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Fido, a review by Tom

Fido (2006/Canada) IMDb | Wikipedia (United States) Director: Andrew Currie Writing: Robert Chomiale (Writer), Andrew Currie (Writer), Dennis Heaton (Writer), Dennis Heaton (Original Material By) Length: 92 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, Commentary: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: English, Spanish

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Stars:
David Kaye as Narrator
Jan Skorzewski as Eating Zombie
Kevin Tyell as Zombie's Victim
Andy Parkin as Dr. Hrothgar Geiger
Lynn Pendleton as 1940's Mother

Plot:
Timmy Robinson's best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when Fido eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the earth to keep Fido a part of the family. A boy-and-his-dog movie for grown-ups, 'Fido' will rip your heart out.

Awards:
Won:

Genie Award (2007)

Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design (Rob Gray, James Willcock )

Nominated:

Genie Award (2007)		Achievement in Costume Design (Mary E. McLeod )
Genie Award (2007)		Achievement in Music - Original Score (Don Macdonald )

Extras:

• Closed Captioned
• Commentary
• Deleted Scenes
• DVD-ROM Content
• Featurettes
• Outtakes
• Photo Gallery
• Scene Access
• Storyboard Comparisons
• Trailers

I first saw this movie at the FantasyFilmFest a few years back. The premise is a little like the ending of Shaun of the Dead spun further. What happens after a zombie apocalypse if zombies are domesticated and hold like pets.
Nice enough idea, though the movie battles with keeping this premise fun. But I still enjoyed it though.

Rating:

(From Tom's Horror Marathon 2012 on October 6th, 2012)

Forrest Gump, a review by Antares

Forrest Gump





Year: 1994
Film Studio: Paramount Pictures
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Length: 142 Min.

Director
Robert Zemeckis (1951)

Writing
Winston Groom...Original Material By
Eric Roth...Screenwriter

Producer
Wendy Finerman
Steve Tisch (1949)
Steve Starkey

Cinematographer
Don Burgess

Music
Alan Silvestri...Composer

Stars
Tom Hanks (1956) as Forrest Gump
Robin Wright (1966) as Jenny
Sally Field (1946) as Mrs. Gump
Michael Conner Humphreys as Young Forrest

Review
       A simpleton with the IQ of a small child is mistaken for a worldly philosophical savant by almost everyone he comes in contact with. They are in such awe of his divined simple sayings that they believe him to be a populist prophet that can lead them back to a fantasy paradise that only dwells in their minds. While I was sitting in a theater watching Forrest GumpBeing There. And just like the inventor that screams Eureka!!!Being There, Chance the Gardener (Sellers) is a middle-aged man who is mistaken for a wizened aristocrat by the upper crust of Washington D.C. society. And although a handful of people know that he maintains the brain power of a third grade child, he is slowly maneuvered into a position of power by the political sheep that flock around him to hear his inane utterances on gardening. It is these pearls of wisdom that he casts before the swine that are mistaken for folksy allegorical solutions to the ills that plagued our nation at the time. Sound familiar? The only difference from this plot and the one detailed in Forrest Gump is that the latter came wrapped in a package of special effects wizardry that placed Gump into historic scenarios from the sixties, seventies and eighties. Once again the movie going public is given a perfect example of style over substance.

       While Ratings Criterion

(From Forrest Gump (1994) on March 24th, 2010)

My PILOT Marathon, a review by Rich

Waking the Dead - Series One

Pilot - Waking The Dead
A new team of detectives, the Cold Case Squad, is put together to re-examine evidence of unsolved murders using advanced technology. In their first investigation DCI Peter Boyd has a second go at nailing the murderer of Alice Miller, a young girl who disappeared five years ago. Trouble is, the perpetrator is as keen as Boyd to act again, and abducts another girl...



Led by Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd (Trevor Eve) the Cold Case Squad investigates serious crimes which have gone unsolved. Armed with the latest technological advances and old fashioned hard work, Psychological Profiler Grace Foley (Sue Johnston), Forensic Pathologist Frankie Wharton (Holly Aird), Detective Constable Mel Silver (Claire Goose) and Detective Sergeant Spencer Jordan (Wil Johnson) wake the dead for clues and answers.

Brutishly long 2 part pilot special, the near 2 hour marathon was quite a slog and the epsiodes felt padded out. This very popular UK series did not hook me with this first episode, I did not warm to either of the 2 leads, Eve and Johnston, and felt they were too old and past it for the roles intended. The actual storyline was ok but surprisingly unoriginal, and there was very little suspense built up over the kidnapping drama.
Altogether not very inspiring.
 

(From My PILOT Marathon on September 17th, 2009)