In 2002 The History Channel released a two-disc set entitled Titanic: The Complete Story that consisted of three full-length documentaries about the famously doomed ship. Now - ten years later - they have once again issued another two-disc set entitled Titanic: The Complete Story, also consisting of three full-length documentaries. For this new set, however, two of those original docs (Death Of A Dream and The Legend Lives On) are still here, with the third (Titanic's Achilles Heel) a new addition, being a relatively recent production - from 2007 - that looks at exploration of the wreckage and possible design flaws in the ship. As with that 2002 set, there is a lot of content here, runtime-wise, but much of it is repetitive and suffers from way too much narrative padding, which was obviously designed to individually stretch these to fit within a two-hour broadcast win...Read the entire review

For awhile - circa late 1980s/early 1990s - it must have been pretty great to have been Peter Gatien. At least for a while, that is. In New York City he was certainly the all-mighty one when it came to the club scene as owner of four of the most influential/buzzed-about nightspots in town: Limelight, Tunnel, Palladium and Club USA. With his iconic eyepatch (worn as the result of losing an eye in hockey accident in his teens and NOT a trendy affectation) Gatien was a Svengali of excess, overseeing and controlling a massive entertainment empire. In the documentary Limelight - from Cocaine Cowboys director Billy Corben - we're given a history lesson on Gatien's meteoric rise and eventual controversial fall, with conversation from nearly all of the key people involved, including a refreshingly frank and open Gatien.

The first half of Limelight is a quick ramp up of Gatien's bus...Read the entire review

It must be tough to have a popular show that seems predestined to run out of ideas, but that never seems to have stopped The History Channel before. They packaged and repackaged World War II so many times that referring to the network as "The Hitler Channel" was very accurate, pretty much the same way one used to joke that HBO stood for "Hey, Beastmaster's On" back in the early days of the premium channel. With the series Ancient Aliens - represented here by the 4-disc set of season three - it is just another example of a concept that is beginning to show its limitations as well as bordering on subject matter desperation.

But that's not to say this isn't fun stuff, because it most certainly is. Or perhaps more accurately it is if you're mindset is already in that ancient alien ballpark. The sixteen episodes for this run is the most the series has ever done consecutively (there were only s...Read the entire review

Rock and roll is indeed a cruel mistress, and I'll bet that you can come up with six or seven bands off the top of your head that you feel should be more well known than they are (ex: Scotland Yard Gospel Choir). On the flipside I'll bet you can do the same with bands that are successful for reasons that seem to make little or no sense to you (ex: Nickelback). It's the nature of the beast, fickle and illogical, often driven by factors that have little to do with actual talent and more to do with marketability and branding. The one truth is that there are far more performers who wallow in relative obscurity than make it big, and though the side of the musical highway is littered with these stranded travelers they usually tend to make music that is significantly more honest and heartfelt.

Two-Headed Cow is an 80-minute 2008 documentary from Tony Gayton that follows the rise and fall of Flat...Read the entire review

Following the release of the original Lethal Ladies Collection (T.N.T. Jackson, Firecracker and Too Hot To Handle) comes another Roger Corman-produced female exploitation triple-bill from Shout! Factory, this time celebrating the groovy cool of The Arena, Fly Me and Cover Girl Models. If there was one thing you could always count on from a mid-1970s Roger Corman title was plenty of nudity, violence and the awesomely lurid tackiness of the poster art. A tagline like "see stewardesses battle kung-fu killers" - from Fly Me - is the kind of rich, tawdry goodness that means everything to exploitation genre geeks, and this two-disc set is all that.

Let's take a look:

The Arena (01h:21m:32s)
1974
Directed by: Steve Carver

This was the debut of B-movie director Steve Carver (Big Bad Mama, Lone Wolf McQuade)...Read the entire review

If I were to ask you to compile a list of "great directors" I imagine your choices would differ greatly from mine. Sure, there may be the random crossover, yet the odds of the list matching exactly - or even close - are probably pretty high. I may hold someone like Michael Haneke in high regard (and I do) while you might consider him a tiresome dullard (really, how could you?).

But that's the beauty of the subjectiveness of art and cinema, in that it graciously allows for opinion and preference to become our own personal realities. For her 2009 documentary entitled Great Directors writer/actor/filmmaker Angela Ismailos set out to have conversations with her own list of greats, and her impressive list included the likes of Bernardo Bertolucci, Agnes Varda, David Lynch, John Sayles, Todd Haynes, Richard Linklater, Catherine Breillat, Liliana Cavani, Ken Loach and Stephen Frears.

Wha...Read the entire review

Rock and roll doesn't always treat its trendsetting ancestors with the respect deserved, and sometimes those very same overlooked trendsetters burn white-hot before disintegrating into a million pieces, remembered only by the yet-to-be-formed bands they influenced and an even smaller circle of fans who know the truth.

The New York Dolls - existing briefly as one singular core unit - took the glam rock movement of the early 1970s and twisted its axis, reshaping the meaning of rock-and-roll androgyny into not only something visually daring, but most importantly cementing themselves as cross-dressing trailblazers with a couple of highly influential albums. There's no question The Dolls laid the foundation for the punk movement, and if there was ever any doubt about that just take a peek at this 70-minute film from Nadya and Bob Gruen which captures David Johansen, Arthur Kane, Jerry Nolan, Sylvain...Read the entire review

What we have here is a horror film with a catchy title made by a first-time director starring a handful of actors known for their television work (sort of). I have always had a soft-spot for a good old fashioned directorial debut, and as a movie geek I tend to look at these films a bit differently as I try to see the glimmer of potential talent in the making, of someone in the infancy of honing their craft and making their mark. While typically handcuffed by general newbie-ness and budget constraints, naturally all the limitations that come with those unshakable anchors there still could be the opportunity to maybe peer through the virgin-osity to see if there just might be something there.

My guess is that Kill Katie Malone is probably not the film writer/director Carlos Ramos Jr. intended to make in his mind, or at least I hope it wasn't. As a horror film it has a general concept that p...Read the entire review

For baseball fans - and I don't just mean St. Louis Cardinal fans - the thrilling 2011 MLB regular season ended with a hell of a bang, but that was nothing compared to what would come during the postseason. I've watched a lot of League/Division/World Series championship baseball in my time, and the matchups in 2011 were especially action-packed and unpredictable in a way that only a 162-game season can build to and deliver.

But naturally the big story was the Cardinals, coming back from the dead to battle their way to a World Series title against seemingly all odds, and this officially-sanctioned MLB documentary chronicles that memorable postseason run. Narrated with modest dramatics by Jon Hamm this 87-minute documentary recaps the Cardinals "collective will to win" and their "knack for doing the unthinkable", beginning with a quick peek at the end of the regular season before progressing into...Read the entire review

I'm not sure how I missed out on this History Channel series that explains how the states got their shapes, but thankfully for me there's this fascinating season one set that gathers up all ten episodes, which originally aired in early 2011.

Hosted by former Daily Show wisenheimer Brian Unger How The States Got Their Shapes delivers exactly what it promises, but it does so in a fun way. Unger travels the country, explaining the hows-and-whys of state borders, whether they be based on water, feuds or surveying errors. It's all assembled in a clever way, with Unger reigning in the smarm just enough to come off as sarcastically entertaining without being a complete tool.

My first hunch was that each state would be getting its own episode (hello potentially excessive padding) but instead - and this is a good thing - each ep follows a thematic thread touching on multiple states....Read the entire review

Those of you fondly familiar with the original 1938 children's book Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater will probably go into this Jim Carrey re-imagining with some trepidation. And you would be right to do so. As an adaptation of a much loved children's book this one fails miserably, trampling on all of those wonderful memories of the Atwater's tale that made it so charming and simple, with director Mark Waters (Mean Girls, The Spiderwick Chronicles) rendering up a trite "broken-family" family film peppered with the obligatory poop and fart jokes that seem requisite in any film made for children these days. Not that there's anything wrong with poop and fart gags - but when presented under the banner of something revered like the Atwater book then onscreen it just seems horribly wrong somehow.

Carrey is the titular character, a divorced workaholic too busy ...Read the entire review

Once upon a time the Showtime series Californication was a burst of dark, sexy, adult brilliance, exploring the disintegrating life of perpetually erect author Hank Moody (David Duchovny). The first couple of seasons tip-toed into uncomfortable marital discord and trampled on societal mores, as Hank boned his way through Los Angeles - sometimes legally, sometimes not - filling some bottomless emotional void, while his annoyingly forgiving wife Karen (Natascha McElhone) and moody post-post-post-post-punk daughter Becca (Madeleine Martin) served as the other two-thirds of the cockeyed Moody household. Seasons one and two were the stuff of genuine cable greatness, augmented by Hank's agent/best friend Charlie Runkle (Evan Handler) and his spitfire wife Marcy (Pamela Adlon), she of the gloriously foul mouth. Season three, on the other hand, was a harbinger of the future and existed simply to give g...Read the entire review

Adventures in Pornoland is yet another entry in the fake documentary format, this time chronicling the goings-on in the adult film industry. Canadian transplants Ethan (Brad Brough) and his fiancee Jaime (Taryn O'Neill) move to Los Angeles with hope in their hearts, but of course the weight of reality is always there to crush their spirits. Their collective goal is for Ethan to take his burgeoning filmmaking/directing background and kick it up a notch career-wise as faithful Jaime grinds it out working as a bartender to make ends meet. With industry work hard to find, Ethan eventually hooks up with his old friend David (Greg Salman), who is currently making a living directing porn. One thing leads to another, and before you know it Ethan is working with David, while Jaime is none too pleased. Drama ensues...

I guess we're supposed to dismiss the obvious questions like why a film crew is f...Read the entire review

I scream, you scream, we all scream when a movie is labeled a "SyFy original", because typically that means a steaming pile of forgettable nothingness. Sure, these films are made for little money (if what's seen on screen is any indication) and the network cranks them out with apparently any disregard for quality, operating solely on the principle of quantity. It seems the marketing people are finally wising up a little, because you really have to strain your eyeballs to find the dreaded word "Syfy" on the backcover of the 2010 made-for-TV Mothman, but trust me it's there. And we all know what that means: a loose 90 minutes or so of low-rent special effects, questionable acting and usually a familiar lead that is the hook to draw in curious viewers who think "hey, I liked that person on such-and-such show".

That familiar face for Mothman is Jewel Staite - lovable mechanic Kaylee ...Read the entire review

I'll wager that sooner than later we'll be seeing Game 6 of the 2011 World Series - with the Cardinals battling back from possible elimination against the Rangers - as one of these "Baseball's Greatest Games" releases from MLB. I think few would argue that would certainly be an appropriate entry, but until then it's time to step into the time machine and head to the hideously synthetic Metrodome on Sunday, October 27, 1991 where Game 7 between the Atlanta Braves and Minnesota Twins defined the phrase "pitcher's duel". It was John Smoltz vs Jack Morris on the bump, and man what a matchup it was.

It seems a little silly to dance around the outcome of this game, as if this were the plot of a suspense film. The Twins win in it 1-0 on a bottom of the 10th on a one out bases loaded single to left center by Gene Larkin. Relax, it's happened and it's history. But that doesn't change the enjoyment of thi...Read the entire review

The 1962 Robert Aldrich-directed Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? is one of those spot-on perfect films, a dark, campy and sad story built around the blackhole of fame. It's the saga of the slowly rotting lives of former child star Baby Jane Hudson (Bette Davis), her wheel-chair bound/one-time film star sister Blanche (Joan Crawford) and the mad web of jealousy and spotlights that has ruined their lives. If you haven't seen this beautifully weird film, you need to do so immediately, and considering that it rejuvenated the careers of Davis and Crawford, both of whom deliver broad ham-tastic caricatures that straddle that high camp fence without falling off the wrong way into the bramblebushes of shrill parody.

That brings us to this Billy Clift-directed remake/homage/parody/comedy entitled Baby Jane!, which has the unique qualifier of featuring male actors in drag in all the key rol...Read the entire review

I wasn't sure what to make of this, considering I wasn't familiar with the comic. The cover art for this standup disc from Keith Lowell Jensen - entitled Cats Made of Rabbits - features a drawing of nude women with rabbit heads applying makeup. There are a couple of bare breasts, and to reinforce the point a blurb on the front even touts "How great is this DVD? You haven't even opened it and you've seen a bunny rabbit with boobs!" Promising, I'd say. On the back it mentions how Jensen "spews utterly sincere filth" and presents "obscenity laden" arguments and "wretched blasphemy" throughout. I'm a flag-waving atheist so that appealed to me, but it also gave me a bit of a pause, and made me think perhaps Jensen was going to go the obscenity-as-shock-value route, presenting himself as a comic who thinks it funny simply to be foul-mouthed without any actual substance to back it up.

The good n...Read the entire review

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We live in a wonderful time when it comes to entertainment, and for baseball fans (hello, my name is Rich) it is really quite exciting. When I was a youngster, back in the pre-VHS/pre-cable days, the bulk of my baseball knowledge came from reading about it in Baseball Digest, The Sporting News or the backs of baseball cards, in between watching Cubs day baseball on television. The weekly NBC Saturday afternoon 'Game of the Week' was the only real opportunity to see two different teams battle it out, and to see players I had only read about.

It sure is a different world nowadays. Today - in addition to things like the MLB network - there's the Baseball's Greatest Games series, like this release highlighting Derek Jeter's 3000th hit. Instead of a highlight reel it's an entire game, in this case it is the one between the Yankees and Rays from July 9, 2011, and it probably ta...Read the entire review

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A few years ago, amidst the void left by the monster-hunting grooviness of Buffy The Vampire Slayer along came Supernatural, a WB series that debuted in fall 2005 as some sort of viable contender to bring standalone evil, a recurring demonic arc, dry humor and hunky leads that fit the network mold of skewing young.

In 2011 the show has begun its seventh strong season on the WB, and though it appeared to be on the verge of ending neatly after season five, a twist and tilt of the central mythology has given new sea legs to the adventures of brothers Sam and Dean Winchester, and their quest to prevent a literal run of hell on Earth. This six-disc season six set (if only there was one more six it would seem thematically appropriate) catches Supernatural on its way to revitalizing its new central thesis, going beyond demon hunting into the realm of vengeful ang...Read the entire review

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I always find it vindicating and exciting when music - in whatever form it is taking - has the ability to unify, transform and empower. That's exactly what took place in Little Rock, Arkansas beginning in the late 1980s, in a small conservative town that is - according to one of the subjects in this 2007 documentary - "not quite Southern, not quite Midwest and not quite Texas".

Towncraft documents the rise of the entire DIY punk music scene in Little Rock, as director Richard Matson presents a chronological history from 1986 through 2007, with interviews, recordings and shaky home video of the bands in action. These were pre-Internet era high school aged kids taking the initiative to express themselves in a new way, form a record label, create 'zines, stage clandestine shows and by doing so feed the next generation the very same independent message so that the movement w...Read the entire review

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If you've never seen or heard of Mystery Science Theater 3000 I weep for you. I weep because that means you have missed out on a series that combined really bad movies, witty commentary, smart-ass robots, schlocky comedy and some of the most quotable lines - at least in my house - from just about any program in the history of television.

I know that might sound like hyperbole, but damn if this is not a B-movie-geek's fantasy, with the opportunity to watch a rotten, forgotten movie while funny people crack wise during it. So if you're new to the wonders of MST3k this release from Shout Factory (a reissue of an out-of-print Rhino edition) is as good as any place to jump in, because the show's theme song provides all you need in terms of setup and premise. Plus, the song is so catchy you will find yourself singing it to yourself for weeks to come.

Trust me.<...Read the entire review

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When Showtime made the announcement not to renew United States of Tara for a fourth season I'll admit I was more than a wee bit disappointed. I really loved this series, and I was even more bothered that the announcement came in May 2011, with a month still left for season three to end its run in June, and the thought of potential cliffhangers and unfulfilled storylines seemed imminent. Thankfully season three - represented here by a two-disc set of all 12 episodes - found a way to tie off as many bows as possible, leaving fans with a woefully premature swan song, but an ultimately satisfying one nonetheless.

The show, created by polarizing firebrand Diablo Cody, follows the fractured life of Tara Gregson (Toni Collette), a woman festooned with a large number of multiple personalities. She's married to a lovingly understanding husband Max (John Corbett) and they have two ...Read the entire review

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The documentary The Human Experience sure seems like a fine idea on paper, with its small group of twenty-somethings out to explore what it means to be, well. human. With their own personal life baggage to contend with they attempt to reach out to see how others live, which includes spending time as homeless people in New York City in winter, traveling to an unwanted children's home in Peru and visiting a leper colony in Ghana. Along the way there is much deep pontificating about the human spirit, delivered by an assortment of experts ranging from an activist to an actor to a theologian to a doctor to an artist. Through a quartet of "experiences" this is all meant to answer the eternal question of "who am I?", but instead all it seems to offer is vagaries wrapped in sometimes compelling visuals.

The core of the film is the Azize brothers (Clifford and Jeffery), who are me...Read the entire review

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This is a whopper of a rock documentary on the history of the prog-rock icons Yes, nearly three hours in length spread across two discs. Narrated somewhat blandly and uncomfortably by The Who's Roger Daltrey, the 2004 doc Yesspeak follows the band on their 35th anniversary tour of Europe, co-mingling concert clips with revealing interviews with band members Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Rick Wakeman, Alan White and Steve Howe as the lineage, roots and meaning of Yes are scrutinized, discussed and explained. There's a lot of info here, and for fans of Yes this should be an easy recommendation.

For the rest of us, maybe not so much.

As a teen in the mid-1970s it was tough to avoid the impact of Yes, though at the time there were clear lines of demarcation when it came to being the follower of certain bands. Becoming a fan of Yes took a little more work, a few extra st...Read the entire review

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Years before his role in the series Entourage 23-year-old actor Adrian Grenier created this 2002 HBO documentary about his search for his estranged father he hasn't seen in 18 years, in which he attempts to discover what it means to have and/or not had a father. Through a series of interviews with his mother, friends, people on the street and eventually his father Shot In The Dark proves to be about one person's journey of discovery (Grenier's) into his own life, his own sense of self and the necessity of knowing one's own origin story, as it were. As the narrative progresses it becomes clear that his upbringing was far from traditional, and one of the film's biggest surprises is the way our sympathies are forced to shift and readjust as truths and realities become evident.

And that's probably the doc's strongest suit - the real-life dramatic twists - that give ...Read the entire review

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By all accounts Ninjas vs. Vampires (the second Ninjas vs... release from writer/director Justin Timpane) should be yet another bit of lower tier B-movie forgettable junk, some micro-budgeted amateur doodling that could never possibly fulfill its minimum daily requirements of what passes for reasonable entertainment. But somewhere along the way Timpane has handily allowed himself to leapfrog over the production/budget/visual effects shortcomings and occasional wonky bit of acting to put together a fun film that winks knowingly at its own Whedon-esque dialogue while playing itself straight.

Or at least as straight as you can with a storyline concerning good-guy ninjas battling bad-guy vampires.

There's no mistaking that this was shot on a relative shoestring, but when the characters start spouting Timpane's dialogue all is temporarily forgotten (even if some...Read the entire review

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I want to clarify a few things at the outset of this unfavorable review of The Girls Next Door Season Six, including the fact that prior to this I had not seen seasons 1 through 5.

But considering this isn't like walking into something like Lost mid-run I assumed I would be more than up to the task. For starters, I love gratuitous female nudity; it can liven up even the worst of movies and somehow make it all seem worthwhile (if I can paraphrase the theme from The Mary Tyler Moore Show). I make no bones about finding comfort in the dumbest of the dumb when it comes to entertainment when the mood strikes, and my tastes typically have no firm boundaries. I'll even admit that back in my teen years the mystique of the Playboy Mansion was huge, and the fantastic thoughts of "what goes on there?" that wriggled through my skull back then escalated the place to near mythi...Read the entire review

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Announcing that a film is a made-for-SyFy project automatically lowers the bar a little for such standard expectations as believable characters, quality effects and anything generally resembling worthwhile entertainment. SyFy operates on what appears to be quantity over quality when it comes to cranking out their originals, and for all of their of their weaknesses they serve the greater cable good as fodder that can guide a couch potato through two hours (with commercials) of lazy writing and underwhelming visual effects. Yet with Goblin - a 2010 offering from the SyFy factory - the end result is a film that is somehow better than its brethren, though that's not really saying all that much, and is sort of damning it with faint praise.

It's not good, it's just not the worst thing ever assembled under the SyFy banner.

The story is one we've seen before in various i...Read the entire review

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As a parent of a twenty-year-old daughter - our only child - I can now safely say the always-present-in-the-back-of-your-mind-but-rarely-spoken-about concern of a teenage pregnancy is now a thing of the past. I guess we can chalk up some sort of small victory in the plus column of life, but if the truth be told any of that inner-family celebrating falls directly on the shoulders of my wife and daughter.

My wife Jeanine developed an open, honest dialogue on the subject of sexuality with our Sam early, and for me - as a person raised in a "just don't talk about it" household - it was something I was not prepared to discuss with my child. I know that my burying my head in the sand approach was the wrong way to go about it, but secretly I knew my wife was on the ball, talking about sex, condoms etc. Awkwardly I was more of a "don't ask, don't tell" silent partner in it all.
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The notion of an all-encompassing and theoretically mythical presidential book of secrets was given mainstream attention via a 2007 action-adventure movie, appropriately titled National Treasure: Book of Secrets. In that film Nicolas Cage searches for the book at one point, said to have been handed down from president to president - since George Washington - and containing top secret information only meant for the eyeballs of the President of the United States. Conspiracy geek speculation over the years have naturally extrapolated this to mean the book answers everything from entrenched secret societies to aliens at Roswell to the Kennedy assassination.

This 90-minute History Channel presentation does a bit of a thematic bait-and-switch, because despite the conspiracy-nerd title this is actually a fairly straightforward examination of what it means to be the President, ...Read the entire review

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I have written about documentaries concerning the Deaf community before - both here and elsewhere - and my interest in the subject stems from my wife's career as a Deaf interpreter for a local co-op. Prior to her work with the Deaf my knowledge and exposure was limited, and if anything I always had a profound sense of sadness for those without hearing, considering how essential the joy of sound is to me.

That was my first ignorant mistake.

Because if I have learned one thing that I did not know before it is that the Deaf community is exceptionally proud, independent and resilient, and that pity from the likes of me is not something they're looking for. Over the years I've been educated and inspired, via my wife's work as well as through a number of outstanding documentaries on the subject (Josh Aronson's Sound and Fury is one of those) and I have to come to have m...Read the entire review

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Back in the glory days of Squeeze - in the waning era of the so-called "new wave" - there were few things I looked forward to as much as a new set of music written by primary Squeeze-ters Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford. In music history you had your legendary Lennon/McCartney catalog (no argument there) as well as the Clash magic of Strummer/Jones - and naturally Elvis Costello stands on his own - yet for my money Difford/Tilbrook were always right in there, consistently banging out some of the most hook-laden pop tunes of the period. With the inevitable demise of Squeeze there has been Tilbrook's solo career - one that has fallen undeservedly below the radar - that has continued to prove that the guy knows how write smart, clever tunes that cram quite a bit into four minutes.

For this disc it is Tilbrook on guitar/vocals, fronting his latest side project The Fluffers, a snap...Read the entire review

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Major League Baseball has repackaged a couple of titles released separately years back and has issued them together here as an "MLB Bloopers Doubleheader". The blooper is really on fans, because there are none of the extras (good, bad or otherwise) found on those standalone releases, and all that's here are the two features, presented as potential fodder for your very own rain delay theater the next time Mother Nature puts the clampdown on your favorite team. As a doublebill, this one is wobbly and uneven, a mixed bag of sometime entertainment. The thing is baseball bloopers are essentially mindless filler, a grandly silly reminder that for all the big bucks and idol worship MLB players receive they are still prone to the same kind of bonehead mistakes the average joe might make in the local sandlot. Unfortunately only one of these titles is truly blooper-esque.

Things kicks off...Read the entire review

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This umpteenth reworking of the Frankenstein mythos - dosed pleasurably with plenty of appropriate Shelley nods - comes from the redundantly named writer/director/musician Creep Creepersin. While the world was hardly clamoring for another stab at the whole man-plays-god bit Creepersin somehow succeeds with an openly low-budget short film (it barely hits the 60-minute mark) that manages to be clever, disturbing, funny and even a little bittersweet at times. It's not the most polished film ever made, but Creep Creepersin's Frankenstein shows the director's obvious love of the genre while still allowing him to put an alternate spin on a familiar plotline.

That's good news for horror fans, because this film - even with its budgetary/production limitations - is definitely worth checking out.

In Creepersin's world, the character of Frankenstein is the pet rat of simple...Read the entire review

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As the longest running series on Showtime, this two-disc final season set of the Emmy-winning Penn & Teller: Bullshit! does exactly what we've come to expect. A potentially hot-button subject is highlighted and analyzed during each half-hour episode, and though there is a definite slant to the narrative there is an attempt to show two (or more) sides to the issue, balanced by the distinctive Penn & Teller brand of humor and outrage. As an added plus there is plenty of nudity, certainly there to remind us this was broadcast on pay cable.

Not bad for a couple of magicians, eh? All of this quasi-investigative journalism is really a bully pulpit for Penn Jillette (he's really the mouthpiece here) to deliver some wonderful, expletive-filled rants, whether it be about teen sex, vaccinations or a greasy hamburger.

The format of the series remains intact, with Penn &...Read the entire review