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Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation, a review by Tom

Title: Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation
Year: 2003
Director: Phil Tippett
Rating: 18
Length: 92 Min.
Video: Widescreen 1.78
Audio: English: Dolby Digital TrueHD, French: Dolby Digital TrueHD, Commentary: Dolby Digital Stereo
Subtitles: Commentary, English, French, Hindi

Stars:
Billy Brown
Richard Burgi
Kelly Carlson
Cy Carter
Tim Conlin

Plot:Jurassic Park), one of the greatest visual effects wizards in movie history, makes his directorial debut.

Awards:

Saturn

2004

Won

Best DVD Release

Extras:
BD-Live
Commentary
Featurettes
Scene Access
Trailers

This is your average bodysnatcher movie. Not my favorite kind of movie. Also the direction and acting is below average. Special effects are okay for a direct-to-DVD movie. But I really was bothered by the action scenes outside the building. They had only a few small covers where the soldier hide behind and are managing to keep thousands of bugs at bay while having idle conversations. This is just poor direction.
The story is very unoriginal, but if you like bodysnatcher movies, this one is watchable.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on October 31st, 2009)

People on Sunday, a review by Antares

People on Sunday (1930) 3.5/5 - Robert & Curt Siodmak, Billy Wilder, Fred Zinneman and Edgar G. Ulmer...how's that for a lineup of talent? This is a curious little film from the waning days of silent German cinema. I say curious because from beginning to end, I couldn't help but feel a sense of morbid curiosity at not only the people involved in the film, but of the beauty that was once Berlin. As I watched, I wondered... how many of these people on the streets of a bustling Berlin, would lay dead on the cobblestones just 15 years later as Allied bombs reduced this once beautiful city to ruins? The beautiful trees that line the roadways...how long before they would be hewn at the trunk to be used as fuel to heat the homes of the bombed city? When Siodmak shows little toddler children playing with adults in a city park, I wondered...How many of these children would be hauled away in trains and tossed into a gas chamber...How many of these little boys would die on the frozen steppe of the Ukraine and how many of these little girls would be raped by invading Russian soldiers in the waning days of the war that was to come? I couldn't separate these thoughts from the film, and that's a shame because this is a beautifully shot and paced film. It's leisurely pace never falters and though the story may seem insignificant, always keeps you interested. I would have liked to have seen this film when it was first released, before the Nazi infection had spread through Germany.

(From Antares' Short Summations on January 13th, 2012)

Tom's TV Finales marathon, a review by Tom

3rd Rock from the Sun: Season Six (2000/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Network (United Kingdom) Length: 414 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Subtitles:

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Plot:
So we bid farewell to a true sitcom classic. 3rd Rock's brilliant ensemble cast has made it one of television's most unique, original and outragious sitcoms hailed by critics, adored by fans and honoured with Emmy Awards. Presentend here are all 20 episodes of the final season containing some of 3rd Rock's most memorable episodes and featuring guests slots by the likes of John Cleese and Elvis Costello.


3rd Rock From the Sun
Season 6.19 The Thing That Wouldn't Die (Part I)
Writer: Dave Jeser (Screenwriter), Matt Silverstein (Screenwriter), Dave Lewman (Original Material By), Joe Liss (Original Material By)
Director: Terry Hughes
Cast: John Lithgow (Dick Solomon), Kristen Johnston (Sally Solomon), French Stewart (Harry Solomon), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Tommy Solomon), Simbi Khali (Nina), Elmarie Wendel (Mrs. Dubcek), Wayne Knight (Officer Don), Jane Curtin (Mary Albright), Ileen Getz (Judith), Mindy Spence (Sam), Chad Einbinder (Rico)

To conclude this series they have Mary finally finding out about Dick. It is a little fast, how she accepted this fact (they should have done this earlier in the season and deal with this in more than one episode), but it was fun to watch her expressions when Dick asked her to think about the last six years with the knowledge that he is an alien and how much sense it makes.

Rating:


3rd Rock From the Sun
Season 6.20 The Thing That Wouldn't Die (Part II)
Writer: Dave Goetsch (Screenwriter), Jason Venokur (Screenwriter), Christine Zander (Original Material By)
Director: Terry Hughes
Cast: John Lithgow (Dick Solomon), Kristen Johnston (Sally Solomon), French Stewart (Harry Solomon), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Tommy Solomon), Simbi Khali (Nina), Elmarie Wendel (Mrs. Dubcek), Wayne Knight (Officer Don), Jane Curtin (Mary Albright), Ian Lithgow (Leon), David DeLuise (Bug), Chris Hogan (Pitman), Danielle Nicolet (Caryn), Ileen Getz (Judith), Ron West (Dr. Strudwick), Elvis Costello (Himself)

Second part of the series finale. Not that much fun as hardly anything is happening.

Rating:

(From Tom's TV Finales marathon on November 18th, 2012)