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Going the Distance, a review by addicted2dvd

Going the Distance (2010/United States) IMDb |Wikipedia |Trailer | New Line Productions, Warner Home Video Director: Nanette Burstein Writing: Geoff Latulippe (Writer) Length: 103 min. Rating: Rated R : Sexual Content Including Dialogue, Language Throughout, Some Drug Use and Brief Nudity Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, French: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital: 5.1 Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

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Stars:
Drew Barrymore as Erin
Justin Long as Garrett
Charlie Day as Dan
Jason Sudeikis as Box
Christina Applegate as Corinne
Ron Livingston as Will

Plot:
Erin (Drew Barrymore) and Garrett (Justin Long) strike sparks for a summer fling in New York City but neither expects it to last once Erin heads home to San Francisco and Garrett remains behind for his Big Apple job. But after six increasingly romantic weeks, neither is sure they want it to end. So despite the opposing coasts, naysaying friends and family and a few unexpected temptations, the couple just might have found something like love. And helped by a lot of texting, sexting and late-night phone calls, the might actually go the distance.

Extras:

• Bonus Trailers
• Deleted Scenes

I couldn't sleep last night so ended up watching a few movies. I started with this one as I have always liked Drew Barrymore. And this one was no exception. I enjoyed this film quite a bit. I really liked all the characters and the film flowed well. This is actually a film I never even heard of before seeing it on the library shelf. Definitely worth the time put in to watch it. I recommend checking it out.



(From What Movies I Been Watching on November 30th, 2013)

Dial M for Murder, a review by Tom

Title: Dial M for Murder
Year: 1954
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Rating: PG
Length: 101 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85
Audio: English: Dolby Digital Mono, French: Dolby Digital Mono, Italian: Dolby Digital Mono
Subtitles: Arabic, Bulgarian, Dutch, English, French, Italian

Stars:
Ray Milland
Grace Kelly
Robert Cummings
John Williams
Anthony Dawson

Plot:
Alfred Hitchcock's screen version of Frederick Knott's stage hit Dial M for Murder is a tasty blend of elegance and suspense casting Grace Kelly, Ray Milland and Robert Cummings as the points of a romantic triangle. Kelly won the New York Film Critics and National Board of Review Best Actress Awards for this and two other acclaimed 1954 performances (Hitchcock's Rear Window The Country Girl). She loves Cummings; her husband Milland plots her murder. But when he dials a Mayfair exchange to set the plot in motion, his right number gets the wrong answer and gleaming scissors become a deadly weapon. Dial "M" for the Master of Suspense at his most stylish.

Awards:

AFI	1954	Won	100 Years... 100 Thrills (2001)
AFI	1954	Nominated	100 Years... 25 Scores (2005)	"Composer": Dimitri Tiomkin
BAFTA	1954	Nominated	Foreign Actress	Grace Kelly

Extras:
Featurettes
Scene Access
Trailers

It started really boring and I feared that I am watching a big stinker. To much boring talk in the beginning. This seems to be a trademark for Hitchcock. His movies often start out with a lot of exposition talk, where I can't help that my mind wanders off to other things. The movie picked up when the murder happened. It really got great when the inspector came in. It really reminded me of a good Columbo episode. The inspector really behaved a lot like a mix between Columbo and John Cleese. He even had the famous "one more question" Columbo scene. How the inspector unraveled the mystery was really fun to watch. In retrospect even the beginning was like a Columbo episode. Also there I often find the first half an hour boring, where the murder plans and commits the murder. And also there it only picks up when Columbo first appears.

Rating:

(From Alfred Hitchcock Marathon on August 8th, 2009)

Tom's Random Reviews, a review by Tom

Title: The Office: Season Five
Year: 2008
Director:
Rating: NR
Length: 608 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78
Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: English, Spanish

Stars:
Steve Carell
Rainn Wilson
John Krasinski
Jenna Fischer

Plot:
Scranton's most outrageous workforce is back to give their clients the business in the fifth hilarious season of The Office. Join obnoxious regional manager Michael Scott (Steve Carell) and his fellow paper pushers Dwight (Rainn Wilson), Jim (John Kransinski), Pam (Jenna Fischer) and Ryan (B.J. Novak) as they steal customers, frame co-workers, indulge in intra-office love affairs and just plain behave badly while a documentary film crew captures their every word and misdeed. Developed for American television by Primetime Emmy Award-winner Greg Daniels, The Office: Season FiveThe Office can afford to miss!

Extras:
Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Featurettes
Outtakes
Trailers
Webisodes

I have had this season lying around for a few months now but for some reason never was in the mood to watch it. I finally came around to it and I enjoyed it very much. I watched the complete season in just three evenings.
Though the fake documentary style is the charm of the series, but it is still getting more and more unbelievable. The things the characters say in their interview segments, it is like they do not think the others will watch it when it airs. Maybe they are contracted to not watch it
Also the camera people seem to be everywhere, but they never get into each other shots.

What I really like is, that after they got Pam and Jim finally together, they didn't do what other series would try to do and break them up again. Their relationship is still going strong and is getting stronger from episode to episode.
The new receptionist introduced in the last few episodes is also showing potential and what I have read she is part of the next season's cast.

#	Episode	Rating
01	Weight Loss
02	Business Ethics
03	Baby Shower
04	Crime Aid
05	Employee Transfer
06	Customer Survey
07	Business Trip
08	Frame Toby
09	The Surplus
10	Moroccan Christmas
11	The Duel
12	Prince Family Paper
13	Stress Relief
14	Lecture Circuit Part 1
15	Lecture Circuit Part 2
16	Blood Drive
17	Golden Ticket
18	New Boss
19	Two Weeks
20	Dream Team
21	Michael Scott Paper Company
22	Heavy Competition
23	Broke
24	Casual Friday
25
26	Company Picnic

(From Tom's Random Reviews on June 22nd, 2010)