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The Omega Man, a review by addicted2dvd

The Omega Man (1971/United States) IMDb |Wikipedia |Trailer | Warner Home Video (United States) Director: Boris Sagal Writing: John William Corrington (Screenwriter), Joyce H. Corrington (Screenwriter), Richard Matheson (Original Material By) Length: 98 min. Video: Widescreen 2.40:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: Mono, French: Dolby Digital: Mono, German: Dolby Digital: Mono, Italian: Dolby Digital: Mono, Spanish: Dolby Digital: Mono, Spanish: Dolby Digital: Mono Subtitles: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish

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Stars:
Charlton Heston as Neville
Anthony Zerbe as Matthias
Rosalind Cash as Lisa
Paul Koslo as Dutch
Eric Laneuville as Richie

Plot:Extras:

• Scene Access
• Feature Trailers
• Featurettes
• Introduction By Screenwriter Joyce Corrington and Co-Stars Eric Laneuville and Paul Koslo

An enjoyable movie...though I did find it a little slow in parts. The entire cast did well... especially Charlton Heston was great. I can definitely see myself watching it again.



(From Within My Lifetime: 2017 Edition on May 16th, 2017)

Ed Wood, a review by addicted2dvd

Ed Wood: Special Edition (1994/United States) Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Touchstone Home Entertainment Director: Tim Burton Writing: Scott Alexander (Writer), Larry Karaszewski (Writer), Rudolph Grey (Original Material By) Length: 126 min. Rating: Rated R : Some Strong Language Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Commentary: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo Subtitles: English, Spanish

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Stars:
Johnny Depp as Ed Wood
Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi
Sarah Jessica Parker as Dolores Fuller
Patricia Arquette as Kathy O'Hara
Jeffrey Jones as Criswell
G. D. Spradlin as Reverend Lemon

Plot:Extras:

• Scene Access
• Audio Commentary
• Feature Trailers
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Music Videos
• Closed Captioned

I am basically familiar with Ed Wood by reputation only. I only have one of his movies in my collection. That being Plan 9 from Outer Space. Despite the little I know of him... or maybe because of the little I know of him... I was looking forward to checking out this movie. A nice coincidence here... I been watching episodes of Medium and this movie also has Patricia Arquette in it. I really didn't know what to expect going into this movie. Whether it would be something I like or not. I ended up finding it oddly captivating. I found that I enjoyed it quite a bit. I normally shy away from anything that is about 2hrs or more in length. As I really need to be in the mood to be able to sit still that long. But in the case of Ed Wood the 2+ hours seemed to fly by! I was actually surprised when it was over already.

The DVD itself is nicely done as well. Lots of fun extras here. And I must admit... I got a kick out of the animated menus they used for this one. All in all a very nice release of a fun movie I wasn't sure if I would like or not. Definitely a pleasant surprise.




(From What Movies I Been Watching on February 10th, 2012)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Marathon, a review by DJ Doena

Synopsis: Garak has joined in on the operation to attack the Founder's home world. The fleet of romulan Warbirds and cardassian warships is taking course to the Omarion Nebula. Now it's his job to interrogate Odo whether he knows something he didn't put into his report to Starfleet. Sisko takes the Defiant against explicit orders and follows them to get his chief of security back.

My Opinion: Now the numbers start to increase and become more realistic. With the Federation the Klingons, the Romulans and the Cardassians we know races that occupy the space of at least one entire quadrant of our galaxy. This space is approx. 4 billion square light years and that doesn't even acknowledge that space has a third dimension. Yet the greatest battle known to Star Trek was the one of Wolf 359: 39 Starfleet ships vs. one Borg cube.
Now we've seen a battle between 20 and 150 ships. 150 ships, that's a dimension we haven't seen before and the Dominion war will provide us with even greater numbers and as I said, that seems only realistic given the vastness of space.
As for the other aspects of that episode: It was a good conclusion to this story and I found it interesting how Tain was still analyzing the situation even though he was about to die.

Synopsis: While on Bajor, Sisko has found the plans for a bajoran solar sail spacecraft. The Bajorans claim to have reached Cardassia with these kind of ships and Sisko wants to build one just to prove that it is actually space-worthy. And his son thinks about leaving for Earth, to do an internship to study writing.

My Opinion: When Jake was introduced in the pilot I thought that it was a good idea to see that a Starfleet officer has a family. But I also thought that he would have a minor role, to appear once in a while and then disappear again. But I like Jake's friendship with Nog and I like how he has developed. The kind of interaction between Jake and his father in this episode, as well as the interaction between O'Brien and Bashir makes me like DS9 more than TNG.

Synopsis: Brunt. FCA. (Ferengi Commerce Authority). He comes to the station and closes Quark's bar. Why? Because Quark's mother Ishka is conduction businesses and she's making profit! Quark and Rom return home and Quark wants her to sign the confession. Meanwhile Jakes tries fix up his father with a certain freighter captain: Kasidy Yates.

My Opinion: Brunt is the IRS guy from hell. I like him. He is a guarantee for a good story. And I like his actor (Jeffrey Combs) who will play both Brunt as well as (in later seasons) Weyoun - in one episode even both IIRC. And I like Kasidy. Her role here is much more likeable than the one Penny Johnson will play on 24: President David Palmer's (ex-)wife Sherry. And I liked how the writers tried to argue against the upkeep of outdated traditions and roles.

Synopsis: The First Minister has died and Kai Winn is temporarily holding both offices but she plans on running for the First Minister's office, too. But she has a problem: Shakaar, former head of Kira's resistance cell, is unwilling to return farming equipment. He was promised that he could have it for a year but Winn wants it back - now. She sends Kira to negotiate.

My Opinion: Yet another good story. I like all stories where Winn loses a fight. And I also liked that all the former resistance fighters refused to fight one another.

(From Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Marathon on November 1st, 2008)