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Babylon 5: The Gathering, a review by Tom

Babylon 5: The Gathering (1993/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Warner Home Video (Canada) Director: Richard Compton Writing: J. Michael Straczynski (Writer) Length: 95 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, Commentary: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

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Stars:
Michael O'Hare as Jeffrey Sinclair
Tamlyn Tomita as Laurel Takashima
Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi
Mira Furlan as Delenn
Blaire Baron as Carolyn Sykes

Plot:
The Gathering: Alien envoys come to the giant space station in the pilot that launched the five-year TV Series.

Awards:
Nominated:

Hugo Award (1994)

Dramatic Presentation

Extras:

• Commentary
• Scene Access

This TV movie serves as the pilot of the series. They are some changes between this one and the series. Some of the cast changed and also some of the characters behaved a little different than we are used to in the series. I think it was a good choice to replace the doctor. I never liked the acting of the one in the pilot. As for the replacement of Takashima with Ivanova: I love Ivanova and Takashima was a little wooden here. But you never know. She could have worked out also.

Rating:

(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on March 27th, 2011)

Star Trek Into Darkness, a review by Tom

Star Trek Into Darkness (2013/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia (Germany) Director: J. J. Abrams Writing: Roberto Orci (Writer), Alex Kurtzman (Writer), Damon Lindelof (Writer), Gene Roddenberry (Original Material By) Length: 132 min. Video: Widescreen 2.35 Audio: English: Dolby TrueHD 7.1, German: Dolby TrueHD 7.1, Audio Descriptive: Dolby Digital 5.1 Subtitles: English, German

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Stars:Plot:
After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction.

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Featurettes

I enjoy this movie quite a bit. It does not get a higher rating because of all the plot holes and contrivances. But I liked the interaction between the cast.
Regarding the controversial ending:


(From Tom's Random Reviews on December 7th, 2013)

Tom's Random TV Episodes Reviews, a review by Tom

Moonlight
1.01 No Such Thing as Vampires
Writer: Trevor Munson (Created By), Ron Koslow (Created By), Trevor Munson (Writer), Ron Koslow (Writer)
Director: Rod Holcomb
Cast: Alex O'Loughlin (Mick St. John), Sophia Myles (Beth Turner), Shannyn Sossamon (Coraline), Jason Dohring (Josef Kostan), Jacob Vargas (Guillermo), Brian White (Lt. Carl Davis), Kevin Weisman (Steve Balfour), Tami Roman (Maureen 'Mo' Williams), Gigi Rice (Martha Ellis), Dean O'Gorman (Daniel), Shoshana Bush (Chloe Jones), Rudolf Martin (Christian Ellis), Chris M. Kelly (Kelly Foster), Amro Salama (Scientist), Ali Pomerantz (Beth's Mom), Bryn Early (Young Beth #1), Amayla Early (Young Beth #2)

After finishing the first season of "The Vampire Diaries" I thought it would be fitting to continue with this series (and maybe the second season of "True Blood" after that). I had this on my wishlist for a while, but as this one was cancelled unresolved (as far as I know), I wasn't so keen on buying it. But now I got it really cheap, so I couldn't resist.
Another reason why I vary of it was, that the premise isn't really original. We had "Forever Knight" and "Blood Ties" already after all. But I was positively suprised by this pilot episode and I am happy to continue with this series. I hope it holds up.
The female lead really seemed familiar. Also the name Sophia Myles seemed familiar, but I just couldn't place her. Now after checking Profiler, I know that I mainly know her from the movie "Outlander".

Rating:

(From Tom's Random TV Episodes Reviews on February 13th, 2011)