DVD Review: “The Smurfs and the Magic Flute”
Tony Redman reviews this 1983 classic from the original Blue Man Group. Will he think it's the Smurfiest, or will it make him want to Smurf?...
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DVD Review: My Little Pony – Friendship is Magic: Royal Pony Wedding (Plus: Win a Copy!)
Here’s the deal, fathers. If you have daughters—or sons who don’t care about outmoded gender roles (and if so, good on you, man)—there is a 90 percent chance that at...
TV on DVD: GCB – The Complete First Season
I don’t quite understand what happened with GCB. There was a ton of preseason buzz and preseason advertising, as ABC was clearly positioning it as the heir apparent to the...
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DVD Review: Babar: The Classic Series – The Complete First Season
Warm milk. A bath in lavender soap. An old episode of the ‘80s TV adaptation of Babar. These are the three things that every parent knows can relax and put...
DVD Review: “Forever Plaid, the Movie”
Can a male harmony group that was snuffed out mid-coda come back to Earth and make the jump to movies?...
DVD Review: MODs (and Rockers)
Manufactured-on-demand discs bring the rockin' 60s artifacts Hold On! and How I Won the War to light. ...
DVD/Blu-ray Review: “Tangled”
Is Disney's take on Rapunzel a bad hair day for the studio? Bob Cashill takes his scissors to it....
CD/DVD Review: Billy Joel, “Live at Shea Stadium”
I’ve had Live at Shea Stadium for a couple of weeks now, and I’ve spent them alternating between watching 30-minute chunks of the film and struggling with what to say...
DVD/Blu-ray Review: A Sad “Burlesque”
There are worse things than fumbling the lyrics of the national anthem at the Super Bowl or tabloid crackups, Xtina. There is Burlesque....
DVD Review: An Oscar Nominee You Can’t Refuse
Meet Jacki Weaver, the Oscar-nominated star of Animal Kingdom...but don't get too close, Bob Cashill cautions....
DVD Review: “I Spit on Your Grave”…Twice
Bob Cashill commemorates Valentine's Day with the notorious rape-revenge saga from the 70s and its remake. See them with someone you loathe. ...
Popdose 2010: Tangled Up in Blu, or Notable DVDs, Etc., of the Year
Bob Cashill discusses the state of the market, and ticks off a few top releases, but mostly just spotlights this pic from The Green Slime (Warner Archive). ...
DVD Review: Chewing On “Bitter Feast”
A new horror film serves up blood and guts...and food for thought. ...
DVD Review: “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”
Presto chango! Another effects-driven vehicle for Nicolas Cage isn't Mickey Mouse at all, with a magical supporting role for New York....
DVD Review: Criterionpalooza 2010
Happy holidays, David Bowie...and to all a good last-day sale as Barnes and Noble's Criterion Collection blowout winds down. Bob Cashill sifts recent releases. ...
DVD Review: “Toy Story 3″
Bob Cashill rummages through the DVD toybox and out pops "Toy Story 3," the super-successful return of Buzz and Woody and the gang. ...
DVD Review: “The Secret of Kells”
The Secret of Kells (Flatiron, 2010) The surprise feelgood story of last year’s Academy Awards, this beautiful tribute to Celtic lore went from small Irish film to Oscar-nominee overnight —...
DVD Review: Disney Fantasies Across “The Sands of Time”
Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to DVD we go with the animated "Black Cauldron" from yesteryear and today's CGI-filled "Prince of Persia."...
DVD Review: “Legends of the Canyon” (Win a Copy!)
L.A.'s Laurel Canyon was one of the most important breeding grounds for American music in the '60s. A new documentary traces the history of the scene....
DVD Review: “The Complete Ed Sullivan Shows Starring the Beatles”
The Ed Sullivan Show ran on CBS from 1948 – 1971. The show was broadcast live in the Eastern and Central time zone. Fortunately for us, it was shown on...
DVD Review: Blood, Beasts, and Boobs, Corman Style (Plus, Gamera)
Roger Corman more than earned the honorary Oscar he picked up last year. He wrote, produced, and/or directed some terrific flicks, from Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957) and The...
DVD Review: Aretha Franklin, “The Best of Aretha Franklin” (Quadraphonic Mix)
Pity poor Rhino Entertainment, and their vaults bursting with classic tracks from excessively anthologized artists. Take Aretha Franklin, for instance: she has more compilations to her credit than most artists...
DVD Review: “The Lost Skeleton Returns Again” and “Dark and Stormy Night”
In 2001, Larry Blamire created a movie called The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, a parody of science fiction films of the 1950s. The movie never had a wide release, playing...
DVD Review: Dangerous Dames, Killer Kids, and the Chumps Who Love Them
Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics II is one sequel that couldn’t be more welcome this summer. Hot weather goes well with hothouse tales of lust, greed, and the five other...
DVD Review: The Rolling Stones, “Stones in Exile” — Win a Copy!
On May 18 of this year, the Rolling Stones released a remastered and expanded edition of what is arguably the greatest rock and roll album ever made, Exile On Main...
DVD Review: An “Owl” and a “Peacock”
Birds of a feather flock together this week, as I pull from the stacks two recent releases that a) have our feathered friends in their titles, b) are psychological thrillers,...
DVD Review: A “Bigger Than Life” Criterion Roundup
Once again Popdose didn’t send me to Cannes, and I imagine Toronto, Venice, and Telluride are off my itinerary. (If you think it should, start a Facebook campaign, or Twitter....
DVD Review: “British Invasion”
On February 7, 1964, the Beatles arrived in America, and everything changed. When I say everything, I don’t just mean music. The world was never the same. The societal upheaval...
DVD Review: Lad Movies–More “Boondock Saints” and Sherlock Holmes
Flicks don’t get any more testicular than 1999’s The Boondock Saints, a Beantown-flavored slab of Tarantino attitude that emerged as a minor cult hit. The sequel, with the marquee-hogging title...
DVD Review: Michael Sheen, “United” and Undead
I first saw Michael Sheen in his native England, in a 1999 National Theatre revival of John Osborne’s “angry young man” play Look Back in Anger. I’d heard that he...