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Pleasantville, a review by Rich

Pleasantville



When '90's teens David and Jennifer (Tobey Maguire, The Ice Storm, Reese Witherspoon, Freeway) get zapped into the perfect suburbia of the black & white '50's sitcom, Pleasantville, what results is a "visionary adventure" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone) that Siskel and Ebert give "Two big thumbs up!"
Pleasantville's perfect people include a mild-mannered soda jerk (Jeff Daniels, Dumb and Dumber), a socially repressed mom (Joan Allen, Face/Off) and a father who always knows best (William H. Macy, Fargo). But, when '90's pop culture clashes with '50's family values, chaos ensues, turning the town of Pleasantville upside down and black and white into color.

Totally enjoyed this quirky feature film, it was amusing, original, visually effective with the B&W/Colour mixing and challenging all in one. Tobey Macguire and Reese Witherspoon have perfect chemistry as brother and sister, and are well supported by the likes of Macy and Daniels.
The cinematography is sublime, special effects very impressive in an Indie film, the storyline entertaining and thought-provoking.
I would expect most serious movie fans to have this in their collections.
 


(From Riches Random Reviews on May 27th, 2009)

The Simpsons Movie, a review by Tom

Title: The Simpsons Movie
Year: 2007
Director: David Silverman
Rating: FSK-6
Length: 83 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.40
Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1 , German: Dolby Digital 5.1 , German: DTS 5.1 , Commentary: Dolby Digital Stereo , Commentary: Dolby Digital Stereo
Subtitles: Commentary, English, German, Turkish

Stars:
Dan Castellaneta
Julie Kavner
Nancy Cartwright
Yeardley Smith
Hank Azaria

Plot:Extras:
Booklet
Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Scene Access
Trailers
vier Simpsons-Kurzfilme

A successful translation of the series to the big screen. Though it gets a little boring halfway through the movie. In the beginning they played a little with the fact, that this is now a movie, but later on it succumbs to being a regular Simpsons episode.

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(From Two-Weeks Movie Marathon: Unwatched Movies on August 23rd, 2008)

Tom's Random Reviews, a review by Tom

Berlin, Berlin: Complete Series (2002/Germany) IMDb | Wikipedia Universum Film (Germany) Director: Writing: Length: 2150 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78 Audio: German: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles:

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Extras:

• 5 Postkarten mit Bildern der Hauptdarsteller
• Bonus Trailers
• Commentary
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Interviews
• Photo Gallery
• Storyboard Comparisons
• Trailers

This series really surprised me. I enjoyed it from beginning to end. For some reason I had never watched it before, even though I heard good things about it and it is also often compared to "Mein Leben und ich" (another series I enjoyed). I have to admit that I even enjoyed it more than that one. Though I really liked the first three seasons of it but then grew tired of it.
"Berlin, Berlin" only has four seasons, but unusual for a German comedy series it doesn't only have 13 episodes per season, but it has 20. The first season even 26.
Through the bonus features I found out, that this series even won an international Emmy award for best comedy series (the first German series to do so). I didn't even know that the Emmies had an international award. And in my opinion it deserved it.

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(From Tom's Random Reviews on August 24th, 2012)