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Private Buckaroo, a review by addicted2dvd

Private Buckaroo (1942/United States) Wikipedia |IMDb |Trailer | Mill Creek Entertainment Director: Edward Cline Writing: Edward James (Writer), Edmond A. Kelso [Edmond Kelso] (Writer), Paul Girard Smith (Story By) Length: 69 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: Mono Subtitles: None Color/B&W: Black & White

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Stars:
Andrews Sisters as Themselves
Dick Foran as Lon Prentice
Joe E. Lewis as Lancelot Pringle McBiff
Ernest Truex as Col. Elias Weatherford
Jennifer Holt as Joyce Mason
Shemp Howard as Sergeant 'Muggsy' Shavel

Plot:
This WWII musical comedy tells the story of a young inductee who has trouble fitting into the military lifestyle.

Extras:

• Scene Access

Since my brother is watching many of these with me this weekend I let him pick the first movie for us to watch. This was his pick. It is part of the Mills Creek boxset Combat Pack: 20 Movie Pack. Going into it I thought at least he picked one I never seen before. And then I noticed that Shemp Howard (The Three Stooges) is in it. Giving me some hope for some funny scenes. And that it did have... I caught myself laughing out loud on more then one occasion. It definitely had more music then what I would have liked. But knowing it has such a short running time helped me get through the music scenes without as much trouble. Plus the non-music scenes made for an enjoyable film. For being part of a Mills Creek set... it has surprisingly good quality... no complaints at all quality-wise. Over-all I enjoyed this one... I am surprised to say I can see myself watching this one again.



(From The OMG What Was I Thinking Weekend Movie Marathon on November 10th, 2012)

Paheli, a review by Tom

Title: Paheli
Year: 2005
Director: Amol Palekar
Rating: U
Length: 134 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35
Audio: Hindi: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: English

Stars:
Shah Rukh Khan
Rani Mukherji
Anupam Kher
Dilip Prabhawalkar
Neena Kulkarni

Plot:
Paheli is a love story based on "Duvidha". Vijaydan Dethan's re-telling of a classic Rajasthani folktale. In true fairytale style it tells the story of Lachchi (Rani Mukherjee), an innocent girl married to Kisham, whose only real interest is money. On the night of their marrage, he leaves to persue his business interests. However, a ghost (Shah Rukh Khan) has fallen in love with Lachchi and when Kishan goes away he takes on his appearance and wins everyone's hearts. When the real Kishan finally returns five years later, confusion understandably abounds until finally a wise old shepherd (Amitabh Bachchan) devises the three tests to resolve the "paheli" that has baffled everyone.

Extras:
Featurettes
Interviews
Scene Access

A nice romantic fairy tale movie. Rani Mukherji is lovely again.

Most of the Bollywood movies I have are German releases from the publisher Rapid Eye Movies, which generally are okay releases. Picture quality could be better but acceptable for three hour movies on one disc. But this movie I have bought from the UK (because the German release didn't have the original Hindi track) from the publisher "Eros International". It's the second movie from this publisher that I have. The first one wasn't even anamorphic (even though the packaging does state it). And although this one is anamorphic, the video quality again is below average. And also the audio quality is bad. And this publisher constantly has "Eros" shown in the upper left corner of the picture. I still have one movie of theirs on the way, but it will be the last one from this publisher that I will have bought. Even their mastering seems a little off. The movies seem to be divided into two title tracks which resets the time display to zero when it switches to the second track (but for some reason the chapters are continuous).
Now I have written a lot about the release itself instead of the movie
I just wanted to get my displeasure for this publisher out of the way. After the last movie I thought it may be a one-time thing, but it seems to be the norm for them.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on July 19th, 2009)

Tom's Random Star Trek Reviews, a review by Tom

Enterprise

Writer: Mike Sussman (Writer)
Director: Roxann Dawson
Cast: Scott Bakula (Jonathan Archer), John Billingsley (Dr. Phlox), Jolene Blalock (T'Pol), Dominic Keating (Malcolm Reed), Anthony Montgomery (Travis Mayweather), Linda Park (Hoshi Sato), Connor Trinneer (Charles "Trip" Tucker III), Randy Oglesby (Degra), Tucker Smallwood (Xindi-Humanoid), Rick Worthy (Xindi-Arboreal), Tess Lina (Karyn Archer), David Andrews (Lorian), Tom Schanley (Greer), Steve Truitt (Crewman #1)

A nice episode, although nothing really new. The premise is a mix between Voyager's "Deadlock" and DS9's "Children of Time". A second version of the Enterprise appears, which had been thrown back in time over a hundred years and was now helmed by the descendants of the crew.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Star Trek Reviews on October 17th, 2013)