Given the success of Hanna Montana and High School: The Musical, both Disney Channel originals, it's not too surprisingthat the channel would attempt to create yet another musical franchise. This time it revolves around a girl who goes to a summer camp for buddingrock stars:  Camp Rock.  While the title and premise soundpromising, the incredibly trite and predictable script falls flat and thesupporting actresses outshine the lead making this an average-at-best movie.

Mitchie (Demi Lovato) is a plucky wannabe rock star who is so readyfor fame that she even wakes up with glossed lips and full make-up. She's a nobody at her high school but loves music and has a great voice. Her dream is to spend the summer at Camp Rock, a summer camp devoted torock music. ...Read the entire review

The Movie:
It's a maxim in advertising that a good ad should immediately capture the interest of the audience and pique its interest in whatever product is being hawked. Odd, then, that Mad Men, a superlative new AMC series now debuting its first season on DVD, actually takes its time to develop its characters and some intriguing mysteries at the center of its focal man, Sterling Cooper ad exec Don Draper (Jon Hamm). Now, I'm not complaining about this--we live in an era of instant gratification, and it's kind of refreshing to find a series that trusts its audience enough not to spill every bean possible in the first 30 second tease. But I suspect that Mad Men's less than stellar ratings (though it's about to premiere its second season on AMC) have more than a little to do with the ADD generation that seems to be the bulk of today's audience. For those with a little more pa...Read the entire review