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Gilligan’s Island – The Complete Second Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
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Gilligan’s Island – The Complete Second Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

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Gilligan’s Island The Complete Second Season – 1965 (Warner Home Video-2005) Back in the mid-Sixties, both Gilligan’s Island and The Beatles were the rage, infiltrating the public consciousness. Five decades onward, both remain singularly distinctive and arresting public icons whose golden legacy continues to endure and richly thrive. Gilligan’s Island-The Complete Second Season (Warner Home Video) reveals the … Continue reading →

Sex and the City – Seasons 1-3 (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
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Sex and the City – Seasons 1-3 (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

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Sex and the City The Complete First Season (HBO-2000) The Complete Second Season (HBO-2001) The Complete Third Season (HBO-2002) Sex and the City is the story of four gay men frolicking in a fantasy fairyland version of Manhattan. From its hideous opening credits of a badly lit and cosmetically starved Sarah Jessica Parker (admit it: doesn’t … Continue reading →

Jonathan Rhys Meyers Plays a Perfect Match
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Jonathan Rhys Meyers Plays a Perfect Match

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JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS PLAYS A PERFECT MATCH by Brad Balfour For a young actor working with a master director like Woody Allen becomes an honor; it’s an even greater opportunity to perform for him in his first non-American made feature and a drama no less. In Match Point, Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers gets to play … Continue reading →

After School Specials 1974-1976 (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
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After School Specials 1974-1976 (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

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After School Specials 1974-1976 (BCI Eclipse-2004) In the early 1960s, FCC chairman Newton Minnow called television “a vast wasteland,” accusing the entertainment industry of producing mind-numbing and mediocre offerings, as gray and dull as dishwater. Even President Kennedy agreed that the medium was not reaching its full potential, and in effort to balance things out he … Continue reading →

Everybody Loves Raymond – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
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Everybody Loves Raymond – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

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Everybody Loves Raymond The Complete First Season (HBO-2004) The terrific Everybody Loves Raymond is the situation comedy structure stripped down to its barest elements. Because the sitcom genre peaked with Seinfeld and had nowhere else to go, the Raymond creators instead traveled back to the ‘50s, to the very inception of this odd but immortal art form, and hit the refresh button. Its … Continue reading →

Punk’d – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
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Punk’d – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

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Punk’d The Complete First Season (MTV/Paramount-2004) As the motor-mouthed host of the MTV hidden-camera show, Punk’d, America’s favorite spoiled brat, Ashton Kutcher, found himself the perfect vehicle. To drive this vehicle, a Von Dutch hat is required, as well as other items of self-conscious hipness, the most important being Kutcher himself. Think what you want about Kutcher, but it’s … Continue reading →

Mad About You – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
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Mad About You – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

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Mad About You The Complete First Season (Columbia Tri-Star-2002) The best way to describe Mad About You comes not from the show itself but from a better one: Seinfeld. In it, a newly engaged George Constanza (Jason Alexander) finds himself, so obviously against his will, watching an episode of Mad About You with his fiancée. The look on George’s face … Continue reading →

Mystery Science Theater 3000 – Volume 6 (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 – Volume 6 (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

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Mystery Science Theater 3000 Volume 6 (Rhino-2004) The eighties were the decade when critics and fans celebrated bad older movies. There were tons of books on the subject… probably the best known of the genre were The Fifty Worst Movies of All Time and The Golden Turkey Awards, both written by current radio talk show host Michael Medved back when he was best known as … Continue reading →

Sarah Michelle Gellar – Gets Under the Skin In the Grudge
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Sarah Michelle Gellar – Gets Under the Skin In the Grudge

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SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR GETS UNDER THE SKIN IN THE GRUDGE by Brad Balfour Ever since she was discovered by an agent at age four, New York born and bred Sarah Michelle Gellar has been in spotlight from doing commercials, as the groundbreaking star of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and film star (Cruel Intentions/I Know What You Did Last Summer). … Continue reading →

Henry Rollins – Out of the Van
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Henry Rollins – Out of the Van

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Henry Rollins Out of the Van by Ronald Sklar “I could grandstand and tell you I’m The Man, but I basically don’t have a life,” Henry Rollins tells me in a recent phone interview. As usual, The Man is being too hard on himself. The rock legend, now in his early forties and still as tough … Continue reading →