WALKER, TEXAS RANGER: Season
Three - ParamountTexas Ranger Cordell
walker, one of the last old-fashioned heroes of the West, is
a protective friend but a relentless foe who will stop at
nothing to bring a criminal to justice. Walker works on
instinct, often drawing on the traditions of his Native
American ancestors. His partner, James Trivette, has a more
modern approach to crime-solving.
C.D. Parker, a retired ranger, and Alex
Cahill, the county assistant district attorney who shares a
mutual attraction with walker, support the rangers in their
battle to serve justice. Continue the adventures with Texas
Ranger Cordell in season three of Walker, Texas Ranger.
Chuck Norris really fits the build as
Cordell and with a supporting cast including Sheree J.
Wilson, Clarence Gilyard Jr, and Noble Willingham, you can’t
possibly go wrong. Season three expands on the character
development giving the cast more depth and substance.
Several episodes from season three really
support this including “Blown Apart” involving a mad bomber
that threatens Alex and Walker, “Flashpoint” where Walker
tangles with the IRA and “Miracle at Middle Creek” where
Walker faces certain death as he struggles to free a
six-year old boy from a drainpipe resulting in a cave-in.
The overall stories are getting better and the chemistry of
the cast fuels the show making for great entertainment.
Season three presents all 25 episodes in airdate order
complete and uncut on seven discs. All of the episodes are
presented in Full Screen Format with 2.0 Surround.
The packaging is attractive with an
episode synopsis on the back of each volume.
HOGAN’S HEROES: Season Six - Paramount
The inmates of a German World War II
prisoner of war camp conduct an espionage and sabotage
campaign right under the noses of their warders. Well, we
finally made it to the final season. Hogan and his crew are
at it again putting Colonel Klink and Sergeant Shultz
through hell while staying one step ahead of the German
army. This final season has some of the funniest stories in
the series including “To Russia with Love” where Hogan
convinces Klink that he should go to the Russian Front,
“Klink’s Masterpiece” involving smuggled maps and Klink’s
artwork? There is also a two-part episode titled “Lady
Chitterly’s Lover involving a plot to fool Hitler into
thinking that Colonel Crittendon (Bernard Fox) is Sir
Charles. This is also the season where we say goodbye to
Ivan Dixon who portrayed Kinchloe to be replaced by Kenneth
Washington playing the part of Sgt. Richard Baker.
The final set contains all 24 episodes on
four discs with digital picture and sound presented in Full
Screen format. Complete your collection today!
NORBIT: BluRay - Paramount
Eddie Murphy’s shtick from Coming to
America and The Nutty Professor was funny then, but not now.
Norbit has a few funny spots, but overall it is a boring
film that drags on and on. On the bright side, this Blu-Ray
edition looks great. This is an excellent disc to demo your
HDTV’s color reproduction capabilities. The film was short
with very bright colors and backgrounds and this is one of
the best color demo discs I have seen since Jingle All The
Way.
SILVER SPOONS: Season One - Sony
The first season of Silver Spoons was the
exploratory year. Here we meet Edward Stratton III (Joel
Higgins), a man-child millionaire shepherding his own toy
company with the help of his lawyer, Leonard (Leonard
Lightfoot), and secretary Kate (Erin Gray). Into Edward’s
life comes Ricky (Ricky Schroder), the 12-year-old son he
never knew about. Fresh from military school, Ricky needs a
home, forcing Edward to confront his childlike ways to
become a father while Ricky finally gets to feel domestic
stability for the first time in his life.
Together, they hop into a corvette and
travel across America solving mysteries. If Silver Spoons
isn’t the quintessential 1980s show, I can’t imagine what
would top it.
GHOST RIDER - Sony
In Columbia Pictures’ action adventure
Ghost Rider superstar motorcycle stunt rider Johnny Blaze
(Nicolas Cage) strikes a deal with the vile Mephistopheles
for the most precious of commodities, his immortal soul. Now
Johnny Blaze is forever destined to ride night after night
as the host to the powerful supernatural entity known as the
Ghost Rider.
LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA - Warner
Sixty-one years ago, US and Japanese
armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, several hundred
letters are unearthed from that stark island’s soil. The
letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there,
as well as the extraordinary general who led them. The
Japanese soldiers are sent to Iwo Jima knowing that in all
probability they will not come back. Among them are Saigo (Kazunari
Ninomiya), a baker who wants only to live to see the face of
his newborn daughter; Baron Nishi (Tsuyoshi Ihara), an
Olympic equestrian champion known around the world for his
skill and his honor; Shimizu (Ryo Kase), a young former
military policeman whose idealism has not yet been tested by
war; and Lieutenant Ito (Shidou Nakamura), a strict military
man who would rather accept suicide than surrender. Leading
the defense is Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken
Watanabe), whose travels in America have revealed to him the
hopeless nature of the war but also given him strategic
insight into how to take on the vast American armada
streaming in from across the Pacific.
THE GOOD GERMAN - Warner
One of mainstream cinema’s most
tirelessly inventive directors, Steven Soderbergh delivers
another big-budget stylistic experiment with THE GOOD
GERMAN. This time around, Soderbergh’s target is 1940s film
noir.
Set in postwar Berlin, the atmospheric
thriller is based on the acclaimed novel by Joseph Kanon.
Frequent Soderbergh collaborator George Clooney plays Jake
Geismer, an American military journalist who has returned to
Berlin for the Potsdam Peace Conference. Jake’s driver,
Tully (Tobey Maguire), appears innocent upon first glance,
but is in fact a major player in the corrupt Berlin
underworld. He’s also dating Jake’s former flame, Lena
Brandt (Cate Blanchett), whose beauty continues to torment
Jake. When Tully’s cadaver washes ashore one day,
Jake is shocked to discover that nobody
wants to go public with the news. As much as he’d like to
forget about Lena, he can’t. Pretty soon, he’s risking his
life to help her flee the country.
WHAT’S HAPPENING NOW! - Sony
Raj, Dwayne, Rerun, Shirley and Dee
reunite. A little bit older, but not necessarily all that
much wiser. Aspriring writer Raj is now a married man, and
he and his wife Nadine return to the old neighborhood to
start their life together. Dwayne is studying computers and
living with Rerun, a TV commerical pitchman. Meanwhile
Shirley convinces Raj to help renovate and reopen the gang’s
old hangout, Rob’s Place. The original show had a spark, but
this spinoff is just missing the energy of the original
series.
IWO JIMA: 50 Years of Memories - Image
It was one of the last major battles of
WWII, fought on a tiny Pacific island only eight miles
square. And when it was over, nearly 30,000 American and
Japanese men were dead. This is the story of Iwo Jima, told
entirely through the voices of American servicemen who
surived the hell that was Operation Detachment. This is a
must own for any fan of American history.
DOCTOR WHO: Logopolis - BBC
The Doctor takes Adric and a young air
hostess named Tegan Jovanka, who has come aboard the Tardis
by accident, to the planet Logopolis, home of a race of
mathematicians whose help he hopes to enlist in
reconfiguring the outer shell of the Tardis. The mysterious,
wraith-like Watcher brings Nyssa from Traken to join them
and warns of impending danger - something that is borne out
as the Master arrives and kills a number of the Logopolitans.
The Logopolitans’ leader, the Monitor, reveals that the
universe passed its normal point of heat death long ago and
has been preserved only by his people’s calculations, which
- by way of a signal beamed from a perfect copy of the
Pharos Project radio telescope on Earth - have kept open
numerous CVEs through which the excess entropy can drain.
This process has now been halted by the Master’s
interference, and the Doctor is forced to join forces with
his arch-enemy in order to save the universe. Their plan is
to use the real Pharos Project to transmit a copy of the
Logopolitan program and thus keep open the CVEs, but the
Master seizes the opportunity to blackmail the peoples of
the universe by threatening them with destruction unless
they agree to his demands.
In foiling this scheme the Doctor falls
from the gantry of the radio telescope. As he lies injured
on the ground the Watcher appears again and merges with the
Doctor as he regenerates.
BLOOD & CHOCOLATE - Sony
A good-looking pack of werewolves that
has ruled Bucharest for 5,000 years becomes threatened when
one among them begins to question the traditions they have
adhered to over the centuries. Vivian (Agnes Bruckner) is a
teenage werewolf whose destiny has been tied to her pack
since she was orphaned at a young age. The pack’s menacing
leader, Gabriel (Olivier Martinez), has designs on Vivian,
and hopes to make her his next wife, while the rest of
Vivian’s family keeps a close watch on her every move. This
makes things difficult when Vivian, against her better
judgment, begins a tentative relationship with Aiden (Hugh
Dancy), a graphic artist who has come to the city to study
the mythical loup-garou for his next book. Vivian tries to
keep her growing love a secret, but when Gabriel discovers
that she has feelings for a human, he sets off a chain of
events that threaten to destroy the pack--or change its
bloodthirsty ways. Vivian and the extraordinary Aiden, who
manages to outwit the loup-garou in ways they never thought
possible, are forced to go on the run, but they must
eventually face Vivian’s pack in a confrontation that forces
all to examine what keeps man and beast constantly at war.