The weekend’s here. You’ve just been paid, and it’s burning a hole in your pocket. What’s a pop culture geek to do? In hopes of steering you in the right direction to blow some of that hard-earned cash, it’s time for the FRED Weekend Shopping Guide – your spotlight on the things you didn’t even know you wanted…
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I already loved Paul Feig’s buddy-cop follow-up to Bridesmaids, but what makes The Heat (Fox, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$39.99 SRP) even better in its Blu-Ray debut – well, besides all of the great outtakes and featurettes – is that it also sports a bonus commentary with the original cast of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, & Josh Weinstein) doing what they do best. It’s like icing on an already tasty cake. A cake made of Melissa McCarthy & Sandra Bullock. Yeah… That got kind of weird at the end there.
While I don’t view it being as incredible as some of my fellow geeks, I can certainly roll with and dig the unabashed enthusiasm which Guillermo del Toro has infused in every giant monsters versus giant robots moment of Pacific Rim (Warner Bros., Rated PG-13, 3D Blu-Ray-$64.99 SRP). So, yes, it plays like the fever dream of a 10-year-old, but I’d rather have more fever dreams like this than the crass reality of Michael Bay’s Transformers. Bonus materials include an audio commentary and featurettes.
Originally released last year, this holiday season gets to see the stop-motion musical extravaganza It’s A Spongebob Christmas (Nickelodeon, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$22.99 SRP) in high definition splendor, plus an additional 10 episodes making their Blu-Ray debut, in addition to the original DVD bonus features and 2 brand-new featurettes. How happy holidays is that?
It’s got a marvelous ensemble cast and is celebrating its 10th anniversary, but there’s no shaking the feeling that Love Actually (Universal, Rated R, Blu-Ray-$19.98 SRP) is the cinematic equivalent of an earworm – a manipulative romantic comedy that burrows beneath your skin and latches on to your heart. Am I wrong? And if that weren’t enough frothy Richard Curtis for you, you can also pick up the new edition of Notting Hill (Universal, Rated PG-13, Blu-Ray-$19.98 SRP).
Celebrate the 40th anniversary of High Plains Drifter (Universal, Rated R, Blu-Ray-$19.98 SRP) in high definition style as Clint Eastwood’s “Man With No Name” is hired by the townspeople of the lawless desert town of Lago to defend them from a trio of deadly gunmen.
I never really understood the massive appeal of Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber’s legendary rock opera until I had a chance to see the Jesus Christ Superstar: Live Arena Tour (Universal, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$26.98 SRP) and then yeah, I understood. The bombast is perfectly captured by a stellar cast, including Tim Minchin, Melanie C, Ben Forster, and the happy surprise of Chris Moyles. Bonus materials include a Webber intro and a featurette.
CBS continues top open up their TV vaults to series long-requested and ones, honestly, I never saw coming. From the long-requested category comes the complete fourth season of The Beverly Hillbillies (Paramount, Not Rated, DVD-$39.99 SRP) and the complete third season of Petticoat Junction (Paramount, Not Rated, DVD-$34.99 SRP). From the didn’t see that coming column, we get the complete first season of Gentle Ben (Paramount, Not Rated, DVD-$29.98 SRP), starring Clint Howard and a bear. And it even has audio commentaries from Clint and his father Rance.
The fine folks at Mill Creek continue to be your go-to destination for massive amounts of packaged catalogue titles at ridiculously low prices in their 12 and 8 film collections. So, let’s take a deep breath and see what their latest offerings are. We’ve got the 8-movie Deadly Secrets Collection (The Messengers, The Body, Mary Reilly, The Harvest, April Fool’s Day, The Nines, Ring Around The Rosie, Already Dead), the 8-movie Red Alert Action Collection (Attack Force, Stealth, Into The Sun, Breakout, XXX: State Of The Union, The Contractor, Simon Sez, The Fan), the 8-movie Captive Comedies Collection (Hollywood Homicide, The Freshman, Hudson Hawk, Cops & Robbersons, Lone Star State Of Mind, A Fine Mess, Excess Baggage, Life Without Dick), the 8-movie Operation Payback Collection (Knock Off, The Russian Specialist, Second In Command, The Hunt For Eagle One: Crash Point, Scenes Of The Crime, Conspiracy, The Point Men, Truth Or Consequences NM) (Mill Creek, Rated R, DVD-$9.98 SRP each), the 12-movie Top Of The Class Collection (Winter Break, Whirly Girl, The Good Student, Freshman Orientation, The Foursome, Rock My World, The Young Graduates, Liar’s Moon, The Virgin Queen Of St Francis High, Cheerleaders Beach Party, Choices, Guess What We Learned In School Today), and the 12-movie Under Fire Collection (Straight Into Darkness, Special Ops, Under Heavy Fire, Seal Team VI: Journey Into Darkness, The Last Rites Of Ransom Pride, Casablanca Express, Commandos, Desert Commandos, Saigon: Year Of The Cat, Tuareg: The Desert Warrior, Cold War Killers, Time To Die) (Mill Creek, Rated R, DVD-$9.98 SRP each). Whew!
Ah, but it’s not just bargain-priced films that Mill Creek has been releasing – they’ve also brought their economy pricing to television, as well. First and foremost, you can pick up the entire 94-episode of run of Steve McQueen’s Wanted: Dead Or Alive (Mill Creek, Not Rated, DVD-$29.98 SRP), including a bonus DVD and featurettes. Also available is the complete seasons one & two of the sitcom Wings (Mill Creek, Not Rated, DVD-$14.98 SRP), the 2nd season of the Michael Landon feel-good vehicle Highway To Heaven (Mill Creek, Not Rated, DVD-$14.98 SRP), and the TV-movie double-feature of The Snow Queen & Terry Pratchett’s The Hogfather (Mill Creek, Not Rated, DVD-$9.98 SRP).
It’s remarkable that the geriatric cast of Roy Clarke’s Last Of The Summer Wine (BBC, Not Rated, DVD-$34.98 SRP) made it to the millennium, and now you can flash back to the year 2000 with the latest release of their comic misadventures in idyllic Yorkshire Dales.
Nickelodeon pulls together a handful of holiday adventures from a pair of their small tyke kiddie shows with Bubble Guppies & Team Umizoomi: Into The Snow We Go (Nickelodeon, Not Rated, DVD-$14.98 SRP), featuring a trio of festive episodes.
Take a high definition tour of our national parks with Death Valley: Thriving Land Of Extremes and Acadia: The First National Park East Of The Mississippi (Mill Creek, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$9.98 SRP each). Both are simply stunning explorations that are just this side of actually being there.
So there you have it… my humble suggestions for what to watch, listen to, play with, or waste money on this coming weekend. See ya next week…
-Ken Plume
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I wasn’t sure what to expect from 
Thinkgeek time! Googly eyes are fun. You know it. I know it. And you know what’s even more gun than googly eyes? 
It doesn’t have the flash bang of a Harry Potter, but the Diary Of A Wimpy Kid series continues to get soplidly entertaining adaptations with its aging cast, the latest being the summer-themed 
Mike Birbiglia’s 
I find Seth MacFarlane’s humor to be hot & cold, but for the most part, the be-careful-what-you-wish-for comedy 
Even after watching the entire first season, I’m still not sure if I like Lena Dunham’s celebration of privileged naval-gazing, 
As a kid watching the early days of The Disney Channel, I must have seen 
I’m all for Jeremy Renner, but I think he got the short end of the stick in trying to follow up an absent Matt Damon in 
If you’ve only ever seen Gordon Ramsay being all shouty and sweary in his various programs, you should try seeing him in a more relaxed mood, just doing what he loves, and does well. And hey, you can see exactly that on 
It’s a messy failure, but Warren Beatty certainly seemed to be genuinely interested in trying to bring 
Though I still find Robert Pattinson to be a cipher as an actor, that works for his role in David Cronenberg’s 
You’ve got to hand it to director Gordon Liu – if you want a non-stop adrenaline rush of martial arts fury, look no further than the bombastically-titled 
So what happens if you combine the adrenaline rush of Run Lola Run with the dangerous world of New York City bike messengers by giving a messenger a delivery that results in deadly chase through the streets? You get the surprisingly enjoyable thriller 
Also making their high definition debut this week are the catalogue titles 
Forget every memory you’ve etched in your brain about the Schwarzenegger flick, because the new 
This week also brings a pair of Showtime series to DVD, including the first season of the Don Cheadle vehicle 
After his awkward piece of performance art at the Republican National Convention, it’s a shame that the next time we saw Clint Eastwood on film it’s in the turgid 
Various elements are certainly dated, but there are some genuine scares to be found in the classic UK television anthology 
It’s not the recent 25th anniversary concert that brought the house down at the O2, but 
US Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness) is back in the saddle for 
Serious baseball nuts with disposable cash will probably want to pick up the official Major League Baseball 
They’ve become as regular as the seasons, but 
Not nearly as polarizing as his son, it’s easy to watch the documentary about George Herbert Walker Bush, 
It can be very Lifetime Movie “Up With People”, but at least the History Channel’s miniseries 
Get a whole new clutch of short attention span comedy with the complete second season of 
In 1964, James Whitmore starred in a powerful adaptation of John Howard Griffin’s 
We’ve been repeating the same waiting game we played when DVD first debuted – the game of waiting for beloved films to finally hit the format – with Blu-Ray. We’ve gotten Star Wars (sort of), Jaws, Superman Blade Runner – just about all of the geek pantheon, really – but one of the most glaring omissions now gets its time to shine, and boy does it ever. To say that the restoration and mastering work done for 
Want a blindingly bright 600 lumen flashlight that’s tough and waterproof and will run for hours? The 
I’m all for Shout Factory’s recent forays into archive collections of an artist’s disparate work, starting with their must-have Ernie Kovacs set, and now 
It’s been over a decade since Rhino released a handful of episodes, but all these years later hell has frozen over and you can now get your very own complete series set of Chris Elliott’s short-lived cult classic 
Yeah, I’m starting to sour on 
There’s a delightfully old school fun about the horror of 
Forget the chair crazy man of recent memory and go back to a time when Clint Eastwood was merely ranch foreman Rowdy Yates in the back-to-back release of 
It certainly doesn’t have the laid back charm of the original, but the new 
As Halloween fast approaches, Warners digs into its catalogue for a pair of mostly seasonal-appropriate titles to give their high definition debut – 
This week’s TV releases also include the complete second season of Dana Delaney’s 
The shame about the NBC release of their 2-disc 
Fans I’m sure will devour the pink frosting puff pastry documentary 
How about a clutch of new releases from the fine folks at The History Channel? History gets covered with 
It’s a little slow-going at times and uneven, but the good of 
Are you steampunky? Have you ever wished you could wear a tiny little folding telescope on your ring finger? So you could feel all steampunky and adventurous and ingenious? Well, Thinkgeek brings you 
I’m sure it’s just a personal hang-up of mine, but I’m not much of a fan of Leonardo DiCaprio, especially as he’s somehow become the go-to guy for vintage biopics of egomaniacal men. The latest is Clint Eastwood’s otherwise nicely made 
Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson’s big Tintin film is about to hit home video, and the massive amounts of development and concept art that went into making it is presented in 
And speaking of incredible behind-the-scenes books, now that the massive 8-film series has wrapped, you can explore all of the cinematic magic that went into making JK Rowling’s boy wizard come to life with 
For years, Newmarket Press has been putting out some quite nice making-of and screenplay books for various films, and this Oscar season brings a pair of tomes from this year’s nominees. First up is 
I wasn’t expecting much, which is probably why I was pleasantly surprised by the working man’s revenge flick 
You can watch Tudors and French Cardinals all you want, but in Italy the power center also had a family name, and it’s that powerful dynasty that’s the subject of 
It’s no Shrek, which I see as a definite plus for spin-off film 
Fighting the nefarious likes of Simon Bar Sinister and Riff Raff, the dated though still fun cartoons featured in the 10-disc 
A pair of Showtime series are dropping their latest seasons with the arrival of post-prison new life in the Big Apple 
While it’s not the much-desired fully-restored Blu-Ray editions fans have been clamoring for, Universal has released the original (best) Marx Brothers films as individual DVDs of 
Who doesn’t want to snuggle with a soft and fluffy blob of sentient fat? Well, if you’re a Doctor Who fan, you can do just that with the 
Though I always get it confused in my head with The Wind And The Lion, I’ve always had a fondness for Jon Huston’s ingratiatingly epic adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s 
Like Sgt. Bilko and The Simpsons, the late comedian Bill Hicks is far more revered in the UK than he ever was in the US, and it’s with that reverence that the wish-it-was-better-done documentary 
Everyone breaks down in the third season of Breaking Bad (Sony, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$49.95 SRP), as Bryan Cranston’s Walt faces a difficult decision while dealing with a broken marriage, a dangerously reckless partner, and a price on his head. Bonus materials include a trio of uncensored episodes, audio commentaries, featurettes, deleted scenes, and a gag reel.
Warners queues up another sterling high definition catalogue restoration with 
The great David Attenborough narrates another must-see nature documentary from the BBC, as their far-ranging cameras descend upon 
Another month, another massive dip into the catalogue for MGM, as they deliver a new batch titles in high definition for the first time – Martin Scorsese’s 
I have to be honest with you – I’m not of the generation that became enamored with the man-child comedy stylings of Adam Sandler. That means I’m not the intended audience who will delight in the high-definition release 
Re-create your own NBC Mystery Movie Night with the complete 3rd season of 
The Warner Archive Collection dips back into the TV pool and pulls up another pair of releases that might not otherwise see the light of day – Part 1 of the first season of the classic 60’s procedural 
Warners has been releasing more and more of their obscure catalogue titles through the MOD Warner Archive, which is why it was a pleasant surprise to see 1933’s 
Of all the recent original animated movies to come out of Warners DC Universe imprint, the one of actually enjoyed and didn’t cringe at is the one starring ol’ Hal Jordan himself, 
The beginning of the 3rd season of 
Oh, James Cameron. I know you only produced 
Or you could spend this weekend plowing through 
If you’re sports-inclined, HBO has a pair of Blu-Ray releases that will delight Baseball fans – The documentary series 
I’m not a fan, but those who are will probably snap up the remastered 30th anniversary edition of the 
It’s a bit bloated and unwieldy, but I have to admit that I have quite a fondness for Richard Attenborough’s biopic 
Got more kitchen utensils than space? Countertops and drawers at a premium? How brilliant is the 
Those wonderful purveyors of fine comic appreciation over at Twomorrows have decided to focus on the creator of the landmark comic series Bone with 
The animation isn’t the best, but what 
It’s no Broadcast News, but 
Oh, Warner Archive. I do so love how you’re releasing every marginal and obscure Hanna-Barbera cartoon in your vast library. So thank you for the a release like the set containing the complete runs of both 
It’s not as well put together as the UK original, but there’s certainly some interesting genealogical twists and turns to be found in the 1st season of the US 
It’s no Rocky, but there is a charm to 
Wrap up the second half of 
I find Clint Eastwood’s films can be hit-or-miss for me, with every great flick like Unforgiven matched by a disappointing one like Gran Torino. His stab at the supernatural, 
Hal-shark. Half-octopus. All schlock. Yeah, that pretty much sums up Roger Corman’s 
As a follow-up to the equally stunning Planet Earth, the BBC’s 
So you want a stapler, hole punch, one meter ruler, precision scissors, ballpoint pen, screwdrivers (+/-), screwdriver socket, staple remover, and storage space for paper clips, all in container the size of a deck of cards? Well, the 
I was worried that something would come along and derail Sony’s release of the complete theatrical shorts, but with 
If you’re beginning to jones for more Rifftrax shorts DVDs, you can get your fix from not one, but two new releases – 
There was a time when a Tim Burton film meant a fair deal of whimsy with a surprisingly strong core of emotion at its center. 
Not only do you get the much desired original in high definition, but 
Originally available as part of last year’s big Clint Eastwood box set, you can now get the Richard Schickel produced documentary 
They’re not quite up to the same snuff as the classic specials of the 60’s, but there’s still plenty of fun in the 
Oh, History Channel – you’re not even bothering to do anything to do with hard history even more. You’ve become MTV, eager to throw up the next reality series, which you have with the garbage combers of 
Fans jonesing for a hit of Meatwad, Frylock, and Master Shake can get their fix from 
I really hoped you would be able to pull it off, Joe Johnston. I mean, you had Benicio Del Toro as your lead, and a strong mythology behind it, but your new take on 
When a shallow size zero supermodel dies in an accident and finds herself given the body of the recently-deceased Jane – a plus-sized attorney – you get Lifetime’s 
Recovering from some lost momentum, the third season of 
Insects are the order of the say in the new Sesame release 
Cut down in its prime by a network that didn’t understand the greatness it was letting slip away (Hello, BBC!), 
I love musical instruments. I have absolutely no talent for learning or playing them, but I do love to own and tinker with them. The 
Time to wrap up the tenure of the 10th Doctor (played by David Tennant) with the release of the final two specials – 
The releases have been heavily delayed and the wait has been difficult, but the 6th season of 
If you were unable or unwilling to pony up the cash for the deluxe edition of The Godfather Trilogy on Blu-Ray, now’s your chance to pick and choose either 
Much like DC’s direct-to-video adaptations of their comic book story arcs, Marvel has leapt into that pool with an animated adaptation of 
Returning with her second HBO special and her A game direct from the nation’s capital, 
A staple of my late-80’s Nick At Nite viewing, I’m delighted that the goofily fun 
I think we’ve just about completed Terry Gilliam’s catalogue transition to high definition with the release of 
Granted, the contestants are long gone, but if I’m roaming the cable channels and happen across the Game Show Network, I’m often sucked into watching games shows that were recorded up to a half-century ago. If you’re like me, then you’ll probably want to pick up 
The transition to the big screen isn’t wholly successful, but there’s still much to love in the high-definition debut of Meredith Wilson’s 
It’s a big, messy, ensemble love letter to the city that never sleeps, and like any patchwork film made up of numerous director’s vignettes, there’s some good and some bad to be found in 
Warners continues its budget-conscious TCM Greatest Classic Films Collections with a trio of new additions to the roster – 
Of his recent flicks, Clint Eastwood’s 
I don’t really get the appeal of the Air Bud series, but there’s certainly enough of a demand that Disney is releasing a special edition of 
Yeah, the writing is on the wall in the penultimate 9th season of 
I have been waiting with bated breathe for the high definition release of the original 
OK, besides the fact that it looks vaguely similar to The Doctor’s sonic screwdriver, there’s something “Ooh! Science & Engineering!” cool about the 
Although I’m disappointed they’re not doing season sets, at least 
Expanded with a brand new director’s cut and looking & sounding far, far better than it ever has before, I’m going to say that the Collector’s Edition of 
Whatever your opinion of Will Ferrell’s big screen comedic take on the material, those of a certain age probably have a fondness in their heart for Sid & Marty Kroftt’s kitsch Saturday morning adventure series 
Audiences largely shied away from 
The rest of the Kubrick oeuvre is all well and good, but the film I was waiting to get in high-def was Kubrick’s black comedy masterpiece, 
An uneven but largely entertaining second season turned out to be the last for 
In 
A post-Porridge Ronnie Barker stars with a pre-Only Fools & Horses David Jason in Roy Clarke’s 
After years of dancing around the line, the world comes crashing down for crooked cop Vic Mackey in the 7th and final season of 
Fox’s catalogue Blu-Ray releases get a so-so bump with the high-def arrival of Danny Glover’s finest acting moment, 
One of the many TV concepts scrawled on napkins and developed after his passing, 
Neither rain, nor sleet, nor diversions ordered by a court of law would keep Jack Bauer from eventually getting 
When something advertises itself as a six-part documentary series investigating bones, skulls, mummies, and vampires and it comes from the fine folks at the Smithsonian – as 
Although I think they would have been a nicely perverse Valentine’s Day release, Paramount has instead waiting until now to give a high definition release to the one-two punch of 
Briefly on life support and saved at the last minute, the third season of 
As you can imagine, 
Raymond Burr’s fearless defense attorney returns in the first volume of 
Already axed, fans can now own the second – and last- season of 
When I was a young college freshman near the end of my first (and only) disastrous year at NYU, I was able to arrange for a press ticket to a taping of 
For years and years and years, ever since I first saw one when I was a kid, I’ve wanted a book that opens up to reveal a cut-out hole. You know what I mean? The kind you could hide things in. Like a jewel. Or booze. Well, Thinkgeek now gives you that 
Another Pixar film in theaters means another eye-candy filled “Art Of” book, which is exactly what you get with 
Forged in the fire of the Writers Strike of 2008, released on the internet to rabid fan acclaim, and long available on that selfsame net, everyday people can now get a copy of Joss Whedon’s online musical, 
Much of the comedy in Eddie Murphy’s game-changing stand-up concert 
It’s pure popcorn, but I think 
Another great flick making its transition to high definition is the Civil War epic 
I must admit, 
June has become decidedly jazzy with a trio of deluxe Legacy Edition catalogue releases from Sony Music. First up is a 3-disc edition of Dave Brubeck’s 
Paramount isn’t the only one unleashing a tidal wave of Blu-Ray catalogue titles, as Universal dips into their extensive roster for a batch of their own, many of them must haves. So what does the batch consist of? 
I still can’t fathom what people saw in the three flicks currently comprising the 
Sergio Leone’s 
Over 20 years after its single season run, The Jetsons returned to television with brand new episodes, the first 21 of which are being released as 
The BBC’s nature documentarians can always be counted on to deliver stunning visuals, and that’s certainly the case with 
I can’t see William Conrad in the episodes features in 
The movie’s a dud, but it’s still fun to flip through both 
Though often a director, I always get a kick out of Kenneth Branagh, the actor, who is in fine form in the UK series 
Surprisingly, 
The folks at Sesame certainly are pushing Abby Cadabra, aren’t they? The latest team up with their little red cash cow is 
Nancy Botwin moves her mini pot empire south of the border in the fourth season of 
It’s not my cup of tea, but 
Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, and Jamie Bell star as a trio of simple farmhand brothers who goes up against the Nazis in 
In 
It’s a pleasant surprise to find just how much I look forward to each new installment of 
Based on the lackluster American iteration, I’ve largely avoided the show Trigger Happy TV. That proved to be foolish, as I just should have sought out the infinitely more intelligent – and dada funny – British original created by Dom Joly. It’s like an absurdist Candid Camera, and Joly is a compelling social observer. Drop everything you’re doing and pick up the 
It seems there’ve been a dozen collections over the past few years, but 
As with any potentially long-running DVD release, I feared that the first volume of the chronological Three Stooges might very well be a one-off. Thankfully, my fears have been allayed with the arrival of 
Nothing makes a weekend pass faster than having your own private Modern Marvels marathon, and you can certainly do that with 
Even though I thought the flick was abysmal, I enjoyed reading through the massive 
Unfortunately, much like the film itself, there’s not much to get excited by with John Williams’s score to 
It’s a damn shame that he’s still largely unknown in the US, but I’d recommend you rectify that by picking up 
Long before V or The X-Files, producer Quinn Martin gave us 
Slowly but surely, the DVD releases are catching up with the current episodes. The 2-disc 
The subjects of their quests are still as mythical as they ever were, but 
As someone who was not particularly ever a fan of the original Rambo films, Stallone’s resurrection of the Reagan-era icon in 
While everyone remembers the sinking of the Titanic, my enduring interest in early 20th century shipwrecks extends to the sinking of Cunard liner Lusitania, which was torpedoed by a German U-Boat in 1915, and was one of the pivotal, galvanizing moments in the first World War. The Discovery Channel special 
Get in a martial arts mode (just in time for the release of Kung Fu Panda) with a new pair of releases from the “Dragon Dynasty” label – 
Ride ’em in! Get a view of classic Clint Eastwood with the first volume of 
Meanwhile, Marshall Matt Dillon continues to keep the crooked in line in the second volume of 
First and foremost, take a moment to celebrate the glorious demise of the ill-conceived American version of Spaced with the news that this July brings the release with the original Britcom that put Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jessica Hynes, and Edgar Wright on the geek map. Loaded with bonus features from not only the UK release, but also exclusive to the US edition, this is a must-have set. Keep an eye out at your favorite online retailer or DVD emporium.
By the third season of 
For years now, I’ve been reiterating that you should buy, post-haste, the comedic sci-fi novels of Simpsons writer John Swartzwelder. Every one so far has been a gem, and he’s managed to keep the plate spinning with his latest tale of slow-witted detective Frank Burly, 
With a new Indy flick in the offing, it was a foregone conclusion that we’d see some form of re-release on the original trilogy – and so we have with the 
Cinema geeks rejoice! Universal has seen fit to collect 10 of their catalogue’s most genre-tastic titles into one box set – 
As much as I liked the “official” history found in the deluxe tome To Infinity And Beyond, it’s nice to have a complementary, unauthorized book about the early days and rise of Pixar to balance out the picture, and David Price’s 
The movie’s not yet in theaters, but everything I’ve seen of Kung Fu Panda has made me keen to do so. It’s taken awhile for rival studios that the way to fight Pixar is not to make knock-off Pixar flicks, but to realize the same thing that Warners did in their heyday – leave the heart to Disney and focus on the comedy instead. If you want to whet your appetite for this flick, look no further than 
I wasn’t alive to experience firsthand growing up in the 50’s, but I’m certainly aware of the shows and celebrities that made up the pop culture diet of that generation. If you’re as interested as I am in that period, you’ve got to get yourself a copy of 
It’s been 10 years since the passing of the Chairman of the Board, and Warners has seen fit to celebrate his passing with a quartet of box sets celebrating Frank Sinatra’s cinematic legacy – 
Everyone’s favorite sleuthing antiquities dealer returns in the complete third season of 
It’s not like I would have paid to see it in the theater, but 
The fourth season of 
Just when my nephews have nearly burned out the previous release, along comes 
One of my nephews is fast approaching the one-year mark, and getting him to sleep is quite a feat with all that teething going on. We’ve found that a big help in the seemingly never-ending battle is Nickelodeon’s 
The off-color puppets are back with 
Have you ever picked up a book and thought “This is an idea that was a long-time coming…”? I thought that very thing when I thumbed through 
You’ll weep, you’ll awww, you’ll get plenty of points from your significant other if you pick her up a copy of the new 
Like According To Jim, 
Surprisingly enough, Sean Combs acquitted himself quite well in last year’s TV adaptation of 
One of those programs that will always grab my attention if insomnia or boredom has me scanning channels at 4 in the morning is anything with forensic examiner Dr. Michael Baden. An all-new edition of