odd duck...and not the kind of odd that I like. It's impossible to proceed without first addressing Williams' choice of venue since it is the foundation on which he builds his act. In a rather ballsy move, Williams takes his audience out of the picture by performing his entire set on a hilltop in the middle of the desert. Yeah, you read that right. There is no stage, no production value to speak of and most importantly (without an audience) no give and take. It's just Williams ef...Read the entire review ]]> Blu-ray http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=58352 Sun, 13 Jan 2013 19:48:56 PST Highly Recommended Lightning Bug isn't a horror flick, and yet it's a film I'd bet many genre fans can relate to...those of us who grew up devouring Fangoria and GoreZone month in and month out, daydreaming about being the next Tom Savini or Rob Bottin. See, high school senior Green Graves (Bret Harrison) has a knack for creating gruesome monsters: doodling, sculpting, <...Read the entire review ]]> Blu-ray http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=58275 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:43:14 PST Highly Recommended Click onan image to view the Blu-rayscreenshot with 1080p resolutionRead the entire review ]]> Blu-ray http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=57993 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:45:46 PST Recommended The Movie: Directed and co-written by Jonas Quastel, 2011's Forced To Fight puts martial arts action star Gary Daniels in the lead role and tells a decent story even if it isn't the most original piece of filmmaking to ever hit the screen. Shot entirely in Romania standing in for America, the story revolves around Shane Slavin, a onetime mixed martial arts underground fighting legend who has since retired to live out the quiet life and run his mechanic's shop. Shane doesn't want much of anything to do with his past life, but his younger brother Scotty (Arkie Reece) sees the world of underground fighting as a way to make some money and kick some ass. Scotty's fight career seems fine at first but soon enough he makes a wrong move and winds up on the bad side of Danny G. (Peter Weller), the crook who runs the show. This earns Scotty a pretty serious beat down and Danny intend...Read the entire review ]]> Blu-ray http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=57987 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:14:42 PST Highly Recommended The Movie: The story behind Miami Connection is a fascinating one. Spearheaded by Korean immigrant Y.K. Kim, a man who came to America with only his blackbelt in Tae Kwon Do and a heart full of dreams, it was intended as a way of continuing Kim's mission to spread the gospel of martial arts. Self financed by Kim and directed by Korean filmmaker Richard Park (the man behind Ninja Turf), Kim gathered up a bunch of his students, had his collaborators read a few 'how to' books on film and set out to make a movie about a group of rock n roll orphans who use Tae Kwon Do and friendship to take on a gang of motorcycle riding ninjas. The movie played one theater in Orlando and had one screening at a festival and then disappeared into obscurity (those who Kim screened it for told him it was 'trash') with only a European VHS release of iffy legitimacy making cult movie rounds keeping...Read the entire review ]]> Blu-ray http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=57986 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:45:12 PST Recommended The Movie: Directed by Lewis Allen in 1954, Suddenly begins in the small town of the same name where a Sheriff named Tod Shaw (Sterling Hayden) is talking to Pidge (Kim Charney), the son of his girlfriend, Ellen (Nancy Gates). Pidge wants a toy cap pistol but as his father was killed in the war, his mother has an aversion to guns. Tod buys it for the kid anyway, it'll be there little secret. From here we head home where Ellen's father, a retired secret service agent named Pop Benson (James Gleason), is trying his hand at fixing the TV with fairly horrible results. Pidge and Ellen wait patiently for Todd to come home unaware that some current day secret service agents, lead by Dan Carney (Willis Bouchey), have arrived in town to safeguard the President Of The United States (exactly which President they mean we never learn, but if you figure Dwight Eisenhower was in office wh...Read the entire review ]]> Blu-ray http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=57183 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 18:34:13 PST DVD Talk Collector Series *Click on the screenshots in this review to see them at full, 1080p resolution. I'm not exactly the sentimental type, but sitting down to write this review has opened my eyes to something - My grandfather is mostly responsible for my taste in classic cinema and television, due in large part to our nightly tradition of watching Nick at Nite. At first, I tuned in not for...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=57427 Sun, 18 Nov 2012 04:32:42 PST Recommended THE FILM: How can a filmmaker do justice to history, particularly a history that carries a payload of deeply troubling exploitation? That's a question that reverberates through Even the Rain, a film by Spanish director Ic ar Bolla n (also an actress who appeared in Ken Loach's Land and Freedom, working here from a script by longtime Loach collaborator Paul Laverty). It delves far into the past, presenting a Howard Zinn-inspired reminder of New World colonization at the hands of European Christian imperialists, whose devastation to the native ("Indian") American population remains an uncomfortable, indelible part of the American legacy. It does so through the lens of a p...Read the entire review ]]> Blu-ray http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=57395 Tue, 30 Oct 2012 04:07:47 PDT Recommended The Show: This is a 2011 stage performance of Stephen Sondheim's musical comedy, which had a brief run in movie theaters last year and has now been issued on Blu-Ray disc from Image Entertainment. Company premiered in 1970 on Broadway with a cast album released shortly after. Since then it has had several revivals, including one previous to this production in 2006 which is also available on Blu-Ray and DVD. In 1970 a documentary film was shot by D. A. Pennebaker about the recording of the original cast album, which was issued on DVD but is now out of print. This production was shot in New York's Avery Fischer Hall, with music performed by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Paul Gemignani. Company's main character is Bobby (played by Neil Patr...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=57426 Sat, 27 Oct 2012 10:11:06 PDT Skip It The Movie: Directed by Dominic Burns (who recently popped up as an actor in Strippers Vs. Werewolves), 2012's Airborne will instantly be of interest to some simply because it features Mark Hamill in a live action role. Those who have followed Luke Skywalker's career post Return Of The Jedi will tell you that he hasn't done much in front of the camera since then, but he has been incredibly prolific and successful as a voice actor. At any rate, the film finds Hammill playing an air traffic controller named Malcolm who is toiling away at his job just as he has every other day. Fast approaching his retirement, he sends one last plane to the runway for takeoff so that it can get on its way before a large storm sweeps into the area. Things seem alright at first but soon enough the plane starts running into problems. When Malcolm loses contact with the plane, which i...Read the entire review ]]> Blu-ray http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=55874 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:09:13 PDT Highly Recommended It's one thing to want to do a story on the blood diamond trade in Africa. Two-thirds of the world's diamonds (legal and illegal) are exported from the country, and governments still make shady backdoor power plays to keep control of the rocks buried in the ground. Specifically, Mads Br gger is interested in doing a story on black-market diplomats -- people who fork over hefty sums of money to shady people in order to be crowned a diplomat in the Central African Republic, free to walk in wearing a nice suit and out with a suitcase full of fresh diamonds under the cover of immunity. But Br gger puts his money where his mouth is: he buys the credentials and goes in himself. The Ambassador is a dizzying first-hand account of Br gger's journey into Africa and his meetings and dealings with government officials, political players, other "diplomats," and the owner of a diamond mine, with the end goa...Read the entire review ]]> Blu-ray http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=57393 Sat, 20 Oct 2012 05:07:12 PDT Highly Recommended The Series: Adam Green and Joe Lynch, play themselves, in this brand new horror infused comedy sitcom called Holliston. Holliston takes its name from the city of Holliston, Massachusetts, where Adam and Joe are from. They're aspiring filmmakers who work at the local cable station and shoot lousy commercials for their sexually ambiguous boss, Lance Rockett (Dee Snider). Adam and Joe also live together. Joe has an attractive but morbid girlfriend named Laura (Laura Ortiz), Adam is single but is trying to get back together with his ex-girlfriend Corri (Corri English). For now they're just awkward friends. Adam also has a partner in crime: Oderus Urungus (Dave Brockie) of GWAR fame. How cool is to have freakin' Oderus Urungus as your conscience? That's pretty rad! The season is composed of only 6-episodes, but feature cameos galore. You'll see horror industry veterans like T...Read the entire review ]]> Blu-ray http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=56383 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 07:46:50 PDT Skip It Hey, you wanna know some trivia about Goats? Actor Jason Schwartzman, founder of the band Phantom Planet and Coconut Records, co-wrote the score for the movie. I'm telling you this because this neutral bit of trivia -- considering I didn't feel much about the score one way or the other -- is the last non-negative thing I have to say about the movie. Although the trailer makes it look like one of many indie family comedy / dramas, Goats turns out to be a woefully unfunny 94 minutes, packed to the gills with some of the most obnoxious, self-absorbed, unlikable characters I can remember seeing in a movie. Leading the charge is Ellis (Graham Phillips), a 15-year-old kid who is about to fly off to a prestigious prep school. His loopy, New Age-y mother Wendy (Vera Farmiga) doesn't want him to go, for several reasons: the anxiety of being separated from her child, the fact that Ellis manages h...Read the entire review ]]> Blu-ray http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=55761 Sun, 30 Sep 2012 21:38:53 PDT Highly Recommended THE FILM: Klown, a naughty follow-up to Danish sitcom "Klovn," sees stars Frank Hvam and Casper Christensen behaving very badly on a canoeing trip alongside a thirteen-year-old boy. As in the series, the actors play fictionalized versions of themselves, and wade through uncomfortable situations and humor far more explicit than that of the oft-compared "Curb Your Enthusiasm." With the women away, the men do play on what Casper is determined will be a "Tour de Pussy." Klown is less afraid to offend than American comedies, and is a consistently funny, groan-inducing ruckus. Frank's girlfriend Mia (Mia Lyhne) volunteers to babysit her newly wed brother's thirteen-year-old son, Bo (Marcuz Jess Peterson), while he and his wife take a...Read the entire review ]]> Blu-ray http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=54894 Sun, 30 Sep 2012 06:46:03 PDT Rent It THE FILM: Memorial Day unfolds in several decades as an injured soldier recalls the afternoon he spent listening to his grandfather's war stories. James Cromwell, a consummate gentleman in films like The Green Mile and I, Robot, is the best part of Memorial Day, and his stern, weathered grandpa is a captivating character in an unmemorable film. The scenes with Cromwell are few and far between, and the rest of Memorial Day spins it wheels as an unconvincing parable of honor and sacrifice. SSGT. Kyle Vogel (Jonathan Bennett) is injured in combat, and shares with a young Army nurse (Emily Frad...Read the entire review ]]> Blu-ray http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=56382 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:40:41 PDT Rent It The sleepy Washington town of Cold Rock is in its death throes, consumed by crushing poverty and failure ever since the mine closed. As disheartening as it is to see a once-proud town crumble into ruin, that pales in [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] comparison to ...Read the entire review ]]> Blu-ray http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=57138 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:56:55 PDT Recommended Disgusting and hilarious, Stuart Gordon's very loose adaptation of HP Lovecraft's Frankenstein rip-off, "Herbert West - Reanimator" (Lovecraft was ashamed of the story, having written it solely for the money), is a low-budget favorite of horror aficionados - and understandably so. Gordon and company fashioned a collection of gore effects that are admirable given the film's $900,000 budget. Cleverly shot and anchored by the inimitably creepy performance of Jeffrey Combs as West, Re-Animator is still effective, funny, and entertaining, partly because it doesn't aspire to qualities beyond those. The film opens with a scene at a Zurich university, where Herbert West has just revived his dead profes...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=55491 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 03:55:29 PDT Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Making a serious-minded vampire movie in the Twilight era ("He needs more glitter...I said MORE GLITTER DAMMIT!") has got to be tough. Sharing the same genre space as a recent cultural juggernaut (whether the status is deserved or not) influences how your film gets marketed and especially how it is perceived. While Midnight Son definitely features a romantic subplot between its leads (one a vampire, one not so much), that is far from being its ultimate selling point. What writer/director Scott Leberecht has crafted here (in his debut no less) is a touching and ethereal story of metamorphosis where growing pains threaten to leave scars. Leberecht draws us into his tale by introducing Jacob (Zak Kilberg), a shy and solitary security guard. He works the night shift because he has a skin condition (if you can call catching on fire a skin condition) that p...Read the entire review ]]> Blu-ray http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=55675 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 13:49:08 PDT Recommended The Movie: Eduardo Sanchez had a significant debut into the horror film world with his groundbreaking Blair Witch Project, and continues plugging along in the genre, most recently with Lovely Molly, a film that is part psychological thriller, part possession story. The film revolves around young Molly (Gretchen Lodge), recently married to Tim (Johnny Lewis), and living in her childhood home in rural Maryland. Both of her parents are years dead (there are hints of a difficult childhood) and Molly's sister Hannah (Alexandra Holden) is nearly the only family she has left. Things begin to get creepy from the get go in standard haunted house fashion. The burglar alarm goes off in the night, and the young couple discovers an open back door that Tim swears he had locked the night before. After that, the eeriness begins to intensify. Tim is a truck driver, and so Molly is left hom...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=55885 Wed, 08 Aug 2012 11:13:53 PDT Rent It The Film: I'm a sucker for zombie movies, and have been ever since I was a kid and saw Night of the Living Dead for the first time on television one Saturday afternoon back in 1982. In those days, if you were into zombies, you took what you could get, suffering through whatever Italian Dawn of the Dead rip-offs you could find, or merely waiting impatiently for the next George Romero movie to come along. From the mid 1980s up to the late 1990s there was never more than ten really great zombie movies. Then there came something of new renaissance of the living dead and the zombie-ish, ushered in by Resident Evil, 28 Days Later, and a ton of novice filmmakers trying to capture lightning in a bottle the way Romero did in 1968 with Night of the Living Dead. Now, with zombies everywhere--in films, comic, television, and video games--there are more options for tales...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=55472 Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:54:49 PDT Recommended In 10 Words or Less A relatively sincere musical comedy from the Upright Citizens Brigade Reviewer's Bias* Loves: UCB, good musicals, Amy Poehler Likes: Good spoofs, absurd comedy Dislikes: Dance movies Hates: Weak endings The Movie I recently had the opportunity to enjoy the UCBEast's Diamond Lion show, where they improvise a musical each show. If you've never been (and live near New York City or Los Angeles), it's a must-see experience, as it's incredible to see these people create a musical on the fly. Sure there are awkward moments once in a while, where a rhyme is flubbed or a moment missed, but overall, their talent (and the fact that its being improvised) makes it amazing to watch. Doing the same th...Read the entire review ]]> Blu-ray http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=55031 Tue, 19 Jun 2012 05:17:42 PDT Rent It In a not-so-distant future, rival gangs square off in underground "Beat Beat Revelation" tournaments. JTRO (Jason Trost) and BTRO (Brandon Barrera) are two brothers who routinely wipe the floor with their competition, but their dream team is halved when BTRO has a panic-induced meltdown and dies during a battle with the vile L Dubba E (Lee Valmassey). Distraught, JTRO goes off the grid, taking a job out in the countryside, but when his friend and match emcee KCDC (Art Hsu) shows up and tells him that L Dubba E has taken over the local liquor mart and rules drink distribution with an iron fist, JTRO agrees to dust off his moon boots and take down L once and for all. If someone's gonna make a weird movie, there's never a good reason for them to pull their punches. It doesn't do anyone any favors to produce a "meet-in-the-middle" version of an insane idea that waters down anything weird or alienating in...Read the entire review ]]> Blu-ray http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=53601 Sun, 03 Jun 2012 16:26:51 PDT Rent It Wrasslin' monsters. I know! Two words, and that's just about all the review you're gonna need. Monster Brawl is a goopy, goofy, gory love letter to those Saturday night wrestling matches you watched back in 1986 after your parents had already nodded off. It's just that instead of Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat or The Million Dollar Man, you get a trash-talking werewolf and a fresh-off-the-boat mummy. This is right about the point in the review where I'd start yammering on about the plot, only...well, there kinda isn't one. You don't get a story so much, no, but you do get a bracket. Two divisions. Two weight classes. Eight monsters. Five fights to the death. The winner walks away with the belt, an...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=54666 Mon, 14 May 2012 15:35:20 PDT Recommended The Taglines: YOU'RE NOT WELCOME HERE. KISS YOUR AXE GOODBYE. The Movie: Image Entertainment's cover slip for their recently released DVD of Madison County is a great example of ludicrous home video art - replete with two garish "poster" images of the film's pig-masked and axe-wielding killer and the lame yet chuckle-worthy tagline "Kiss your axe goodbye" in blood red type. The package is reminiscent of grindhouse and drive-in promotional material of yesteryear. And like the great majority of those films, Madison County does not quite successfully deliver the b...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=56073 Thu, 10 May 2012 17:10:44 PDT Recommended The Series: The first 'new to DVD' release that Something Weird Video has released since last year's H. G. Lewis documentary, Strip, Strip Hooray! is a collection of six burlesque features that were previously (and are still) available individually on DVD-R from the company directly. This two disc set, however, is a much better bargain and is jam packed with more bumping, grinding, twirling and thumping than you can shake a stick at, Jack! And just wait until you thrill to the latest gags from some of the worst comedians to ever walk a dusty old theater stage. Awww.... burlesque features. So much to love! So without further ado... DISC ONE: Midnight Frolics (1949): Filmed on location inside the Balasco Theater in Los Angeles, our feature kicks off in grand styles as a gorgeous Latina hits the stage running and offers up a pretty impressive flamenco d...Read the entire review ]]>