Blogcritics Category: Video: Crime

DVD Review: Midsomer Murders, Set Twelve

Vyrdolak — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 13:05:48 EDT

"This is the country...and in the country, anything goes." DCI Tom Barnaby, Midsomer Murders
The British mystery series Midsomer Murders debuted in 1997 and enjoys global success. Aired on ITV in Britain and on cable networks such as A&E and The History Channel in the United States, Midsomer Murders is highly popular in Thailand, Malaysia, South Africa, Russia, and the Ukraine as well as Europe, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada....

DVD Review: Intelligence - Season Two

Bill Sherman — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:34:41 EDT

Acorn Media releases the concluding episodes of this ambitious Canadian crime series.
When we last left Jimmy Reardon (Ian Tracey), at the end of the first season of Intelligence, the Vancouver drug boss and family man was in a bit of a pickle. Standing in the middle of a Seattle roadhouse with a disabled gun, surrounded by American DEA agents, his wife and daughter taken into custody, our anti-hero was definitely not in a happy...

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Movie Review: Observe and Report

Ross Miller — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:39:55 EDT

Despite some good supporting performances, Seth Rogen's new comedy is funny only in flashes; it's a big disappointment.
Observe and Report suffers from false advertising. The studio has pushed it as a broadly appealing, silly and ridiculous romp involving comedy's hottest ticket of the minute, Seth Rogen. But the broad comedy moments are few and far between, and in less than ten minutes the movie reveals itself as a weird attempt at a dark comedy that only at...

DVD Review: Burke's Law: Season One, Volume Two

Luigi Bastardo — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:45:45 EDT

It�s Burke�s Law -- we�re just living in it (no, wait�).
While all of the big companies out there seem to be pulling out all the stops in an effort to put every single television show (good or bad) on DVD and raking in the dough in the process, it’s nice to see one of the smaller, more “indie” companies like VCI Entertainment showing that they’re just as capable of running with...

Movie Review: Stray Dog (1949)

Matthew C Holmes — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:37:07 EDT

A new look at one of Kurosawa's masterpieces.
Fact one: Akira Kurosawa is a cinematic legend. A Titan among mice. Like Rumpelstiltskin spinning straw into gold, Kurosawa turned thin strips of camphor and nitrocellulose into pure cinematic gold. Fact two: Kurosawa directed 30-odd films during his illustrious career and only a scarce few are not considered masterpieces.Fact Three: Stray...

Movie Review: Observe and Report

Arlo J. Wiley — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:54:16 EDT

A mean-spirited, surprisingly flat comedy.
The Seth Rogen in Observe and Report is not the Seth Rogen we have come to know and love. Gone is the adorably scruffy slacker of Knocked Up or Zack and Miri Make a Porno, with his endearing, stuttering laugh. In his place is Ronnie Barnhardt, a meaty sociopath proud to call himself head of security at Forest Ridge Mall. Rogen's performance is...

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Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:54:16 EDT

DVD Review: Fallen Angel (2007)

Friend Mouse — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:56:11 EDT

Explore the making of a murderer in this British crime thriller.
Fallen Angel (2007) -- a British miniseries, based on the Roth trilogy crime novels by Andrew Taylor -- originally aired in Britain and is making its U.S. DVD debut on April 28. The story unfolds over three episodes and explores the making of a murderer: you learn who almost immediately; it’s the why that makes the mystery. In the first...

TV Review: Prison Break— "Mother Lode" is Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing!

Sharmila — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:08:11 EDT

Filled with noise, but sadly content was lacking!
After a long four-month hiatus, Prison Break returns to our screens with its 17th episode, “Mother Lode”. The ill-conceived hiatus proved too long a break because viewers needed their memories jolted in order to catch on as to what was happening in this episode. That was probably why Episode 16 ("Sunshine State") was...

Movie Review: Crank: High Voltage

Ross Miller — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:33:35 EDT

Everything you can think of in the way of over-the-top action, this movie has it in spades.
This review is written under the assumption that you've seen Crank, the crazy, over-the-top, loopy and insane action flick from unique filmmaking mad-men Mark Nevaldine and Brian Taylor. Although heck knows why you'd be interested in seeing the sequel, aptly subtitled High Voltage, if weren't interested in the original. It goes without...

TV Review: CSI: NY - "The Past, Present, and Murder"

NancyGail — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:05:42 EDT

Robert Dunbrook is back, and this time he has a lot to answer for.
This week could possibly be called Return of the Cipher. However, the title would not be nearly enough to describe what happens. The episode is far too big for that. Let me back up a bit and remind you of what started this storyline. Ann Steele was a corporate "fixer." If this is not obvious, it means she would step in after a business...

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Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:05:42 EDT