Here we go, another Indiana Jones movie premiering – and so of course, here is another collection of the previous Indiana Jones movie releases, all in a neat and tidy slipcase, almost exactly the size of a single VHS cassette in slipcase… Please, Grandma, what was VHS; I seem to hear my grandchildren of the […]

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Now this is a musician with a resume. In the 40 years he has been recording, over 25 million albums have been sold, he has been a constant feature on the Billboard 200, and has scored a couple aces.
Surprisingly though, prior to this boxed set he […]

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National Treasure – Book of Secrets is one of those slight, improbable, but good-hearted Saturday-matinee-serial adventure movies, kind of like what Indiana Jones started off being before George Lucas got all clunky and serious. An almost A-list cast (Nicolas Cage, Jon Voight, Helen Mirren – good lord, Helen Mirren? She must have had the rent […]

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After reading reviews from both gushers and detractors, I found myself falling into the camp of the detractors without having even seeing a trailer. If a film with such high-powered leading men as Denzel Washington and Forest Whitaker could fail to garner any Oscar nods I figured the detractors must have something to say. And […]

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Spike are not known for their finesse, or deep thinking programing, preferring to go for the shock and instant impact. This two part series will certainly fit their ideal demographic of young males. What could be more ghoulish than a two part series on the subject of bizarre deaths?
Created by Thom Beers, the mastermind behing […]

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Remember the heyday of of the romantic comedy. It usually headlined Tom Hanks with Meg Ryan, or Tom Hanks with… okay let’s just leave it at that on-screen duo.
What we get with “What Happens in Vegas” is Ashton Kutcher (That 70’s show, Butterfly Effect) paired with Cameron Diaz (Shrek, Charlie’s Angles) in an absurdly contrived […]

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Chronicling the odd adventurous life of the Paskowtiz family, led by Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz, Doug Pray’s new documentary, Surfwise, is an hour and a half of engaging, memorable footage. With the glut of documentaries that have been hitting the market lately, due to the recent upsurge in the genre’s popularity, these endeavors can be hit […]

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“In nature one organisms waste is another organisms opportunity” Dr. David Suzuki tells us.
How true that is. I work in an environment that very much features this idea. I work with the homeless, maybe the greatest recycling sector on the planet. They scour the city for empty cans and bottles that have a redemption value, […]

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Did you miss them, they’re back!
Back in college my roommate Dustin and I made a pledge that if Van Halen ever toured with David Lee Roth again we would be at the show no matter what. That promise was fulfilled in October of last year when we saw the mighty VH at Cleveland’s Quicken Loans […]

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Barney the purple dinosaur and his band of friends are back with a brand new pal!
Starting this May 6th, now available on DVD from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and HIT Entertainment is the latest compilation of amazing adventures from an established and beloved dinosaur.  Barney – Hi! I’m Riff! is now ready to be […]

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The Dream Team of children’s television is back with an all new seasonal selection of incredible episodes.
Starting this May 13th, now available on DVD from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and HIT Entertainment comes the latest grab bag of amazing summertime adventures!  Summertime Fun! is ready to be brought home and enjoyed whenever you wish.  […]

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“Vagina Dentata! Vagina Dentata!” So screams an unfortunately lascivious gynecologist in a key scene of this dark high school comedy billed as a horror film (mistakenly by reviewers, intentionally by the distributors). And from the opening scene (a twisted parody of typical suburban Americana) to the blatant title, everything about this film seems to mimic […]

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Bob the Builder and his Can-Do Crew are back!
Starting this May 13th, now available on DVD from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and HIT Entertainment is the latest release from the best building crew in all of television land.  Bob the Builder – The Three Musketrucks is now ready to be watched at home whenever […]

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Travel writing is incredible.  It mixes together two incredible things, travel and writing, and manages to create a hybrid which maintains the greatest aspects of each component.  Two shining examples of the genre which have a had a great impact on my own life are Che Guevara’s Motorcycle Diaries and Bill Bryson’s A Walk In […]

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“Given the choice between being blind or being deaf, I would choose being blind. Blindness cuts you off from things – but deafness cuts you off from people”
Those words come from Helen Keller, and sum up deafness so well.
This Thursday HBO are airing another in their documentary series. Hear And Now is both sad and […]

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Offensive is never necessarily funny.  Just because you might be baiting the Pharisees does not mean that you are going to be hilarious.  Some television shows are able to do that quite well.  The Simpsons and South Park are shining example of both offensive material and profoundly humorous material at the same time.  Family Guy […]

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A comedy taking a look at nature shows should be hilarious!  Nature shows are becoming staples of early morning Saturday television and there are opportunities galore for mockery and satire.  Animals can be funny, the charismatic host is usually hilarious, and the people who end up being interviewed are simply beyond belief.  This should be […]

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It’s all about Tony Stark, the billionaire weapons designer and CEO of Stark Enterprises.  He’s a womanizer, but you’d still let him date your sister.  He’s everything you hate about everything you stand against, and yet he oozes charm so that you just don’t care and you want to like him. More importantly, you want […]

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This week the Sundance Channel’s eco friendly series Big Ideas For A Small Planet takes a look at the fashion industry, and what some innovative companies are doing to protect our planet.
Del Forte Denim is a company that uses only organically grown cotton. It transpires that regular cotton has become a crop that relies heavily […]

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In his debut special, Drew Hastings stands out to make his mark… in Ohio.
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In the debut special from Drew Hastings, very little is held sacred. Early in the show he indicates the glasses he’s wearing ‘These, of course, are my Al Sharpton frames; big, black, you can see right through them.” From there Hastings weaves […]

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We’ve all seen cringe-worthy sports moments.  There the soccer play who gets a ball right to his, the football player who gets them stomped on by a 350 pound man wearing cleats, the fan who goes to vault a fence and only gets one leg over before coming to a manhood crushing stop.  Although they […]

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There is a local channel in my area, Channel 45, which plays all sorts of reruns from old shows.  But late at night, well after midnight and around the time when you would suspect that Frasier would start to get hilarious, they play this horrid Canadian cop show.  I do not remember the name of […]

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Gone are the days of Lorne Green and Richard Attenborough offering a ‘Moses’ like commentary on wildlife. Todays marketplace is far different, no rented Lions, no leased Gazelles, no assistant helping the Lemmings off the cliff with a broom. Todays world is far more interesting, the world of nature is seen as it really is. […]

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This week the eco friendly TV show from Sundance looks at the subject of Food. At first sight food seems pretty ‘green’ to begin with. Alas that is not so, just pick up almost any food product from your local supermarket and read the list of ingredients. I can’t remember where I heard this great […]

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I know next to nothing about my family tree.  If I try real hard and do some digging, I could go back maybe five or six generations.  But I already know what I’d find.  Some doctors and lawyers, then farmers in America, then farmers in Belgium, Norway, and all over Europe.  Then there would be […]

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Indiana Jones is coming out with a new movie.  It looks somewhat interesting, but I would be more interested in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Gerontology, a movie set it very well might have been shot on.  Indy has always been very cool, with his witty one liners, occasionally getting the girl, fighting Nazis […]

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To lose control or use of your body would be a terrible feeling.  That feeling of being trapped, the complete loss of influence over what is central to us being us, that would be one of the most incredible parts of life to overcome.  Now there is another story about that struggle to find yourself […]

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My roommate grew up in South America.  He once said I would make a great South American, something I still hold as one of the highest compliments I have ever received.  South America is now a land of political extremism and American oppression.  Yet back in the day, South America was viewed in the way […]

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I grew up loving Israel unquestioningly.  I come from a Christian fundamentalist background, so, much the Wahabi, I believed what I was told.  It was not until I saw Paradise Now, the groundbreaking Palestinian film, that my opinions on the matter become more open.  This is a film about that happening in the life of […]

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I love movie trailers.  I always make sure to get to the theater in time to see all of the previews.  I am even disappointed when I get a DVD and it does not have any previews on it.  It’s a great way to decide what movies you are going to see and what ones […]

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