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Moon, a review by Tom

Moon (2009/United Kingdom) IMDb | Wikipedia Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (United Kingdom) Director: Duncan Jones Writing: Duncan Jones (Story By), Nathan Parker (Writer) Length: 97 min. Video: Widescreen 2.40 Audio: English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Thai: Dolby Digital 5.1, Commentary: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, Commentary: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Subtitles: Bahasa, Chinese, English, Hindi, Thai

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Stars:
Sam Rockwell as Sam Bell
Kevin Spacey as GERTY (voice)
Dominique McElligott as Tess Bell
Rosie Shaw as Little Eve
Adrienne Shaw as Nanny

Plot:
Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell, Frost/Nixon,Kevin Spacey, 1999 Best Actor, American Beauty) as his sole companion, Bell's extended isolation has taken its toll. His only link to the outside world comes via satellite messages from his wife and young daughter. He longs to return home, but a terrible accident on the lunar surface leads to a disturbing discovery that contributes to his growing sense of paranoia and dislocation so many miles away from home.

MOON is an engrossing, intelligent sci-fi thriller that ranks with genre classics like 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Awards:
Won:

BAFTA (2009)		Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer (Duncan Jones)
Hugo Award (2010)		Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
National Board of Review Awards, USA (2009)		Spotlight Award (Duncan Jones)

Nominated:

BAFTA (2009)		Outstanding British Film
Scream Awards (2009)		Best Director (Duncan Jones)
Scream Awards (2009)		Best Science Fiction Actor (Sam Rockwell)
Scream Awards (2009)		Best Sci-Fi Movie
Scream Awards (2009)		Best Scream-Play (Duncan Jones, Nathan Parker)

Extras:

• BD-Live
• Bonus Trailers
• Commentary
• Featurettes
• Scene Access
• Short Film: Whistle
• Trailers

A great slow-paced scifi movie. Sam Rockwell did a great job playing a dual role and no other actors around (except for Kevin Spacey's voice of the HAL like robot).

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on April 9th, 2011)

Evilspeak, a review by Jimmy

Title: Evilspeak (1981)

Genre: Horror
Director: Eric Weston
Rating: NR
Length: 1h32
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1:78.1
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Clint Howard
R.G. Armstrong
Joe Cortese
Claude Earl Jones
Haywood Nelson

Plot:
Life sucks for Stanley Coopersmith (Clint Howard, ROCK N' ROLL HIGH SCHOOL), a teenage outcast who's bullied by everybody at the strict military academy he was sent to after his parents died. But when Stanley discovers the crypt of a 16th Century Satanist beneath the school's chapel, he creates a computerized Black Mass that unleashes unholy revenge upon his tormenters. Now, all Hell is breaking loose...and Stanley's flesh eating demon-pigs are only the beginning!

This one take a long time to put the pieces in place, but it that case it's necessary to justify the massacre at the end. Like I said the real bloodbath happen in the last act, not that nothing happen untill than (the shower scene is sure something to be seen). You get a good cast of character actors (Charles Tyner, Lenny Montana, Hamilton Camp,...) and even a young Katherine Kelly Lang (common every guy was forced by his girlfriend to watch The Bold and the Beautiful at least one time). The effects are well done and as a revenge story this is credible. If you have the precedent release from AB and like the film don't hesitate to double dip as the quality of this Code Red release is much better since it's from the original negative and not a patchwork of release prints.

Not a fast runner, but recommanded... and no you can't use your computer to conjure the devil

Rating :

(From Jimmy's - 2013 Ooctober Horror Marathon on October 10th, 2013)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

The Comeback: The Complete Only Season (2005/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia (United States) Length: 376 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Spanish: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Commentary: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

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Plot:
For fallen star Valerie Cherish - former B-list sitcom actress desperate to revive her career - no proce is too high to pay for clinging to the television spotlight. Valerie agrees to be the subject of an intrusive reality television show, with cameras following her every move as she lands the part of "Aunt Sassy" in a tedious new sitcom, Room and Bored.

Lisa Kudrow stars in this uncomfortably funny and insightfully biting comedy series from writer Michael Patrick King (Sex and the City).
In the spirit of reality television, there seems to be no end to the humiliating circumstances Valerie Cherish will endure, all in the name of fame.

The Comeback
1.01 The Comeback (Pilot)
Writer: Michael Patrick King (Writer), Lisa Kudrow (Writer)
Director: Michael Patrick King
Cast: Lisa Kudrow (Valerie Cherish), Malin Akerman (Juna), Robert Bagnell (Tom Peterman), Lance Barber (Paulie G), Robert Michael Morris (Mickey), Laura Silverman (Jane), Damian Young (Mark Berman), Kellan Lutz (Chris), Jason L. Olive (Jesse), Kimberly Kevon Williams (Shayne), Jim Bentley), Bill Escudier (Milo), Kim Fields (Herself), Marla Garlin), Nathan Lee Graham (Peter), Marilu Henner (Herself), Lillian Hurst (Esperanza), Andres Londono), Morann Peri), Jonathan Stark), Tom Virtue (Assistant Director), James Burrows (Himself (uncredited))

This series is the raw footage of a fictional reality TV series about the comeback of a has-been actress played by Lisa Kudrow. I liked the behind the scene stuff of the sitcom she has started to be part of. But I am not much of a fan of the reality TV style.

Rating:

(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on April 1st, 2011)