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Four Times That Night, a review by Jimmy

Title: Four Times That Night (1972)

Genre: Comedy
Director: Mario Bava
Rating: Unrated
Length: 1h23
Video: Widescreen
Audio: Italian
Subtitles: English

Stars:
Daniela Giordano
Brett Halsey
Dick Randall
Valeria Sabel
Michael Hinz

Plot:
For his sole foray into the sex comedy genre, Mario Bava delivers a swinging orgy of mod design, leering humor and daring late '60s erotica. American leading man Bret Halsey and former Miss Italy Daniela Giordano star in this Rashomon-inspired tale of a playboy and a virgin's first date that may or may not have included rape, nymphomania, lesbianism, and groovy inflatable furniture.

Among all the Bava's movies that I've seen untill now this one is my favourite and this is one of my all-time preferred movies. This is even more surprising to see how well this film had turned since Mario Bava wasn't really confortable with the subject. What we have here is four different versions of the same encounter between a young woman and a young man. Not surprisingly each of those versions are really different depending of the witness (the one from the building doorman is the funniest and probably the less likely). In each version you can notice some little change like the Tina mother's appearance by exemple. A very good script where most of the good lines belong to Daniela Giordano who is more than an astounding beauty (she looks so sexy and innocent at the same time). A great time capsule from a period I would have wanted so much to be a part of it.

Rating :

(From Mario Bava marathon on July 14th, 2009)

Critters 4, a review by addicted2dvd

Title: Critters 4: 4 Film Favorites Year: 1991 Director: Rupert Harvey Rating: PG-13 Length: 94 Min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1, Pan & Scan 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, English: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround Subtitles: English

Stars:
Don Keith Opper
Terrence Mann
Paul Whitthorne
Anders Hove
Angela Bassett
Brad Dourif

Plot:Extras:
Scene Access
Feature Trailers
DVD-ROM Content
Closed Captioned

My Thoughts:
This one didn't impress me much at all. You know you have a problem when they decide to bring the franchise  to space. This one really starts out slow and boring... I mean you don't even see the critters until you are a half an hour into the movie. Sure things improve a bit once they do show up.... but not enough to really save this movie.




Count:
Movie Count: 33
TV Ep. Count: 14
Other Count: 2
Time Started: 10:15am

(From Month Long Horror/Halloween Marathon: 2010 on October 10th, 2010)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

Pushing Daisies: Season One (2007/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Warner Home Video (United States) Length: 410 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, Portuguese: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: Chinese, English, French, Korean, Spanish, Thai

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Plot:
Every not-so-often, along comes a show that's different. Wonderfully different. Pushing Daisies, TV Guide's Matt Roush writes, "restores my faith in TV's ability to amuse, enchant and entertain." It's the story of Ned, a lonely pie maker whose touch can reanimate the dead. Cool, but there's a hitch. If Ned touches the person again, the miracle is reversed. If he doesn't, a bystander goes toes up. What to do? Easy: Team with a private eye, bring murder victims back just long enough to discover whodunit, and collect the rewards. Things go well until Ned's boyhood sweetie is the next dear departed, and he can't resist bringing her back for keeps! Dig the wit, style and quirky romance: If you're not laughing, you may need a visit from Ned.


Pushing Daisies
1.01 Pie-Lette (2007-10-03)
Writer: Bryan Fuller (Created By), Bryan Fuller (Writer)
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Cast: Lee Pace (Ned), Anna Friel (Chuck), Chi McBride (Emerson Cod), Jim Dale (Narrator (voice)), Ellen Greene (Vivian Charles), Swoosie Kurtz (Lily Charles), Kristin Chenoweth (Olive Snook), Patrick Breen (Leo Gaswint), Terry Anzur (Newscaster 3), Ed Brigadier (Minister 1), Field Cate (Young Ned), Ted Garcia (Newscaster 1), Murray Gershenz (Rabbi), Tina Gloss (Ned's Mother), Brad Grunberg (Funeral Director), Sammi Hanratty (Young Chuck), Geraud Moncure (Newscaster 4), Leyna Nguyen (Newscaster 2), Sy Richardson (Coroner), Greg Suddeth (Gravedigger 1), David Trice (Martin Miltenberger), Julie Wittner (Deedee Duffield), Jeff Wolfe (Shiny Shoes Killer)

A short-lived series I enjoyed very much. But I must admit I am glad that it only had two short seasons. The premise is nice, but nothing which holds up multiple seasons.
The pilot episode is a perfect introduction to this series.

Rating:

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