DVD Verdict: Mike Pinsky

Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends: The Complete Season 2

2007-11-28

Quote: "Whatever it is Craig McCracken and his crew is doing on this show, they should bottle it. But they should not let Bloo sell it, because he'll just get out of control again."

The Jazz Singer: Three-Disc Deluxe Edition

2007-11-08

Quote: "The Jazz Singer is definitely worth a look on its own, but packaged up with a great commentary track and enough extras to teach a film history course in early Hollywood, it may be one of the best DVD releases of the year."

Baby Einstein: Lullaby Time

2007-11-02

Quote: "Other recent installments in the series (My First Signs, for example) can be used to teach new things. Lullaby Time is designed to be entirely passive."

The Life And Times Of Allen Ginsberg

2007-11-01

Quote: "The rambling nature of the film makes it somewhat inaccessible for newcomers, and The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg is really less a straightforward biography than a meandering tour through the soul of the poet, much like his own poetry."

The Secrets Of Isis: The Complete Series

2007-09-26

Quote: "You may have feelings of nostalgia for Joanna Cameron (some of them may even be a little tingly, as she was pretty hot in that Egyptian tennis outfit). But be warned: your kids are not likely to warm up to this."

Little Einsteins: Rocket's Firebird Rescue

2007-08-29

Quote: "One of the things I like about the Little Einsteins series is that it works for early schoolers on several levels. Cultural history (in this case, Russia) is covered, and kids can see live action footage of the locations, see the architecture, and learn about the terrain and animals that live in it. Art and music are covered, and although the treatment is pretty simple, the show is really more about encouraging art and music appreciation, in the hopes that later you can teach your kids why Stravinsky's tonal innovations or Kandinsky's theories about geometric abstraction. Well, you should teach your kids more about these things. Little Einsteins is really only the first step in your child's climb toward cultural literacy."

Wait Till Your Father Gets Home: The Complete First Season

2007-08-22

Quote: "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home is middle-class domestic comedy with a streak of liberal stridency. Erma Bombeck meets Norman Lear."

Babylon 5: The Lost Tales

2007-08-15

Quote: "Fans + restless creator + marketable franchise = Babylon 5: The Lost Tales."

Myrna Loy And William Powell Collection

2007-08-13

Quote: "Powell and Loy were -- at their best -- about the fun side of romance."

Baby Einstein: Discovering Shapes

2007-08-08

Quote: "Again, there are no surprises here, so if you are trying to limit how many of these videos you have around the house, you might want to buy one with more unique location footage, maybe one which doesn't duplicate content you can get from a book you probably already have."