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"Pitfall" - Mid-Life Crisis On The Slow Road To Hell by rkingfish Pros: Raymond Burr stalks Lizabeth Scott. Both tragically unlucky at love.
Cons: VHS format release allegedly restored by the UCLA Film Archive. Coulda fooled me. What is it about happily-married middle-aged men who develop a wandering eye Insurance man John Forbes (Dick Powell) is stuck in a rut ldquo;six feet deep rdquo;. Scene one of Pitfall< b> is a clever set-up designed to demonstrate the yawning extent ...
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Oct 08 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Naked Boys Singing - 2007 by susidee34 Pros: performers, music, dancing
Cons: none I can't tell you when I have enjoyed a musical more than I did the movie release of the stage play, Naked Boys Singing< b>. Written by Stephen Bates and Marie Cain; directed by Robert Schrock and Troy Christian, this 95 minute show won the GayVN Award ...
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Oct 07 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Here We Go Again... by froobius Pros: Two classics...
Cons: ... and one piece of debris. For the second time in four years, the first three Indy< b> movies have arrived on DVD... and aren't we pleased about that Well, if you, like me, missed them the first time around, there's no better time to add Dr. Jones< i> to your home video ...
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Oct 07 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Psycho 4: the secret origin story by moe-zilla  Pros: Finally we get the backstory of Norman Bates and his mother!
Cons: Too much information? 30 years after the original "Psycho," Anthony Perkins returned to portray Norman Bates yet again. In "Psycho IV: The Beginning" a radio talk show host hears a very lurid story from caller Bates: how he grew up to become a killer. Written by the author of ...
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Oct 07 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Can Psycho 2 top Hitchcock's original? by moe-zilla Pros: Suprises, suspense, scares, and Meg Tilly
Original cast brings the story back to life Cons: Lots of plot twists -- TOO many? "Psycho II" packs surprises. 23 years after Alfred Hitchcock's original 1960 thriller "Psycho," Anthony Perkins returned as the troubled Norman Bates, and the movie's posters showed him standing ominously in front of the original film's famous scary ...
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Oct 07 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Lots of Shadows, Lots of Doubt by andaryl Pros: Typical Hitchcock suspense and direction
Cons: Not his most suspenseful Director Alfred Hitchcock was quoted as saying that Shadow of a Doubt was his favorite among his own movies. It was released in 1943 and was based on the case of the real-life "Merry Widow Murderer," Earle Leonard Nelson, a mass strangler of the ...
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Oct 07 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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An Appropriately Mysterious Film Biography of the Great Agatha Christie by befus Pros: Highly creative story-telling; Williams; Massey; Coulthard
Cons: A few eerie nightmarish scenes feel really intense I was in an Agatha Christie mood the other day and asked my husband to see if the library had any of the recent Poirot or Marple mysteries on DVD. They were all checked out (a tribute to the ongoing popularity of one of the greatest mystery writers of ...
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Oct 07 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Two Great Number Twos Top 2002 by bilbopooh After the excitement of Fellowship of the Ring< b> in 2001< a>, 200 ...
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Oct 07 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Rough Science - Science Unplugged by AliventiAsylum Pros:
interesting premise Cons: inconsistent technology made available to the scientists, no time to really know and understand personalities With the popularity of the reality genre, PBS tried to take it up a notch with their own entries. The "House" series was a fairly successful attempt to see if people would watch something that was educational as well as entertaining under the reality ...
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Oct 07 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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What Do You Do When The Wolf Is At Your Door? by coldsteel7 Pros: Rory Cochrane's performance.
Cons: Sluggish at times. I watched Right at Your Door< i> as a viewer looking for entertainment. I had some issues with factual aspects of this film, but allowed myself the indulgence of accepting the premises put forth in order to enjoy this film. Initially, I thought ...
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Oct 07 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Dying for the Vernacular by msiduri Pros: Interesting and sad information
Cons: Some sensationalism, some information left out, theme of Bible translation leading to democracy not convincing What I rsquo;ve Said Before According to the PBS web site, ldquo;The Secrets of the Dead rdquo; is a series that ldquo;unearths evidence from around the world, challenging prevailing ideas and throwing fresh light on unexplained ...
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Oct 07 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Oh, broken-hearted Hoover fixer, sucker guy... by gaelkm Pros: great songs
Cons: some foul languge I watched "ONCE"< b>, not just once, but twice. :)That being said, this is a very different kind of film. It comes across almost as "homemade" -- an indy movie. It feels as if the filmmaker just chose two people off of the street to begin ...
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Oct 07 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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A Gem from the Past by andaryl Pros:
Cool concept, Kirk Douglas Cons: Below average support cast Ace in the Hole is a black and white 1951 film noir, written, directed and produced by Billy Wilder and starring Kirk Douglas. Wilder was already a big name at the time following Sunset Boulevard, The Lost Weekend and Double Indemnity. Ace in the Hole ...
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Oct 07 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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New Perspective on a Classic by BlackBear Pros: Amazingly real special effects
Cons: Long film that has to be scheduled carefully to watch in a single sitting Director Peter Jackson got into the film business because of this film. Sort of. Jackson has been quoted many times as saying that he became a director so that he would be able to remake King Kong< i>. It was a childhood dream of his. It has also been ...
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Oct 07 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Dupe's Day by froobius Pros: Bloody.
Cons: Dumb. So, who likes a remake, anyway It works, sometimes. Which horror aficionado among us didn't adore Zack Snyder's 2003 update of Dawn of the Dead< b> It was a stunning update interpretation of George A. Romero's 1978 original, with a new ...
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Oct 07 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Simpatico : Did I like this movie? Neigh! by ladyconsumer Pros: Cute concept, using two actors for each main character.
Cons: The plot was bizarre, the performances weak, and the pace way too slow. Simpatico < b>tries to be an exciting drama, involving blackmail and corruption in the sport of horseracing. But it fails. Instead, we have a slow-paced drama with a plot that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Twenty years ago, Vinnie, ...
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Oct 06 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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A Genuine American Masterpiece by jsommersby Pros:
Bravura handling of such tricky material. Cons: Nothing. Masterfully written for the screen and directed by L.Q. Jones, the post-apocalyptic sci-fi fantasy A Boy and His Dog< i> is bereft of fancy special effects and reliant instead on character and incident to carry the show. Taken from award-winning ...
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Oct 06 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Dark Water - 2005 by susidee34 Pros:
... Cons: ... This movie was about as exciting as trimming the cuticles on your fingernails. It was so predictable you wanted to say lsquo;Helllloooo ... wake up woman!' Between the unexplained water dripping constantly from the floor above to the noises in the ...
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Oct 06 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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What a Little Firestorm We Have Here: OBSESSION by xxxxer Pros: An effective propaganda piece for sure
Cons: Not really the type of film that should have received mass distribution around election time Opening my parent's copy of the newspaper the other week, I was more than a little surprised when a DVD fell out. The DVD was of a movie I had heard of before, again through my parents. Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West< i> was a ...
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Oct 06 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose – Janis Joplin by coldsteel7 Pros: Acting, dialogue, ability to connect with the audience.
Cons: Pacing, sub-plots. Freedom Writers was an interesting but somewhat sluggish look at High School life in Long Beach, California following the 1994 riots. The determined teacher faced with incorrigible students and misfits has been done a hundred times before. ...
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Oct 06 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Some ordinary folks affected by US government-sponsored terrorism by Stephen_Murray Pros: Carlyle, Cabezas, locations
Cons: many do not want to believe the history of Reagan-Bush support of terrorism Having been curious about British film-maker Ken Loach since 1967 (when "Poor Cow" did not play anywhere near me), I have seen three of his movies in the last few months (Kes, The
Wind that Shakes the Barley, ...
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Oct 06 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who - Necessary Viewing For My Generation and Yours by AliventiAsylum Pros:
thorough and candid examination of The Who, great interviews, excellent restoration Cons: some parts feel condensed or rushed to fit on the disc It seems that in recent years it has become economically feasible for anyone and everyone to create a disc about their favorite band. Wading through the plethora of discs on the market, every now and then a real gem turns up. Amazing Journey: The ...
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Oct 06 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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The Futility of War by andaryl Pros: Landmark, strong story and message
Cons: Unimpressive acting Released in 1930, All Quiet on the Western Front has been eternally recognized as a landmark movie. The message it portrays and the story it tells is a history lesson in itself, and has been credited by many directors in their own subsequent work. We ...
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Oct 06 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Wrapping Up "Extras" With The Same As Before: "The Extra Special Series Finale" Falls Flat. by wlswarts Pros: Moments of humor
Cons: Nothing different on the character or acting fronts, No DVD bonus features, Predictable plot. "Extras" is a television series that premiered on HBO in the United States and was a joint production between the BBC and the cable film/original series channel. I watched and reviewed both seasons of the show (at: ...
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Oct 06 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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BIG FISH- Anything BUT a flop! by anniegane Pros: A tear jerker and beautiful film!
Cons: No complaints. Big Fish is an absolutely BEAUTIFUL film that the entire family will enjoy. Combining fantastical elements of child hood fantasies with adult situations and humor, Big Fish will be welcome by viewers of all ages. A film that was definitely over looked by ...
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Oct 06 '08 |
Overall Rating: Helpful |
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