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The Newsroom – Season 1 (Blu-ray)

July 22, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, Alison Pill, Dev Patel, Olivia Munn
Director: Various
Running Time: 600 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: July 22nd 2013

Aaron Sorkin’s TV shows are loved by some and loathed by others. While some have adored the likes of Sports Night, The West Wing and Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip, others have found them pretentious and too concerned with politics – and more particularly promulgating a left wing philosophy that has had some US conservatives frothing at the mouth. [Read more…]

Oliver Stone’s Untold History Of The United States (DVD)

July 3, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Oliver Stone
Director: Oliver Stone
Running Time: 600 mins
Certificate: E
Release Date: July 1st 2013

The fact this is ‘Oliver Stone’s’ Untold History Of The United States should give you a hint that this is not a series to toe the party line. Through its 10 episodes, Stone is determined to be as contrarian as possible, often to great effect but sometimes taking things a little too far. To be fair it’s an inevitable by-product of the project, which sets out to give the other side of US history – or at least what Stone seem to think is the other side, even when he’s saying things that most people now agree is true but which he seems to think is hidden knowledge. [Read more…]

Doogie Howser, M.D. – Season 1 (DVD)

February 16, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Neil Patrick Harris, James B. Sikking, Max Casella, Belinda Montgomery
Director: Various
Running Time: 600 mins
Certificate: PG
Release Date: February 20th, 2012

1989 was a more innocent time. It was a time when you could put a programme on TV about a 16-year-old doctor and rather than people going, ‘Hang on, this is a bit stupid’, it’d become a hit.

A very young Neil Patrick Harris plays the titular teen doctor, a genius who managed to get his doctorate at the age of 14 and now works as a 16-year-old surgeon in a hospital. Other than getting a few comments, nobody seems that bothered about being treated by somebody who should be at home popping pimples. [Read more…]