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The Devil's Messenger, a review by addicted2dvd

Title: The Devil's Messenger
Year: 1962
Director: Herbert L. Strock
Rating: NR
Length: 71 Min.
Video: Full Frame 1.33:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: Mono
Subtitles: N/A

Stars:
Lon Chaney, Jr. [Lon Chaney]
Michael Hinn
Ralph Brown
John Crawford
Bert Johnson
Chalmers Goodlin

Plot:
Three macabre tales of terror are featured in this frightful thriller hosted by the incomparable "Mr. D" (Lon Chaney Jr.). A psychotic photographer is faced with a beauty that haunts his pictures and dreams in one tale. A scientist becomes obsessed with a frozen "Ice Princess" that leads to an unfortunate ending in another tale. Finally, a man fears his own death after a visit with a fortuneteller in the last of these horrifying stories.

Extras:
Scene Access

My Thoughts:
This is another anthology that came in that 100 movie boxset I recently got.  This one I enjoyed quite a bit.  Of course Lon Chaney, Jr. plays the devil. Sitting in hell checking everyone in... when Satanya (played by Karen Kadler) who is there because she committed suicide. He gives her the chance to earn her way out of hell by making her the Devil's Messenger. Her job is to deliver items to people that are about to do something to earn their way to hell. Which is the wraparound story for the three stories (deliveries that she has to make) in this movie. while I enjoyed each of the movies.... the first one was best by far. The image on this release is decent with some flaws. The audio is pretty good... except for the scenes in hell... which seemed to be recorded in a cave as there is a problem with echoing making it harder to understand what is being said. But over all I am definitely glad I got this one in the set.



(From Movies of the '60s Marathon on May 14th, 2010)

Batman, a review by Tom

Title: Batman
Year: 1989
Director: Tim Burton
Rating: FSK-12
Length: 121 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85
Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, German: Dolby Digital Surround, Spanish: Dolby Digital Surround
Subtitles: Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

Stars:
Michael Keaton
Jack Nicholson
Kim Basinger
Robert Wuhl
Pat Hingle

Extras:
Production Notes
Scene Access

Until this movie was released, I only knew Batman from the 60s TV show. This movie has shown, that Batman has much potential as a darker character than the one I had known from the TV show (which I loved as a kid by the way).
I had forgotten, that Billy Dee Williams' Harvey Dent was in this movie (I thought it was the second). How fitting to have the character with Joker in the same movie again with "The Dark Knight".
Heath Ledger's performance as Joker in "The Dark Knight" sadly overshadows Jack Nicholson in the role. But I think we should not forget, that this Joker has been seen as a great portrayal of this character for years now.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on April 5th, 2009)

Tom's Random Reviews, a review by Tom

Dawson's Creek: Season Six (2002/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia (United States) Director: Writing: Length: 1054 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, Commentary: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Subtitles: Portuguese, Spanish

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Stars:


Plot:
It's a season of discontent for the Dawson's gang, with broken hearts and interrupted dreams causing major friction for all. Joey and Dawson rekindle their romance but the flame quickly dies out when he reveals he had a romance with an actress in L.A. - the same actress who's coming to Boston to star in Todd's movie. Audrey's dad helps Pacey get a job and makes her singing debut with Emma's band, but her inner demons threaten to destroy everything. And Jen faces the biggest challenge of her life - one that will have a lasting effect on them all.

Awards:
Won:

Teen Choice Awards (2001)

TV - Choice Actor (Joshua Jackson)

Nominated:

Teen Choice Awards (2003)		Choice TV - Drama/Action Adventure
Teen Choice Awards (2003)		Choice TV Actor - Drama/Action Adventure (Joshua Jackson)
Teen Choice Awards (2003)		Choice TV Actress - Drama/Action Adventure (Katie Holmes)
Teen Choice Awards (2003)		Choice TV Sidekick (Mika Boorem)
Teen Choice Awards (2002)		TV - Choice Actor, Drama (Joshua Jackson)
Teen Choice Awards (2001)		TV - Choice Actress (Katie Holmes)
Teen Choice Awards (2002)		TV - Choice Actress, Drama (Katie Holmes)
Teen Choice Awards (2001)		TV - Choice Drama
Teen Choice Awards (2002)		TV - Choice Drama/Action Adventure
Teen Choice Awards (2002)		TV - Choice Sidekick (Busy Philipps)

Extras:

• Closed Captioned
• Commentary
• Scene Access
• scrapbook

#	Episode	Rating
01	The Kids Are Alright
02	The Song Remains the Same
03	The Importance of Being Too Earnest
04	Instant Karma!
05	The Imposters
06	Living Dead Girl
07	Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell
08	Spiderwebs
09	Everything Put Together Falls Apart
10	Merry Mayhem
11	Days Out of Days
12	All the Right Moves
13	Rock Bottom
14	Clean and Sober
15	Castaways
16	That Was Then
17	Sex and Violence
18	Love Bites
19	Lovelines
20	Catch-22
21	Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road
22	Joey Potter and Capeside Redemption
23	All Good Things..Must Come to an End

(From Tom's Random Reviews on October 6th, 2011)