Houseboat

Posted by benz | Posted in Paramount | Posted on 02-06-2010

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Houseboat

A widowed government attorney with three unruly kids hires a beautiful woman to be a governess in his houseboat home.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: NR
Release Date: 8-AUG-2006
Media Type: DVD

Cary Grant and Sophia Loren look just swell together in Houseboat, and why shouldn’t they? Grant was still at his best, Loren was bewitching Hollywood as an exotic new ingénue, and offscreen they had had a torrid affair a couple of years earlier, during the shooting of The Pride and the Passion. The two tanned stars are the main attraction in this romantic comedy, which installs single dad Cary and his three children on a dilapidated houseboat on the Potomac River. Sophia is the maid, except she’s not really a maid but the cultured daughter of a famous musician. Yes, this is one of those situation comedies in which every problem could be cleared up if only one character told the truth about the situation. If that sort of thing drives you crazy, best skip this one. It’s no classic, but those two icons are awfully appealing. –Robert Horton

This is one of those movies I first saw as a child with my grandmother. I absolutely loved it then, and even more as an adult! Yes, the children are whiney and it is not perfectly realistic, but it is a great family movie that gives everyone the warm fuzzy feeling! Very true to it’s time and a classic!

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Sinbad: Where U Been?

Posted by benz | Posted in Paramount | Posted on 28-05-2010

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Sinbad: Where U Been?

Sinbad returns to the stage in this brand-new one-hour comedy special and answers the question his legions of fans have been asking him, “Where Ya Bin?”

This video is great. It’s really funny for both older and younger people. Sinbad relates a lot of his comedy to getting older, but I still think it is great, even though I’m only 22. My mother, who I bought this for, is 54 and I have never heard her laugh as hard as she did when she watched this. Sinbad is definitely a family comedian. He doesn’t swear or use offensive language, which isn’t really important to me, but it is nice to see a comedian who doesn’t resort to that approach. Overall, I highly recommend it. You’d be hard pressed to find someone who couldn’t relate to something he jokes about in this video.

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Galaxy Quest [Blu-ray]

Posted by benz | Posted in Paramount | Posted on 22-05-2010

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Galaxy Quest [Blu-ray]

Blu-ray Features:
- Galactopedia
- Historical Documents: The Story of Galaxy Quest
- Never Give Up. Never Surrender: The Intrepid Crew of the NSEA  Protector
- By Grabthar’s Hammer, What Amazing Effects
- Alien School: Creating the Thermian Race
- Actors in Space
- Sigourney Weaver Raps
- Deleted Scenese
- Thermian Audio Track
- Theatrical Trailer HD

You don’t have to be a Star Trek fan to enjoy Galaxy Quest, but it certainly helps. A knowingly affectionate tribute to Trek and any other science fiction TV series of the 1960s and beyond, this crowd-pleasing comedy offers in-jokes at warp speed, hitting the bull’s-eye for anyone who knows that (1) the starship captain always removes his shirt to display his manly physique; (2) any crew member not in the regular cast is dead meat; and (3) the heroes always stop the doomsday clock with one second to spare. So it is with Commander Taggart (Tim Allen) and the stalwart crew of the NSEA Protector, whose intergalactic exploits on TV have now been reduced to a dreary cycle of fan conventions and promotional appearances. That’s when the Thermians arrive, begging to be saved from Sarris, the reptilian villain who threatens to destroy their home planet.

Can actors rise to the challenge and play their roles for real? The Thermians are counting on it, having studied the “historical documents” of the Galaxy Quest TV show, and their hero worship (not to mention their taste for Monte Cristo sandwiches) is ultimately proven worthy, with the help of some Galaxy geeks on planet Earth. And while Galaxy Quest serves up great special effects and impressive Stan Winston creatures, director Dean Parisot (Home Fries) is never condescending, lending warm acceptance to this gentle send-up of sci-fi TV and the phenomenon of fandom. Best of all is the splendid cast, including Sigourney Weaver as buxom blonde Gwen DeMarco; Alan Rickman as frustrated thespian Alexander Dane; Tony Shalhoub as dimwit Fred Kwan; Daryl Mitchell as former child-star Tommy Webber; and Enrico Colantoni as Thermian leader Mathesar, whose sing-song voice is a comedic coup de grâce. –Jeff Shannon

I wonder whether a non-Trekker would enjoy this movie as much as we Star Trek fans do. The answer is, probably not quite so much or in quite the same way, but I’m pretty sure they’d like it. That’s part of what makes “Galaxy Quest” so special. Who needs a movie that only works for those who dress like a Starfleet officer to walk the dog? We’d like a decent plot and some interesting characters, too, if you don’t mind.

We’ll get to the Star Trek references in a second – first, a little plot summary. “Galaxy Quest” is about the cast of a familiar-looking television show, some 25 years after its cancellation. Their careers stalled long ago, and they make a living by opening shopping malls and appearing at conventions, where obsessed fans dress like them and ask them highly technical questions about spaceships that never existed. Among those fans is a group of genuine aliens who have based their entire culture on tapes of the old show, which they assume are historical documents – these beings barely even know what falsehood is, let alone know it when they see it. In any case, they are in desperate need of help; an interstellar tyrant has nearly wiped them out and they believe that the “Galaxy Quest” heroes can defeat him. It takes the actors a while to realize that they’re in a real space adventure, and it takes the aliens rather longer to realize what they’ve let themselves in for. At which point everyone’s a little too busy not dying to say “Uh-oh”.

This movie gets it all right. Instead of a bunch of cookie-cutter heroes, for instance, we get a group of highly distinct personalities. The original captain is an egomaniac who can’t believe his luck, the original first officer is a trained Shakespearian who bitterly resents having to keep that ridiculous makeup on, and the original communications officer is delighted to find that she has something to do besides looking sexy and repeating whatever the computer says. The original helmsman, who was a child during the show’s original run, is grown up and angry and terrified at the prospect of driving a real ship, the original engineer is calm enough to take the whole business in stride, and there’s even an extra from the original program along for the ride who’s just “jazzed to be on the show again” (although he grows a bit concerned about the likelihood that he’ll die in this particular episode).

Meanwhile, the aliens are a bunch of sweethearts. They wear electronic devices that allow them to appear human (in their true form they look like psychedelic octopi, sort of) and they have the craziest imitation of human laughter you’ve ever heard. They will do anything for their heroes, up to and including preparing a dish of live bugs for the supposedly non-human first officer’s dinner. As for their nemesis – well, we’re told that any adventure story depends for excitement on its villain, and this guy is hideous, perfectly vicious, and extremely hard to get rid of. Nice combination.

Many of the performances here have the sort of fizz you get when serious actors have an enormous amount of fun. Some of these folks, such as Tim Allen and Tony Shalhoub, have a comic background in clubs and on television, but they are quite capable of dramatic work. Like Alan Rickman and Sigourney Weaver (it’s nice to see Ripley from “Alien” having a nice time for a change), they sensibly submit intensely dramatic performances – none of this deadly winking at the audience just to let us know that they know it’s funny. That’s the kiss of death, and it’s nowhere in evidence here.

And while I’m on the subject, will someone please make Sam Rockwell a star already? He’s wonderful at comedy here and elsewhere, his Shakespeare in “Midsummer Night’s Dream” was a revelation, and he made a horrifying villain of his own in “The Green Mile” The guy can do anything. A word to the wise.

Anyway, as I said, “Galaxy Quest” makes a wonderful movie on its own terms. For us Trekkers, no kidding folks, it’s just about perfect.

For one thing, these characters relate to each other according to Star Trek gossip – everyone resents the captain’s hogging the spotlight, the guy with the prosthetic makeup feels pretty ambiguous about it, and then there’s that young fan who won’t admit it but is certain the whole thing is real. He turns out to be right, of course, and his reaction when he learns this is priceless.

The show itself picks up a few in-jokes from Star Trek, like the way the characters fall uphill during space battles and the spacey scientific details that make no sense when you think about them, not to mention the fact that the captain always finds some way to show off his torso. Fandom is presented properly, too – not only the obsessed fans themselves, but the constant availability of T-shirts and other souvenirs at conventions.

And finally, there’s enough emotional punch to this movie to ensure that it’s more than just a novelty act. It comes through primarily in the underlying affection between the cast members, for all their bickering, and the way that affection transfers to the aliens, particularly when the actors wonder if they will really be able to help out. In other words, “Galaxy Quest” is the story of a group of people accustomed to thinking of their lives as wasted, who learn to take themselves and others seriously again. Like many comedies, this one is really just a mushpot at its core, and the perfection of its attitude toward the old television show gets all the sentimentality down smooth and easy.

Trust me, guys, you know enough about Star Trek and its environment to enjoy “Galaxy Quest”, whether James Kirk is your captain or not.

Benshlomo says, You get to poke fun at what you love.

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Ghost

Posted by benz | Posted in Paramount | Posted on 19-05-2010

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Ghost

A love story of a man who is killed and comes back with the help of a spiritual advisor to solve his own murder and protect his lover. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/04/2005 Starring: Patrick Swayze Demi Moore Run time: 126 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Jerry Zucker

Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze are the passionate lovers whose romance is undone when the latter is murdered during a bungled hit arranged by a rival. The clever concept by screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin (director of My Life) extends outward into comedy (Swayze’s character communicates through a sassy medium played by Whoopi Goldberg, who won an Oscar for this role), horror (the afterlife is populated by hell-bound demons and the like), and romantic complications (a handsome suitor, played by Tony Goldwyn, comes on to Moore while Swayze’s spirit is still hanging around). Directed by Jerry Zucker, previously best known for codirecting Airplane! and similar broad comedies, Ghost is a careful balancing act of strong commercial elements, but at heart it is a timeless Hollywood tearjerker that easily gets under one’s skin. –Tom Keogh

Sam and Molly are a very happy couple and deeply in love. Walking back to their new apartment after a night out at the theatre, they encounter a thief in a dark alley, and Sam is murdered. He finds himself trapped as a ghost and realises that his death was no accident. He must warn Molly about the danger that she is in. But as a ghost he can not be seen or heard by the living, and so he tries to communicate with Molly through Oda Mae Brown, a psychic who didn’t even realise that her powers were real. Ghost is one of my favorite movies. It is romantic and touching. Ghost shows the love that transcends even in death. The chemistry between Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze is incredible. A must see movie.

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C.S.I. Crime Scene Investigation – The Complete Third Season

Posted by benz | Posted in Paramount | Posted on 13-05-2010

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C.S.I. Crime Scene Investigation - The Complete Third Season

Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 05/01/2007

Now firmly established as the top-rated television drama, by its third year CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is a show positively glowing with confidence. Even when individual cases seem either too contrived or too easily resolved, the indefatigable night shift at the Las Vegas PD crime lab always look the part, solving conundrums and discovering microscopic damning evidence while, apparently, never shedding their own loose hair or skin cells all over the supposedly quarantined crime scenes. In reality, Catherine Willows’s flowing blonde locks would contaminate any evidence she collected, but in the world of CSI only the bad guys leave body parts behind–the CSIs themselves are so good they’re positively pristine.

The 23 episodes of season 3 on this five-disc set present more deliciously bizarre situations for the problem-solving sleuths: cannibalism, snuff movies, dwarfs, death while drag racing, bodies falling from the sky, and various dismemberments all tax the team’s acumen. These are all double or multiple-case episodes, though in a characteristic trick of the writing sometimes apparently unrelated murders turn out to be connected (or vice versa, as in “Blood Lust,” in which a road-accident victim is not what he seems, and the death of the driver at the hands of an angry mob is made all the more tragic). The mix of genuine forensic science with the glossiest Jerry Bruckheimer production values, plus the virtues of a good ensemble cast headed by William Peterson’s modern-day Sherlock Holmes, remains as compelling as ever. –Mark Walker

I ordered the CSI series for my daughter for Christmas, now I can’t watch anything else on TV because she ALWAYS has those on. Apparently they were a great gift!!

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Star Trek: The Original Series (Remastered) – Three Season Pack

Posted by benz | Posted in Paramount | Posted on 23-04-2010

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Star Trek: The Original Series (Remastered) - Three Season Pack


Genre: Television: Series
Rating: NR
Release Date: 18-NOV-2008
Media Type: DVD

Okay, to be fair I didn’t see Star Trek the first time around since I was too young. However I got hooked on reruns in the 70’s. I have been holding off purchasing and finally decided to just do it. Having read most of the reviews I have to agree that the packaging is… interesting to say the least. It personally doesn’t upset me as much as some (I think it’s kinda cool) but I do wish the discs were labled with larger writing/episodes. The insert cards are fine, but you can’t line them up with each disc since it is in a “clear box” package. If I wasn’t so taken with the outer package then the inner one would probably upset me more.

Now, as for the content – this is where I see the most disagreement. For the most part I feel they did a very good job of revitalizing the colors and music and I do feel that the effects they added would have been approved by Roddenberry… it’s not over the top and done just because they could do it (aka Star Wars/Lucas). I would have been happy with the unretouched version or this one – I bought this one because I could get all three seasons together, bonus material, and it was cheaper… I think it helps that I am second gen Star Trek so I don’t feel betrayed by the upgrades. The only thing I wish they had done has nothing to do with the special effects – it’s the subtitles. THERE ARE NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES – why? I often have the subtitles on to keep the volume down or for friends/family that are hard of hearing… I can live with it, but it would be nice if they put on subtitles for future releases.

Very glad I finally bought this set. It’s been wonderful seeing the shows again – the concepts and stories are great (race, color, creed, gender, age – non issues in Roddenberry’s future) and I enjoy introducing the show to the third and fourth gen!

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Collateral [Blu-ray]

Posted by benz | Posted in Paramount | Posted on 19-04-2010

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Collateral [Blu-ray]

Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 03/30/2010 Run time: 120 minutes Rating: R

Collateral offers a change of pace for Tom Cruise as a ruthless contract killer, but that’s just one of many reasons to recommend this well-crafted thriller. It’s from Michael Mann, after all, and the director’s stellar track record with crime thrillers (Thief, Manhunter, and especially Heat) guarantees a rich combination of intelligent plotting, well-drawn characters, and escalating tension, beginning here when icy hit-man Vincent (Cruise) recruits cab driver Max (Jamie Foxx) to drive him through a nocturnal tour of Los Angeles, during which he will execute five people in a 10-hour spree. While Stuart Beattie’s screenplay deftly combines intimate character study with raw bursts of action (in keeping with Mann’s directorial trademark), Foxx does the best work of his career to date (between his excellent performance in Ali and his title-role showcase in Ray), and Cruise is fiercely convincing as an ultra-disciplined sociopath. Jada Pinkett-Smith rises above the limitations of a supporting role, and Mann directs with the confidence of a master, turning L.A. into a third major character (much as it was in the Mann-produced TV series Robbery Homicide Division). Collateral is a bit slow at first, but as it develops subtle themes of elusive dreams and lives on the edge, it shifts into overdrive and races, with breathtaking precision, toward a nail-biting climax. –Jeff Shannon

Movie – 4.5

I’d only seen this movie once some odd years ago when it first came out on DVD. My mother had rented it, but my attention span and train of thought were so much different than it is now and I never really got into it. Since then, I’ve developed a greater appreciation for film-making in the way a movie is produced, who’s cast in the roles, and especially the way it’s written. After sitting down a few months ago to finally watch the entirety of Heat, I discovered the gritty magic of one Michael Mann for the first time. Needless to say, he strikes another excellent effort in Collateral. Unlike Heat with its extensive run time and extremely fleshed-out characters, Collateral is surprisingly spectacular in that it manages to achieve almost the same effect, but with a shorter, more truncated time frame. From the get-go we’re thrown into the “world” known as Los Angeles where disconnect and sprawl are the very fabric of this bustling, yet sad city, in which we meet Max (Jamie Foxx), who unknowingly will have his life changed forever within the next few hours. Enter Vincent (Tom Cruise), who does the changing in cold, calculated, and stylized fashion. Spoilers aside, this is a movie that illustrates many a good point about life in general. L.A. represents the void that is our lives, Max is the everyman who just can’t over the hump in that void, and Vincent symbolizes aspiration, change, and adaptation to counteract it all. The script, acting, and screenplay are amazing, thanks in huge part to the chemistry and acting abilities of Cruise, Foxx, Pinkett Smith, and even Ruffalo. It’s a film that shows how even the most polar opposite of personalities can somehow come together through all the crap in the world, if not for one night, and create something that will stay with them for the rest of their lives and break them out of a rut.

Video – 4.5

With a good 85% of the film being shot in HD, Collateral looks excellent all things considered. Colors aren’t too vibrant, and there’s a fair amount of noise throughout. But if you take into account that pretty much the whole movie takes place either in the dark or in dimly-lit locales, it’s understandable. Black levels are still rich, detail is fine, and the contrast never wavers, even in the darkest of scenes. I was especially impressed with the techniques they used in filming the cab scenes to get all the camera angles. As dark and dim as it really is inside a cab, the clarity is actually quite striking. What few scenes there are with lighting have a gritty sheen to them as well. When you actually put some light on Foxx and Cruise, colors look much better, flesh tones more natural, and details a great deal sharper, particularly in Cruise’s stubble and hair texture. Overall, the look of the film itself makes for a very nice transfer. Aesthetically it’s not something you could showcase as being reference, but it’s a commendable job by Paramount, nonetheless.

Audio – 4.5

The DTS-HD 5.1 track doesn’t amount to much in the beginning, as a lot of the movie is dialogue-heavy, at least until Vincent is introduced. Dialogue, by the way, is crisp and clear emanating through the center channel with no traces of dropout or distortion. However when Vincent starts doing his work, the sound field becomes much more thoroughly engaged. General sound effects like walking on the pavement, the taxi doors, radio calls, and background noise are all very buoyant. Music does an adequate job coming from the front sides as well and adds a good deal of sporadic immersion to keep you engrossed. All of these elements are fine and dandy, but it’s the wallop of gunshots amongst the chaos that really give the system a workout later on. As far as I’m concerned, the audio for how it’s used in the movie is a perfect transfer. As a BD, though, I just wish the side speakers got a little more usage and that LFEs were more frequent.

Extras – 4.0

While the making-of featurette is interesting, the real star of the extras is the exceedingly informative commentary by director Michael Mann. Mann does a stellar job explaining technical terms of how he filmed the movie, fills in some of the information gaps of the characters and their backgrounds, and then delves into the symbolism of their actions and presence. It serves as a great compliment to the narrative of the film itself and really has the ability to raise one’s appreciation for the overall work. The making-of featurette elaborates a little on what Mann mentions in the commentary, only with pictures and video. I actually liked the bit with Cruise’s training sessions a lot and found it to be a testament to how good of an actor he is (personal issues aside). However, I did find some of the making-of stuff to be a little repetitious of what Mann said already, leaving a little more to be desired. The commentary, though, is a must-listen for fans of the movie.

Overall – 4.5

Collateral is an extremely well-constructed action/drama/thriller. It’s a film that offers a good dose of grit and realism through a very charismatic Tom Cruise and equally subtle Jamie Foxx. It’s a story that sort of goes against modern conventions with its truncated time frame of a narrative, but regardless, manages to tell a very entertaining story about two seemingly opposite strangers in a “world” where feeling unfulfilled is the norm, and then clashing their ideals into something more worthwhile. Presented by Paramount with near-reference A/V quality and an informative set of extras, Collateral comes highly recommended.

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Star Trek Deep Space Nine – The Complete Second Season

Posted by benz | Posted in Paramount | Posted on 16-04-2010

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Star Trek Deep Space Nine - The Complete Second Season

26 episodes on 7 discs: The Homecoming, The Circle, The Siege, Invasive Procedures, Cardassians, Melora, Rules of Acquisition, Necessary Evil, Second Sight, Sanctuary, Rivals, The Alternate, Armageddon Game, Whispers, Paradise, Shadowplay, Playing God, Profit and Loss, Blood Oath, The Maquis Part I, The Maquis Part II, The Wire, Crossover, The Collaborator, Tribunal, The Jem’Hadar.

Only Kira Nerys would risk going to war over an earring. With the witty and wise second-season opener “The Homecoming,” the writers started taking chances with the direction of Deep Space Nine–and the payoffs are immediate and far-reaching. It’s the first episode in a complex trilogy involving the fate of the tenuous Bajoran Provisional Government, an extremist group called the Circle, and a legendary member of the resistance whom Sisko believes might be able to unite Bajor.

Continuing its blend of action, mystery, intergalactic politics, and religion, the second season gave prominent parts to Jadzia Dax (”Invasive Procedures,” “Playing God,” “Blood Oath”), Kira Nerys (”The Collaborator,” in which Odo gives the first sign of his feelings toward her), the Cardassian Garak (”Cardassians”), Odo (”The Alternate”), Chief O’Brien (”Whispers,” “Tribunal”), Commander Sisko (”Paradise”), and Quark (”Profit and Loss”), and Dr. Bashir developed relationships with both O’Brien (”Armageddon Game”) and Garak (”The Wire”).

Highlight episodes include the alternate-universe “Crossover,” which pays homage to the original series’ “Mirror, Mirror,” and the two-part spotlight on the Maquis (first introduced in The Next Generation), a loose-knit organization of disenfranchised Federation colonists who resort to terrorist methods to provoke a new war between the Federation and the Cardassians. By the end of season 2, the only thing DS9 lacked was a really good villain. It got three for the price of one. Turns out the Dominion (first discovered in the underappreciated Ferengi spotlight “Rules of Acquisition”) is a trinity of evil: the Founders, the Vorta, and the Jem’Hadar, those born-and-bred bad guys whose mission in life is to serve the Founders. The season-closer “The Jem’Hadar” is an intelligent, powerful episode that reveals all–and nothing–about the Dominion. –Kayla Rigney

In my mind I pair Seasons One and Two and then Seasons Three through Seven. I enjoyed both the first two seasons and both are thoroughly enjoyable. The series got a whole lot better after these two seasons, but that isn’t at all to suggest that these are not good. They are and had the next five seasons been only as good as these first two it would have gone down as a very good series, but it was the final seasons that really put the series on the TV SF map and made it, in my opinion, the best of the STAR TREK franchise.

Although it did not develop yet the story arcs that would dominate the show in future seasons, the show nonetheless improved through a deepening of character development and a number of fascinating episodes. There are a lot of people who feel that the nineties was the finest decade ever for TV SF (and based on sheer numbers I think that may be true, if you include FARSCAPE, which started in 1999, and such non-space SF shows like THE X-FILES). Certainly among the top SF series of the nineties, DS9 is near the top. While this decade has seen some great SF — in particular BATTLESTAR GALACTICA — one can only hope that we will someday see the sheer quantity that we saw with DS9, FARSCAPE, BABYLON 5, ST:THE NEXT GENERATION, SPACE: ABOVE AND BEYOND, STAGATE SG-1, STAR TREK VOYAGER, THE X-FILES, EARTH 2, and ROSWELL. There has been a great deal of SF in this decade, but most of it has been of the non-outer space kind. Unfortunately, with the towering exception of BSG, too much of the outer space SF has either been merely a carry over of nineties shows, spin offs of those shows, tragically cancelled way too soon (FIREFLY), or of unbelievably low quality (how did ANDROMEDA last so long?). Wouldn’t it be wonderful to see a new space opera on TV? I’m loving STARGATE UNIVERSE, but it is a spin off. I’d really love to see something something entirely original. AMC is exploring the possibility of a TV adaptation of Kim Stanley Robinson’s great Mars Trilogy. As it stand right now, however, the only space opera is STARGATE UNIVERSE. CAPRICA looks like it will be a splendid BSG prequel, but it isn’t clear that it isn’t going to have any outer space elements at all.

After watching the first two seasons I’ve moved right into Season Three. As good as the first two seasons are, it really gets better once, as they say, the plot thickens. Frankly, I had forgotten how good this was. It is always great when you remember something as being good, but when you rewatch it, you discover that it is even better than you remembered.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation Motion Picture Collection [Blu-ray]

Posted by benz | Posted in Paramount | Posted on 05-03-2010

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Star Trek: The Next Generation Motion Picture Collection [Blu-ray]

No description available for this title.
Item Type: BLU-RAY DVD Movie
Item Rating: PG13
Street Date: 09/22/09
Wide Screen: yes
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
Language: ENGLISH
Foreign Film: noSubtitles: no
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve

5 DISC SET.

DISC 1. STAR TREK GENERATIIONS. 7 SPECIAL FEATURES.
A. COMMENTARY BY:DIRECTOR DAVID CARSON AND MANNY COTO.
B. SCORING TREK.
C. NEXT GENERATION DESIGNER FLASHBACK: ANDREW PROBERT.
D. STELLAR CARTOGRAPHY ON EARTH.
E. BRENT SPINER: DATA AND BEYOND PART 1.
F. TREK ROUNDTABLE: GENERATIONS.
G. STARFLEET ACADEMY: TRILITHIUM.

DISC 2. STAR TREK FIRST CONTACT. 7 SPECIAL FEATURES.
A. COMMENTARY BY: DAMON LINDELOF AND ANTHONYPASCOLE.
B. INDISTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC – THE NEXT GENERATION.
C. GREETINGS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.
D. SPACESHIPONE’S HISTORIC FLIGHT.
E. BRENT SPINER: DATA AND BEYOND PART 2.
F. TREK ROUNDTABLE: FIRST CONTACT.
G. STARFLEEY ACADEMY: TEMPORAL VORTEX.

DISC 3. STAR TREK INSURRECTION. 6 SPECIAL FEATURES.
A. COMMENTARY BY: JONATHAN FRAKES AND MARINA SIRTIS.
B. WESTMORE’S LEGACY.
C. MARINA SIRTIS: THE COUNSELOR IS IN.
D. BRENT SPINER: DATA AND BEYOND PART 3.
E. TREK ROUNDTABLE: INSURRECTION.
F. STARFLEET ACADEMY: THE ORIGINS OF THE BA’KU AND SON’A CONFLICT.

DISC 4. STAR TREK NEMESIS. 7 SPECIAL FEATURES.
A. COMMENTARY BY: MICHAEL AND DENISE OKUDA.
B. REUNION WITH THE RIKERS.
C. TODAY’S TECH TOMORROW’S DATA.
D. ROBOT HALL OF FAME.
E. BRENT SPINER: DATA AND BEYOND PART 4.
F. TREK ROUNDTABLE: NEMESIS.
G. STARFLEET ACADEMY: THALARON RADIATION.

DISC 5. STAR TREK EVOLUTIONS. 7 SPECIAL FEATURES. (BONUS DISC)
A. THE EVOLUTION OF THE ENTERPRISE.
B. VILLANS OF STAR TREK.
C. I LOVE STAR TREK MOVIES.
D. FAREWELL TO STAR TREK: THE EXPERIENCE.
E. KLINGON ENCOUNTER.
F. BORG INVASION 4D.
G. CHARTING THE FINAL FRONTIER.

THE 5 DISCS ARE ENCASED IN BLACK SINGLE DISC CASES.
THE OUTER CASE HAS A COLL HOLOGRAPHIC IMAGE OF THE ENTERPISE.
ALL INFORMATION CAME DIRECTLY FROM THE DVD CASES.
NO OPINIONS JUST FACTS.

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NCIS Naval Criminal Investigative Service – The Complete First Season

Posted by benz | Posted in Paramount | Posted on 19-01-2010

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NCIS Naval Criminal Investigative Service - The Complete First Season

A team of special agents, operating outside the military chain of command, must investigate any crime with pieces of evidence connected to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position. Character driven stories with surprising twists play a large role in the second season of NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service). The NCIS team of investigators is led by Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon), an experienced investigator with sometimes unorthodox, but always effective methods. Working under Gibbs are Special Agent Anthony Dinozzo (Michael Weatherly); Special Agent Caitlin Todd (Sasha Alexander); Forensic Specialist Abby Sciuto (Pauley Perrette); and NCIS’s medical examiner Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard (David McCallum). Additionally, joining the staff this season will be Special Agent Timothy McGee (Sean Murray) whose communication and computer skills outweigh his naivete. Whether investigating murder or espionage, the NCIS goes global in their quest to solve all crimes with Navy or Marine Corps ties.

Equal parts JAG and C.S.I., NCIS does a formidable job of blending relevant military headlines with quirky characters who are tenaciously determined to solve a crime–even if it means having to sleep in the morgue to get a few minutes of shut eye. Created by Donald P. Bellisario (JAG, Quantum Leap), NCIS actually began as a two-part episode of JAG in 2003. Later that year, the drama made its full-season debut on CBS. On this six-disc set, which includes all 23 non-JAG episodes plus optional commentary by Bellisario on the first episode, viewers are introduced to an elite squad of special agents, led by Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon). Gibbs is a hard-nosed investigator who doesn’t say much. But when he does, an insult usually comes out of his mouth. He’s brilliant when it comes to ferreting out the truth, but he’s not savvy enough to figure out how to block his ex-wife’s nagging phone calls. Instead, he makes do by destroying his cell phone. Gibbs’ team is fleshed out by an eclectic and somewhat eccentric set of colleagues, including medical examiner Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard (David McCallum from The Man from U.N.C.L.E.), wannabe playboy and former homicide detective Anthony DiNozzo (Michael Weatherly), forensics expert and resident Goth chick Abby Sciuto (Pauley Perrette), and former Secret Service agent Caitlin Todd (Sasha Alexander).

The murder of a peripheral NCIS agent halfway through the season is a taste of what’s to come in future seasons when core characters leave the show (voluntarily or not). But in its first year, the show sets up a strong premise that (while not wholly original) is well executed. One of the more stickling aspects of the show is its reluctance to allow Tony to show signs of maturity. At times, he behaves more like a rambunctious puppy than an ace investigator. –Jae-Ha Kim

If there are two aspects worthy to remark about this original series, one would be respect the magnificent, clever and acidic comments while the investigation takes place among the integrants of the team. Gibbs (Mark Harmon)is the master and commander of the bunch as well as his main alter ego Di Nozzo (Michael Weatherly)is the smartly irreverent guy, making comparison with famous films of the past, apart his double sense jokes, the forensic Dr. Mallard (David Mac Callum) giving us his erudite comments far beyond the issue he is dealing with, but who really steals the show is Abby Sciutto (Paulette Perrett): her gothic way of life, dressing style and original personality adds a tinge of smart humor respect the different cases to resolve, and no matter how hard the task be, you always will find out more than a reason to enjoy and delight with this series.

One of my favorite ones, since the very moment to be released.

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