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Fantasia 2000, a review by dfmorgan

Fantasia 2000

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Fantasia

Year: 1999
Director:
Cast:
OverviewWatched: 28th. Nov 2010
My Thoughts: Not quite as wonderful as the original Fantasia, maybe because the themes used within the images are similar to the earlier themes. Still very enjoyable though.

My Rating: An enjoyable 3

Dave

(From Dave's DVD/Blu-ray Reviews on November 28th, 2010)

Be With You, a review by Tom

Be With You (2004/Japan) IMDb | Wikipedia Splendid Film (Germany) Director: Nobuhiro Doi Writing: Takuji Ichikawa (Original Material By), Yoshikazu Okada (Screenwriter) Length: 114 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85 Audio: Japanese: Dolby Digital 5.1, German: Dolby Digital 5.1 Subtitles: German

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Stars:
Yuko Takeuchi as Mio
Shido Nakamura as Takumi
Akashi Takei as Yuji
Karen Miyama as Yuji's friend at school
Yosuke Asari as Takumi (high school days)

Plot:
Widower Takumi (Shidou Nakamura) lives a quiet life with his six-year-old son Yuji after the death of his wife Mio (Yuko Takeuchi). He always remembers Mio’s promise to him that she will be with him again when the rainy season comes.
On the first anniversary of her passing, Takumi and Yuji come across a woman in the woods who is sheltering from a monsoon downpour. She bears an uncanny resemblance to Mio, but has no recollection of who she is.
Family life resumes from where they left off. But will Mio leave again when the rainy days are over?

Extras:

• Bonus Trailers
• Scene Access

If I remember correctly, this movie came to my attention while browsing the Amazon recommendations (Edit: Looking at the cast list, I remember why this was put on my radar. In the supporting cast there is Mikako Ichikawa, who had a role in the movie "Cutie Honey". She was my favorite part in that movie). As it was cheap and had good reviews, I had bought it. Even though it looked like something which could be interesting, I also feared it could be a real bore, so it took me awhile that I finally came around watching it.
I was very much surprised how much I liked this movie. It is a great romance movie. What surprised me most is the last half hour.
The first 1.5h are a solid movie in my book. The last half hour pushed it into a movie for me.

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(From Tom's Random Reviews on October 29th, 2010)

The Cape: The Complete Series, a review by addicted2dvd

The Cape: The Complete Series (2011/United States) He's righteous. He's heroic. He's The Cape. Vince Faraday (David Lyons, E.R.) is an honest cop on a corrupt police force. When he's framed for murder and presumed dead, he finds that he must go into hiding - leaving behind his wife, Dana (Jennifer Ferrin, Life on Mars), and son, Trip (Ryan Wynott, Flash Forward). Determined to battle the criminals who now control his hometown, Vince takes the law into his own hands and becomes The Cape-his son's favorite comic book superhero. Featuring an incredible supporting cast, including James Frain (The Tudors), Keith David (Death at a Funeral), Summer Glau (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles), Dorian Missick (The Manchurian Candidate), Martin Klebba (Pirates of the Caribbean) and Vinnie Jones (Snatch), it's the action-packed series that has critics raving, "'The Cape' is cloaked in awesome." (OK! Magazine) Episodes: 1. Pilot 2. Tarot 3. Kozmo 4. Scales 5. Dice 6. Goggles and Hicks 7. The Lich, Part 1 8. The Lich, Part 2 9. Razer 10. Endgame

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Stars:
David Lyons as Vince Faraday/The Cape
Keith David as Max Malini
Summer Glau as Orwell
James Frain as Peter Fleming/Chess
Jennifer Ferrin as Dana Thompson-Faraday
Ryan Wynott as Trip Faraday
Dorian Missick as Marty Voyt

Extras:

• Bonus Trailers

I just couldn't wait to check out this series... so started it yesterday. I just finished it... and I must say that I enjoyed it quite a bit! I enjoyed the story.... was hooked on all the action...and liked all the characters. Another series that was canceled before it's time. I would have liked to seen it... at the very least... gotten 1 full season. But in this case it was canceled after 9 episodes. The DVD set has all 10 episodes that were produced. When I saw that episode 10 was titled Endgame I had hopes that they managed to give the series decent closure. But no such luck. One of the main reasons I wanted to check out this series is because Summer Glau is part of the main cast. And as usual... she didn't disappoint. Sure there is a bunch of bad CGI with all The Cape can do... but I also enjoyed that in a fun, suspend all disbelief type of way. The DVD release has no show related extras what so ever... but at least it does have a "Play All" option for those of us that likes that option. If you don't mind having short-lived series.... with no real conclusion & can forgive the CGI used... this is one series I would recommend.




(From Addicted2dvd's Random TV Series Watched on January 16th, 2012)