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20 Oct

Criminal Minds: The Twelfth Season

Max SchindlerNew DVD release, , ,
Highly Recommended Note:The latest of a continuing series, where my wife Nicole steps up to offer her thoughts.By Nicole RizzoIn 10 Words or LessThe more crimes committed, the harder the BAU works.Reviewer's Bias*Loves: Criminal dramas, Joe Mantegna, Aisha Tyler, Damon GuptonLikes: Spencer Reid, Penelope Garcia, Jane Lynch, guest starsDislikes: Mr. ScratchHates: The question of "why" people do horrible thingsThe ShowMy eagerness and anticipation of every new fall television season starts around mid-August when stations start giving out teasers of what to expect for our beloved prime-time shows. I wait each summer to see which shows are returning and which have…
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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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16 Oct

Ernie Kovacs: Take A Good Look: The Definitive Collection

Max SchindlerNew DVD release, , ,
DVD Talk Collector Series The Show: Ernie Kovacs was a pioneer, an innovator in the realm of early TV comedy, who has morphed into a cult figure over the years. Most folks have probably missed out on Ernie's best bits, and if you have, I recommend checking out The Ernie Kovacs Collection, Volumes One and Two. These lovely box sets were released by Shout! Factory roughly five years ago, and they offer a thorough survey of Ernie's varied and all-too-brief career. (He was killed in a car crash at age 42.)Now, Shout! Factory is releasing a (nearly) complete set of…
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15 Oct

Soul on a String

Max SchindlerNew DVD release
Recommended Director: Yang ZhangStarring: Quni Ciren, Kimba, Siano Dudiom ZahiYear: 2016Soul on a String is a Chinese/Tibetan, Western/Adventure, ancient/modern warrior's tale, and these odd combinations are the reason that the film ultimately succeeds. This feature is hard to define, it straddles many borders while paying homage to many styles, but it is made just well enough to elicit respect, when it could easily have gone down a baffling and far less appealing route. Sacred stones, lone wolves, blood oaths, desperate journeys; this movie needed every one of its 140 minutes to tell a complicated story, but the result was surprisingly…
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13 Oct

Chicago Justice: Season One

Max SchindlerNew DVD release, ,
Rent It For this reviewer, the jury's still out on Chicago Justice, but not with the network distributing it, NBC. Though the packaging lists this as "Season One," it's also officially "The Complete Series," NBC having cancelled it this past May, a week after airing what turned out to be its final episode. Universal selling this as "Season One" may be wishful thinking: another Dick Wolf-produced show, Law & Order: Criminal Intent began on NBC, but then moved to the USA Network for its last four seasons, so it's not impossible that program might continue somewhere else. The show began…
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13 Oct

Chicago Med: Season Two

Max SchindlerNew DVD release,
Highly Recommended Between the first and second seasons of Chicago Med, on July 26, 2017, a pretty amazing coincidence occurred. A female nurse named Alex Wubbels at the University of Utah's hospital burn center was forcibly arrested by a short-fused police officer after she refused, per hospital policy, to (possibly illegally) draw blood from her unconscious patient. The officer was recently fired. Ironically, almost exactly four months earlier, on a Chicago Med episode entitled "Guilty," Nurse Maggie Lockwood (Marlyne Barrett) is forcibly arrested after refusing, again per hospital policy, by a short-fused officer, under similar circumstances. This uncanny bit of…
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12 Oct

This Is Us: Season 1

Max SchindlerNew DVD release
Highly Recommended The Show:When the NBC show This is Us started showing preview clips and teasers ahead of its 2016 release, the schmaltz was evident; it was going to be a show that tugged on heartstrings, and touched on several different lives, across a multigenerational landscape. It was popular and emotional, and even a little polarizing at times, and received a bit of critical acclaim and some awards to boot. Naturally as its next (second) season is getting underway, the last (first) is available to view on DVD to give people the chance to get up to speed as quickly…
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12 Oct

Chicago P.D.: Season Four

Max SchindlerNew DVD release,
Highly Recommended Spun-off from Chicago Fire, and part of the same TV universe that now also includes Law & Order: SVU, Chicago Med, and Chicago Justice, Chicago P.D. (2014-present) has grown and matured into a compelling police procedural. Less warm-and-fuzzy than Chicago Fire, whose leading characters are so honorable as to be a bit dull and dramatically inert at times, Chicago PD offers more emotionally complex, troubled, and thus more believable characters. Initially the program seemed to be heading down the right-wing fantasy world of 24, where the ends always-but-always justified the means. First introduced in a story arc on…
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11 Oct

Chicago Fire: Season Five

Max SchindlerNew DVD release,
Highly Recommended Pity the Chicago franchise fan. Fans of Chicago Fire (2012-present) are pretty much obliged to follow the entirety of executive producer Dick Wolf's vast television universe. That because characters from Chicago Fire frequently appear in episodes of all of the shows spun-off since: Chicago PD, Chicago Med, newcomer Chicago Justice and even Law & Order: SVU, set and filmed in New York. There have been story arcs crossing over up to three different series, and sets from one show (such as Molly's the bar opened by several Chicago Fire characters often appear in the others. Contracts for the…
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09 Oct

Guardians

Max SchindlerNew DVD release
Skip It The Film:Ahead of what'll seem like a pummeling on Guardians, Russia's entry into blockbuster superhero cinema, it's worth mentioning that comic studios "liberally borrowing" concepts of characters and their powers from competitors has been going on for decades, especially between, y'know, the big two. Before the size-shrinking Ant-Man, there was Atom; before Hawkeye's archery prowess, there was Green Arrow; before the cosmic sorcery of Dr. Strange, there was Dr. Fate; and so on and so forth. What separates these characters from one another can be found in the details of their personalities both big and small, and with…
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09 Oct

The Good Place: Season One

Max SchindlerNew DVD release,
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or LessKristen Bell tries to navigate the afterlife Reviewer's Bias*Loves: Kristen Bell, high-concept sitcoms, JanetLikes: Ted DansonDislikes: How the second season is progressingHates: JianyuThe ShowFrom the moment Eleanor (Kristen Bell) opens her eyes at the beginning of the first episode of The Good Place, the show is obviously not the usual sitcom. Having recently died, Eleanor is now in The Good Place--a non-denominal version of heaven--where everything is perfect and everyone is happy, because everyone in The Good Place has earned their spot through their positive behaviors on Earth, including charity-driven model Tahani (Jameela Jamil),…
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06 Oct

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: Johnny and Friends

Max SchindlerNew DVD release, , , , ,
Like The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: The Vault Series (6 DVD Set Collector's Edition), previously reviewed right here, Time-Life's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: Johnny and Friends is a remarkable set of complete Tonight Show episodes from the Nineteen Seventies-‘90s, rather than a clip display of highlights, so entire in reality that these 28 full shows consist of all of the unique (community) commercials, that are sometimes captivating all by means of themselves. It's every other fantastic, nicely selected set, and although I've barely cracked its monstrous content material, I'm having a grand vintage time watching these shows.…
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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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30 Sep

The Island of Dr Moreau

Max SchindlerNew DVD release, ,
DVD Talk Collector Series Director: Don Taylor Starring: Michael York, Burt Lancaster, Barbara Carrera Year: 1977 The Island of Dr. Moreau is a film based on an H.G. Wells novel published in 1896, a sci-fi classic written by a legendary author that spawned a sci-fi classic directed by a talented filmmaker. Don Taylor oversaw more television episodes and made-for-TV movies than you can count, but he also directed films in the Planet of the Apes and Omen franchises, as well as The Final Countdown, a Kirk Douglas/Martin Sheen action/time travel flick. There's more than enough genius to go around behind…
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29 Sep

Modern Family: Season 8

Max SchindlerNew DVD release, , ,
Recommended In 10 Words or Less The kids are growing up Reviewer's Bias* Loves: Modern Family, good sitcoms Likes: The vast majority of the cast Dislikes: sitcom babies Hates: Change for change's sake The Story So Far... Telling the story of three generations of the Pritchett clan, centered around Jay (Ed O'Neill) and his kids Claire (Julie Bowen) and Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson), and their respective families, Modern Family was, for all intents and purposes, an instant hit with critics and viewers (earning five Best Comedy Emmys in its first five seasons.) A single-camera sitcom without a laugh track, this…
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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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25 Sep

The Glass Coffin

Max SchindlerNew DVD release,
Skip It The Film:The Glass Coffin (El ataud de cristal) arrives a little late to capitalize on that short-lived burst of interest in one-location survival thrillers from a few years back, but if the context of such a film possesses a strong hook, then the innovation and claustrophobia involved with the concept still holds the potential to strike a chord. Where others explored themes like the worth of a single civilian caught in the throes of war or the ways in which preparation and rudimentary medical knowledge can come in handy during dire situations, this tale of survival tackles a…
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