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CSI Season 5 Part 1 (Region 2) DVD Review

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The beginning of the 5th season is somewhat of a hit and miss. CSI (Las Vegas) is the original CSI show with William Petersen as Gil Grissom the lead character. While a number of loner storylines progress there are two very interesting episodes. Down the Drain shows how a set of bones found in a storm drain results in the team finding a house filled with explosives. 

Then there is Mea Culpa where after evidence changes in a murder case resulting in the team becoming under investigation. 5.1 provides a lot of entertainment value and is worth a look to solid fans of the show. It can also act as a starting point for new ones. There are the usual few episodes that are not worthwhile though so a word of warning should be given. DVD extras include the standard commentary tracks minus key cast members. 

Verdict: +

CSI Miami Season 4 Part 1 (Region 2) DVD Review

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The DVD of the first half of the fourth season provides more questions than answers. CSI Miami stars David Caruso as the lead of a group of crime scene investigators. Season 4 Part 1 entertains using a large number of insulated storylines such as Urban Hellraisers about a group of university students who after playing a GTA style game decide to try scenes from the game for real. Even though anyone who has played a game will feel like shouting at the screen at some of the holes in the games design it’s a good episode.

There are also a few elements that develop into later stories and a few big ones on the three discs that are very interesting. What is a surprise is that there are no real bad episodes in this set. You should expect one or two but in this case it’s hard to find one that could really be considered a bad episode. One storyline has one of the CSI’s receive a nail in the head from nail gun and is about figuring out how it happened from the viewer’s perspective. It’s an episode shown from finish to start so you are just waiting for it to happen in a sort of perverse pleasure. DVD extras include a number of episode commentaries but none by David Caruso which is a shame. 

Verdict: +

The Dark Knight Teaser Poster’s out!

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Among the movies I’m looking forward to the most next year is The Dark Knight, the promising sequel to Batman Begins. Since Batman Begins is the only superhero movie I can bear and like (except for some ridiculous bits like Ra’s al Ghul’s involvement and such), I am naturally excited for its sequel. While its teaser trailer appears to be a way off, we certainly have news in the teasing section.

SuperHeroHype got the official The Dark Knight teaser poster! We give them their bodies’ worth of kudos and bring before you the poster itself! Click on the image below!

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Why so serious? It ties in with the viral marketing campaign that’s being tossed around the Internet lately, and hints at the new look of The Joker. I like the way they used the new Batman logo as Joker’s lips, although Joker’s trademark smile isn’t quite viewable. 🙁

Flash Gets Updated

Flash is the program that the majority of internet video websites such as YouTube.com, SplashcastMedia.com, etc. use to air its videos. Today the developer of Flash, Adobe, has released a new and free update to the software.

This update improves playback speeds of Flash videos. So if you want smoother playback on internet videos, and we know you want to watch StuffWeLike videos in as high quality as possible, download the new update today!

The Dorms Summer Edition

Funny enough, we never made The Dorms episode 2. After the successful first episode and the “want” to do more episodes, things caved in. Over the summer David Corwin and I went ahead and tried our hands making a spin-off to The Dorms called The Dorms Summer Edition. It failed. We never released it to the public because it was just so bad.

Having 3 people work from cameramen to actors to writers is not a good idea – especially when none of them are directly studying film. What a fiasco.

I’ve warned you ahead of time that the summer edition is a crappy spin-off, as all spin-offs are.

Enjoy.