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Movie and DVD Review: Schindler’s List

Scott Holleran — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:41:42 +0000

Most Holocaust-themed movies minimize the Nazi atrocities. Life is Beautiful trivializes government-sponsored death camps and promises everyone a moral pass with the theme that humor alleviates mass murder – Oliver Stone similarly tried to hustle an upside to Islamicist mass murder in World Trade Center – implying that no one should take life too seriously. Not even [...]

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TV and DVD Review: The Carol Burnett Show

Scott Holleran — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 02:45:47 +0000

I have mixed feelings about The Carol Burnett Show, which ran on CBS from 1967 through 1978, and a sample – a small sample – of Time Life’s new DVD collection, dubbed The Ultimate Collection ($99.95 for 25 episodes on 11 discs or $199.95 for 50 episodes on 22 discs), reinforced what I had concluded [...]

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TV and DVD Review: Eight is Enough

Scott Holleran — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:58:17 +0000

ABC’s Eight is Enough (1977-1981), based on columnist Thomas W. Braden’s (from CNN’s original Crossfire) book Eight is Enough, premiered on March 15, 1977 and went up against Good Times and, later, The Jeffersons. It ran for five seasons. The first season, co-starring Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker in Star Wars) in the pilot as first-born [...]

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Movie and DVD Review: The Descendants

Scott Holleran — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:53:39 +0000

Director Alexander Payne (Sideways) delivers more melancholy in The Descendants (on Blu-Ray and DVD this week), a folks-next-door slice of life that serves as a star vehicle for Best Actor nominee George Clooney (Ides of March, Good Night, and Good Luck, Michael Clayton) in the role of a wealthy native Hawaiian who struggles with whether [...]

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Movie Review: Tomorrow, When the War Began

Scott Holleran — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:34:29 +0000

Based on the first installment in the 1990s novel series by John Marsden, Tomorrow, When the War Began may superficially bear a resemblance to Red Dawn. But it owes more in its thematic underpinnings to Nevil Shute’s classic post-nuclear Australian novel, On the Beach, which is sadly more relevant every day. This small, low-budget Australian [...]

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Interview with Richard Hatch

Scott Holleran — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:50:25 +0000

Once upon a time, there was a handsome prince of an actor named Richard Hatch. The year was 1970 and he was cast in a new ABC soap opera called All My Children. He went on to co-star in two other distinctive ABC series (The Streets of San Francisco and Battlestar Galactica) which would define [...]

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Star Wars Returns to Movie Theaters

Scott Holleran — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:13:18 +0000

Like most people I know, I was seriously disappointed in the Star Wars re-boot that creator George Lucas offered between 1999 and 2005. Of the second trilogy, I liked Attack of the Clones (2002) the best. But it was a snoozer, too, and the third and final installment, Revenge of the Sith (2005), was particularly [...]

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TNT Previews Dallas Reboot

Scott Holleran — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 02:10:30 +0000

The long-running CBS prime-time soap opera Dallas gets a reboot next summer and Turner Network Television (TNT) is Texas proud of how it’s shaping up. Sample the new version in an extended trailer here. It’s pretty impressive, repeating the same basic family structure as the groundbreaking 1978 oil drama about the Ewing family that owns [...]

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TV: Hot in Cleveland 2

Scott Holleran — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:53:51 +0000

After taking a look at the second season of TV Land‘s half-hour comedy, Hot in Cleveland (read my review of the first season on DVD here), which starts its third season on Nov. 30, I must say that it’s habit-forming. Though it winds up with a ridiculously over-the-top bachelorette party in anticipation of one of [...]

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TV: Glee, Season 2

Scott Holleran — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:35:02 +0000

With ratings for the third season’s opener good but down, and Hollywood insiders blaming the second season’s stories, I thought I’d take a look at the second season of Fox’s Glee on DVD. It’s uneven, though I do recommend the season and the DVD. Read my review of the first season of Fox’s Glee to [...]

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