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Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of The Were-Rabbit, a review by Jon

Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of The Were-Rabbit
5 out of 5



When their town's prized produce start disappearing, our cheese-loving inventor and his savvy canine companion must use all their wildly imaginative inventions to try to capture a mysterious beast of epic and fluffy proportions!
Curse of The Were-Rabbit is on a par with Pixar and streets ahead of any Dreamworks production. Shrek and Kung-Fu

(From Jon's Alphabet Marathon 2010 on July 17th, 2010)

Ran, a review by Antares

Ran





Year: 1985
Film Studio: Herald Ace, Nippon Herald Films, Greenwich Film Production
Genre: Drama, Action
Length: 163 Min.

Director
Akira Kurosawa (1910)

Writing
Akira Kurosawa (1910)...Screenwriter
Hideo Oguni (1904)...Screenwriter
Masato Ide (1922)...Screenwriter

Producer
Katsumi Furukawa
Masato Hara
Serge Silberman (1917)

CinematographerMusicStarsReview
       Most directors in the twilight of their film careers tend to fall back on the tried and trued formulas that had been successful to them in their youth. John Ford, Howard Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock, names synonymous with the pinnacle of cinematic achievement, had virtually nothing left in the tank in terms of creativity in their later years. Such was not the case in the career of acclaimed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. His career would rise as a Phoenix from the ashes of exiled obscurity in the late sixties and seventies at the hands of Toho studio executives who did not share in his artistic vision. This hiatus kept buried in his heart, the fire to create in the medium which he had been shutout for so long during those fifteen years.

       At the beginning of the eighties, with a little help from Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas, he returned to the silver screen with the ambitious jidai-geki Kagemusha. And although it was an international and critical success, Kurosawa still could not get funding for any future films from Toho executives. Finally in 1984, with the backing of a French production company, he secured the funds needed to complete his last great masterpiece, RanKing LearRanRatings Criterion
5 Stars - The pinnacle of film perfection and excellence.

(From Ran (Chaos) (1985) on February 18th, 2010)

Angel Marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

21. Through the Looking Glass
Original Air Date: 5/15/2001
Angel and friends work overtime to survive in a foreign dimension. Cordelia discovers her dirty duty as Princess of Pylea is to mate with a creature called the Groosalugg. She's unable to escape the palace with Wesley and Gunn, and the priests keeping watch over her also prove to be less than trustworthy.

Guest Stars:
Amy Acker
Brody Hutzler
Tom McCleister
Mark Lutz

My Thoughts:
A good continuation from the last episode. I really liked how they designed Angel's vampire form for this new dimension. Then there is a bit of a surprises at the end of the episode. And I must say... Cordelia looks pretty cute in the princess outfit... though she did look better in the bikini a couple episodes ago!

My Rating:

(From Angel Marathon on March 9th, 2010)