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The absolute wreckiest of train wreck television, "Britney & Kevin: Chaotic" stands out as potentially the worst television show I've ever seen, and I'm guessing could also qualify as the very worst ever put on network television. It's not that I didn't give the show a chance: I've enjoyed "Newlyweds" and other reality TV shows. This makes "Newlyweds" look really, really, really, really brilliant by comparison. Really, really....really brilliant.

"Chaotic" is, to say it like Britney would, like, ohmahgod, something that she came up with like, because she had a camera and like, was lonely on tour or something (Read: "The Focus Must Be On Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. ME!") Britney, who operates a camera with less skill than the average 3-year-old, often sticks the camera so close to her face or whoever she's filming that it's a good chance we're going to spot a few unpleasant n...Read the entire review

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Watching "In the Zone" was a rather interesting experience. I've never particularly cared for the music of Britney Spears, yet have covered her DVD releases in the past for this site due to the almost extraordinary amount of people who read the first review I did of one of her titles. Watching "In the Zone" was interesting, partially because of aspects of the performance and partially for the experience of watching it at this point in the evolution of music.

While I certainly don't deny that there are still plenty of teen pop fans out there (witness the Britney impersonator on a recent episode of MTV's horrifying "I Want a Famous Face" who, with disturbing determination, got plastic surgery to look more like the pop princess.) or go too deeply against the music (anyone who enjoys making music or enjoys a certain genre of music has the right to enjoy making or listening t...Read the entire review

You've heard the story a thousand times. You're favorite television show gets cancelled and the creators and star go on to do bigger and better things, while you're forced to continually watch the SLP VHS copies that you made just because you were afraid to miss an episode. Thankfully with the wide acceptance and high capacity of DVD, full seasons of television shows are being released at a dizzying pace.

One such cancelled, but much loved, show finally making its way to DVD is My So Called Life. This critical hit from 1994 starred a then unknown couple of kids by the name of Claire Danes and Jared Leto.

Danes played Angela Chase, a supposedly typical 15-year old high school student that is suffering from a typical teen identity crisis. Fueled by teen-angst, she begins making changes in her life by finding new friends, changing her hair color and daydreaming about boys. Color me cra...Read the entire review

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Coming from their small-time roots, the Dave Matthews Band has risen to new heights as one of the most popular touring bands of recent years. They were even featured on a recent IMAX feature called "All Access: Backstage", where they were joined by Al Green for a superb performance of "Take Me To The River". Matthews and his highly talented backing band have previously released a video of their live performance ("Listener Supported"), but this DVD edition provides the 12 videos from 1994-2001. I can't say that I'm a hardcore Matthews fan, but I enjoyed the ability to experience all of the band's imaginative and occasionally strange ("Don't Drink The Water") videos.

Songs: What Would You Say, Ants Marching, Satellite, Too Much, So Much to Say, Crash Into Me, Tripping Billies, Don't Drink the Water, Stay (Wasting Time), Crush, I Did It, The Space Between.


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I tend to be one of those people who gets a CD in their player and has it stick there for a long period of time. Moby's CD "Play" stuck firmly in my CD player for several months; although I didn't care for some of the tracks at first, the album grew on me quite a bit and later, other tracks that I had previously skipped over or ignored revealed themselves to be gems, as well. The music is electronic, but takes samples from blues, gospel and other sources and lays them over beats in a fusion that's all things across the album - at some points calming, at some points catchy and finally, some songs you can dance to.

"Play" the DVD contains quite a bit of material involved with the album in one place. There's a number of videos, live footage, a 20 minute tour documentary and 90 minutes of remixes from the album. Videos: Bodyrock (U.K. auditions), Honey, Find My Baby, Porcela...Read the entire review