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Buffy the Vampire Slayer , a review by Tom

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (United States) Director: Fran Rubel Kuzui Writing: Joss Whedon (Writer) Length: 85 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 4.0, English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Subtitles: English, Spanish

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Stars:
Candy Clark as Buffy's Mom
Kristy Swanson as Buffy
Donald Sutherland as Merrick
Paul Reubens as Amilyn
Rutger Hauer as Lothos

Plot:Extras:

• Bonus Trailers
• Closed Captioned
• Featurettes
• Scene Access
• Trailers

I like this movie. Even if the TV series is much better. One of the reasons that I like it is Kristy Swanson, who I always thought looks great. And I think she can hold her own in this movie. It's not her fault, that the movie isn't that good.
Some fun early appearances of other actors: Hilary Swank plays one of Buffy's friends. Stephen Root is great as always as the school's principal. Also Ben Affleck can be seen for two seconds.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on August 13th, 2011)

24: Redemption, a review by DJ Doena

Because the seventh season of 24 is about to start (my Sunbird tells me: Sunday) I decided to watch the "bridge movie".


Synopsis: The following takes place between 3 pm and 5 pm. All events occur in real time. More than a year has passed since the events of the sixth day of Jack Bauer. Now he's somehwere in Africa and he hides from the grasp of the US justice department. They try  to subpoena him to a hearing because he's tortured a man.
But he can't even hide in Africa and it gets worse. A local warlord has built an army of children to putsch against the democratic government. The american embassy evacuates all american citizens and Jack tries to help an old special forces comrade to rescue a group of children.

My Opinion: The movie is not outstanding but still ok and in the typical "24" style. It's also nice to see Jack outside of L.A. even though he doesn't behave that differently. But they made a number of interesting hints that Washington hasn't changed at all and that intrigue and schemes will have their share of the seventh day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxPfrcZg91c

(From 24: Redemption on January 8th, 2009)

Angel Marathon, a review by DJ Doena

Synopsis: Cordelia finally finds the time to go out again. She meets with a nice young guy in a bar and she invites him home. But when she wakes up the next morning, she is alone again - and pregnant in the ninth month.

My Opinion: I like it that they didn't forget about the ghost in Cordelia's apartment. And the OB/GYN won't forget their visit for quite some time.

Synopsis: Angel runs across a woman from another dimension who brings refugees from her into our dimension. But she is being hunted and they come closer.

My Opinion: This was a rather serious episode in comparison to the ones we've yet seen - even in comparison to the episode where Doyle died. It was a good change to the usual routine.

Synopsis: After Cordelia got a vision, Angel saves a small boy from being hit by a car in the middle of the night. But then he has to realize that someone in that boy's family is possessed by an Ethros demon. Thus he has to find a priest who will do an exorcism.

My Opinion: Nice plot twist at the and of the episode. That was a bit unexpected.

Synopsis: Kate's father is involved in some illegal smuggling but he doesn't know what he's gotten into. We also learn a lot about the time when Angel was still human and how he became a vampire.

My Opinion: The now-time was a standard-demon-kill-episode. But the flashbacks were interesting. We know some of his past from "Buffy" but this far back.

(From Angel Marathon on February 14th, 2008)