Scrubs: The Complete Seventh Season
January 5, 2009 by Samantha Burmeister
Filed under DVD
Yet another year of excitement and surprises, season seven of Scrubs entertains its viewers with wit and comedy conveying the lives of doctors working at Sacred Heart teaching hospital. Overall this show categorizes itself as a comedy filled with slapstick humor and goofy dialogue.
Throughout the past seasons, Scrubs has focused the plot around the life of the main character, Dr. J.D. Dorian, played by Zach Braff. During the seventh season, J.D. must come to terms with many things happening in his life. He faces romantic troubles with his love interest Dr. Kim Briggs, played by Elizabeth Banks, adapts to being a father, and discovers the overwhelming feeling of wanting someone he cannot and is not supposed to want and love.
JD’s best friend Dr. Turk, played by Donald Faison, a surgical physician, also faces some problems of his own this season. Currently married to the head nurse of the hospital, Carla Espinosa, played by Judy Reyes, he faces the possibility of having another child. Carla constantly presents this wish to Turk, hoping he will give in to her demands.
Surprises surround the other employees of the Sacred Heart hospital and are revealed throughout this season. Sacred Heart’s chief of medicine, Dr. Bob Kelso, is reprimanded for lying about his age. This accusation unites the cast of Scrubs in support of the doctor and they rally beside him for the survival of his job. The only question that remains is, how far can this support go up when up against the written words of the law?
Full of humor, this season of Scrubs, which was missed by viewers because of last year’s strike, is one of the best in the books as far as incorporating satire and story telling. At times, Scrubs may have been construed as a little dry, with somewhat small significance in its relevance to what it was trying to portray. However, this season multiple story lines are established with significant depth and connection.
Not particularly known for its emotional correlations in the past, season seven is full of feelings of love, struggle, and hints of just how far one will go for what they believe is the right thing to do. One thing is certain about this television show; it definitely has the ability to brighten anyone’s day and allows people to laugh off things and issues in their everyday lives that they might otherwise dwell on.
Next time when you feel as if your life is full of worry and concern, I would suggest turning on an episode of Scrubs. It definitely makes you realize that other people are going through the same kinds of things you are, except this time they have a solution: humor. Don’t forget to laugh every once in awhile. Season Seven of Scrubs will definitely help!
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Skinny Bitch Fitness/Body
January 5, 2009 by Ashley Queen
Filed under DVD
Just in time for the new year, Best selling authoress’ Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin, bring all us ladies searching for an easier and quicker means to get back our smoking hot bodies, a fitness video for all six pack ab wanting-firmer ass having-strong armed and lean leg swinging-bitches. With the slogan “Transform yourself from lazy lump to Skinny Bitch” Skinny Bitch Fitness, Body edition, gets its viewers motivated and ready to whip into perfect shape. The eighty-minute video focuses on abs, legs, arms and butt in twenty-minute increments that seems to fly by while along side energetic and saucy Rory and Kim. Feeling like you are visiting the gym with some of your girlfriends, the two encourage you to “beat the shit out those abs” while imagining being “dressed like a ho with the midriff showing this summer.”
Rory and Kim, whose best-selling book Skinny Bitches helped women “stop eating crap and start looking fabulous”, now uses a mix of yoga and martial arts to motivate and challenge women to shed unwanted pounds and feel good about the way they look. The video also includes a section devoted to meditation which imitates my real life meditation experience with girlfriends, including an eye peaking Kim who peaks over at me before breaking out in a storm of giggles only to be shushed by Rory. But alas, after the abs blasting, leg shredding, arm hell and butt burning, one can reach Zen feeling refreshed, rejuvenated and satisfied with her skinny bitch body.
With a no-nonsense attitude and a cheeky smile while delivering a burn you can feel by the end, one may over-look the fact that the former model and the former talent agent really have little to no credentials in body fitness. Unless you count the fact that the two savvy girls look great, with tight abs and long legs, one may argue that they may not be the most qualified as fitness experts. But it is for certain the two do get one motivated, pumping that heart rate up, strengthening arms and legs and having you feel like you have just got done sculpting the perfect ass.
Skinny Bitch Fitness, is a way for the skinny bitch, (as defined by Rory and Kim as someone who enjoys food, eats well, and loves her body as a result,) to get rid of the pouch once and for all. It promises to transform tree-trunk legs to traffic stoppers all while sporting sexy tank tops with your new skinny bitch arms. Like most women around this time of the year, I made a promise this new year, a New Year Resolution if you will, to drop a few unwanted pounds and to get myself feeling like the sexy, exciting and fun girl I once was when the sun was bright and the air was warm. While not always having time to go to the gym, I find that Skinny Bitch Fitness helps me feel like I am getting a well rounded work out, and along with Rory and Kim, I feel like I have my girls along side me motivating me, challenging me, and at times, wanting to die right along side me. I feel I will continue to work out via Skinny Bitch Fitness and who knows at the next “Taste of Chicago” you might look up and see a tiny little thing belly dancing in her booty short wearing an oh so risqué top and say to yourself, “ look at that skinny bitch’s body?” Yeah…provocative title isn’t it?
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The Tudors: The Complete Second Season
January 5, 2009 by Nicole Donatello
Filed under DVD
King Henry the VIII of England is widely known as one of the most tyrannical rulers in history. His temper, unappeasable manner and constant wandering eye make him memorable as an aggravating yet highly intimidating monarch, and Showtime’s depiction of his younger years will definitely get this across to its audience.
Season two of The Tudors focuses on the King’s constant battles with the Catholic Church of England to nullify his marriage to Queen Katherine of Aragon (Maria Doyle Kennedy). As the arguments continue, Henry grows more belligerent. If his marriage to his much older Queen who hasn’t been able to bear him a son- heaven forbid- can be cancelled out, he will be free to marry Lady Anne Boleyn (Natalie Dormer) his latest ‘love interest’ and future wife. Neither The Church of England nor Rome approves of the King’s sudden desire to take a new wife, as Anne is considered another one of his pursuits whom he’ll merely grow tired of. Anne’s father Thomas Boleyn (Nick Dunning) is portrayed as a real nasty piece of work, using his daughter as a pawn in order to achieve a higher power at court and more favor with the King. He’s well aware that Anne isn’t being well received but instead of protecting her and ending his quest, he sneakily removes anyone that may get in his or his daughter’s way.
Sir Thomas More (Jeremy Northam), an advisor and friend of the King seems to be one of the few decent, moral people in the show. He has a penchant for peace and begins to feel that Henry’s erratic behavior and hasty decisions are becoming too much to deal with. His disregard for Anne as the future Queen is what drives him to the edge and causes him to ask to abandon his position altogether to get away from the insanity at court.
Season 2 moves on to follow the rise and fall of Anne Boleyn, and the beginning of Henry’s newest courtship with Lady Jane Seymour (Anita Briem). While the series overall is interesting, it tends to lag a bit more than necessary at some parts. I’m not sure if this is an attempt to enhance the drama or to try and fill up the hour-long time slot but its nothing that causes me to fast forward. Also, there are some slightly risqué love scenes, nudity and unpleasant death scenes so this show is best suited for a mature audience. I didn’t exactly find all of this completely necessary. It seemed to me that it was thrown into the show just because it’s on a cable network and it can be but again, nothing that would make me stop watching the show altogether.
The actors are cast well, especially Jonathan Rhys Meyers. His piercing gazes and ability to explode into tantrums at the drop of a hat make him fearsome even on a TV screen. The Tudors is historically accurate and full of dramatic twists and turns. If you’re the type of person who prefers explosions and car crashes in a television drama then this is not for you. This series provides its plot be using subtlety and well-thought out plans that may take a whole episode or two to take place. It is chock full of deception, back-stabbing and conspiracies, just like court life was at that point in history.
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The Rocker
January 2, 2009 by Chris Lentz
Filed under DVD
At its base, The Rocker is a story about heartbreak and new love. That simple premise has been played out God-knows-how-many-times, with both wonderful and shockingly terrible results. It is such a timeless every-day human situation, I am positive it will continue to find its way into cinema as long as movies are around. What makes The Rocker different and interesting is that the love interest is not centered around a man or a woman, but music.
Rainn Wilson, better known as Dwight Schrute from The Office, plays Robert “Fish” Fishman, drummer and founder of the up-and-coming hair band Vesuvius in the 80s (led by vocalist Lex – played by Will Arnett). When the group hits the big-time after a show, their agent convinces them to let Fish go so the son of the label’s leader can play drums for Vesuvius. Fish’s reaction is both comical and mildly horrifying. You just know that what he does to the other members of his band is what anyone who has been let go dreams of doing.
But there is nothing comical about being let go by a band, by people you have come to trust. I have been in the same situation before, and let me tell you, it is very close to the same feeling one gets when they are dumped by a significant other. Fish is forced to watch from a distance over the course of a few decades while Vesuvius solidifies themselves as premier rock gods of the world. Fast forward through those decades, and Fish finds himself unemployed (rightfully so) and homeless. He temporarily moves into the attic of his sister, Lisa (Jane Lynch), when he wakes one morning to the sound of drums. His nephew Matt (Josh Gad) is the keyboardist for a band looking for a drummer. One thing leads to another, and Fish finds himself the eldest member of a band by at least twenty-five years. He’s doing what he loves, but he’s torn between living his dream and behaving like the adult he is (it wouldn’t be a comedy is he acted like an adult most of the time).
His band consists of the previously mentioned Matt, who is a more awkward, likeable version of Jonah Hill (not a knock on Hill, but it’s the best way I can describe Gad’s character), never-smiling bassist Amelia (Superbad and The House Bunny’s Emma Stone), and teen-angst-ridden guitarist and singer Curtis (real-life musician Teddy Geiger, who does a commendable job for a musician-turned-actor…usually a set-up for atrocity). Christina Applegate plays Kim, Curtis’ mom and the grown-up apple of Fish’s eye, though that relationship is never fully developed and, along with the lackluster but uplifting ending, leaves on with a bit of an empty feeling after viewing the film.
Thankfully, The Rocker is just way too funny for me to really care about those two simplicities. Wilson shines in the film, in all of his awkward hilarity (I drum nude…I won’t explain that statement but there’s no way you won’t know what I’m talking about after seeing the movie and no way you won’t love it). He plays perfectly a man who refuses to let go, who lives in the past to the point of a fault. In the end, is it a good or bad message to send to people? I’m not entirely sure. I think what one should come away from the movie with is the idea that you have to find a balance between where you are in life and your dreams. Don’t lean too far either way.
It’s one of the truly funnier and more emotionally uplifting films you’ll see in a while. I strongly recommend it for a good batch of laughs and smiles. And the music. It’s actually pretty good.
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Kyle XY: The Complete Second Season
December 30, 2008 by Crystal Lynn Cox
Filed under DVD
The ABC network television show, Kyle XY, is the story of a kid who suffers from amnesia and doesn’t remember anything about his past. He is a strange guy who seems to lack certain distinctly human characteristics, and later the family who adopts him discovers that he is the result of a human cloning experiment. His adoptive parents must protect him from things that seems to be still trying to pursue him. In addition to these things, the kid has some uniquely superhuman powers that are constantly manifesting themselves.
This 6-disk DVD box set features the original 23 episodes of the second season, as well as a small selection of bonus features. The set’s advertisement of features is slightly more exciting than the features actually presented within this set.
The final disk of the set contains the bonus features. The first is a menu of “Deleted Scenes” from the season. There are a total of 5 scenes in all, as well as an option of listening to the producer’s audio commentary on the selections. (Elsewhere in the set are featured another 22 deleted scenes.)
The second, and much more interesting feature is called “The Science of Kyle XY.” This video, which runs for about 7 minutes, explains where the creators of the show derive their scientific theory. This feature shows the show to be more intelligent and carefully planned than a viewer might expect.
This third bonus feature is an audio commentary by the producer and writers, on a single episode from the season.
Other bonus features hidden on the episode disks include an alternate ending and a behind-the-scenes video on the filming of the show, featuring actors Matt Dallas and Jaimie Alexander.
While this television show is deemed pretty popular, and receives wide recognition from fans as it enters a third season, the contents of this set do not meet the standards of many other television shows’ DVDs this year. Although the show seemed not to have suffered as much as many others last season (airing an astonishing 23 episodes), the bonus features could be a little more exciting, just to keep up with other shows of the same genre.