Category: DVD Reviews

Cast: Reality Show Studio: Fox Rating: 7/10 CORPORATE LINE: Welcome to the world’s most famous and most glamorous bastion of hedonism, the Playboy Mansion! For the first time ever, The Girls Next Door takes you beyond the Mansion’s gates and behind closed doors where you’ll meet Holly, Kendra, and Bridget, just your average girls next…

Cast: Mike Judge Studio: Paramount Rating: 7/10 CORPORATE LINE: Heroes. Villains. Visionaries. Butt-munches. Beavis & Butt-Head have been called a lot of things. Smart isn’t usually one of them, but groundbreaking is. In this third installment of the earth-shattering Mike Judge Collection, the boys are back with more of their wisecracking, fart-knockingly-genius ways. Whether they…

Cast: Mary Louise Parker Studio: Showtime Rating: 8/10 CORPORATE LINE: This intelligent comedy airing on the Showtime Channel stars Mary Louise Parker (ANGELS IN AMERICA) as Nancy Botwin, a recently widowed mother of two who finds herself in difficult financial straits. Her ingenious solution is to become the local pot dealer. Nancy’s business really takes…

Cast: Natalie Portman Studio: Warner Bros. Rating: 8/10 CORPORATE LINE: Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, V For Vendetta tells the story of a young working-class woman named Evey who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked man known only as “V.” Profoundly complex, V is at once literary, flamboyant, tender…

Cast: Dave Chappelle Studio: Comedy Central Rating: 5/10 CORPORATE LINE: Comic genius Dave Chappelle trained his satirical eye on the vagaries of pop culture and race relations in his brilliant but short-lived Comedy Central series CHAPPELLE’S SHOW. The edgy funnyman brandished his unique style of streetsmart comedy to skewer everything from car commercials to the…

Cast: The Rock, Seann William Scott, Studio: Universal Rating: 7/10 Corporate Line: When Travis (Scott), the son of an underworld kingpin, disappears in the Amazon in search of a priceless artifact, Beck (Rock), the kingpin’s retrieval expert, is sent to get him. Despite their hostility – and their love for the same woman (Dawson) –…

Cast: Vin Diesel Studio: USA Rating: 5/10 THE REVIEW: Pitch Black is basically Bats in outer space with a cool lead man and amazing special effects. The opening sequence where the ship crashes on a mysterious planet is perhaps the most exciting in the film. Like every scary movie, the cast gets picked off one…

Cast: Bill Bixby Studio: Universal Rating: 6/10 CORPORATE LINE: Bruce Banner in the Animated version. Dr. David Banner is a brilliant scientist but, one day, a lab experiment that he is working on goes terribly awry. Since that time, whenever he is under extreme stress, his body undergoes a transmogrification and he morphs into ‘The…

Cast: Tip Harris Studio: Warner Bros. Rating: 6/10 CORPORATE LINE: 17-year-old Rashad (TIP HARRIS) was forced to become the man of the house earlier than most. Since the death of his parents, he’s carried the responsibility for himself and his little brother Ant (EVAN ROSS) squarely on his shoulders. While he does his best to…

Cast: Rob Corddry Studio: Shout Rating: 5/10 CORPORATE LINE: Dukes’s career ended in shame after he “wiped” in a competition–yes, even the rugged Dukes wasn’t above a little cheating, rubbing off a clear splash of paintball and continuing with the game as if he hadn’t been hit. After 10 years in the paintball wilderness, Dukes…