Police Woman – The Complete First Season Review

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I’m in love with Angie Dickinson and I don’t care who knows it! For the past two weeks I’ve been watching Police Woman – Season 1 on DVD and let me just tell you all – it is frickin’ amazing. When I was a kid I remember thinking Angie was super cool and it didn’t hurt that my favorite aunt – Nauntie Dianne as I call her – thought she looked like Angie and even had the hair to prove it!

At the time Angie was doing a TV show called Cassie & Company which was basically Police Woman as a detective but I loved it and I loved her. The re-runs of Police Woman (which aired from 1974-1978) were usually on tv so I remember watching a few episodes but didn’t really remember anything about them. So when I found out this was being released, I hopped onto netflix and put those suckers in my q – Little did I know what brilliance would be spurting from my DVD player.

Originally broadcast as an episode of Police Story Angie played undercover police woman Lisa Beaumant. Now Police Story was created by and overseen by a real life police officer and the show was praised for its realistic take on the world of police officers and before Angie had even finished her one off episode the suits were talking SPIN OFF!

Angie had been around for years and years having made some pretty good films – check out Big Bad Mama for some real fun! – including the original Ocean’s 11 where she acted circles around that horse head Julia Roberts who played the role in the remake; anyhoos, Angie didn’t want to do tv but they asked her if she wanted to be a household name and she thought that was a pretty good idea.

When she agreed to the show she made one change, she didn’t like the character name and thought something spicier would be in order, apparantly what she didn’t think about is that the producers let her pick the name – but it all worked out cuz Pepper Anderson came to be and I can’t think of another name quite as cool for a police woman.

You may be wondering how I know all this crazy stuff – well its because Angie and her co-star Earl Holliman do commentary on tons of episodes and it is frickin’ hilarious. Angie who I always thought was classy tough proves it on these commentaries – we find out so much – like she hated night shooting, she had a clause in her contract to be home by 6 pm to be with her daughter and when the producers realized they were running late they’d pull out the popcorn and beer and film a bar scene (the cops hung out in a bar) and Angie would forget all about the time. Though she couldn’t drink too much beer (which she loves) because her eye lids got droopy… fascinating shizz huh?

but the most important thing is the show is really good – I thought it’d be kind of campy but not at all, full of “how much bread for the junk?” and “freeze turkey” type of things it’s a flip right out of the 70s and Ang looks faboo, not to mention tough – in the very first aired episode she blows a villian away with a shotgun!

I have come up with a brilliant idea to take the show and make it into a movie a la the Brady Bunch films where “undercover” Pepper Anderson still wears the crazy 70s clothes as she goes undercover in her dangerous scenes and hopes she isn’t “made out” to be a cop. I think it’d be great, but until then I’m going back to watch more Police Woman (and then re-watch with commentaries) next up is episode 10 “Flowers Of Evil” where crazed lesbians who run an elderly home are killing their residents! I can’t wait to hear what Angie has to say about that!

Police Woman – The Complete First Season Overview

Smart and sexy, tough and brassy. Meet Sergeant Suzanne “Pepper” Anderson, LAPD’s top undercover cop. A member of the Criminal Conspiracy Unit, Pepper works the wild side of the street, where she poses as everything from a gangster’s moll to a streetwalker to a prison inmate. Join Golden Globe-winner Angie Dickinson and guest stars Cathy Rigby, Larry Hagman, Pat Morita, Bob Crane and Philip Michael Thomas for 22 episodes and the 2 hour pilot of explosive crime-fighting action and excitement in POLICE WOMAN: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON.

Police Woman – The Complete First Season Specifications

After holding her own opposite heavy hitters like Frank Sinatra (Ocean’s Eleven) and Lee Marvin (Point Blank), Angie Dickinson earned the right to top billing. For four years, Police Woman gave the cool blonde that chance and, as she admits in the DVD commentary, the idea of becoming a household name was a big attraction. (It worked.) Sgt. Suzanne “Pepper” Anderson, a two-year police veteran is first introduced, as Lisa Beaumont, in Police Story’s season finale, which opens this five-disc set. In “The Gamble,” Pepper proves she has what it takes to handle undercover work as she foils both a prostitution ring and a gambling racket. Airing in the coveted slot after The Rockford Files, the gritty, yet glamorous Police Woman became a top 20 hit. In the season premiere (“The End Game,” actually the fourth show), Pepper is joined by the rest of the vice squad: Italian-speaking Irishman Lt. Bill Crowley (Earl Holliman, taking over from Bert Convy) and Police Story holdovers Royster (Charles Dierkop) and Styles (Ed Bernard). Together the four were as tough on crime as they were fierce about fashion. Among hundreds of groovy get-ups, sartorial standouts include Royster’s patchwork cap, Styles’ suede jacket, Crowley’s plaid sports jacket, and Pepper’s studded pantsuit. First year guest stars include TV vets, like Robert Vaughn (“Blast”), Patti Duke and John Astin (“Nothing Left to Lose”), and Dickinson’s Big Bad Mama co-star William Shatner (“Smack”). Police Woman also provided a showcase for up-and-comers like Kathleen Quinlan (“The Beautiful Die Young”) and Phillip Michael Thomas (“It’s Only a Game”)–as a character named “Sonny” no less. (In the show’s fourth season, another up-and-comer named Michael Mann would direct an episode.) In 2002, TV Guide voted Dickinson the sexiest TV star of all time after Diana Rigg and George Clooney. –Kathleen C. Fennessy

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Zombieland Review

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Zombieland is a movie that is constantly juggled around my top 5 favorite film list. It did amazing things for its genre and justified zombie movies for the future. It even had a top secret cameo in spirit of being one of those great movies that actually suprise you and do not litter the spoilers in the trailer. Cloverfield was one such film that I support for its secrecy, and Zombieland follows in those brilliant footsteps. Hopefully more filmmakers will realize how rewarding it is for moviegoers to be genuinely suprised these days.

It’s hard to cram all the good praise about this film into a couple short paragraphs. It’s an amazing film, beside all of its hilarious jokes. The rules of Zombieland take a worthy stab at bad horror filmmakers and demand reality within these cliches. Things like “buckling your seatbelts” and “check the backseat” are not stupid jokes. These are brilliant criticisms of bad zombie stories. We laugh because it’s so true how lacking this genre is of some sort of reality. Zombieland created the reality with the rules.

The comedy exceeds beyond one’s expectations of a comedy. It is all due to excellent writing and acting. There’s barely any slapstick and an absence of cheap gross humor or fart jokes. Zombieland, although it may not seem so, is all about wit and performance humor. Woody Harrelson gives a shockingly great performance in this film, as does Jesse Eisenberg. The writers of this film are intelligent individuals with their hearts attached to their work. I know this because they built so much great comedy in the script, while also maintaining a general emotion level during the film. One part of the flick nearly made me cry, before they softened me right back up again with an appropriate joke for the moment. In the commentary they stated how proud they were that they could generate an emotional scene and then non-abrubtly ease the scene into a hilarious moment. I am proud as well, and have the utmost respect for the writer and director.

I have to stop going on, because I could rave about it all day. The editing, the stylized action…I love everything about Zombieland. I believe some people disagree with all the hype, because the film seems to be made for my generation. I don’t believe that middle-aged to older folks will enjoy this film. It is a film that appeals to geeks and nerds, and it is our general consensus that the film straight rocks. On my last note, it makes a great blu-ray. The picture is awesome and the extras are all watchable. Picking up this blu-ray will give you something in your collection that has more replay value than most films out there today.

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Zombieland Overview

Nerdy college student Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) has survived the plague that has turned mankind into flesh-devouring zombies because he’s scared of just about everything. Gun-toting, Twinkie-loving Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) has no fears. Together, they are about to stare down their most horrifying challenge yet: each other’s company. Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin co-star in this double-hitting, head-smashing comedy.

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If there’s been a zombie apocalypse and you’re road-tripping alone though the wasteland, you could do worse than run into Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), a bourbon-swilling bad-boy butt-kicker with a really cool car. This is where the careful hero of Zombieland, a kid nicknamed Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), finds himself early in the film, and you can hardly blame him for hitching a ride with this swaggering Alpha Male. Still, they have their hands full not only with gibbering zombies but also with two sisters (Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin) who will stop at nothing to reach a Disneyland-like amusement park in L.A. Although Zombieland gets off to a rocky start with Columbus’s overly-cute narration (he’s got a list of rules for surviving in the zombie world), it settles into an amusing comedy, regularly interrupted by bouts of blood-letting. The road-trip stuff is enough fun that when the movie does arrive at its version of Disneyland, the air goes out of it a little; sure, there’s a giant zombie blowout, with entrails flying, but it’s not quite the same. Director Ruben Fleischer keeps the gags coming, although the movie is often funnier in its odd little asides (both Eisenberg and Harrelson are expert at this) than in its official jokes. Comic high point: an interlude at the home of a very famous movie star, who plays himself–and we’ll leave the spoiler unspoiled, in case anybody hasn’t heard about this funny extended cameo. –Robert Horton

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Angels & Demons (Single-Disc Theatrical Edition) Review

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This was much better than the previous installment, faster paced and to me more tense. Although I was reminded of a macabre scavanger hunt has the search for the clues and the cardinals raced through Rome, it was a good movie and entertaining. Hanks and the rest of the cast were good. I did have one question, and perhaps I missed the explanation in the movie. How did a priest, though born in Ireland, raised in Italy, adopted by an Italian, who served in the Italian military still speak with a strong Irish accent? Perhaps I will have to it watch again. I look forward to the next installment of this series.

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Angels & Demons (Single-Disc Theatrical Edition) Overview

In Ron Howard’s thrilling follow-up to The Da Vinci Code, expert symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) follows ancient clues on a heart-racing hunt through Rome to find the four Cardinals kidnapped by the deadly secret society, the Illuminati. With the Cardinals’ lives on the line, and the Camerlengo (Ewan McGregor) desperate for help, Langdon embarks on a nonstop, action-packed race through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, and the most secretive vault on Earth!

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If the devil is in the details, there’s a lot of wicked fun in Angels & Demons, the sequel (originally a prequel) to The Da Vinci Code. Director Ron Howard delivers edge-of-your-pew thrills all over the Vatican, the City of Rome, and the deepest, dankest catacombs. Tom Hanks is dependably watchable in his reprised role as Professor Robert Langdon, summoned urgently to Rome on a matter of utmost urgency–which happens to coincide with the death of the Pope, meaning the Vatican is teeming with cardinals and Rome is teeming with the faithful. A religious offshoot group, calling themselves the Illuminati, which protested the Catholic Church’s prosecution of scientists 400 years ago, has resurfaced and is making extreme, and gruesome, terrorist demands. The film zooms around the city, as Langdon follows clues embedded in art, architecture, and the very bone structure of the Vatican. The cast is terrific, including Ewan McGregor, who is memorable as a young protégé of the late pontiff, and who seems to challenge the common wisdom of the Conclave just by being 40 years younger than his fellows when he lectures for church reform. Stellan Skarsgard is excellent as a gruff commander of the Swiss Guard, who may or may not have thrown in with the Illuminati. But the real star of the film is Rome, and its High Church gorgeousness, with lush cinematography by Salvatore Totino, who renders the real sky above the Vatican, in a cataclysmic event, with the detail and majesty of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. –A.T. Hurley

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Black Dynamite [Blu-ray] Review

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It has been a long time since a movie made me laugh out loud, numerous times. BLACK DYNAMITE is absolutely hilarious fun and a throw back spoof to when gorilla movie making was a fledgling art and the talent was on the screen, not in the editing room.

Offensive, violent and BLACK DYNAMITE pulls no punches. The crime that hovers over the entire movie leads up to a final battle in the oval office that will have you in stitches. The entire movie is gifted with great writing and well thought out humor. Michael Jai White, Arsenio Hall and Tommy Davidson remind us that they’re still out there and as funny as ever.

I’m gonna keep this short and sweet. Go rent the movie SUCKA, and see the most underappreciated movie of the year.

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Black Dynamite [Blu-ray] Overview

An all-star cast led by Michael Jai White is featured in this 1970’s-style blaxploitation action fiilm about the legendary super crime fighter “Black Dynamite.” The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black Dynamite was the one hero willing to fight The Man all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House.

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When drug dealers take out his kid brother, ex-CIA agent Black Dynamite (Spawn’s Michael Jai White) makes like a karate-chopping dynamo to track them down. Armed with a .44 Magnum, a set of nunchucks, and a sexy ’stache, Big D starts out in the City of Angels, where his buddies Cream Corn (In Living Color’s Tommy Davidson), a hustler, and Bullhorn (co-writer Byron Minns), a club owner, offer to lend a hand. The deeper Dynamite digs, the more endangered his life becomes as he uncovers a conspiracy to keep the black man down by flooding the streets with malt liquor and filling the country’s orphanages with smack. Since the smooth operator has a way with the ladies, he also enlists Gloria (I Am Legend’s Salli Richardson-Whitfield), a socially-conscious soul sister, to aid in his clean-up campaign. Director Scott Sanders and White, who co-wrote the script, collaborated on 1998’s Thick as Thieves, and their chemistry shines through. If the supporting cast can be a little wooden, White gives Shaft’s Richard Roundtree a run for the money with his cool-cat charisma. Set in 1972, Black Dynamite doesn’t just act like a movie from the Superfly era, it looks and sounds like one, too, courtesy Adrian Younge’s old-school funk score, Shawn Maurer’s 16mm cinematography, a cartoon credit sequence, and some carefully choreographed boom mic appearances. And dig those crazy cameos: Arsenio Hall as Tasty Freeze, Brian McKnight as Sweet Meat, and NBA veteran John Salley as Kotex. –Kathleen C. Fennessy

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Steel Magnolias (Special Edition) Review

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This movie is an all time favorite of mine and I have seen it a countless number of times. The movie was actually filmed in Natchitoches, Louisiana, which is very close to where I live so I have visited the town, which is truly beautiful. I just want to state that I am some what bothered by some of the comments in other reviews stating that they wish the movie was more of this or more of that. This screenplay was written by Robert Harling about the life and horrible death of his sister Susan, who Julia Roberts character mirrors. This is a TRUE STORY based on Susan’s REAL life & REAL death (in 1985) after the birth of her young son Jack Jr. The movie is what it is because Robert wrote it after locking himself in his room for 10 days after Susan’s devastating death. Please feel free to research and you will find the truth, which is that this is not just some made up story but instead a story of the journey traveled by a real family from Natchitoches, La. That is also why the movie was filmed entirely in that lovely town. Robert Harling plays the preacher throughout the film, who marries Shelby & Jackson, who is at the cemetary & the Easter egg hunt on the river. He & his Mother were on site throughout ALL of the filming to make certain that it stayed true to the truth of their real life story. True fans should buy the “Steel Magnolias Scrapbook – Memories of Movie making in a small town” if you love the movie. It is a great book full of wonderful information.

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Steel Magnolias (Special Edition) Overview

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Steel Magnolias (Special Edition) Specifications

Based on Robert Harling’s play, this comedy-drama directed by Herbert Ross (The Turning Point) follows several years in the lives of women who regularly see one another at a beauty shop in their small Louisiana town. The story deepens as Julia Roberts, playing a serious diabetic and the daughter of Sally Field, goes downhill in her health. But as an ensemble piece, this is one of those enjoyably lumpy tearjerkers with many years’ worth of stored truths suddenly being shared between the characters, lots of grievances aired, that sort of thing. Daryl Hannah and Shirley MacLaine assume the most eccentric roles, Dolly Parton the most fun, and Olympia Dukakis the most dignified, while Sally Field essentially provides the moral and emotional center of the movie. –Tom Keogh

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The Da Vinci Code (Two-Disc Extended Cut + BD Live) [Blu-ray] Review

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The movie is a fast paced provocative thriller as the book spanning Paris (France),London (UK) and Scotland. Ron Howard really made the book to come alive in this one with Tom Hanks leading as professor Langdon (Harvard Symbology Professor).It tackles concepts of religion,humanity & deceit brilliantly. Religious issues concerning Christianity & Roman Catholic Church are dealt well using recent Gnostic Gospels’ research findings by many scholars. These issues are however controversial as they are against well established doctrine from the Bible & Roman Catholic Church or Christianity. Movie is the best provocative thriller I have seen recently and deserves more than five stars!

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Dan Brown’s international bestseller comes alive in the film The Da Vinci Code, directed by Ron Howard with a screenplay by Akiva Goldsman. Join symbologist Robert Langdon (Academy Award® Winner Tom Hanks, 1993 Best Actor, Philadelphia, and 1994 Best Actor, Forrest Gump) and cryptologist Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou) in their heart-racing quest to solve a bizarre murder mystery that will take them from France to England – and behind the veil of a mysterious ancient society, where they discover a secret protected since the time of Christ. With first-rate performances by Sir Ian McKellen, Alfred Molina and Jean Reno, critics are calling The Da Vinci Code “involving” and “intriguing,” “a first rate thriller.”

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Critics and controversy aside, The Da Vinci Code is a verifiable blockbuster. Combine the film’s huge worldwide box-office take with over 100 million copies of Dan Brown’s book sold, and The Da Vinci Code has clearly made the leap from pop-culture hit to a certifiable franchise. The leap for any story making the move from book to big screen, however, is always more perilous. In the case of The Da Vinci Code, the plot is concocted of such a preposterous formula of elements that you wouldn’t envy screenwriter Akiva Goldsman, the man tasked with making this story filmable. The script follows Dan Brown’s book as closely as possible while incorporating a few needed changes, including a better ending. And if you’re like most of the world, by now you’ve read the book and know how it goes: while lecturing in Paris, noted Harvard Professor of Symbology Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) is summoned to the Louvre by French police to help decipher a bizarre series of clues left at the scene of the murder of the chief curator. Enter Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), gifted cryptologist. Neveu and Langdon team up to solve the mystery, and from there the story is propelled across Europe, ballooning into a modern-day mini-quest for the Holy Grail, where secret societies are discovered, codes are broken, and murderous albino monks are thwarted… oh, and alternative theories about the life of Christ and the beginnings of Christianity are presented too, of course. It’s not the typical formula for a stock Hollywood thriller. In fact, taken solely as a mystery, the movie almost works–despite some gaping holes–mostly just because it keeps moving. Brown’s greatest trick was to have the entire story take place in one day, so the action is forced to keep moving, despite some necessary pauses for exposition. As a screen couple, Hanks and Tautou are just fine together but not exactly memorable; meanwhile Sir Ian McKellen’s scenery-chewing as pivotal character Sir Leigh Teabing is just what the film needed to keep it from taking itself too seriously. The whole thing is like a good roller-coaster ride: try not to think too much about it–just sit back and enjoy the trip. –Daniel Vancini

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