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Bunty aur Babli, a review by Tom

Title: Bunty aur Babli
Year: 2005
Director: Shaad Ali Sahgal
Rating: FSK-6
Length: 162 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35
Audio: Hindi: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: German

Stars:
Aishwarya Rai
Amitabh Bachchan
Abhishek Bachchan
Rani Mukerji
Kiran Joneja Sippy

Awards:

Filmfare Awards	2006	Nominated	Best Actor Award	Abhishek Bachchan
Filmfare Awards	2006	Nominated	Best Actress Award	Rani Mukerji
Filmfare Awards	2005	Won	Best Female Playback Award	Alisha Chinai
Filmfare Awards	2006	Won	Best Lyricist Award	Gulza
Filmfare Awards	2006	Nominated	Best Movie Award
Filmfare Awards	2006	Won	Best Music Director Award	Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
Filmfare Awards	2006	Nominated	Best Supporting Actor Award	Amitabh Bachchan
IIFA Awards	2006	Won	Best Female Playback	Alisha Chinoy
IIFA Awards	2006	Won	Best Music Director	Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy

Extras:
Music Videos
Outtakes
Scene Access
Trailers

The Wikipedia article compares this movie with the movie Bonnie and Clyde. As I have never seen that one, I cannot really comment on this, but it really reminded me of Catch Me If You Can. Only with a couple instead of a single con artist. And like in Catch Me If You Can there is a policeman following them. Even the ending is very similar.
Although I enjoyed most of the songs in this one, they rarely were integrated into the plot.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on October 18th, 2009)

The Shining (Miniseries), a review by addicted2dvd

TITLE: The Shining (Miniseries) YEAR: 1998 DIRECTOR: Mick Garris LENGTH: 272min. PLOT: Jack Torrance (Steven Weber) and his family (Rebecca De Mornay and Courtland Mead) move into the sprawling, vacant Overlook Hotel to get away from it all. Away from the alcoholism that derails Jack's writing career. Away from the violent outbursts that mar Jack's past. But Jack's young son Danny knows better. He possesses a psychic gift called the shining-a gift the hotel's vile spirits desperately want. In the hands of Stephen King the "dead" Overlook comes horrifyingly alive. Phantoms lurk, the message "redrum" appears with scary frequency and even garden topiary lurches into macabre existence in this atmospheric shocker scripted by King from his own novel and directed by ace King screen adaptor Mick Garris ('Sleepwalkers', 'The Stand')

My Thoughts:
I can remember back... the very first horror movie I ever watch was Stanley Kubrick's version of The Shining. And because of that... that film has always... as it does now... hold a special place in my heart. To the point that I was concerned when I heard they were doing a miniseries version of this movie. My concerns subsided a little when I heard that Stephen King himself was going to have more to do with the miniseries version then he did with the earlier movie version. When I actually watched it... I was SHOCKED... I actually prefer the miniseries version over the movie version! How can this be?!?! Well first of all, I think Steven Weber and Rebecca DeMornay both did a really good job. In the movie version I really liked Jack Nicholson... but I couldn't get myself to care about the character of Wendy with it being played by Shelley Duvall. I don't know why... just didn't care for her much in the original movie. In the movie version they had a maze of bushes. This was replaced in the miniseries with bushes sculpted into animals... and in my opinion this was much creepier then the maze. Lets face it... when you have a miniseries that is a good 4 and a half hours long... they ken get in much more then the can with an approximate 2 and a half hour movie. Which is a good length in it's own. Over-all I just feel they did a great job with this miniseries... to the point that they didn't only do the original movie justice... but they actually surpassed it.

(From Weekend Movie Marathon: Stephen King on July 25th, 2008)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

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Journeyman: The Complete Series (2007/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia (United Kingdom) Length: 522 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78, Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Subtitles:

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Journeyman
Season 1.01 A Love of a Lifetime

This episode is a good introduction to the series and made me want to watch more.

Rating:

(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on July 17th, 2013)