Blogcritics Category: Video: Crime

Psych Returns To USA January 9 With All-New Episode

Daddypundit — Fri, 9 Jan 2009 13:16:36 EST

America's favorite fake psychic detectives are back and ready to solve more dastardly crimes.
A New Year means it’s time for new episodes of the hit comedy-drama Psych on USA Network. The fun starts on January 9 with a brand new episode written and directed by series creator Steve Franks.Gus (Dulẻ Hill) convinces his fake psychic detective partner Shawn (James Roday) to go with him to a funeral. But it’s not just any...

My Ten Most Anticipated Films of 2009

Arlo J. Wiley — Thu, 8 Jan 2009 16:29:40 EST

Boy wizards, undead monsters, and Inglourious Basterds.
Right now, 2009 remains a blank slate, untouched, full of promise. January is the graveyard month, during which studios drop mostly movies they don't care about, so it won't take long for the new year to become sullied. I'm thinking that this weekend's triple threat of Bride Wars, The Unborn, and Not Easily Broken are gonna get...

Scrub-bing In Again

Josh Lasser — Wed, 7 Jan 2009 19:19:47 EST

Sacred Heart and the team from Leverage make for a pretty good evening.
Boy, was last night a fun night of television. First up was Leverage, which really seems to have hit its stride. I was, as you may recall, initially concerned over the fact that the show's twists weren't very twisty. Happily, they seem to have abandoned the notion of doing a twist the past few episodes. It's a change that works far...

Movie Review: The Spirit (2008)

Chris Beaumont — Wed, 7 Jan 2009 06:55:17 EST

This must be what it is like to make comic panels move.
Here is a movie that I so very badly wanted to love. I love what Robert Rodriguez did with Sin City, not to mention what Zack Snyder did with 300. I felt fairly certain that Frank Miller could get something into similar territory when he stepped behind the camera for the first time by himself. No, I was not expecting The Spirit to be as good as Sin...

Blu-ray Review: Wanted (2008)

El Bicho — Wed, 7 Jan 2009 01:03:10 EST

I wanted my wasted time back after sitting through this mess.
Timur Bekmambetov’s Wanted is simply stunning. And it has to be, because if the viewers aren’t stunned by the frenetically paced action and loud soundtrack, they will see how utterly stupid the story is. Loosely based on the Top Cow comic book series written by Mark Millar and drawn by J. G. Jones, which had a terrific story that the...

Top 10 Worst Films of 2008

Ross Miller — Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:39:36 EST

A list of my top 10 worst movies of 2008.
"Ten at a Time" is a series of my top 10 lists of movies in different areas, like a particular year or lists of a more specific nature like a certain genre. Most of the lists will be retrospective, meaning I will be looking at years past, now having had the chance to view a lot of films I might not have seen in the cinema, and am now...

DVD Review: Burn After Reading

Kevin Gustafson — Tue, 6 Jan 2009 06:31:39 EST

The Coen Brothers comedy about espionage and physical fitness can�t pump enough humor to compensate for tiny DVD extras.
I figure we’ll all be old men before the Coen brothers start digging the special edition thing. The DVD of their latest movie, Burn After Reading, is slim on extras. Let’s see if I can learn to stop worrying about the special features and love the movie. Mixing comedy, drama, and the spy thriller, the film captures the chaos...

DVD Review: The Last Detective - The Complete Series

Richard Marcus — Tue, 6 Jan 2009 02:19:48 EST

He's not your typical television police officer and this is definitely not your typical television cop show.
If there wasn't any truth to an expression it probably wouldn't ever have been said, so although you can't take a saying like "nice guys finish last" as gospel, you can be sure there has to be some truth to it. One only needs look at the way the world conducts business to realize how a saying like that could have come about....

Reviewing the Damages

Josh Lasser — Mon, 5 Jan 2009 18:06:02 EST

So much TV is starting so soon, let's take a quick peak at Damages (and perhaps Nip/Tuck).
Well, it took long enough getting here, but the New Year has finally arrived, and that seems to mean, for both the broadcast networks and cable, that it's time to roll out a bunch of new shows. Or, at the very least, new episodes.I could be wrong, but I just don't recall so much TV starting up so quickly after the new year in the past. I...

DVD Review: Street Kings (Special Edition + Digital Copy)

Derek Fleek — Mon, 5 Jan 2009 02:42:22 EST

every line of nonstop banter rolls off the tongue like peanut butter, feeling entirely scripted (especially when cited by Keanu).
In a time of diminished respect for crooked cop flicks, Street Kings decided to try to revive a genre that is long past its peak since Training Day took awards. Imagine Street Kings as the little brother of Training Day, tagging along with an annoying sense of unintentional humor while simultaneously being loud and obnoxious. Unlike its older...