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Voyage to the Planets: A Traveller's Guide to Leaving Earth, a review by Dr. Hasslein

Voyage to the Planets: A Traveller's Guide to Leaving Earth





To say our solar system is fascinating place would be a gross understatement; a place of gas giants, frozen worlds, vast alien landscapes and geological wonders on a scale that simply boggle the mind. This six-part documentary series narrated by Richard Roxburgh takes you from the safety of our blue planet know as Earth on guide tour of our solar system and many mysterious wonders that lie within. So prepare for a voyage to the planets.


My ThoughtsSpace with Sam NeillOnce Upon a time in the West

(From Voyage to the Planets: A Traveller's Guide to Leaving Earth on December 22nd, 2010)

The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death, a review by addicted2dvd

The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death (2015/United States) Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (United States) Director: Tom Harper Writing: Jon Croker (Screenwriter), Susan Hill (Story By) Length: 99 min. Video: Widescreen 2.40:1 Audio: English: DTS-HD Master Audio: 5.1 Subtitles: English, Spanish

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Stars:
Phoebe Fox as Eve Parkins
Merryn Pearse as Girl in Tube
Mary Roscoe as Woman in Tube
Helen McCrory as Jean Hogg
Amelia Crouch as Flora

Plot:
The supernatural terror returns and unspeakable evil sets its sight on new prey when a group of orphaned children are forced to move into the abandoned Eel Marsh House with their caretakers, Eve and Jean. As the children begin to mysteriously disappear, Eve makes a shocking discovery...it may not be a coincidence that she has come to reside in a place inhabited by the murderous Woman in Black.

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Feature Trailers
• Bonus Trailers
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Digital Copy

No, definitely not as good as the first. But I really don't feel it deserves the hate that it seems to get. I feel that it is a decent sequel. I enjoyed the story. I found it worth the hour and a half I put into it to watch it.



(From Horror/Halloween Marathon 2023 on September 17th, 2023)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

Episodes: Series One (2011/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia 2 entertain Video (United Kingdom) Length: 196 min. Video: Widescreen 1.78 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: English

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Plot:
Matt LeBlanc plays a deliciously outrageous version of himself in this laugh-out-loud comedy from creators David Crane (Friends) and Jeffrey Klarik (Mad About You). Episodes offers a peek behind the curtain at the insanity of Hollywood. You'll never watch TV the same way again.

Sean (Stephen Mangan) and Beverly (Tamsin Greig) are a happily married English couple, who are also the successful creators of a hit British TV show. Their life seems complete. That is until a hugely powerful and charismatic US network president persuades them to move to LA to remake their show for American television. He's full of praise and promises "not to change a thing".

However, things begin to unravel as soon as Sean and Beverly arrive in LA. They discover that the network president has never even seen their show. To make matters worse, he insists that they replace their brilliant lead actor (Richard Griffiths), an erudite Royal Shakespeare veteran with... Matt LeBlanc! Sean and Beverly are appalled.

But the decision is out of their hands. Matt comes on board, and soon Sean and Beverly find themselves in a complicated triangle which threatens to destroy not just their TV show but also their marriage.


Episodes
1.01 Episode One
Writer: David Crane (Created By), Jeffrey Klarik (Created By), David Crane (Writer), Jeffrey Klarik (Writer)
Director: James Griffiths
Cast: Matt LeBlanc (Matt LeBlanc), Stephen Mangan (Sean Lincoln), Tamsin Greig (Beverly Lincoln), John Pankow (Merc Lapidus), Kathleen Rose Perkins (Carol Rance), Richard Griffiths (Julian Bullard), Alejandro Postigo (Ernesto), Ben Miller (Ben Miller), Lou Hirsch (Wallace), Daisy Haggard (Myra Licht), Joseph May (Andy Button), Bruce Lester Johnson (Roger)

A promising start to a series, which looks like fun. I am curious how the next episodes will be, where Matt LeBlanc has a bigger role.

Rating:

(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on August 20th, 2011)