DVD Reviews (by me)

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DVD Verdict posts insightful, sometimes irreverent, reviews of films in the DVD format.
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Botched

Tue, 05/13/2008 - 03:00

Quote: "A head-scratching collision of genres wadded up like a ball of mismatched socks, Botched is quirky enough to warrant a rental from the terminally bored, but too scattered and disjointed to be noteworthy for the masses."

La Chinoise

Tue, 05/13/2008 - 03:00

Quote: "Dense, prosaic, multilayered, and didactic, La Chinoise is at times less a movie and more an on-site exercise in social and political discourse that happens to have a camera running in the room."

Paranormal State: The Complete Season One

Thu, 05/08/2008 - 03:00

Quote: "With the air and credibility of a flea market psychic, Paranormal State: The Complete Season One panders endlessly upon bad horror film mythology with Blair Witch-style shenanigans, all at the expense of a viewing experience even remotely investigative, journalistic, dramatic or scientific. Poor Occam just slit his wrists with his own razor."

Law And Order: Special Victims Unit: The Sixth Year

Thu, 04/24/2008 - 03:00

Quote: "Love it or hate it, SVU is the only Law & Order franchise that still makes any attempt to push its boundaries."

Dead Cool

Fri, 04/18/2008 - 03:00

Quote: "Sadly, there is not much to recommend here, unless you are a fifteen-year-old kid struggling to deal with your new stepfamily and routinely have visions of Cylons nobody else can see."

How The Earth Was Made

Wed, 04/16/2008 - 03:00

Quote: "Cosmology is a fascinating subject and How The Earth Was Made does it justice, albeit quickly. Nothing like seeing 4.5 billion years crammed into a solid ninety minutes."

Life After People

Wed, 04/16/2008 - 03:00

Quote: "As ominous proclamations of doom and gloom go, this would make Roland Emmerich proud, but everyone else will probably be put off by the over-the-top delivery."

Bad Meat

Fri, 03/28/2008 - 03:00

Quote: "Can one expect a film titled Bad Meat to be anything but rank, rancid, and smelly?"

Pu-239

Thu, 03/27/2008 - 03:00

Quote: "It's a thoroughly improbable sequences of events played out in a black comedic sequence of events that would make Larry, Moe, and Curly blush with envy -- or, at the very least, radioactive exposure."

Appleseed: Ex Machina

Mon, 03/24/2008 - 03:00

Quote: "In many ways, this is the same movie as the previous Appleseed adaptation, except dumber and louder."

Third Watch: The Complete First Season

Wed, 03/19/2008 - 03:00

Quote: "Every single medical, police, and ambulatory cliche in the book is thrown at viewers, but we roll from one to the next with such arresting speed that there is simply no time to complain. It may not be the most credible show in the history of television, but it certainly satisfies the adrenal senses."

Radiant City

Thu, 03/13/2008 - 03:00

Quote: "Unlike other documentaries that gripe on a subject for two hours and offer little in the way of viable alternatives, Radiant City indeed has a solution: new urbanism."

State Of Play

Wed, 03/12/2008 - 03:00

Quote: "As television serials go, it gets no better than this -- although it does raise the question why Hollywood is not able to come up with anything this substantial or meaty to feed us in North America."

Death Note: Volume 1

Wed, 03/05/2008 - 04:00

Quote: "Death gods are the trendy thing these days. If another anime has the word 'shinigami' in it, I'll scream."

Nightmare Detective

Fri, 02/29/2008 - 04:00

Quote: "Make no mistake; in any sane world, Nightmare Detective would be completely bonkers."

General Hospital: Night Shift: Complete First Season

Wed, 02/27/2008 - 04:00

Quote: "As a medical drama, forget about it; my cat has more surgical knowledge than any of these sex-addled fools."

Comedy Central Roast Of Flavor Flav

Thu, 02/14/2008 - 04:00

Quote: "When alien civilizations descend to the wreckages of our cities in future years, they will find hundreds of thousands of pristine, perfectly preserved unopened copies of Comedy Central Roast of Flavor Flav buried in a landfill and judge the merits of our civilization upon its virtues."

Pipes Of Peace

Thu, 02/14/2008 - 04:00

Quote: "While there is an admitted attraction to seeing a dude rock out the bagpipes in jazz draped in the American flag and wearing gigantic Viking horns, the music and world view of Rufus Harley are acquired tastes to say the least."

Wedding Daze

Fri, 02/08/2008 - 04:00

Quote: "I have no doubt in my mind that the executives simply had no idea what to do with a Jason Biggs film that had no semen jokes in it."

Indie Sex

Thu, 02/07/2008 - 04:00

Quote: "For cinema fans, Indie Sex represents the best of both worlds: a thought-provoking, well-researched and challenging documentary coupled with naked people. I challenge you to come up with a better combination."