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Reviews and Retroviews
Ray’s Reviews: Kongo
Warner Home Video/Turner Entertainment Co. 86 min. (plus extras) Not Rated $19.95 Available May 3 Grade: 2.5 stars (out of 4) Kongo has been compared to Freaks, released only months before this 1932 movie, and for good reason, though it’s hardly as shocking … See More
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Ray’s Reviews: True Blood – The Complete Third Season
HBO Home Entertainment 720 min. (plus extras)/12 episodes/5 DVDs Not Rated DVD: $59.99/Blu-ray: $79.98 Available May 31 Grade: 3 stars (out of 4) Apparently, the creators of HBO’s wildly popular supernatural series True Blood heard the critics who regularly described the first … See More
Ray’s Reviews: Stan Lee’s Superhumans – Season One
A&E Television Networks 376 min. (plus extras)/8 episodes/2 DVDs Not Rated $19.95 Available April 26 Grade: 3 stars (out of 4) This History Channel show about real people with real abilities that transcend the apparent limits of the human condition astounds, at times. The … See More
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Tagged A&E, CBG, History Channel, Ray Sidman, Ray's Reviews, Stan Lee, Stan Lee's Superhumans, Superhumans
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Ray’s Reviews: Ka-Boom
IFC Films/MPI Media 86 min. (plus extras) Not Rated $24.98 Available May 31 Grade: 2.5 stars (out of 4) For those familiar with the works of writer-director Gregg Araki — The Doom Generation, Splendor, and Nowhere, to name a few — … See More
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Tagged CBG, Chris Zylka, Gregg Araki, IFC, James Duval, Ka-Boom, Ray Sidman, Ray's Reviews, Thomas Dekker
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Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes Vols. 1-2 DVD
Airing on Disney XD, The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes is the latest incarnation of Marvel’s biggest super-team. These two DVDs collect the series’ first 13 episodes. See More
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Ray’s Reviews: Testees – The Complete Series
Testees - The Complete Series Entertainment One 286 min. (plus extras)/13 episodes/2 DVDs Not Rated $24.98 Available April 26 Grade: 2.5 stars (out of 4) Testees offers an intriguing and potentially hilarious premise for this FX network adult comedy from last year: two guys who … See More
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Tagged CBG, E1, Entertainment One, FX, Jeff Kassel, Ray Sidman, Ray's Reviews, Steve Markle, Testees
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Ray’s Reviews: Archer – The Complete Season One
Archer – The Complete Season One Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment @3 hours/10 episodes/2 DVDs Not Rated $29.98 Available Dec. 28 Grade: 3.5 stars (out of 4) It’s not often that a clear successor to the twisted-and-wrong animation throne appears, … See More
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Tagged Archer, CBG, FX, Ray Sidman, Ray's Reviews, Skytanic, Sterling Archer, Twentieth Century Fox, Woodhouse
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The O’Brien Factor Extra: Why Comics?
Editor’s note: Due to a last-minute space crunch, Karen O’Brien’s column was squeezed out of CBG #1672 (Dec 2010). Here it is for your enjoyment. Why comics? The basic appreciation for art, character, and story is at the heart of … See More
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Tagged Jerry "The King" Lawler, Karen O'Brien, O'Brien Factor, reviews, why comics
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