Raising the Bar: The Complete First Season on DVD

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Yep, it's two DVD reviews today,  not because nothing else is going on but because I have once again been playing catch-up with everything I have going on online, and all of a sudden the very nice lady who sent me Raising the Bar: The Complete First Season is reminding me that it came out THREE WEEKS AGO. So, here's the thing- I LOVE THIS SHOW. I watched a few episodes during the season, but when I got the box set, I watched 2 or 3 episodes every night until I went through the whole thing. And now I am totally hooked. I have Season Two on a series recording on the DVR and it just keeps getting better and better. If you're not familiar with the show, here's what you need to know. "Raising the Bar" was created by Steven Bochco, the creator and episode writer of such award-winning shows as "Hill Street Blues", "Doogie Howser, M.D.", "L.A. Law", and "NYPD Blue".   Although it is an ensemble cast, the star of the show is Mark-Paul Gosselaar, who also starred in Bochco's shows … [Read more...]

Confessions of a Shopaholic Blu-Ray review

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The movie "Confessions of a Shopaholic" is based on the book by the same name, by author Sophie Kinsella, but the movie changes the book's plot considerably, while still maintaining the basic idea. Isla Fisher ("Wedding Crashers") plays Becky Bloomwood, a young, single gal who loves to shop. Walking into a store is like walking into a holy place for Becky, and if the clothes are on sale, even better. Unfortunately, what she doesn't like doing is opening her credit card bills and paying them. Her roommate Suze (Krysten Ritter of TV's "Breaking Bad") helps her out by not cashing her rent checks, but when bill collector Derek Smeath (character actor Robert Stanton) begins pursuing Rebecca with a vengeance, she realizes she'd better start paying her bills. Her dream is to work for  fashion magazine Alette, but she takes a job at another magazine published by the same company, a magazine with the ironic name "Successful Saving".  There she meets ultra-suave Luke Brandon (British … [Read more...]

Win a Poken for BlogHer from MomSpark

When I went to the Stouffer's event in May, we met up the night before the event in the hotel bar for dinner and drinks and dessert and more drinks. And a couple of people at the table had these little...things that they tapped together and the things lit up and everybody went ooooooh. Those things were called Poken, and they are the absolute cutest way to trade information with another person EVER. Business cards are great for sharing basic info like your email address and cell number, but Poken let you share all of this: Twitter ID, Facebook Profile, MySpace URL, LinkedIn URL, Skype address, Gtalk address, Yahoo chat address, and MORE. If you are going to BlogHer and want to win a Poken to take with you, head over to MomSpark and enter to win an adorable Geisha Poken by July 6th! … [Read more...]