Blogcritics Author: Gerry Weaver

DVD Review: Animalia: Welcome to the Kingdom

Gerry Weaver — Tue, 7 Oct 2008 17:46:36 EDT

Graeme Base's Animalia, where animals rule, comes to gorgeous CGI life.
In 1986, Australian author Graeme Base made a very large splash in the field of children’s alphabet books with his gorgeously illustrated Animalia whose wonderfully rendered animals made it a natural pick to transfer to the visual medium of TV, and the result is a visually wonderful but occasionally narratively suspect children’s...

Fringe Writers Dish On The Future of Fringe

Gerry Weaver — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:39:05 EDT

Is Fringe part of the same reality as Lost? Find out more!
FOX’s new J.J. Abrams show Fringe may have had a slightly disappointing premiere, but last week’s ratings showed that this show has great potential to fill the niche carved out by The X-Files. With hit show House as a lead-in, Fringe was seen by 13.36 million people, which is a 48 percent increase from the debut episode. In a conference...

TV Review: "Dying Changes Everything" on House M.D.'s Season Five Premiere

Gerry Weaver — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:36:17 EDT

Hugh Laurie and Robert Sean Leonard show why they're the best team on television.
House M.D. returned for its fifth season on Tuesday, and what a return it was. In an emotionally wrenching episode, the denizens of Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital grapple with loss—and the realization that there is no ring road around grief. The key story, of course, is House and Wilson, as they face each other for the first time...

Joshua Jackson and Anna Torv To Host FOX's September 14 Fringe Rebroadcast

Gerry Weaver — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:47:00 EDT

FOX adds some goodies onto the encore of Fringe on September 14.
FOX debuted its highly anticipated but nonetheless risky new J.J. Abrams series Fringe in a special 90-minute episode on Tuesday, September 9. While solid, the ratings were not the blockbuster numbers the producers may have been hoping for. However, audiences will get another chance to tune into the pilot episode at 8 PM ET on Sunday, September 14,...

J.J. Abrams and Joshua Jackson on the Fringe of Science in New FOX Series

Gerry Weaver — Sat, 6 Sep 2008 17:13:21 EDT

Abrams and Jackson dish about their hotly anticipated new show.
On Tuesday, September 9, FOX invites television fans to “imagine the impossibilities” as the hotly anticipated new show Fringe makes its debut. Fringe takes its title from the branch of science outside the mainstream, on the cutting edge of what is known and believed possible. It’s an area of great interest to executive...

Bones Star David Boreanaz On The Season Premiere of Bones

Gerry Weaver — Wed, 3 Sep 2008 15:14:06 EDT

Bones's star on what's in store for season four of the popular Fox show.
I love September, the month that brings us crisp days, beautiful autumn colours, and of course, the season premieres of television shows. Bones will premiere from 8 pm to 10 pm (ET) on Wednesday, September 3, with a special two-part episode set in London, “Yanks In The U.K.” To dish some scoop (but not too much!) on the new season,...

DVD Review: Alfresco

Gerry Weaver — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:15:09 EDT

is an off-the-wall comedy series that launched the careers of some of Britain's biggest stars.
On August 26, Acorn Media will release Alfresco, a sketch comedy show that ran for two series on Britain’s ITV during 1983-1984. Drawing talent from the alternative comedy scene with Ben Elton, Robbie Coltrane, and Siobhan Redmond, and The Cambridge Footlights with Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, and Emma Thompson, the program is a bit hit-and-miss...

DVD Review: The Duchess of Duke Street, The Complete Collection

Gerry Weaver — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:42:45 EDT

The Duchess of Duke Street hasn't aged a day since this gem of a British heritage series was broadcast in the late seventies.
The Duchess of Duke Street was first broadcast in 1977 in Britain and a year later on PBS’s Masterpiece Theatre in North America. I watched and thoroughly enjoyed the series the first time around, so I was both delighted and a little apprehensive when I got the chance to review the complete collection of episodes from both seasons, coming out...

Book Review: The Smart Woman's Guide To Midlife & Beyond - A No-Nonsense Approach To Staying Healthy After 50 by Janet Horn and Robin Miller

Gerry Weaver — Mon, 4 Aug 2008 17:08:20 EDT

A reference for those of us facing fifty.
Physicians Janet Horn and Robin H. Miller have written a book dedicated to women going through the changes mid-life brings, and it’s a welcome addition to the self-help market. As the authors make clear, the book is not aimed at keeping one forever youthful, but rather at enjoying the age one is. They lay out health information and advice in...

Book Review: Lines From a Mined Mind - The Words of John Trudell

Gerry Weaver — Sun, 3 Aug 2008 15:39:59 EDT

Native American activist and poet John Trudell releases a collection of his passionate poems on struggle and resistance to exploitation.
John Trudell has released through Fulcrum Publishing an anthology of his poetry from his 25-year recording career and it is a powerful moving read from a man who has a lot to say on the state of the world and how we relate to each other. Mr. Trudell, a Santee Sioux, is a well known Native activist, and much of his poetry draws on Native imagery and...