In an animated world where mice, ducks, and even another dog all act like human beings, Pluto is an enigma: a dog who acts like a dog. Long recognized as Mickey’s canine […]
DVD Review: Walt Disney Treasures – The Complete Pluto 1930-1947
DVD Review: Mickey Mouse in Living Color Volume 1 – 1935 to 1938
Sometimes it’s hard to believe there was once a time when Mickey Mouse was seen as more than just a character wandering around a theme park. With the release of Mickey Mouse […]
DVD Review – 21 Jump Street: The Complete First Season – Go To High School with Johnny Depp
Do you remember back then there were only three major television networks? The only thing on cable television was pretty much movie channels – none of the news or talk stations had […]
Quantum Leap Season 2 – Can We Get a “Do Over” From Universal?
From the first episode on, I never missed a showing of Quantum Leap when it aired on network television. The second season, which stretched from the Fall of 1989 to the Spring […]
Sharpe’s Justice – Stick With the War Sharpe, Civilian Life Doesn’t Suit You
Written by Patrick Harbinson and Bernard CornwellDirected by Tom Clegg 1814. Peace – Napoleon has been exiled to the Island of Elba. The King of France has been returned to his throne. […]
The Civil War: A Documentary by Ken Burns – A Definitive Portrait
It is well that war is so terrible… we should grow too fond of it… – Robert E. Lee watching the battle of Fredericksburg. An anecdote about Wilmer McClain, who moved his […]
DVD Review – Walt Disney Treasures: Behind the Scenes at the Walt Disney Studios – Animation Appreciation 101
I was born just a bit too late to see the original broadcasts of the Wonderful World of Disney. I can remember an incarnation of the show from my younger years, but […]
DVD Review: Ken Burns’ The Statue of Liberty – Liberty’s Too Precious a Thing to Be Buried in Books…
This was perfect timing. I’d loaded up my queue at Netflix with Ken Burns documentaries last year after finally viewing all of the Baseball boxed set and seeing just how terrific these […]
Babylon 5 Season Three on DVD – A Pioneering Sci-Fi Narrative
If anyone thinks that Aaron Sorkin was the first creator of a series (The West Wing) to write every episode each season, they are wrong. J. Michael Straczynski was the first to […]
Sharpe’s Battle – Got A Scorecard for Who’s Mad at Who?
Written by Bernard Cornwell and Russell LewisDirected by Tom Clegg September 1813 – Wellington is chasing Napoleon back through the Pyrenees into France. A final victory seems close at hand, but the […]
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