The Dresden Files On DVD
WIN Season One!
Lions Gate Home Entertainment is soon to release the The Dresden Files - The Complete First Series, based on the best selling novels by Jim Butcher and stars Paul Blackthorne (24, Deadwood), Valerie Cruz (Nip/Tuck) and Terence Mann (Law & Order).
It was written and created by Jim Butcher. produced by Nicholas Cage and Norman Golightly and is an adult story full of wizards, dark forces and enchantment. The Dresden Files combines heavy weight super powers and magic with the modern day world, in which each exist side by side only unknown to most people… except for Dresden.
The Dresden Files is a contemporary story of good versus evil, with a twist. Harry Dresden is a private detective with unusual powers he has had since a child. Using these special powers, he helps those in trouble or need and regularly assists on some of the more bizarre and unusual cases that Chicago police investigator Lt. Karrin Murphy (Valerie Cruz) cannot solve.
The Dresden Files - Season One DVD Product Details
Recommended RP: £34.99
Certificate: 12
Feature Running Time: 500 Minutes
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Original Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Widescreen / Colour
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1
The Dresden Files - Season One DVD Special Features
Rules Of Engagement: Audio commentary with Michael Grossman, Paul Blackthorne and Robert Hewitt Wolfe.
Deleted Scenes: Rules Of Engagement, Hair Of The Dog
Things That Go Bump: Audio Commentary with Michael Grossman, Paul Blackthorne and Robert Hewitt Wolfe
Inside The Dresden Files: Making Of…
The Dresen Files: Series One will be reviewed in the future; until then, why not settle for a COMPETITION!
To win one of three box sets of The Dresden Files: Series One just answer the following:
Dresden’s first name contains no letters from which of the following words.
Is it:
A) Harry
B) Henry
C) Envelope
D) Valerie Cruz
Send you answers in through the competition page with your answer, name, age and email address.
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December 21st, 2007 at 5:27 pm
This series is probably the best example of the modern fantasy genera ever made for television. The writing is superb and intelligent, the acting outstanding and there is a subtle humour that runs through it that grows naturally from the situation. Anyone with a brain, an imagination, and an ability to embrace the idea of a world that runs under different physical rules than our own, but yet is internally consistent, should like this series. The books the series is loosely based on are also quite extraordinary, but I’d suggest viewing them as a separate universe, as there is little crossover save in the basic characters and underlying universe.
Along with this, Valerie Cruz, who plays Lt. Murphy, is very easy on the eyes, and she portrays a strong, intelligent woman with an underlying vulnerability, that is very human and endearing, to perfection. If you like smart, capable women Lt. Connie Murphy is extremely desirable, and it is a pleasure to visit with her as you watch the episodes.
The rest of the cast are equally brilliant, just being a straight guy I’m less inclined to wax poetic about them.
A good comparison for the level of writing is the first season and a half of Andromeda which is little surprise because the brilliant Robert Hewitt Wolfe was at the writing helm for the golden age of that show as well.
In short, in my opinion the only reason this show hasn’t gone on for an extended run is it was a bit too high brow for the mouth breathers in the audience. If you can walk and chew gum at the same time, it is one of those rare gems that TV occasionally spits out, well worth the price of buying the DVD.