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From Russia with Love, a review by Tom

Title: From Russia with Love
Year: 1963
Director: Terence Young
Rating: FSK-16
Length: 110 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78
Audio: German: Dolby Digital Mono, Spanish: Dolby Digital Mono, English: Dolby Digital Mono, Commentary: Dolby Digital Mono
Subtitles: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish

Stars:
Sean Connery
Daniela Bianchi
Pedro Armendariz
Lotte Lenya
Robert Shaw


Extras:
Booklet
Commentary
Featurettes
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailers

I really liked the first half hour or so. The introduction of typical Bond villains (who were obviously the template for Dr. Evil (Blofeld) and Frau Farbisina). Also always fun the scenes with Bond, M and Moneypenny. And now also with Q
But then the movie dragged a little for me, beginning with the train ride. But it picked up again towards the end.

Rating:

(From James Bond Marathon on February 4th, 2009)

The Dead Zone, a review by Tom

Title: The Dead Zone
Year: 1983
Director: David Cronenberg
Rating: R
Length: 104 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85
Audio: English: Dolby Digital Surround, English: Dolby Digital 5.1, French: Dolby Digital Mono
Subtitles: English

Stars:
Christopher Walken
Brooke Adams
Tom Skerritt
Herbert Lom
Anthony Zerbe

Plot:
Christopher Walken stars in this tense, gripping screen adaption of Stephen King's best-selling novel, The Dead ZoneExtras:
Closed Captioned
Scene Access
Trailers

A good movie. Though I like the TV series better. For those of you, who know the TV series, but not this movie: It's essentially the plot of the pilot episode and the first season's Stillson story arc.
And unlike the TV series, we have a proper resolution to the Stillson arc.

Ironic is, that Martin Sheen, who plays Stillson whose ambition is to become President of the United States, later plays the president on West Wing. And Christopher Walken, whose character is talking about Sleepy Hollow and the headless horseman, will later play this character in the Tim Burton movie.

Rating:

(From Short Stephen King marathon on May 9th, 2009)

Tom's Random Reviews, a review by Tom

Gunslinger Girl

My thoughts:

Trailer
Opening Titles

This month they start airing a second season to this series in Japan. Sadly it will take at least two or three years until there will be a RC1 boxset release (I usually buy anime only after they are re-released as a boxset and not single volumes).


(From Tom's Random Reviews on January 3rd, 2008)