Bee Gees - Live by Request (2001) Review

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(More customer reviews)Recording with an audience of less than 1,000, this DVD feels like a club recording with it's Dolby Ditigal and DTS audio sound. Host Mark McEwen gushes a tad much and the 'Live by Request' gimmick is not original. Still, it manages to captivate. Fifteen songs (one a medley of eight), five being from the last album, it's a collection that defies the ear with the groups tight instrumentals and harmonies. "She Keep On Coming" and "You Should Be Dancing" rock the house, while "Sacred Trust" and "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart" lull the audience into a trance. This recording is unique in that there are plenty of star 'call-ins' and lots of joking around. Its surprising to hear Barry sing, "Woman In Love", but "Nights On Broadway" is, once again, cut far too short for a song that contains some of their best work.
This is as close as a great live recording gets and a DVD well worth owning. "One Night Only" is a great live recording as well, but nothing matches the intimacy of this presentation.

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Celebrating 35 years of hitmaking, the Bee Gees take the stage in New York City with host Mark McEwen taking the requests as Barry, Maurice and Robin play your favorite songs from the last four decades. From A&E's popular "Live By Request" music series, the brothers Gibb perform five new classics and over a dozen all-time favorites in this unique, intimate concert captured in glorious surround sound. Songs: This Is Where I Came In, She Keeps on Coming, Sacred Trust, Man in the Middle, Massachusetts, To Love Somebody, I Started a Joke, Jive Talkin', How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, Gotta Get a Message To You, Acoustic Medley: New York Mining Disaster/Run to Me/Too Much Heaven/Islands in the Stream/Holiday/A Woman in Love/Guilty/Nights on Broadway, Wedding Day, Lonely Days, How Deep Is Your Love, You Should Be Dancin'.

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Two and a Half Men: The Complete Fifth Season (2009) Review

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(More customer reviews)Two and a Half Men: The Complete Fifth Season I was skeptical that the show could find fresh material but WOW. Funny stuff that will have you crying with laughter.

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Televisions #1 comedy celebrates five seasons of funny with big laughs and hilarious new storylines. Charlie (Charlie Sheen) tops the charts as kiddie-song sensation Charlie Waffles. Alan (Jon Cryer) at last meets the perfect woman who just happens to be dating Charlie. Jake (Angus T. Jones) starts junior high, armed with reams of “helpful” advice from Alan and Charlie. Evelyn (Holland Taylor) ties the knot for the fifth time (lots of guests at the wedding, lots of cops at the reception). And as always, Berta (Conchata Ferrell) deals with it all by dealing out a royal flush of deadpan zingers. The guys are in and the welcome mat is out at everyones favorite Malibu beach house. Have a great time!

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Red Hot Chili Peppers - Off the Map (2001) Review

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(More customer reviews)I wasn't sure what to expect from a RHCP's live performance with John Frusciante back in the lineup. By far my favorite guitar player they've had, I didn't know if he could still play after his drug abuse problems in the years away from the band. Their "Californication" did little to alleviate those fears, his playing and soloing being so sparse and sort of un-practiced sounding. Don't get me wrong. "Californication" is a great album but it's much different from the chops galore "Blood Sugar Sex Magic". (And I don't mean that as a slam-BSSM is a masterwork in no small part due to Frusciante's intricate, interweaving lines throughout).
"Off the Map" put all my doubts to bed. Frusciante plays his [behind] off. Just check out "If You Have to Ask". Shredding, but he's so much more than than just a shredder. Something magical happens when his Strat, through a Wah, hits a Marshall. It's the tone for sure and then his note selection and use of space that really sets him apart from "shredders". I had read recently in a guitar magazine interview that he's trying to change his style, henceforth the new, sparse approach he's used on the last two albums. It's pretty funny to watch actually. When they play the new songs his playing shifts dramatically to the new style he's developing.
And don't let me forget Chad Smith and Flea. They are powerhouses here. Flea's gone from slapmaster (oh, he can still slap!) to improvisor and it suits him well. Chad is like a rock holding John and Flea's improvisations together.
This is a fun and inspiring dvd. The only reason I don't give it a 5 star review is because it does falter here and there. But that's what you get when your live show isn't prerecorded canned [stuff] and you take musical risks. That where the fun happens with these guys.

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Off the Map is the first concert home video since 1991 from one of rock's greatest live experiences, the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Off the Map is also the band's first concert DVD--the only way to witness the funk-funk-rockmetal-rap musical orgy of one of today's most popular bands. Songs: Around The World, Give It Away, Usually Just a T-Shirt #3, Scar Tissue, Suck My Kiss, If You Have to Ask, Subterranean Homesick Blues, Otherside, Blackeyed Blonde, Pea, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Easily, What Is Soul?, Fire, Californication, Right On Time, Under The Bridge, Me And My Friends.

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The Wayans Bros - The Complete First Season (1995) Review

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(More customer reviews)I love the Wayans Bros. DVD. The whole family is hilarious. I don't care what anyone says this show is funny. Marlon is a complete nut "Help me..help me please!" I hope they release season 2 as well! Pops is a trip,too.In addition to this DVD I recommend "In living Color Season 2" and "White Chicks" !!

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Comedians Shawn and Marlon Wayans ("In Living Color") star as two brothers with little more in common than their family name, the one-bedroom brownstone they share in New York City and an innate ability to disagree, disrupt and dis', in this outrageous half-hour comedy.

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Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus (2004) Review

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(More customer reviews)This film was originally shown on the Hallmark channel in 2004 and I know it is being repeated this year. It's a sappy charmer but the best Christmas movies tend to be sappy charmers anyway and this one does a very good job. The movie stars Steve Guttenberg who had really kind of disappeared for a few years but seems to be making a but of a comeback even if it's not in A features.
Guttenberg is Nick, the son of Santa Claus. His dad is retiring and Nick is going to take over the job but before he can he has to find a Mrs. Claus. Now obviously this is same plot used in the Santa Clause 2 so while it's not terribly original, it's pulled off well for a TV movie. Anyway he heads to Southern California where he eventually meets Beth played by Crystal Bernard. He of coruse has to win Beth over and convince her to believe in Santa. Beth is a hard-working career woman, widower, and mother who has a son named Jake. She works for an ad agency and Nick actually plays Santa in commercials that the company does. Well of course you know how the film turns out, right?
Guttenberg is always a likable guy and brings a regular guy charm to his roles. Bernard is equally likable, always playing the nice girl. It's a good family picture. Hallmark had made a sequel called "Meet the Santas" which should be popping up any day now. As they say...check your listings!

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DVD: 05-51362 Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus Steve Guttenberg (Three Men and a Baby), Crystal Bernard (Wings), and Thomas Calabro (Melrose Place) star in a Christmas charmer about Santa’s son and his search for a wife.Nick (Guttenberg) is due to replace his retiring father, and needs a Mrs. Claus, so Santa’s adviser sends him down to Southern California.There he meets Beth Sawtelle (Bernard), a workaholic widow whose advertising job with Andrew West (Calabro) leaves precious little time for her son, Jake (Dominic Scott Kay).Concealing his identity, Nick stars in a series of Christmas commercials for the agency as he tries to make sure Jake and Beth both believe in Santa Claus—no easy task in her case! Running Time: Approx. 85 Minutes/Color/NTSC/Stereo

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Martin: The Complete Fifth Season (2008) Review

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(More customer reviews)Martin - The Complete Fifth Season is the final season of this '90s hit show. It's pretty sad this funny sitcom only lasted five little seasons. Tisha Campbell is rarely seen, she had issues with Lawrence and would only finish the finale if Martin agreed to keep his distance from her. This season is bittersweet, they are still some hilarious moments but the cast who had excellent chemistry the first 4 seasons is now gone and you can feel it. I highly recommend purchasing this groundbreaking show, good memories!

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The Good Guy (2009) Review

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(More customer reviews)If there's one thing I can expect, is that independent studios like Lionsgate will produce anything but a typical hollywood movie for a genre such as this. Part comedy, but mostly drama, the movie doesn't quite belong to a particular type of movie you have come to expect from hollywood, which makes it very unique. Unfortunately, I'd have to say that although I find the script to be quite original, I can't say that I was drawn into the movie by any of the characters.
Perhaps it was the way the characters were written. There's obviously the heroin, the hero and the villian. But for some reason, I find them to be dull and uninspiring. I wanted to feel sorry for the heroin when her world came crashing down, but I couldn't bring myself to sympathize with her. The hero was so two-dimensional it was almost impossible for me to root for him either. He was like a sick puppy waiting to be put down. The only mildly interesting character here was the villian, although halfway through the movie his modus operandi were revealed and he became boring after that. He had no redeeming qualities whatsoever. None.
I suppose the only saving grace to this movie is the fact that it was very well executed, all by young but great seasoned actors. Kudos to Porter, Bledel and Greenberg for elevating this independent movie with a somewhat dull script into something more. Watching Bledel and Greenberg growing up was a real joy here, we have two great actors that have been around tinseltown for years, appearing in TV and films as they mature from teenagers into the attractive and talented adult actors they are today.
There's no lesson to be learnt here, the movie merely offered a brief window into the darkside of humanity that we adults have come to know so well. Note to those who love romantic comedies: You wouldn't want to be watching this movie with the person you're seeing on a date night. You'd be wondering what he/she is doing next Friday night when you're not spending the night together.
Note about the DVD: It's a single layer disc with 91 minutes of film compressed to about 4GB of data. Picture quality is great but the transfer is not particularly clean. It's presented in English Dolby Digital 5.1, and comes with English and Spanish subtitles.

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Ambitious young New Yorker Beth (Alexis Bledel) wants it all: a good job, good friends and a good guy to share the city with. Of course that last one is trickiest of all, as Beth discovers when she falls hard for Tommy (Scott Porter), a handsome, young Wall Street hotshot. Just as everything seems to be falling into place, Beth meets Tommy’s shy, clumsy co-worker Daniel (Bryan Greenberg) – and soon learns that the game of love in the big city is a lot like Wall Street – high risk, high reward…and everybody has an angle

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Tim Hawkins: INSANITIZED Review

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(More customer reviews)I first saw Tim Hawkins on Bananas Comedy, and I loved his style of clean comedy and funny songs. I don't think I ever saw his second Bananas appearance, but I did see his DVDs (Full Range of Motion, and I'm No Rockstar.) Funny mix of songs and clean Christian comedy. I saw a few clips here and there for this show Insanitized and I laughed hysterically. I watched the DVD and I laughed even more! Again, nice mix of funny songs and some very funny stand-up!
By the way, there's a tiny bit of overlap between DVDs, but here it's pretty much new stuff which is awesome for someone like Tim Hawkins. Keep bringing the funny, but in entirely new ways. A few bits that stand out (this is referencing the Chapter Menu foldout within the DVD: The Government Can (funny but too true song), 3rd Wheel (start-out song on this DVD), Unwashed masses, Bad candy (yep, we've all had bad candy come Halloween time), and a few more tracks later in the show that talks about his kids. A hysterically funny bit is when he talks about stuff being in the Bible, and when he talks about the Precious Moments Bible not illustrating specific moments.
There's a song he does called I'm a Christian. It's a serious song, and it kind of threw me off (not because it was a bad song or anything, I just wasn't expecting it), but it was a lovely, nice song. Then he closes it out with a song called Twinkie. It's a reference to a bit about churches and sermons.
All in all, this was an awesome hour and thirteen minutes of clean Christian comedy. Very recommended for fans of Tim Hawkins, and/or clean comedy.

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Tim Hawkins brings down the house at the beautiful Carson Center in Paducah, Kentucky. In the unique style that his fans love, Tim delivers gut-punching standup along with his trademark song parodies and original music. A former All-American baseball player, Tim traded the sports stage for the comedy stage and never looked back. The St. Louis native taught himself to play guitar and tested the waters at area youth events and comedy clubs. Today, this father of 4 plays to packed auditoriums and theaters throughout North America, and his DVDs are sold worldwide.

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B.A.P.S. (1997) Review

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(More customer reviews)I thought that Halle Berry and Natalie Desselle were delightfully funny in this film. 2 girls from Georgia go to California chasing a dream, get a little side-tracked, but achieve their dream anyway, meeting some wonderful people along the way. The characters played by Martin Landau and Ian Richardson were SOOO funny - especially when Mr. Manley goes to the record store, looking for "The RRRRRRRap section." I thought that the actors playing the girls' boyfriends were good too - a little kooky, but genuinely good people. Nisi and Micky may appear to be gold diggers, but it turns out they have hearts of gold, and for this, they are rewarded. Who says good girls finish last?

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Can two clueless Georgia homegirls with big hearts -- and even bigger hair -- find happiness, fame and thrills in the swank hills of Beverly? Anything is possible when you are B.A.P.'s

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Urban Cowboy (1980) Review

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(More customer reviews)I played the role of Marshallene in "Urban Cowboy" and so to answer one of your reviewers, what was Sissy's last name? well here is the way it was. We didn't have last names; at least not assigned to us when we got our scripts. I actually made mine up when I needed one quickly in the Dolly Parton Look-a-like contest. You might recall that Marshallene was caught in the trailer with Wes, the convict. This film is such a "cult favorite" that it plays every day somewhere;my residuals attest to the fact that this film is loved by many. It made a fashion statement, (people went out and bought jeans and hats and boot and belts) it gave a boost to the Club business - where more and more C/W clubs sprang up all over the country and Canada. I had a motor coach bus and opened shows for Mickey Gilley and Johnny Lee and others for about 8 years - well into the late 80's. It was a magical time for all of us! It was a fun time for me and for fans. This movie is legendary and will last well beyond. Hope you enjoy viewing it as much as I enjoyed playing in it.By the way, there are a lot of versions of it. The edited for TV version actually is so different - (I have several more scenes in it) - and it shows Sissy and Bud actually"dating" before they got married. The scenes were shot on location on the grass of Buffalo Bayou in Houston, Texas. I actually like that version because the original had them meeting one night at Gilley's and getting married the next afternoon!!!Connie Hanson

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A young Texas farmer comes to Houston to work in a refinery and learns about life by hanging out at Gilley's, a roadhouse bar.Genre: Feature Film-DramaRating: PGRelease Date: 8-OCT-2002Media Type: DVD

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Brave New Girl Review

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(More customer reviews)The reviewer who says this movie is supposed to be about Britney Spears' road to fame and the girl plays Britney is incorrect. Anybody who knows Brit's history knows almost nothing in the movie happened to her. It's based on a different girl with a different name and the story was loosly inspired...not even based, from Britney's life and her relationship with her mom. Actually, the movie is based on a book that Britney wrote with her mother called "A Mother's Gift". That aside, it's a good movie. I wasn't even going to give it a chance, but I'm glad I did because it's a cute family movie and although corny at times (especially the ending) the characters are very dynamic and you really feel a conection to her and her mom in the movie and the sacrifices they make for each other. The one thing I thought that kinda brought the movie down was the parts that actually had something to do with Britney, oddly enough. Like the madonna posters in the room just like "crossroads" and the fact that Britney was this girls idol and she kept singing "Stronger". These things weren't in the book and it's way too predistable and cliche for the producers of the movie to include them.

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