These “demigods of Canadian metal” inspired groups that went on to fame and fortune, and filmmaker Sacha Gervasi puts that out front and center, kicking off the doc with quotes from Metallica’s Lars Ulrich, Guns N’ Roses’ Slash, Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister, Anthrax’s Scott Ian, and Slayer’s Tom Araya.
In some ways, Sons of Anarchy is your typical family drama. Clay and Gemma head up the Tellow-Morrow clan, which owns a neighborhood auto-repair shop and struggles with messy divorces and bizarre love triangles.
After closing a drug deal in L.A., two bikers stash the cash inside a motorcycle fuel tank and head to Mardi Gras. Along the way, they get high, get arrested, and get their asses handed to them by a bunch of rednecks.
The Plot:
A slacker and his buddies track down souls that have escaped from hell.
Buy or Rent?
We hate to say it, but rent. We love the show, and season two had a lot of funny changes and developments, but as season sets go, it’s lacking (see below).
Added Value?
Not much, just commentaries, deleted scenes, and a [...]
The Plot:
The under appreciated MTV sketch show from the 1990s arrives in a five-disc box set.
Buy or Rent? Buy.
In the spring of 2008, Nerve and IFC published a list of the 50 greatest comedy sketches of all time, and the State landed on the list four times. Pretty damn good for a show with [...]
The Plot:
A washed-up baseball star returns to his hometown to teach middle school phys ed.
Buy or Rent?
Buy. In the mulleted Kenny Powers, Danny McBride (The Foot Fist Way, Land of the Lost) has an instant icon of a character: profoundly oblivious, arrogant, perpet ually angry—yet still vaguely likable. And viewers who spent the [...]
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The critically acclaimed, Emmy-winning series about the “golden age” of advertising: the 1960s. We love the hilarious dated references as much as the smart writing.
Buy or Rent?
Buy, and join us in our obsessive love of Christina Hendricks/Joan Holloway. We found parts of season one unnecessarily mysterious, but things really got cooking in season [...]
