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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)

BloodRayne, a review by addicted2dvd

Title: BloodRayne: Unrated Director's Cut
Year: 2005
Director: Uwe Boll
Rating: Unrated
Length: 99 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo, English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Commentary: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo
Subtitles: English, Spanish

Stars:
Kristanna Loken
Michael Madsen
Matt Davis
Will Sanderson
Geraldine Chaplin
Udo Kier

Plot:
BloodRayne delivers non-stop action and incredible special effects. Kristanna Loken (Terminator 3) stars as a sexy killing machine determined to use her supernatural fighting skills to combat her father and his menacing vampire army. Features an incredible all-star cast including Ben Kingsley (Sexy Beast), Michelle Rodriguez (The Fast and the Furious), Billy Zane (Titanic), Michael Madsen (Kill Bill), and Meat Loaf Aday. From director Uwe Boll.

Extras:
Scene Access
Audio Commentary
Feature Trailers
Featurettes
Gallery
Interviews
BloodRayne 2 PC-DVD Game

My Thoughts:
Just finished watching this one for the first time... and I must say I am still not sure what I think of it. I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing when it comes to watching this movie... but I am not familiar with the BloodRayne video games at all. Over all I didn't like the movie much at all. I just couldn't care about the storyline or characters much at all. And that is of course, as we all know,  a bad thing when it comes to watching a movie. On the other hand there was a couple of things I did like about it. The action was pretty cool. And being familiar with some of the cast from TV Series it was pretty fun Seeing them in a movie role. I liked Kristanna Loken... who I know from Painkiller Jane... she looked good with red hair. I just wish she had an all around better movie to work with. I would say over all this movie was a bit of a disappointment... though I was expecting worse considering all I heard about this movie online. But then that could have something to do with it involving vampires... and I do love anything with vampires in it. So me giving a vampire movie such a low score should tell you something as well.



(From Weekend Movie Marathon: Unwatched DVDs on June 19th, 2010)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

The Larry Sanders Show: The Complete Series (1992/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Shout! Factory, Sony Pictures Television (United States) Length: 2097 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Commentary: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Subtitles:

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Plot:
At long last, Garry Shandling's comedy series about the twisted inner workings of a late-night talk show comes to DVD...all of it.

Larry Sanders (Garry Shandling) is a neurotic late-night talk show host flanked by Artie (Rip Torn), his caustic, foul-mouthed producer, and "Hey Now" Hank Kingsley (Jeffrey Tambor), his affection-thirsty sidekick. Off-air it's all train wrecks and egos, but when the lights go down and the theme music kicks in, you get late-night at its finest.

Also starring Linda Doucett, Janeane Garofalo, Penny Johnson, Wallace Langham, Bob Odenkirk, Jeremy Piven, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Sarah Silverman, Scott Thompson, and written and produced by Garry Shandling, Peter Tolan and Judd Apatow, The Larry Sanders Show was the hippest TV show...probably ever.


The Larry Sanders Show
1.01 What Have You Done For Me Lately? (AKA Garden Weasel)
Writer: Garry Shandling (Created By), Dennis Klein (Created By), Peter Tolan (Writer)
Director: Ken Kwapis
Cast: Garry Shandling (Larry Sanders), Jeffrey Tambor (Hank Kingsley), Megan Gallagher (Jeannie Sanders), Wallace Langham (Phil), Jeremy Piven (Jerry), Penny Johnson (Beverly), Linda Doucett (Darlene), Janeane Garofalo (Paula), Rip Torn (Arthur), Robert Hays (Himself), Deborah May (Melanie), Sam Whipple), James Karen), Rif Hutton), Harley Venton), Kathy Kinney)

A fun series about the behind the scenes of a daily late-night talk show. With Garry Shandling as the talk show host. I especially love about this series, that it has real-live celebrities as guests parodying themselves.

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(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on June 5th, 2012)