Blogcritics Category: Video: Suspense and Mystery

DVD Review: Mannix - The Second Season

Luigi Bastardo — Fri, 9 Jan 2009 17:19:09 EST

Mannix is here! And Adam Becvar (aka Luigi Bastardo) jumps out of a big speeding car in his honor!
Every once in a while, I forget things. Other times, things just sort of slip past me. Take the arrival of Mannix: The First Season on DVD for instance. It came, I saw, I forgot. I didn’t want to forget it… as a matter of fact, I was very excited to see it released on DVD (as a complete season, too -- as opposed to another Vol....

DVD Review: Foyle's War - Series 5

Russ Evenhuis — Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:59:28 EST

DCS Foyle is back for the final year of WWII.
Two things the British do well on television are historical period pieces and mysteries. With Foyle’s War, history meets mystery and the results are astounding. It’s like curling up in a blanket on the couch with hot chocolate while the rain hits the window outside. The patient attentions to detail, the actors, the sets, the stories...

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...

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....

DVD Review: Cannon - Season One Volume Two

El Bicho — Sun, 4 Jan 2009 04:39:15 EST

Best left to be watched in syndication.
The entire first season of Cannon, another production from legendary television producer Quinn Martin, is now available on DVD with the release of Volume Two, which presents the remaining 13 hour-long episodes. These episodes aired from December 1971 through March 1972 and featured former Los Angeles police officer Frank Cannon as a private...

Blu-ray Review: Eagle Eye

Aaron Peck — Fri, 2 Jan 2009 10:39:21 EST

In the pantheon of big dumb action movies, Eagle Eye is one of the biggest and the dumbest.
The ShowEagle Eye is a fast-paced thriller that takes ‘suspension of disbelief’ to new heights. As a matter of fact it takes it to a whole new realm of comprehension. The movie is so unbelievable, so preposterous, that at some moments it’s fun and at others tiring.Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf, Holes) is the epitome of a...

DVD Review: Perry Mason - Season 3 Volume 2

El Bicho — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:17:19 EST

Perry and his team defend 14 clients on Season 3 Volume 2
Defense attorney Perry Mason is an iconic figure of detective fiction. Created by author and lawyer Erle Stanley Gardner, Mason first appeared in the 1933 novel The Case of the Velvet Claws and went on to appear in numerous novels and short stories. The character was the “King of All Media” before Howard Stern coined the term,...

DVD Review: Mr. Wong, Detective - The Complete Collection

Luigi Bastardo — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:59:26 EST

Adam Becvar (aka Luigi Bastardo) tackles one of Hollywood's most famous creations: bad casting.
For every Charlie Chan, there’s a Mr. Moto... and for every Mr. Moto, there’s a Mr. Wong.Hollywood hasn’t changed much. Sure, nowadays it’s all remakes, rip-offs, and mash-ups, but even in the golden days of Tinseltown, it was the same story (literally). It didn’t matter how new or original the idea (or character) was...

Blu-ray Review: LOST - The Complete Fourth Season

El Bicho — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:41:18 EST

Was it a mistake to get off the island?
If you haven’t watched LOST before, turn around immediately and go back. The series is a serialized drama that absolutely needs to be watched from the beginning to get the full impact of its storytelling. LOST - Season Four continues the adventures of the survivors of Oceanic 815 in one of the most imaginative television series of the...

Wayside Cinema: Harper

A.J. Hakari — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:18:08 EST

Paul Newman headlines as a private eye in this uneven but offbeat mystery.
Even a cynical soul such as myself can't resist the allure of a good private eye flick. Throw in an actor like Paul Newman, and my viewership is pretty much a done deal. Such is the case with Harper, a picture that adapted the sort of hard-boiled antihero so commonplace in the 1940s for audiences in the turbulent 1960s. While not a completely...