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DVD Review: Pete Seeger, “The Power of Song”

DVD Review: Pete Seeger, “The Power of Song”

Jeff Giles September 5, 2008 5

Pete Seeger: The Power of Song purchase this DVD (Amazon) You need to see this movie. He’s happily existed on the outskirts of the pop culture landscape for the last few decades, but Pete

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DVD Review: “The Office: Season Four”

DVD Review: “The Office: Season Four”

Jeff Giles August 29, 2008 13

The Office: Season Four purchase this DVD (Amazon) This is the best comedy on television, but it finished its fourth season languishing at #77 in the Nielsens, while Two and a Half Men ended

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DVD Review: “Heroes” Season Two

DVD Review: “Heroes” Season Two

Jeff Giles August 22, 2008 5

Heroes: Season Two purchase this DVD set (Amazon) Yeah, yeah, I know. Second season wasn’t as good as the first. The magic’s gone, and NBC’s superhero soap phenomenon, so buzz-friendly a year ago, totally

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Dw. Dunphy On… “Freakazoid!”

Dw. Dunphy On… “Freakazoid!”

Dw. Dunphy August 21, 2008 6

For all my pretensions, all my attempts to present myself as a literate, knowledgeable, and discerning fellow, I’m really a lowest-common-denominator guy at heart. I don’t often allow that to come through. I know

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DVD Review: Martin Scorsese & the Rolling Stones, “Shine a Light”

DVD Review: Martin Scorsese & the Rolling Stones, “Shine a Light”

Taylor Long July 30, 2008 12

After watching the first 10 minutes, the most surprising thing about Shine a Light, Martin Scorsese’s concert documentary about the Rolling Stones, is that it ever happened. Shot in grainy black and white, the

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