Stars: John McCafferty, Robyn Blythe, Darwyn Carson, Beano, Debra Lamb, Mark Lasky, Bill Whitehead, Kent Butler | Written and Directed by Mark Pirro
I have an a long history with Deathrow Gameshow, just not a history that actually involves seeing the film however! You see, when I was in college I used to spend all my free time at a local flea market scouring the stalls for ex-rental VHS tapes. And I stocked up big time. However there was one film I never bought but one that seemed to follow me everywhere I went… Deathrow Gameshow. Every stall seemed to have a copy of the old VHS tape but each and Every tape had issues: mold, damage, torn cover, etc. So I never bought it; and – unless I missed it – the film never made the transition to DVD here in England…
But now comes the Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray which features...
I have an a long history with Deathrow Gameshow, just not a history that actually involves seeing the film however! You see, when I was in college I used to spend all my free time at a local flea market scouring the stalls for ex-rental VHS tapes. And I stocked up big time. However there was one film I never bought but one that seemed to follow me everywhere I went… Deathrow Gameshow. Every stall seemed to have a copy of the old VHS tape but each and Every tape had issues: mold, damage, torn cover, etc. So I never bought it; and – unless I missed it – the film never made the transition to DVD here in England…
But now comes the Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray which features...
- 11/14/2016
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
By Darwyn Carson - If not for a twist of fate and a bit of luck we might never have been witness to David Suchet as the titular character in the long running television series Agatha Christie’s Poirot. It’s true. Skilled actor (and my newest hero) Suchet, was in Los Angeles recently performing in the award winning play, The Last Confession, at the Ahmanson. While Suchet was here, and in anticipation of the premiere of Poirot’s thirteenth and final season, Acorn TV took the opportunity to host a showing of Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case at The Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills. The Q&A afterward, with Suchet, led by Los Angeles Times Television Editor Robert Lloyd,...
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- 7/26/2014
- by Darwyn Carson
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
by Darwyn Carson - In a sea crammed with vampire centric graphic novels, books, TV shows and films this one, The Strain, is not typical romanticized bloodsucking fare. It starts simple enough. Regis Air Flight 753, out of Berlin, goes dark after landing at JFK. The pilots don’t answer when hailed: there is no movement, no sound, nothing from within. Window shades are down. It is a dead plane on the tarmac. The cavalry arrives in droves; Swat, Homeland Security, CIA, Nsa and the FBI; everyone is called in and each one wants jurisdiction. It is Dr. Ephraim Goodweather (Corey Stoll) of the Centers for Disease Control—the Cdc—who makes his case quite adroitly and muscles...
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- 7/13/2014
- by Darwyn Carson
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Guest post by Darwyn Carson - Dr. Ephraim Goodweather (Corey Stoll) Aka Eph. Chief Medical Officer for Centers of Disease Control New York branch; he’s really-really good at his job, but he’s never handled a pathogen like this. His skills and those of his fellow Canary team Cdc members, Nora Martinez and Jim Kent, will be pushed beyond their limits. Biochemist Nora Martinez (Mia Maestro) Eph’s second-in-command and his right-hand “man,” she’s one of two that has his back. Very sharp, but more than that she has a no-guts-no glory attitude and an inner intuition which she keeps in check. Both traits could be to her benefit or detriment depending on the situation in which...
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- 7/13/2014
- by Darwyn Carson
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Guest post by Darwyn Carson — Victorian era pulp fiction by another name could have been Penny Awful, Penny Number, Penny Blood or Penny Horrible. The name that caught was Penny Dreadful. It all added up to luridly explicit stories printed on pulp paper to be woven into cheaply bound booklets. Popular in the 19th century these stories played out over weeks at a time and were a major source of entertainment for the working class adolescent—mostly young boys—of the period. The plots varied, but the aim was the same; to scare and to enthrall. Most importantly: to leave the reader wanting more so that he couldn’t wait to shell out another penny the next week, and the week after that and...
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- 5/10/2014
- by Darwyn Carson
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Guest Review by Darwyn Carson – “Just one. I’m a few. No Family Too. Who Am I?”Last year no one knew what to expect. The burning question was: “Who is Orphan Black?” This recap is for anyone who saw Orphan Black’s virgin season and want a fast refresher and for anyone who’s curious about the buzz surrounding the techno-thriller. So if a catch-up marathon event isn’t in your future either, read on for a summarizing of selected season one highlights.There was this girl. Pretty much all we knew and isn’t there always a girl? This one was youngish, sporting a rock and roll street-smart vibe, exhibiting empathetic traits and a quick mind; but not a lot of impulse...
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- 4/19/2014
- by Darwyn Carson
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Guest review by Darwyn Carson Right off, I admit there's a soft spot in my heart for British-produced mysteries and dramas. The Last Detective is right at the top of my fav's list. This lighthearted BBC TV-fare, based on the Dangerous Davies novels by Leslie Thomas, escaped my attention until last year after Acorn released season four on DVD. I watched it all one weekend and wanted more. Lucky me: Acorn is distributing the entire series in one package (17 episodes) and I get to see how Detective Constable Davies came to be nicknamed Dangerous—he is not—from the very beginning. Peter Davison stars as Davies, a forty-something man on the fast-track to nowhere in the township of...
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- 4/18/2014
- by Darwyn Carson
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
guest review by Darwyn Carson With a solid reputation for superior dramas, PBS’s Masterpiece Theatre has undoubtedly been a hard act to follow. Now its close cousin, Masterpiece Contemporary raises the bar tonight with the tightly woven political thriller, Page Eight. Writer-director David Hare (the playwright perhaps best known in the States for his screenplays The Hours and The Reader) has culled together a terrific cast of players led by Bill Nighy that includes Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Judy Davis, Felicity Jones, and Rachel Weisz. A traditional spy drama, taut with suspense, Page Eight almost feels sophisticated in its darkness, with undercurrents of danger lurking in...
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- 4/18/2014
- by Darwyn Carson
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Guest review by Darwyn Carson - Good news all! Acorn Media Group, the first company to provide live streaming of the best in classic and contemporary British television, recently expanded the service, which launched in July of 2011 with a roster of six series and 40 hours of programming online at any given time. Now viewers have complete episodes of 10 series and 60 hours of programming accessible. There’s so much material—a lot of it never seen before in the States. Two new shows are rotated in weekly (as the oldest shows are rotated out) and remain in the schedule for five weeks, allowing ample time to watch your favorites or never-seens. First episodes are gratis, so if you’re a BBC...
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- 4/18/2014
- by Darwyn Carson
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Because I spend so much time watching and writing about movies, I don’t get to follow as many TV series as I’d like. That’s why I’m happy to turn over the site today to my colleague Darwyn Carson, who (like many of you, I suspect) can’t wait for Sherlock to return to television this coming weekend.Are you Sherlocked...? Preparing for the Resurrection by Darwyn CarsonIt’s been nearly two years since The Reichenbach Fall and the deadly confrontation between Sherlock and his psycho-nemesis Moriarty, wherein our hero flung himself off the rooftop of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. He lay dead in the streets. We all saw him. His only friend, John Watson saw him too and though we,...
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- 1/14/2014
- by Darwyn Carson
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
guest review by Darwyn Carson We’ve all heard it. Someone channel surfing tosses the remote aside and says: “Over a hundred channels and nothing’s on TV.” Seems times have changed. Point of fact, the viewing pendulum has swung from nothing to watch to too much to watch. There’s an awful lot of quality programming being produced and there are just so many hours in a day, making it necessary to pick and choose. Below are a few highlights from all that’s playing now or soon will be. First up: “Who is Orphan Black?” That was the tease. Great line, right? BBC America used it to promote this upcoming addition to its Supernatural Saturday roster several...
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- 3/31/2013
- by Darwyn Carson
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Guest review by Darwyn Carson Suffering from Copper withdrawal yet? No worries. Another period-based crime thriller is just around the bend. Lying in wait down a dank, cobbled alleyway, Ripper Street is more than enough to keep BBC America drama lovers ecstatic until Corky pummels his way back to our TV sets. The time: 1889. The place: Whitechapel district – East End, London. The situation: Police and common folk alike are jumpy, not fully recovered from the murderous reign of the still-at-large Jack the Ripper. It doesn’t matter that the murders have ceased. The silence, though welcome, is heavy with a sense of unease and dread. Is he...
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- 1/17/2013
- by Darwyn Carson
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
by Darwyn Carson Happily, the third season of one of my favorite Canadian television shows is available through Acorn Media on Blu-ray and DVD. Based on Maureen Jennings’ best selling detective novels, Murdoch Mysteries is a whole lot of fun; a turn-of-the-century forensics show with Montreal native Yannick Bisson (Sue Thomas F.B. Eye) starring as the attractive and curiously inventive detective William Murdoch.The mystery storylines, mixing equal parts historical fact and plausible fantasy, are structured around cases which inevitably employ some newfangled invention in the solving of the crimes. Timelines and specifics are toyed with. For instance, celebrated figures of…...
- 7/11/2011
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
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