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Kart Racer, a review by KinkyCyborg

Title:Kart Racer
Year: 2003
Director: Stuart Gillard
Rating: PG
Length: 93 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1
Subtitles: English, French

Stars:
Johnny Griffin
Randy Quaid
Will Rothhaar
Jordan Conti
Steve Adams

Plot:
Strap on your seatbelt for one thrilling ride! Randy Quaid ('Independence Day') and Will Rothhaar ('Hearts in Atlantis') star in this triumphant tale of a working-class kid with an appetite for acceleration, a knack for trouble and the dream of being a champion!

Fledgling speed demon Watts Davies (Rothhaar) has always dreamed of competing in the high-adrenaline world of kart racing, but so far, the only speed record he's set is for scrapes with the law. His only hope for racing glory lies with his father (Quaid), whose own passion for the sport stalled after the death of Watts' mom. With an International Karting Federation heat fast approaching, Watts must find a way to get his dad on board to strive for victory...in record time!

Extras:
Scene Access
Feature Trailers
Featurettes
Closed Captioned
introduction to the film by Jeff Gordon


Days Of Thunder Jr. 

A family movie that is more of a promotional tool for NASCAR complete with an introduction from Jeff Gordon. It was decent with an inside look into the world of Go Cart racing. I thought Randy Quaid gave an excellent performance as the bitter father, still torn over the death of his wife who finally sees promise in his young son who only wants to follow in his fathers footsteps. I think it was the uniqueness of the role for him as we are used to seeing him in the zany comedies or as the psychopath criminal. He must have a passion for stock car racing given his role in the aforementioned Days Of Thunder and now this.

Worth a watch, but once is enough.

KC

Rating:

(From KinkyCyborg's Random Reviews 2010 on September 5th, 2010)

Lady Frankenstein, a review by addicted2dvd

Lady Frankenstein
When Dr. Frankenstein is killed by a monster of his own creation, his daughter and his lab assistant Marshall continue his experiments. The two fall in love and attempt to transplant Marshall's brain into the muscular body of their servant Stephen. Meanwhile, the first monster seeks revenge on the grave robbers who sold the body parts used in it creation.

My Thoughts:
This is one of the movies in one of those Low-Budget 10 movies on 5 DVDs horror boxsets... in this case the Tales of Terror box set. This one is an ok movie... nothing that really struck me as anything special. Was a bit on the slow side for my taste.

(From Weekend Movie Marathon: Unwatched DVD Collection on April 19th, 2008)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

Star Trek: The Original Series: Season One (1966/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Paramount Home Entertainment (Germany) Length: 1170 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: German: Dolby Digital 1, English: Dolby Digital 5.1, French: Dolby Digital 1, Italian: Dolby Digital 1, Spanish: Dolby Digital 1 Subtitles: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish

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Star Trek
1.03 Where No Man Has Gone Before
Writer: Samuel A. Peeples (Writer), Gene Roddenberry (Original Characters By)
Director: James Goldstone
Cast: William Shatner (Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock), Gary Lockwood (Lt. Comdr. Gary Mitchell), Sally Kellerman (Dr.Elizabeth Dehner), George Takei (Sulu), James Doohan (Scott), Lloyd Haynes (Alden), Andrea Dromm (Yeoman Smith), Paul Carr (Lt. Lee Kelso), Paul Fix (Doctor Piper)

Instead of watching the (at the time) unaired pilot with a different crew, or watching the first episode ever aired, I decided to watch the episode which is the second pilot after the crew has been recast with the now familiar crew. Even though this episode is the third episode aired.
This episode has the crew still wearing the uniforms from the first pilot instead of the familiar gold, red and blue uniforms. Also McCoy is still missing. Instead we got another doctor.
I enjoyed this episode. It already shows the potential of the series.

Rating:

(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on July 24th, 2012)