I’ve been a baseball fan since I was about eight years old. Some of the greatest memories I have were from the years before my team, the New York Mets, were really […]
DVD Review: Bottom of the Ninth (2002) – The Heart & Soul of the Game of Baseball
Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen – These Cybermen Need Help
Written by Kit Pedler, Gerry Davis, and Sydney NewmanDirected by Morris Barry Doctor Who is a British science fiction television series which has been around off and on since 1963. The main […]
Movie Review: An Inconvenient Truth – Al Gore Teaches Climate Change 101
What happens to a candidate after an unsuccessful run for the Presidency? Thinking of names such as Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, and Bob Dole the answer would seem to be not much […]
DVD Review: Alex Haley’s Queen – A Woman Between Two Worlds
Written by Alex Haley and David StevensDirected by John Erman In the miniseries Roots and Roots: The Next Generations, Alex Haley traced his lineage down his mother’s side of his family based […]
Ken Burns’ The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God – More Than Beautiful Furniture
We have a Shaker Village that I pass by every time I head down to the state capitol. I’ve seen Shaker furniture in various stores. Other than that, there was little that […]
DVD Review: Lake of Fire – One of the Most Uncomfortable Documentaries You May Ever Watch
Written by Tony KayeDirected by Tony Kaye When it comes to the abortion debate, there is plenty of rhetoric and jingoisms to be found on both sides of the argument. Most people […]
The Twilight Zone: Volume 18 – Two Space Stories, One Odd One Out
The early 1960s marked a time of fascination with outer space. After Sputnik went up, the race was on. Television shows that speculated on what life was like in outer space or […]
DVD Review: Steve Earle: Live at Montreux – A New Era of Protest Music
If the name Steve Earle isn’t familiar to you, you’ll have an idea of what you’re getting yourself into pretty quickly when you start watching this DVD. Earle is introduced as the […]
DVD Review – Eleanor & Franklin: The Early Years – As Close To Being There as You’ll Get
Written by James Costigan and Joseph P. LashDirected by Daniel Petrie This award-winning mini-series was the product of an era when network television seemed to want to produce them in abundance. There […]
The Twilight Zone: Volume 17 – What You Want Is Not Always What You Need
The classic television show The Twilight Zone was created by veteran television writer Rod Serling in response to the pressure he received to modify his scripts by both the network censor and […]
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