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The Hard Way, a review by Tom

Title: The Hard Way
Year: 1991
Director: John Badham
Rating: FSK-16
Length: 106 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35
Audio: English: Dolby Digital Stereo, German: Dolby Digital Stereo
Subtitles: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Swedish

Stars:
Michael J. Fox
James Woods
Stephen Lang
Annabella Sciorra
John Capodice

Extras:
Scene Access
Trailers

I nice watch, but nothing really exciting. Michael J. Fox is fun to watch, but I think the movie could have been more.
For some reason I had remembered it being a Bruce Willis vehicle, so I was a little disappointed when pulling the DVD from the shelves. I think this movie could have really been interesting, if it starred Michael J. Fox with Bruce Willis' McClane type of character.

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(From Tom's Random Reviews on June 25th, 2009)

The American Experience: Partners of the Heart, a review by Antares

The American Experience: Partners of the Heart





Year: 2003
Film Studio: PBS DVD Gold
Genre: Documentary, Special Interest, Television
Length: 60 Min.

Director
Andrea Kalin
Bill Duke (1943)

Writing
Andrea Kalin...Writer
Lou Potter...Writer
Rocky Collins...Multiple Episodes
Henry Hampton (1940)...Creator

Producer
Monte Achenbach
Skip Coblyn
Rose M. Compagine
Margaret Drain
James E. Dunford
Andrea Kalin
Susan Mottau
Mark Samels
Greg Shea
Rocky Collins

Cinematographer
Nicholas Blair
John Rhode
Chris Scianella
Paul Young

Music
Joseph Vitarelli...Composer

Stars
Dr. Denton A. Cooley as Himself
John Dryden as Newsreel Voice (Voice)
Dr. Koco Eaton as Himself
Morgan Freeman (1937) as Himself (Narrator) (Voice)
Christopher Haley as Dr. Vivien Thomas
Dr. J. Alex Haller Jr. as Himself
Beau James as Dr. Alfred Blalock
Jane Leuders as Dr. Helen Taussig

Review, he nevertheless grasped the opportunity that lay before him and forged a partnership that has never been matched in the history of medicine.
   
       Their first breakthrough came in the early forties, when they discovered the method for stabilizing a patient that had gone into for the blue colored tinge to their extremities, they rarely lived past infancy as they slowly suffocated as they grew in size. Blalock and Thomas theorized that by grafting an arterial Partners of the HeartSomething the Lord Made.


Review Criterion
- The pinnacle of film perfection and excellence.
- Not quite an immortal film, yet a masterpiece in its own right.
- Historically important film, considered a classic.
- Borderline viewable.
- A gangrenous and festering pustule in the chronicles of celluloid.

(From The American Experience: Partners of the Heart (2003) on August 15th, 2010)

Tom's Buffy and Angel Marathon, a review by Tom

22. Becoming Pt. 2 (1998-05-19)
Writer: Joss Whedon (Created By), Joss Whedon (Writer)
Director: Joss Whedon
Cast: Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy Summers), Nicholas Brendon (Xander Harris), Alyson Hannigan (Willow Rosenberg), Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia Chase), David Boreanaz (Angel), Anthony Stewart Head (Giles), Max Perlich (Whistler), Seth Green (Oz), Kristine Sutherland (Joyce Summers), Robia LaMorte (Jenny Calendar), James G. MacDonald (Detective Stein), James Marsters (Spike), Juliet Landau (Drusilla), Armin Shimerman (Principal Snyder), Susan Leslie (First Cop), Thomas G. Waites (Second Cop)

Probably my favorite Buffy season finale. I remember first seeing it, when it was first aired in Germany and had to wait months for the new season.
As a matter of fact I think I had it taped, because I was vacationing in the US at the time. There I got to see some episodes from the third season. My first chance to see Buffy in English. At the time it was something special to have the chance to see the original language version. No DVDs and still on dial-up internet connection. I remember that the third season finale was supposed to air, but got postponed. My first taste of English language Buffy were some re-runs (Homecoming, Band Candy, and I think Doppelgangland as replacement for Graduation Day Part II).

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(From Tom's Buffy and Angel Marathon on February 15th, 2009)