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Star Wars - Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, a review by DJ Doena

Mark Hamill    ...    Luke Skywalker
Harrison Ford   ...    Han Solo
Carrie Fisher   ...    Princess Leia
Billy Dee Williams   ...    Lando Calrissian
Anthony Daniels   ...    C-3PO
David Prowse   ...    Darth Vader
Peter Mayhew   ...    Chewbacca
Kenny Baker   ...    R2-D2
Frank Oz   ...    Yoda (voice)
Alec Guinness   ...    Obi-Wan Kenobi
Jeremy Bulloch   ...    Boba Fett
James Earl Jones   ...    Darth Vader (voice)

My Opinion: Many consider this the best part of the trilogy but I still like Jedi a tiny bit more. This movie has so many great scenes, first the battle on Hoth, in the end this amazing light sabre fight and the revelation and in between the Dagobah story. I love Yoda. It's so great when it's revealed who he is and how he tries to train Luke and how he pulls the X-Wing out of the swamp. CGI-Yoda totally loses against Puppet-Yoda, no question about it but I will not speak of the trilogy that must not be named any further...

(From DJ Doena's movie watchings 2009 on September 29th, 2009)

Dead Creatures, a review by addicted2dvd

Dead Creatures (2001/United Kingdom) IMDb |Trailer | MTI Home Video Director: Andrew Parkinson Writing: Andrew Parkinson (Writer) Length: 88 min. Rating: Rated R : Violence/Gore, Language, Sexuality/Nudity and Drug Use Video: Widescreen 1.85:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo, Commentary: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo Subtitles: Spanish

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Stars:
Beverly Wilson as Jo
Antonia Beamish as Ann
Brendan Gregory as Reece
Anna Swift as Sian
Bart Ruspoli as Christian
Fiona Carr as Zoe

Plot:
In the center of a large and unknowing city, a group of young women huddle together in a small apartment, tending to a sick friend whose skin is rotting to the bone. These women have been cursed with a secret malady that has made them members of an urban subculture, where their only way of survival is to continually feed on humans. They have been forced to abandon their once normal lives to now prowl the dark streets and alleyways in search of their next victim. But these hunters are also being hunted. There is a mysterious man walking these same streets, who will stop at nothing until they are abolished - one by one.

Welcome to the doomed universe of Andrew Parkinson's Dead Creatures.

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Audio Commentary
• Bonus Trailers
• Featurettes
• Production Notes

While it has it's moments... I really couldn't get into this one. I found it to be both slow and a bit on the strange side. Half the time I had no idea where they were going in the story. But that could be because I found my attention wandering early into the film. But I did feel the film has potential. Maybe it will be better to me if I give it another chance and this time make sure I pay a bit more attention to it.




(From Weekend Movie Marathon: Last Chance Horror on August 10th, 2012)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

Planet of the Apes: The Complete TV Series (1974/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (United States) Length: 695 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 1, French: Dolby Digital 1 Subtitles: English, Spanish

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Plot:
Based on the enormously popular and successful Planet of the ApesPlanet of the Apes
1.01 Escape From Tomorrow
Writer: Art Wallace (Writer), Pierre Boulle (Original Characters By)
Director: Don Weis
Cast: Roddy McDowall (Galen), Ron Harper (Alan Virdon), James Naughton (Peter Burke), Royal Dano (Farrow), Woodrow Parfrey (Veska), Mark Lenard (Urko), Booth Colman (Zaius), Biff Elliot (Ullman), Bobby Porter (Arno), Jerome Thor (Proto), William Beckley (Grundig), Alvin Hammer (Man)

A good first episode, even if it is rehashing the first movie. It sets up the series as a "The Fugitive" kind of story.

Rating:

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