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Marley & Me, a review by snowcat

(From Emma's Film Reviews (snowcat) on December 30th, 2009)

Lethal Weapon, a review by Tom

Title: Lethal Weapon
Year: 1987
Director: Richard Donner
Rating: NR
Length: 117 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78
Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, French: Dolby Digital Surround, English: DTS 5.1
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Stars:
Mel Gibson
Danny Glover
Gary Busey
Mitchell Ryan
Tom Atkins

Plot:
With over seven minutes of previously unavailable scenes, the director's cut of Lethal Weapon is a long-overdue present for fans. Riggs' solitary homelife and the tragic loss spurring him to a reckless disregard for his own safety now come into greater focus. We see that recklessness in new scenes underlining the differences between the two cops. Murtaugh, just 50, needs reassurance about his skills at a firing range. Riggs, not caring if he sees another birthday, coolly walks into a schoolyard sniper's field of fire. All the humor and adrenaline that made this original an entertainment milestone are here, too. No scenes have been removed. But new action and new insight are now included. Include yourself in the excitement.

Extras:
Closed Captioned
Production Notes
Scene Access
Trailers

Lethal Weapon is one of the best (if not the best) buddy cop movies. Good mix of humor and interesting characters, which do not seem so over-the-top as in a lot of other movies of this kind. Of course you could say this about Gibson's character, but I still feel it works great here as it comes from his emotional state.
The only thing which I think is out of place here is the final fight between Riggs and the bad guy. They already had him apprehended, but Riggs simply wanted to have another hand-to-hand fight with him.

Rating:

(From Lethal Weapon Marathon on June 8th, 2009)

Life on Mars Marathon (US Version), a review by addicted2dvd

10. Let All the Children Boogie
When rock star Sebastian Grace (Cheyenne Jackson) receives a death threat, Sam and Chris are sent to provide him with police protection. Chris later accompanies Sebastian and one of his groupies, Rocket Girl, to wait for UFOs in the New Jersey Meadowlands, but Sebastian is arrested for murder when Rocket Girl disappears. Sam also has to try and cover up his fling with Maria before Gene figures out who his partner in the file room was.

Guest Stars:
Cheyenne Jackson as Sebastian Grace
Wallace Shawn as The Sorcerer
Maggie Siff as Maria Belanger
Robert Clohessy as Frank Wyatt

My Thoughts:
This is one of the ones I didn't care too much for. having to protect a rock star of course means there is music in the episode. And I of course didn't care for that. While the whole idea of them thinking the girl was abducted by a UFO was pretty entertaining for some reason I didn't care for Wallace Shawn in the role of The Sorcerer. I gues because I usually find his characters funny to watch... and this one just wasn't.

My Rating:

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11. Home is Where You Hang Your Holster
A city councilman who is arrested and brought into the 125th on prostitution charges privately reveals to Sam that he's from 2009 and knows the way home, but he is murdered in the middle of the precinct house before Sam can find out the secret. Hunt locks down the squad house to investigate the murder. Ray and Annie were both out of the house at the time and are sent out to investigate leads on the outside, but squabble over how much authority a policewoman should be given in investigating a crime.

Guest Stars:
Laura Benanti as Denise Carling
Maggie Siff as Maria Belanger
Jason Kravits as Jerry
Armand Schultz as Councilman Bobby Prince

My Thoughts:
A good episode. I liked how they had the crime happen in the police station itself. The liuetenant finds out that it was his daughter that was in the file room with Sam. I could have wenbt without the whole Wizard of Oz references and background music. But it didn't take away from the episode too much.

My Rating:

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12. The Simple Secret of the Note in Us All
The squad tries to solve the murder of a newspaper columnist. After learning that the columnist had visited a gallery owned by Tony Crane, a man whom Sam has arrested in the 2000s for a very similar crime, Sam becomes an advocate for the 1973-style vigilante policing he's usually fighting against, while the media glare has Hunt uncharacteristically insistent on a strictly by-the-book investigation. The rest of the precinct believe the murderer is a restaurant chef.

Guest Stars:
Kerry Bishe as Eve Flannery
Chris Bowers as Tony Crane
Fred Dalton Thompson as Chief Harry Woolf
Peter Appel as Demetri Pantos

My Thoughts:
This is a pretty good episode. It was pretty fun to see the roles reversed a bit... and see Sam being the one to want to rough up the suspect and the lieutenant going strictly by the book. But I think what I really liked is how Annie is the one that came through in the end.

My Rating:

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13. Revenge of Broken Jaw
While the squad tries to find a place to watch the Muhammad Ali-Ken Norton rematch, student radicals from the Weather Underground target the police with bomb threats, and it becomes all too personal to Lt. Hunt, who loses several close friends in the incendiary aftermath. As the investigation heats up, Sam, Annie and Hunt uncover mysterious connections to one of the students and a political science professor. The bomb threats continue as Hunt, suspiciously secretive, attempts to discover the professor's possible connection to the Weather Underground's dead leader; is the motivation politics or revenge, and do the Weathermen have the right target? With the 1-2-5 walking a dangerous tightrope to discover the target of the next bomb, the case takes a totally unforeseen but deadly turn.

Guest Stars:
Kevin Kilner as Dr. Richard Olsen
Janel Moloney as Pat Olsen
Arthur Nascarella as Rooney
Austin Pendleton as Dr. Goldman

My Thoughts:
Fun episode. I liked how Sam took advantage of knowing what will happen in the boxing match ahead of time and making a nice sized bet with Ray. And I think Ray said it all when Sam told him some day we won't have to go to a strip club to see the fights... and Ray says I hope that is one day that never comes! I am talking here mostly about a side story... but don't get me wrong. The story of the case was good too!

My Rating:

(From Life on Mars Marathon (US Version) on January 6th, 2010)