[Tues, 28.Feb.06]
:. Duke Ellington, Love You Madly/A Concert of Sacred Music at Grace Cathedral
Call it a Portrait of an Artist as a Gentleman, this reissue captures the sophisticated grace of Duke Ellington.
:. My Date With Drew
It is a starfucking free-for-all, revealing the sad desperation of a film industry fringe-dweller.

[Mon, 27.Feb.06]
:. Survivor Pearl Islands - The Complete Season
So open and genuine-seeming, Rupert had America at "Argh".
:. Andrew W.K.: Who Knows? Live In Concert: 2000-2004
Party hard! Just don't ask too many questions about the man himself.

[Fri, 24.Feb.06]
:. Tori Amos: Fade to Red: Tori Amos Video Collection
In an era when entertainment was taking over as the principle medium for the communication of ideas, it would not be a stretch to say that Amos was among the leaders of the last (but presumably not final) wave of feminism.
:. Syd Barrett: Under Review
While not authorized by anyone, this documentary features some great interviews on the music that Pink Floyd's stranger/ legend/ martyr showed in his brief career.

[Thur, 23.Feb.06]
:. The Time Tunnel Volume One
Alas, The Time Tunnel's scientists weren't able to zap its heroes out of harms way, after all.
:. Funkmaster Flex: Carshow Tour
Do you like Spike TV?

[Wed, 22.Feb.06]
:. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: The Road to God Knows Where/Live at the Paradiso
Nick Cave has always seemed misplaced, of another era. An Australian whose '60s-retro skinny suits and 19th century face have lived all over Europe, Cave looks and sings like an old soul.
:. Cream: Royal Albert Hall, London, May 2-3-5-6, 2005
After a long absence, God... err, Eric Clapton has returned, and along with Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce, has resurrected the deity known as Cream.

[Tues, 21.Feb.06]
:. Breakfast at Tiffany's (Anniversary Edition)
I suppose we should just count ourselves fortunate Capote didn't write any Indian characters into Breakfast at Tiffany's, otherwise Blake Edwards might have asked Peter Sellers to break out the boot polish.
:. Live From Da Crib
Rappers shout, crowd members fight, and through it all Teddy T hosts like a man possessed... this is like Christmas in February.

[Mon, 20.Feb.06]
:. The Sugarcubes: The DVD / Live Zabor
With her pixie-like looks, dazzling vocal range, and mesmerizing stage presence, it was hard not to focus on Björk.
:. Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson Uncensored!
About as funny as anything involving Andy Dick has ever been: this sums it up for this whole roast experience, really.

[Fri, 17.Feb.06]
:. Eels with Strings: Live at Town Hall
In its best moments, Live at Town Hall completely draws you in, and when it's not reaching those lofty heights, it's still a solid performance.
:. Proof
As John Madden says, the film's central issue is 'validation', in emotional and familial, as well as mathematical and metaphorical, frameworks.

[Thur, 16.Feb.06]
:. Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Bueller Bueller Edition
Call us the Breakfast Club Generation. We are all Molly Ringwald.
:. Bloc Party: God Bless Bloc Party
Bloc Party just might be receiving a few premature blessings here.

[Wed, 15.Feb.06]
:. Can DVD
Capture Can's potent, not to mention legendary, live presence during their peak years.
:. The Best of the Electric Company
This retrospective displays the lasting power of entertaining education.

[Tues, 14.Feb.06]
:. Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
From its early moments Guerrilla breaks down how terrorism becomes a function of its audience.
:. Franz Ferdinand: Live
Franz enters the DVD market with more live footage of the band than you will ever need in your entire life. Lucky, lucky, you're so lucky!

[Mon, 13.Feb.06]
:. The Blitz: London's Longest Night
The Blitz offers more "human drama" than something you might find on the History Channel, and will also satisfy military buffs.
:. Significant Others: The Complete Series
We see them from the point of view of an unseen, unheard therapist. Here, the series invites us to be Dr. Phil.

[Fri, 10.Feb.06]
:. Voices of Civil Rights
These programs would serve the cause of social justice more effectively by reminding viewers that the civil rights movement is not awaiting its finishing touches, as they suggest; instead, its moribund body is awaiting resuscitation at the hands of a compassionate public.
:. Sasha & Digweed: Delta Heavy
If there's one thing this DVD -- and the success of the Delta Heavy tour in general -- proves, it is that the audience for electronic music in America is there.

[Thur, 9.Feb.06]
:. Serenity
"He's homemade," Joss Whedon says of Mal. "And he's kind of a schmo a lot of the time."
:. Culturama 666, Vol. 2
Innovative, imaginative, and inventive enough to prove that, nay-sayers or no, hip-hop is without a doubt still most alive and well.

[Wed, 8.Feb.06]
:. A Time for Burning
What did these decent folk finally do to resolve racial inequalities? Well, they elected Nixon, whose policy of "benign neglect" meant letting the inner city fester and rot.
:. Ian Anderson: Plays the Orchestral Jethro Tull
For a non-Tull Tull, it's a good Tull, but hardly an essential Tull.

[Tues, 7.Feb.06]
:. Elizabethtown
The DVD of Elizabethtown is called the Widescreen Special Collector's Edition, though there's not one thing special about it.
:. Benjamin Franklin / John & Abigail Adams (American Experience)
While the self-improvement rhetoric starts to sound a little too much like Dr. Phil, the program does convey the excitement of Franklin's ideas.

[Mon, 6.Feb.06]
:. Land of the Lost: The Complete Series
Gerrold understood that sci-fi was more than just weird looking places and strange monsters. It was about story, and characters, and audience identification.
:. Eleanor Roosevelt (American Experience)
The documentary illustrates how she galvanized others and made common cause for women's rights and civil rights in particular.

[Thur, 2.Feb.06]
:. Unknown Chaplin: The Master at Work
With its brilliantly in-depth and astutely investigated look at Chaplin's work this documentary should have a home in any film lover's collection.
:. Benny Hill Complete and Unadulterated - The Hill's Angels Years, Set Four (1978-1981)
This is a large collection of Benny Hill's TV work, which is only fit for people that never tire of naughty humor.