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Zombie Holocaust, a review by Jimmy

Title: Zombie Holocaust (1980)

Genre: Horror
Director: Marino Girolami
Rating: NR
Length: 1h24
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1
Audio: English
Subtitles: None 

Stars:
Ian McCulloch
Alexandra Delli Colli
Sherry Buchanan
Peter O'Neal
Donald O'Brien

Plot:
Peter Chandler and Dr. Lori Ridgeway come across a gruesome flesheating cult in New York. Determined to uncover the origins of this mad corruption, they set out on an expedition to the primitive island of Keto. The two are soon trapped in the wilderness, surrounded by a tribe of cannibals and the insane scientist, Dr. Obrero. The doctor captures Chandler, and prepares him for a series of experiments designed to bring about the end of human mortality. In turn, Lori is captured by the murderous tribe and subjected to their bizarre rituals. In the tradition of the classic film, ZOMBIE, Ian McCulloch reprises his role of a New Yorker faced with primal horror.

Obviously this film stole its inspiration from two movies: Zombi and Cannibal Holocaust (if it would have been made by another director his fanboys would say it's an hommage). Not one of the best italian movie in this genre. In fact it goes in every directions with lot of things never explain, the dubbing is very weak (there is so many non-sense line, out of sinc talking and annoying high pitch tone voices) and the musical score isn't very good. But the effects are good as usual with the italian movies (except for the scalping FX who are really cheap looking and unrealist) and had one of the most apparent goof ever seen on screen, so it isn't that bad.

Rating :

(From Jimmy's - 2013 Ooctober Horror Marathon on October 20th, 2013)

Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, a review by Tom

Title: Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham
Year: 2001
Director: Karan Johar
Rating: FSK-6
Length: 210 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35
Audio: German: Dolby Digital Stereo, Hindi: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: German

Stars:
Amitabh Bachchan
Jaya Bachchan
Shah Rukh Khan
Kajol
Hrithik Roshan

Plot:
Yashovardhan Raichand (Amitabh Bachchan) and his wife Nandini (Jaya Bachchan) have raised their sons, Rahul (Shah Rukh Khan) and Rohan (Hrithik Roshan) showering them with love and affection. Yash has tried to pass on to his sons the values, heritage and traditions of their family. Nandini has different dreams for her sons. Dreams of love that she wanted both her sons to experience, more so Rahul as she shares a special bond with him. A bond that has been cultivated with love for a child that was never meant to be... a child who was adopted. Rahul's adoption was a secret never discussed in the Raichand household. Ever since Rahul found out at the age of 8 years, it became the reason for his unending gratitude for his parents- especially his father. His father's every wish became a command for him. A command which he never breaks until he falls in love with Anjali (Kajol)- a bubbly girl from Chandni Chowk, who dotes on her younger sister Pooja (Kareena Kapoor). Rahul marries Anjali and brings her home but his father doesn't approve of her. Rahul thus decides to leave home causing his mother's every waking moment to be spent eagerly awaiting his return. Seeing this the younger son Rohan makes a promise to reunite the family and bring back the happiness they once shared.

Awards:

Filmfare Awards	2002	Nominated	Best Actor Award	Shahrukh Khan
Filmfare Awards	2002	Won	Best Actress Award	Kajol
Filmfare Awards	2002	Won	Best Art Direction Award	Sharmishta Roy
Filmfare Awards	2002	Won	Best Dialogue Award	Karan Johar
Filmfare Awards	2002	Nominated	Best Supporting Actor Award	Hrithik Roshan
Filmfare Awards	2002	Nominated	Best Supporting Actor Award	Amitabh Bachchan
Filmfare Awards	2002	Nominated	Best Supporting Actress Award	Kareena Kapoor
Filmfare Awards	2002	Won	Best Supporting Actress Award	Jaya Bachchan
IIFA Awards	2002	Won	Best Male Playback	Sonu Nigam
IIFA Awards	2002	Won	Best Supporting Actress	Jaya Bachchan

Extras:
Scene Access

I watched this movie first of the three newly purchased Bollywood movies, as this one is the longest of the three. It goes three and half hours (currently the longest movie in my collection, beating out "Das Boot: Director's Cut" by ten minutes). Strange, that I always dread watching Hollywood movies which are more than two hours long, but I do not mind Bollywood movies taking this long. As a matter of fact I already think, that when a Bollywood movie is less than two and half hours long, then something is wrong with it
This movie started out a little too boring except for a few really fun scenes. But almost at the one hour mark, it really picked up for me and I really enjoyed the remaining two and half hours.
The movie is about a family, where one of the sons (Shah Rukh Khan) is outcast, because he fell in love with a common girl instead of marrying into an arranged marriage. The son moves with his new wife to London. Ten years later, his now grown up brother (Hrithik Roshan) follows him and is staying at his brother's without telling him who he really is. And his mission is to reconcile the father with his enstranged son.
This is now the first movie I saw with Shah Rukh Khan, who is a real superstar in Bollywood movies. And I am glad that I liked him, because he is also the star in the other two Bollywood movies I have bought.
And again we have a lot of beautiful women
In the beginning it was hard to keep track of who is who and how to keep them apart. But later on, only two of these women were relevant and these two are easily distinguishable.
Hrithik Roshan (who was the star in the first two Bollywood movie that I saw), again did a great performance. The only problem I have with him now is, that since I first noticed, that the has two thumbs on his right hand, I always seek out his hand when it's in the pictures. It's a little distracting. And they do not even bother one bit to hide this in any of his movies. I think they are right to just ignore this instead of constantly trying to hide it, but it is destracting nonetheless. You can see it, for example, a few times in the music video I posted with my Krrish review.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on July 9th, 2009)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

Fraggle Rock: Season One (1983/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia HIT Entertainment (United States) Length: 715 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Subtitles:

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Plot:
From a fun-loving group of furry subterranean creatures cam: millions of fans, 100 original songs, 96 total episodes, 5 seasons, but only one First Season Boxed Set.

Dance your cares away with the complete first season of Fraggle Rock. Featuring all 24 episodes - never before available on DVD! Filled with all the Fraggley fun you've been waiting for. Share in the music and memories that have kept fans rockin' for more than twenty years!

So save your worries for another day and experience 715 minutes of frag-tastic fun in the ultimate Fraggle Rock collection.


Fraggle Rock
1.01 Beginnings
I enjoyed the Fraggles growing up. I always liked the Builders. Interestingly, Fraggles was localized by having the old man be portrayed by different people and even slightly different characters.
This first episode does a good job introducing us to the setting and the characters.

Rating:

(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on June 19th, 2011)