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I am excited about this giveaway because, check out the image, the giveaway is a Golf Channel prize pack! It includes a travel bag, tee bag with tees inside, official pen and golf balls with a logo. The giveaway is set up to promote a really awesome golf show called Feherty.

Feherty will premiered on Monday, June 20, 2011 and now airs every Tuesday at 9 p.m on the Golf Channel.

For the first time, fans of popular golf commentator David Feherty can enjoy his unmistakable wit and irrepressible personality on weekly television. Critically acclaimed, he has been called “one of the funniest men in the game” by Yahoo! Sports, “funny, irreverent and positively brilliant” by PGATOUR.com and a personality known for his “sharp wit and blunt humor” by the Dallas Morning News. The Feherty series will feature what the Northern Irishman-turned-American citizen calls “unfiltered” interviews with well-known and outspoken people from the world of sports, entertainment and golf, along with unique stories and anecdotes from his brilliant, yet zany mind.

“Some of the guests have big mouths but even bigger hearts,” said Feherty. “We have some great conversations, but I’m not sure, at times, if they are saving my life or trying to kill me. I’ll let the viewers do the math to figure that one out. Or better still, just watch.”

You can enter the giveaway by posting your name and let me know who you would most like to see on the show, or tell me who is your favorite golfer of all time. I will pick the winner July 18, 2011.

July 3rd, 2011 in DVD, Fun/Entertainment, GiveAways, TV

We have our winner for Pretty Little Liars: Complete First Season DVD!

Cici Carmona is our winner and she says, “I’m raging for you to pick me XD.” I hope you keep raging Cici because you now own the DVD! Congratulations!

Don’t forget to tune-in to all-new episodes of Pretty Little Liars on Tuesdays at 8/7c on ABC Family!

About Pretty Little Liars

Rosewood is a perfect little town. So quiet and pristine, you’d never guess it holds so many secrets. Some of the ugliest ones belong to the prettiest girls in town — Aria, Spencer, Hanna and Emily, four estranged friends whose darkest secrets are about to unravel.

One year ago, Alison, the Queen Bee of their group, disappeared and the girls swore they’d never tell what really happened that night. They thought their secrets would bond them together, but just the opposite is true. Then again, who’s to say what the truth is in Rosewood. It seems everyone in town is lying about something.

Now, as the mystery surrounding Alison’s disappearance resurfaces, the girls begin getting messages from “A,” saying – and threatening – things only Alison would know. But it couldn’t be Alison. Could it? Whoever it is, they seem to know all the girls’ secrets, and seem to be watching their every move. The girls are friends again, but will they be there for each other if their dark secrets come to light?

 

July 1st, 2011 in Action, DVD, Horror, Movies, Reviews, TV

I don’t know who let Roger Corman back into making movies, but this resurgence has brought with it a lot of the old fashioned monster movie. We’ve seen bizarre stuff: Mega Python Vs. Gatoroid, Sharktopus, a dozen other such strangenesses, and all thanks to Corman and his newfound partners in cinematic crime: the SyFy Channel. And today, thanks to the crew at Anchor Bay who sent a copy out for us to review, we’ve got one more: Dinoshark.

Dinoshark follows the titular creature as it’s just emerged from its hundred and fifty million year slumber in the heart of a patch of glacial ice. And after all that time, it’s feeling a bit peckish, so it heads in search of sun, surf, sand, and human beings: Mexico. And armed with huge jaws, enormous teeth, a hide more than bulletproof, and a downright prehistoric appetite for people meat, it’s going to lunch up a lot of humans before it meets its end. That is, of course, if it meets its end.

One thing that’s really dismaying about Dinoshark is that it takes about the first twenty minutes to see the monster really get going. Considering that this is a ninety minute movie, they really don’t have this kind of time to spare, to be frank. They need to get started right in with the dinoshark and the mayhem, not spend a lot of time on the beach checking out the attractive women in the skimpy swimwear. Not that they’re not awesome, of course, but they need to be better interspersed throughout the movie.

But for the most part, this is your op-standard, basic chunk of monster movie joy, the kind of which you normally find on the SyFy Channel’s lineup, or formerly, in Saturday afternoon matinees in the 1950s.

It’s got its charm–a very low-budget charm but a charm nonetheless–especially if you’re into monster movies and just love it when barely intelligent things the size of city buses or bigger decide to lunch up whatever–or whoever–happens to be in munching range.

Dinocroc is a surprising dose of low-budget fun, and if you’re looking for a monster movie to perk up a friendly get together, then you’ll likely do pretty well with this.

The Screenhead Ten Scale is very surprised to hand over a seven out of ten to Dinocroc, a surprisingly fun little movie that will do a good job of keeping your interest throughout. It’s not the best movie you’ll see this year, but it’s better than you might think.

I have three lucky winners for the Neil Young Music Box giveaway!

Vicki Dahlstrom won and she says, “I love Neil Young. I didn’t get to see him when he came to town. The tickets were just too
expensive. So, maybe, if I win, I would get to listen to him at home.”

Yup Vicki. You get to listen to him at home!

Kathy Emerick is our next winner, and she says, “OH.. brings back a lot of memories of Neil Young and the group Crosby, Still and Nash and Young. Wow I would love this.”

Our final winner is Nora Scott-Platt, who sums it up nicely, “I think I have grown old with Neil Young.”

You and me both!

Despite remaining a hugely original singer, songwriter, performer and, let’s face it, human being, across a career spanning almost fifty years, Neil Young has never been immune to the influence of others. This will be of no surprise to anyone with even a hint of interest in the man and his music, but only those who have studied their subject in depth will be aware of the enormous range of artists and genres Neil has both been affected by and drawn inspiration from, much of which, if one knows where to look, is apparent in Young’s incredible catalogue.

This film traces the astonishing musical journey of Neil Young from the day he first heard Elvis to his most recent offerings, via numerous talented artists who assisted in his creation of, arguably, the finest body of work to emerge during the rock era.

Extra features include extended interviews, digital biographies, beyond DVD and more.

Neil Young with Crosby and Nash: Party In The USA
It’s always a treat when Neil Young stops by, and this time David Crosby and Graham Nash were on hand to help him with Miley Cyrus’ ‘Party In The USA.’

June 26th, 2011 in DVD, Fun/Entertainment, GiveAways, TV

On behalf of SPHE and Screenhead, I have the winner for Hawthorne: Season 2.

The winner is Veronica Garrett, who says “I love the show. Thank for the giveaway.”  You are welcome Veronica, and I hope you have fun watching the Hawthorne.

Jada Pinkett Smith stars as Director of Nursing Christina Hawthorne, a passionate advocate for her patients who must balance the demands of being a widowed mother.

When cutbacks close Richmond Trinity, Christina and several of her fellow doctors and nurses join the struggling James River Hospital. She defies enormous odds to rescue a heroin-addicted mother, confronts angry protesters to save a death row patient, and takes on the entire review board to keep the hospital open.

On the home front, Christina also fights to raise her rapidly maturing daughter, while deciding if Christina herself is ready for a closer relationship with the Chief of Surgery Dr. Wakefield (Michael Vartan, TV’s “Alias”).

If you didn’t know, Jada Pinkett Smith is the wife of Will Smith, a great couple with two adorable children.

If you want to purchase Hawthorne: Season 2 DVD now, you can visit Coupons.com to save $5 when you buy the set now!

June 22nd, 2011 in DVD, Fun/Entertainment, GiveAways, TV

Win a Pretty Little Liars: Complete First Season DVD!

Don’t forget to tune-in to all-new episodes of Pretty Little Liars on Tuesdays at 8/7c on ABC Family!

About Pretty Little Liars

Rosewood is a perfect little town. So quiet and pristine, you’d never guess it holds so many secrets. Some of the ugliest ones belong to the prettiest girls in town — Aria, Spencer, Hanna and Emily, four estranged friends whose darkest secrets are about to unravel.

One year ago, Alison, the Queen Bee of their group, disappeared and the girls swore they’d never tell what really happened that night. They thought their secrets would bond them together, but just the opposite is true. Then again, who’s to say what the truth is in Rosewood. It seems everyone in town is lying about something.

Now, as the mystery surrounding Alison’s disappearance resurfaces, the girls begin getting messages from “A,” saying – and threatening – things only Alison would know. But it couldn’t be Alison. Could it? Whoever it is, they seem to know all the girls’ secrets, and seem to be watching their every move. The girls are friends again, but will they be there for each other if their dark secrets come to light?

To enter the giveaway, post your name and we will pick the winner June 29, 2011.

Giveaway:

Prize Includes:

• One Pretty Little Liars: Complete First Season DVD

June 21st, 2011 in Actors, DVD, Reviews, TV

The folks out at Lions Gate sent over a copy of a little something newer for us to try, another bit from the ABC lineup. Today we’re tackling According to Jim The Complete Third Season, just ahead of the release of According to Jim The Complete Fourth Season, which is actually on tap for later.

According To Jim The Complete Third Season takes us to Jim and Cheryl’s house, a regular couple of folks with three kids and a whole lot of relatives. Cheryl’s brother Andy is a frequent participant in Jim’s crazy schemes, but Cheryl’s sister Dana is usually on Cheryl’s side. Yes, it’s pretty much sitcom excelsior out here as Jim and Cheryl have a variety of wacky adventures that are solved within a half hour. They’ll attend bingo games, bilk old ladies, and compete with each other over who gets to do the grocery shopping.

Thankfully, while According To Jim is sufficiently straightforward that you’ll see many of the problems coming, and also how they’ll be solved, well in advance, there will be plenty of laughs. It really was a surprise that they’d insert so many good quality jokes into this, and I think a good chunk of what’s behind the unexpected quality here is the combination of Courtney Thorne-Smith and Jim Belushi. They work shockingly well together, and the end result takes the otherwise stale and predictable sitcom and gives it a little extra punch. It may sound mundane–that’s mostly because it is–but it’s mundane done extremely well.

It’s surprisingly clever, especially for some series on ABC. And it’s clear to see why it lasted as long as it did, especially if the rest of the series turns out like this one did. I didn’t catch this when it was on, but seeing it now makes me wish I had. And that may well be the highest praise I can give an old sitcom.

You’ll likely be pretty impressed with this one yourself, assuming you haven’t seen it already. It may be sitcom standard, but there are loads of laughs here, and that makes it a fine choice for those looking for a good time.

The Screenhead Ten Scale gives According To Jim The Complete Third Season an eight out of ten. It’s strange, but this gigantic lump of sitcom standard has a lot more comedy to it than you might expect. You’ll find it funny, no doubt, and that kind of laughter goes down smooth every time.

June 20th, 2011 in Comedy, DVD, Reviews, TV

We’ve been following the manic adventures of the Boy Meets World crew for since disc one, and the folks at Lions Gate got us out a copy of the next step in the series by sending out a copy of Boy Meets World Season Five. We’ve seen a lot of ups and downs in the series, and some downright insanity come out of this, but what will this season give us?

Boy Meets World Season Five represents the last year of high school for our familiar gang–best friends Cory and Shawn, Cory’s girlfriend Topanga, Cory’s and the rest–and of course, this year will be packed full of strange things and bizarre occurrences, leading up to the strangest of all as Cory proposes marriage to Topanga, despite the fact that neither has actually voted in a free election.

This year is going to be unusually heavy on the drama, for some reason, especially considering how previous seasons stacked up. And when you couple that with the fact that the characters are still bizarre and full of comedy in its own right.

How best to describe this? Well…okay. Anyone remember those old high school, or maybe college, chemistry classes where they tossed sodium into water and things burst into flame? Yeah, that’s exactly what this is. The sodium is the comedy. The water is the drama. And putting these two together is an unnerving combination. I never thought I’d use the word “unnerving” in connection with anything about Boy Meets World–I’ve seen like three seasons of this show now and I’ve never been able to connect the word “unnerving” to it. This combination is too weird for words.

In fact, there’s a line from the show itself that’s the perfect descriptor, in which Mr. Feeny looks squarely at the camera and declares in no uncertain terms: “It just gets weirder.” And this show’s been getting progressively weirder since its first season, but this one is a whole new level of weird. This is weird I would not have thought would be possible from this series. Boy Meets World was never supposed to be weird on par with X-Files, or worse. This is the kind of weird you might find in some YouTube videos. I haven’t seen this kind of weird since I saw the Candle Cove video.

The Screenhead Ten Scale gives Boy Meets World Season Five a seven out of ten for being bizarre in most every respect, and for being downright compelling due to its sheer unpredictability. This should not be this weird. This is a sitcom, from ABC. And yet, it’s entirely too lunatic to be anything but. How the last seasons will end leaves me baffled just to think about.

Neil Young “Here We Are In The Years” On DVD June 21
In-depth documentary tracing the enormous range of artists and
genres Neil has drawn inspiration from…

Despite remaining a hugely original singer, songwriter, performer and, let’s face it, human being, across a career spanning almost fifty years, Neil Young has never been immune to the influence of others. This will be of no surprise to anyone with even a hint of interest in the man and his music, but only those who have studied their subject in depth will be aware of the enormous range of artists and genres Neil has both been affected by and drawn inspiration from, much of which, if one knows where to look, is apparent in Young’s incredible catalogue.

This film traces the astonishing musical journey of Neil Young from the day he first heard Elvis to his most recent offerings, via numerous talented artists who assisted in his creation of, arguably, the finest body of work to emerge during the rock era.

I have three copies of Neil Young’s Music Box to give away!  To enter the giveaway, post your name and I will pick the winners June 28, 2011.

Extra features include extended interviews, digital biographies, beyond DVD and more.

Neil Young with Crosby and Nash: Party In The USA
It’s always a treat when Neil Young stops by, and this time David Crosby and Graham Nash were on hand to help him with Miley Cyrus’ ‘Party In The USA.’

June 14th, 2011 in DVD, Reviews, TV

Sometimes you look at something and you can’t imagine how anybody could enjoy it. Sometimes you’re convinced that something is going to be a total waste of time and perfectly good effort before you even give it a proper chance. And that’s exactly what I got with The PJs Season One, a copy of which the folks at Lions Gate sent on for me to review.

The PJs Season One takes us out to the Hilton-Jacobs housing project in the middle of scenic downtown Detroit (or so Amazon tells me–I don’t remember hearing mention of Detroit in the series, at least not here. Hit the comments section and tell me what episode it was in if you caught it.). And if you’ve been to Detroit lately you know how ironic it is to call downtown scenic. While it’s not quite as bad as The PJs portrayed it (or wasn’t back in 1999 when the series first emerged; it’s gotten somewhat worse since then), it still makes a good backdrop for the series. The Hilton-Jacobs project is something of an urban death trap, made worse by the apathy and semicompetence of building superintendent Thurgood “Super” Stubbs. His wife Muriel attempts to keep him on the straight and narrow with her longsuffering good nature, but finds her efforts often derailed by the preposterous cast of characters around her, such as irascible curmudgeon at-large and former thirties grifter Mrs. Avery, obese family the Hudsons (mother and father Hudson can’t actually leave their apartment due to their girth, and son Juicy seems well on his way to joining them), a Haitian vodouisant named Mambo Garcelle (more often simply called “Haiti Lady”) and more besides.

It surprised me how often I laughed at the various bizarre situations and events here. The residents of the Hilton-Jacobs found themselves in some strange positions, yet nothing that was out of the realm of at least believability. One episode, for instance, revolved around a penthouse apartment in the building that was nicer, and much larger, than the others. The residents each vied for the apartment themselves, but eventually found a different, and better, solution to their dilemma. They started a rooftop garden, a neighborhood watch, and attempted to save a ruined movie theater in the neighborhood, but at most every turn, something outlandish happened during their efforts and most of what happened was negated and often never discussed again in the grandest sitcom style.

Oh, and the whole thing’s filmed in Claymation. That just makes things even more surreal.

The end result is a surprisingly comic excursion that deals a few good chuckles, but not a whole lot of big laughs. I’m still laughing over the joke: “What’s behind every strong black man? Don King taking 90 percent.” That’s a quote, by the way–save your flames for the people who wrote it.

The Screenhead Ten Scale gives the reasonably funny experience that is The PJs Season One a seven out of ten. It’s got some good laughs, and though some may be offended (see the above example), many more may find some chuckles out of it. Some may even get both.

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