DVD Review: Sid Vicious – His Final Hours

Sid Vicious – His Final Hours is a part of the Final 24 series covering famous stars last 24 hours before their death. It explains what led to the final moments of their life.

John Simon Ritchie at 19 was drawn to the punk scene and started hanging around other punks. He was seen at all of the Sex Pistols shows in all the pubs and eventually had become a member of the band. He became one of the iconic

Continue reading DVD Review: Sid Vicious – His Final Hours

DVD Review: John Belushi – His Final Hours

This is the latest in a series from the same producers, an examination of the final 24 hours leading up to the death of a well known person. In some ways they could be billed as CSI before it happened!

John Belushi was always a larger than life man. He found a home with the SNL Saturday Night Live crew. I might be wrong, but to me it was not so much what John said on the program, rather the

Continue reading DVD Review: John Belushi – His Final Hours

DVD Review: Anna Nicole Smith – Her Final Hours

Life in Hollywood always looks so glamorous to every day people. We see movie stars buying huge expensive homes. They wear expensive jewelry and clothes. They make everyone think how great it would be to be a star.

The problem is the price they have to pay to be where they are. What kind of pressures does a screen star have once the public eye is on them? They have to fight to keep up their image so the public

Continue reading DVD Review: Anna Nicole Smith – Her Final Hours

DVD Review: Hunter S. Thompson – His Final Hours – Final 24

Who was Hunter S. Thompson? To be honest when I got this DVD I knew very little about the man. After watching Hunter S. Thompson – His Final Hours – Final 24 I learned a lot more than I did before.

Parts of it allowed me to look at some of his life behind closed doors, the part where no one else sees. This DVD covers his early childhood days. He was popular as a teenager. Father died when Hunter

Continue reading DVD Review: Hunter S. Thompson – His Final Hours – Final 24

DVD Review: River Phoenix – His Final Hours – Final 24

River Phoenix under the name of River Jude Bottom was born on August 23, 1970 in Metolius, Oregon, who later in his short years became someone considered to be Hollywood’s Golden Boy.

His career started out in 1980 when along with his sister, Rain, he made his first appearance on a TV show called “Fantasy”. He was cast in a short lived TV series called “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” in 1982. Once he landed a part in Rob Reiner’s

Continue reading DVD Review: River Phoenix – His Final Hours – Final 24

DVD Review: Marvin Gaye – Final 24: His Final Hours

In my earlier years I was a huge fan of Motown Music. There weren’t too many that were part of the Motown group that I didn’t like. Marvin Gaye was a part of Motown. He was considered the Prince of Motown and yes I was a fan of his music. Some of his biggest hits includes “You’re a Wonderful One”, “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”, and “What’s Going On?”

Although he was a huge success in his music career

Continue reading DVD Review: Marvin Gaye – Final 24: His Final Hours

DVD Review: Keith Moon – Final 24: His Final Hours

This documentary, Keith Moon – Final 24: His Final Hours tells us about the last 24 hours before his death. In case you don’t know who Keith Moon is, he was the drummer for the band, The Who.

Moon was on medication to curb his appetite for alcohol. What he took was legal which he had a prescription for. He had been invited to attend a party by Paul McCartney to celebrate the upcoming premiere of the new film The

Continue reading DVD Review: Keith Moon – Final 24: His Final Hours

DVD Review: Janis Joplin – Final 24: Her Final Hours

If you were a fan of Janis Joplin then this DVD would be interesting to you for sure. I remember listening to her music, specifically “Me and Bobby McGee”. In fact the song was used on the last album she was recording just before her death. Although the entire album was not completed when she died, there was enough material that they could use to put the album together which also includes “Mercedes Benz”.

On October 3, 1970 Janis was

Continue reading DVD Review: Janis Joplin – Final 24: Her Final Hours

DVD Review: Nicole Brown Simpson – Final 24: Her final Hours

I am sure that most of us remember the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson. In this DVD we are shown the dark and tragic end of Nicole’s life. It is a documentary that puts together an in-depth psychological analysis of what life was for her during her last 24 hours alive.

On June 12, 1994 Nicole Brown Simpson seemed to have everything. She was vibrant, funny and beautiful. She had lots of money, a great body and two great kids

Continue reading DVD Review: Nicole Brown Simpson – Final 24: Her final Hours

DVD Review: Gianni Versace – Final 24: His Final Hours

In this Final 24 series we learn more about the last final 24 hours of the life of Gianni Versace’s life. Danny Wallace narrates this documentary for us. It gives us a look at the dark and tragic end of Versace’s life, piecing together his final day of life before he was brutally murdered at his home in Miami, Florida.

Gianni Versace was the most famous fashion designer in the world. All the famous movie stars loved wearing his designs, feeling they really helped their careers.

In

Continue reading DVD Review: Gianni Versace – Final 24: His Final Hours