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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, a review by Tom

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010/United Kingdom) IMDb | Wikipedia Warner Home Video (United Kingdom) Director: David Yates Writing: Steve Kloves (Screenwriter), J.K. Rowling (Original Material By) Length: 146 min. Video: Widescreen 2.40 Audio: English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Audio Descriptive: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1, Catalonian: Dolby Digital 5.1, Czech: Dolby Digital 5.1 Subtitles: Arabic, Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish

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Stars:
Bill Nighy as Rufus Scrimgeour
Emma Watson as Hermione Granger
Richard Griffiths as Vernon Dursley
Harry Melling as Dudley Dursley
Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter

Plot:
Harry, Ron and Hermione set out to track down and destroy the secret to Voldemort's power - the Horcruxes. On their own and on the run, the three must rely on one another more than ever...but Dark Forces threaten to tear them apart.

Awards:
Won:

MTV Movie Awards (2011)		Best Villain (Tom Felton)
National Movie Awards (2011)		Best Fantasy Film

Nominated:

Academy Award (2010)		Best Art Direction (Stuart Craig, Stephanie McMillan)
Academy Award (2010)		Best Visual Effects (Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz, Nicolas Aithadi)
MTV Movie Awards (2011)		Best Female Performance (Emma Watson)
MTV Movie Awards (2011)		Best Fight (Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Rod Hunt, Arden Bajraktaraj)
MTV Movie Awards (2011)		Best Kiss (Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe)
MTV Movie Awards (2011)		Best Male Performance (Daniel Radcliffe)
MTV Movie Awards (2011)		Best Movie
National Movie Awards (2011)		Best Performance of the Year (Rupert Grint, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson)

Extras:

• BD-Live
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Maximum Movie Mode
• Scene Access

This movie had a great start. Dragged a little in the middle. And was good again towards the end. I still doubt that the finale will blow me away, but so far it was an interesting watch. Nice to see Dobby again. And the CGI of him was very well done in this movie. Contrary to the big snake in this movie which really looked fake.

Rating:

(From Tom's Harry Potter Movie Marathon on March 12th, 2013)

An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe, a review by Danae Cassandra

An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe
Year of Release: 1970
Directed By: Ken Johnson
Starring: Vincent Price
Genre: Horror

Overview:
Brace yourself for a fearsome fright fest...times four! Maestro of Mayhem Vincent Price narrates this quivering quartet of Edgar Allan Poe's most spine-tingling classics, including: "The Tell Tale Heart," "The Sphinx," "The Cask of Amontillado," and "The Pit and the Pendulum." Dripping with gruesome torture, live burials, monsters, madness and murder most foul, An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe will chill you to your very marrow!

My Thoughts:
This short anthology film is a treat for fans of Vincent Price.  He is the sole actor here, doing four of Poe's short stories as, basically, one-man stage shows.  It's very much a showcase of Price's talent, since each story allows him to develop a different character. 

"The Tell-Tale Heart" and "A Cask of Amontillado" are both two of Poe's best known stories and the best of these four features.  One showcases Price as a raving madman, the other as cold and calculating a villain as you'll ever see.  "The Pit and the Pendulum" is good, but I don't find it as engaging as the other two, though Price plays desperate terror quite well.  I find "The Sphinx" the weakest of the lot, though still enjoyable.

This was made for television, and obviously very cheaply, but if you're a fan of Vincent Price it's well worth seeing. 

Bechdel Test: Fail

Overall: 3.25/5

2015 Horror Movie Count: 11

(From Horror/Halloween Marathon 2015 on October 21st, 2015)

Pilot Season 2014-15, a review by DJ Doena

About A Boy



About A Boy @ Wikipedia
About A Boy @ IMDb

Synopsis: Will wrote a Christmas song that made him decently rich a few years ago. He is an adult but he never grew up.
His life changes when a single mother and her young son move in next door.
Marcus doesn't have any friends and is a bit "odd" but for some reason the connects with Will and vice versa.
From there on the three of them have a kind of relationship that is very hard to explain to outsiders but it works for them.

My Opinion: The show started during the Olympics back in February and will soon start its second season.
It's based on the same book and has (in the beginning) the same basic story as the movie of the same name starring Hugh Grant.

The only truly recognizable names are Minnie Driver (Good Will Hunting) and Al Madrigal (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart).

I liked the show right from the start and I am glad that it got a second season. Like most comedies I like it's not of the Ha-Ha-LOL variety but bases his humour more on the general setting and the likeability of the characters.



(From Pilot Season 2014-15 on September 6th, 2014)