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Confetti, a review by addicted2dvd

Watched On: 3/25/2013

Confetti (2006/United Kingdom) Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Director: Debbie Isitt Writing: Debbie Isitt (Writer) Length: 100 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, French: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital: 5.1 Subtitles: English, Spanish

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Stars:
Martin Freeman as Matt
Jessica Stevenson as Sam
Stephen Mangan as Josef
Meredith MacNeill as Isabelle
Robert Webb as Michael
Olivia Colman as Joanna

Plot:
Say "I do" to this hilarious "mockumentary" about a trio of wacky couples who vow to win the coveted title of "Most Original Wedding of the Year." The dueling duos include the tuneless Matt (Martin Freeman) and Sam (Jessica Stevenson) whose unfortunate wedding theme is Hollywood musicals; the hypercompetitive tennis partners Josef (Steven Mangan) and Isabelle (Meredith MacNeill), and the outrageously uninhibited nudists Michael (Robert Webb) and Joanna (Olivia Colman). At stake is a million-dollar dream home, but can love survive in the midst of unbridled prenuptial chaos? Featuring a talented cast and three alternate endings that let YOU choose the winner, CONFETTI will "keep you laughing from start to finish" (Empire).

Extras:

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

This is one of the many that was given to me over the years. This particular one has been sitting in my unwatched pile for about two years now. It is one I never even heard of before getting it... let alone seen before today. Going by the overview I really wasn't expecting too much from this one. But I must admit it was better then I was expecting. I still wouldn't say it is a great movie... but I did find I enjoyed it. Even if I did call the winner of the contest at the beginning of the film. But over-all it is worth the time put in to watch it.



(From What Movies I Been Watching on March 26th, 2013)

The Seventh Victim, a review by Jon

THE SEVENTH VICTIM
4 out of 5

A woman is looking for her sister who disappeared some time before. As she traces her sisters movements, she becomes aware of a Satanic cult.

This one is possibly Lewton's most enigmatic film, Curse of the Cat People included. It is of the highest quality, especially in cast and photography, but the story is especially intriguing. Most of his plots so far have been relatively straightforward. Plenty to think about, but the core stories are typical horror staples.

Here it is less conventional. If not for the presence of the Satanic cult, it wouldn't even be horror, but actually Film Noir, complete with the suitably bleak ending and characters as shadowy as the streets they hide in.

But it is a horror in the best Lewton tradition (the "dark mirror" as Guillermo del Toro said in an interview) and several scenes stand out. A murder in a dark hallway, a shower scene that will remind you of Psycho (although no-one dies, the scary shadow on the curtain could easily have been an inspiration to Hitch) and a nerve-jangling ten minute walk home for one character at the end. I think it was about 10 minutes. Bear in mind like many of these films, The Seventh Victim is just 75 minutes long, so a fair portion of the screentime is rightly dedicated to this scene alone.

It sags in the middle, but I found the subtle religious tone compelling and this film will keep coming back to me over the coming days, more so than the others in this set I think. Ultimately it was a story about faith and will certainly reward repeat viewings. I'm not a religious person, yet I still found a sequence that quotes a line from The Lord's Prayer strangely moving. The whole final section is powerful and I hope some of you watch this film as I'd love to hear others thoughts on what you think it was trying to say.

Even though it was a downbeat end, I did like what seems to be a sick joke at the expense of Film Noir conventions! It's part of a naive romance sub-plot I'd otherwise found annoying, but typical of 40s Noir. Now I wonder if it was there just to set up a sly stab at what must have been a cliche even in 1943. Maybe I'm being too cynical, but after how Greyfriars Bobby was treated in The Body Snatcher, anything is possible!

As always with these films, I may have made this sound a bit weighty, but in fact, it's still a deceptively simple and powerful thriller that might have you treating the shadows in your bedroom with suspicion! And that's all we should ask of the best horrors.

(From Val Lewton Horror Marathon on October 5th, 2008)

DC's Legends of Tomorrow, a review by addicted2dvd

DC's Legends of Tomorrow: The Complete First Season IMDb |Wikipedia |Trailer | Plot:

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Stars:
Victor Garber as Dr. Martin Stein
Brandon Routh as Ray Palmer/The Atom
Arthur Darvill as Rip Hunter
Caity Lotz as Sara Lance/White Canary
Franz Drameh as Jefferson Jackson/Firestorm
Ciara Renee as Kendra Saunders/Hawkgirl
Falk Drameh as Carter Hall/Hawkman

Extras:

• Featurettes
• Outtakes/Bloopers
• Digital Copy

This is a show that hooked me from the pilot episode. I enjoyed every mnute of it and liked that they introduced most of the characters on other series so I was already used to the characters and who was playing them. This is definitely a series I would recommend to a superhero fan. Even if they did mess with the Firestorm character a little too much in my opinion. Running only 16 episodes... the first season is also a little on the short side. But well worth the watch.



(From November Movie Marathon: Superhero / Comic Book Movies on November 1st, 2016)