DVD Review: American Gangster

American Gangster
2-Disc Unrated Extended Edition
Directed by Ridley Scott
Starring Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cuba Gooding Jr., Josh Brolin, Ted Levine, Armand Assante, John Ortiz, John Hawkes, RZA
Rated R
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Available Feb. 19, 2008

“More important than any one man’s life is order.” -- Dominic Cattano (Armand Assante)

Maintaining law and order has been important from the beginning of time. However, when breaking the law and disrupting order becomes suitable and degrees of acceptability erupt, a truly tragic figure blossoms -- Frank Lucas. Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington) is a paradox. He is sensitive yet violent, he has ethics but is immoral, and completely composed yet explosively volatile. It is Frank Lucas’s oppositional code of life which led him to control the heroin drug kingdom from the late 1960s to early 1970s. With his new, almost 100% pure product and his structured drug council, Frank Lucas took the illicitness and covertness of drug trafficking to a new level...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!

DVD Review: Friday Night Lights (TV)

Ok, how many of you assumed that Friday Night Lights was just Dawson's Creek with football?

Yeah, me too. I kept seeing the commercials for the show and I can honestly say, I had no interest. Then I found out that I was going to get the complete first season on DVD for review and I immediately assigned it to someone else. But as fate would have it, the DVD arrived too late for me to send it out. So guess who got stuck watching 22 episodes of Friday Night Lights this weekend?

That's right, me, and I'm glad I did because after watching the pilot, I was like, "This is the best fucking show."...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!