Category: DVD Reviews

Cast: Animation Studio: Buena Vista Rating: 7/10 THE STORY: After “crashing” the super hero convention in Reno, the nigh invulnerable blue-clad super hero, the Tick, is deemed the protector of “The City.” On his first patrol he runs (more like “falls”) into Arthur, an accountant in a moth costume. They soon strike up a partnership.…

Cast: Teri Hatcher Studio: Buena Vista Rating: 8/10 THE STORY: All is not as it seems on Wisteria Lane, the pristinely manicured suburban setting of television’s hottest prime-time soap. We learn this within the first few minutes of the DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES pilot episode, when seemingly sane and happy housewife Mary Alice Young removes a revolver…

Cast: Christopher Lee Studio: Anchor Bay Rating: 6.5/10 THE STORY: A notoriously troubled production notwithstanding, the controversial cult classic THE WICKER MAN is now regarded as a classic of British cinema. Edward Woodward stars as Sergeant Howie, a naive young police officer sent to Summerisle, a secluded island off the coast of Scotland, to investigate…

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck Studio: Universal Rating: 7/10 THE STORY: Billy Wilder’s classic noir, a familiar brew of lust, larceny, and lethal intentions, stars Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck as a hot-blooded couple. Framed in flashback, the story is told by the dying Walter Neff (MacMurray), beginning with his first meeting with the seductive Phyllis Dietrichson…

Cast: Justin Bateman Studio: Fox Rating: 8/10 THE STORY: In this Emmy®-winning comedy’s hilarious third season, Michael Bluth finally realizes that it’s his Uncle Oscar serving time in prison, not his father. Reluctant to spring Oscar due to the effect it may have on the family business, Michael decides that the only fair thing to…

Cast: Michael Douglas Studio: Fox Rating: 6.5/10 THE STORY: Proving that nothing is as it seems in the high stakes game of political intrigue, a legendary but disgraced Secret Service agent is under the gun to uncover a terrorist plot to infiltrate the White House in THE SENTINEL, an explosive action-thriller arriving on DVD August…

Cast: Michael Douglas Studio: Fox Rating: 7/10 THE STORY: ROMANCING THE STONE: Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom…

Cast: Felissa Rose Studio: Warner Bros. Rating: 5.5/10 THE STORY: With a cast of actors from 1970s and ’80s horror classics, SATAN’S PLAYGROUND has all the proper ingredients for a gore-filled good time. Felissa Rose (SLEEPAWAY CAMP), Ellen Sandweiss (EVIL DEAD), and Edwin Neal (TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE) star as a family venturing into the wilderness…

Cast: Robert Redford Studio: Sony Rating: 6/10 Spy Game is about both spying and playing games. It’s a game of distrust, trust, and more distrust. Here we find veteran CIA officer Nathan Muir, played by Robert Redford, on his way out the door and into a life of retirement, but of course it won’t be…

Cast: Pierce Brosnan Studio: MTM Rating: 6.5/10 THE STORY: It’s business as usual at the Remington Steele Detective Agency, which means a caseload bursting with action, adventure, romance and danger! It’s all in a day’s work for the enchanting Laura Holt and the dashing Remington Steele, whose personal and professional relationships continue to heat up.…