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Dead Like Me: Life After Death, a review by addicted2dvd

Dead Like Me: Life After Death
When George and her colleagues get a new boss whose focus is on moving souls quickly and enjoying life without consequences, the team begins to break the strict grim reaper rules. While her friends fall victim to their desires for money, success, and fame, George breaks another rule by revealing her true identity to her living family. As the reapers struggle with their roles on Earth, they each find that death can be just as complicated as life.

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(From My Movie Marathon on February 19th, 2009)

The Thin Red Line, a review by snowcat

The Thin Red Line - 1998
Director - Terrence Malick
Running Time - 170 minutes
Stars - James Caviezel, Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, Ben Chaplin, George Clooney, John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Elias Koteas, Nick Nolte, John C. Reilly

OK so, I'm not a major fan of war films, but I bought this for the sole purpose of it had John C Reilly in, the film has been in my watch film for a few weeks, not as long as some in my collection, today I watched it.

War films make you think of death and murder, most follow the same format, soldiers get killed, general feels to blame, general has conflicting feelings about the war. This film is no exception.

The Thin Red Line is a story of the men in C Company although it has a wide cast and some pretty famous actors, it mainly follows three characters Private Witt (Jim Cavizel) and his conflicted feelings about fighting, Colonel Tall (Nick Nolte) and his longing to win the current battle at any cost finally there is Private Bell (Ben Chaplin) Private Bells story is mainly of him remembering things about his wife and there relationship sometimes it seems disillusioned.

The men have been bought to Guadalcanal there job is to take the island from the Japanese, whilst waiting to be deployed they contemplate what might happen to them. Finally they reach the island of Guadalcanal, they start to hike a hill and a shell attack starts to hit, they see a Japanese machine gun and realise any attempt to climb this hill will be futile.

Colonel Tall orders his field captain Captain Staros (Elias Koteas) to attack, disregarding the colonels orders, Staros disagrees and say he will not send his men to be killed. Colonel Tall decides to join him on the field. Finally they agree to send a small party of men to take the bunker.

The Thin Red Line is not a film I would usually go out of my to watch, as I said before I bought it for one actor, who only has roughly 5 or 6 lines in the film. I liked the film, but it was very long, and as I'm not used to the subject material I guess it felt longer to me. Over all I think its a good film, with an intresting story and an intresting set of characters, but I doubt ill watch it again.

(From Emma's Film Reviews (snowcat) on November 2nd, 2009)

My PILOT Marathon, a review by Rich

Monarch Of The Glen

Episode 1
Young restaurant owner Archie MacDonald is called urgently from London back to his ailing fathers bedside in the ancestral home in Scotland, Glenbogle. He soon discovers that Hector has nothing worse than a cold and his sweet but dotty mother Molly has called him home on a pretext and has worked events so he can't easily escape back to London.



Inspired by the highland novels of Compton Mackenzie, this show follows Archie MacDonald as he finds himself thrown into the role of the new Laird of Glenbogle, his family's financially failing Scottish estate. With the help, and sometimes hinderance, of his family and faithful retainers he works to get the noble estate back on its feet.

Dull, charmless and twee melodrama/comedy that sparked no interest through it's pilot episode.
Clearly not every great series is preceded by a wonderful 1st/pilot offering, but there was nothing here in terms of characters, storyline, actors or direction that generated any level of enthusiasm to rush back and watch further offerings. I am sure it must improve as it had such a long run, but for me it is a dead duck from the get-go.
 

(From My PILOT Marathon on September 5th, 2009)