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Moon Child, a review by Jimmy

Title: Moon Child
Year: 2003
Director: Takahisa Zeze         
Rating: Unrated
Length: 1h59
Video:  Widescreen 
Audio:  Japanese (Stereo)
Subtitles: English

Stars:
Hideto Takarai - Kei     
Gackt Camui - Sho   
Lee-Hom Wang - Son   
Taro Yamamoto - Toshi     
Susumu Terajima - Shinji       

Plot:
Japanese pop stars Gackt and HYDE star in this wild hybrid of futuristic science fiction, John Woo-style gunplay, and Gothic vampire horror. 'Moon Child' follows a group of childhood friends as they advance in a futuristic criminal underworld. Sho (Gackt) feels he is doomed to walk in his idol Kei's (HYDE) footsteps as a vampire with the gift of eternal life and the curse of blood thirst. Over time, their tight friendship becomes corrupted because of their rivalry and love for the same woman. Filmmaker Takahisa Zeze bring a stylized sting to the blood draining and hyper violent proceedings.


Extras:
Photo Gallery
Trailers

I've got this one in a set with 2 others movies (Suicide Club & 2LDK) and that's a good thing. This movie is not good at all! The suppose vampire spend is time to cry and he is so effeminate that makes it really hard to be convince of his toughness (think of the most stereotype emo possible and you get the picture). The principal actors are suppose to be Japanese pop stars and if they all look like that I prefer to pass my turn. At the start of the movie one vampire died because of the sun, but the other vampire are not affected at all by the sun (if you want to change the mythology it's ok but at least be consistent they die or they don't). Never in the film one vampire take a bit on another person, they fight with gun!!! They are affraid of gun because it's hurt them, but they are a bunch of cry baby so it's not really surprising. The director use the same level effect for the fight (slow-fast, slow bullets,...) than Uwe Boll but saying that is an insult to the Dr. Boll. The films find another way to be insulting with a bad slow cover of My Bonnie (the original by Tony Sheridan is a great rock'n roll song). The movie is way too long (not because it's long I have watch 5 hours movie and apreciate them), a lot of stuff happen just to fill the running time. A lost of my time, but at least the 2 others movies in the set was good.

Rating : 1/5 (Just because "Lizzie Borden" was worst)

(From My review - unseen and unwatched january marathon on January 29th, 2008)

Picnic at Hanging Rock, a review by addicted2dvd

Picnic at Hanging Rock: The Criterion Collection (1975/Australia) IMDb |Wikipedia | The Criterion Collection, Janus Films, Home Vision Cinema (United States) Director: Peter Weir Writing: Cliff Green (Screenwriter), Joan Lindsay (Original Material By) Length: 107 min. Video: Widescreen 1.66:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1 Subtitles: English

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Stars:
College StaffRachel Roberts as Mrs. Appleyard
Vivean Gray as Miss McCraw
Helen Morse as Mlle. de Portiers
Kirsty Child as Miss Lumley

Plot:Extras:

• Scene Access
• Feature Trailers
• Liner notes by Vincent Canby

I watched this one a few days ago, but just now getting to post about it. While not a bad show... this one was a little on the slow side for my taste, The imagery was outstanding in this one... and the storyline keeps your interest. I didn't even mind that they didn't "solve" the mystery.... I mean not all mysteries get solved. I just really had a bit of a problem with how slow it was. I was doing all I could not to dose off.


(From Within My Lifetime Marathon on January 19th, 2015)

Angel Marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

11. Redefinition
Original Air Date: 1/16/2001
After firing his staff and cutting himself off from all help, Angel begins intense physical and mental training to become strong enough to stop Darla and Drusilla before they destroy the City of Angels.

Guest Stars:
Christian Kane
Stephanie Romanov
Nicolas Surovy
Julie Benz
Juliet Landau

My Thoughts:
Another episode I enjoyed a lot. I was concerned as I thought I remembered not caring for the episodes where Angel fired the gang. But at least for the first one... very entertaining. A also enjoyed seeing Angel going against Drusilla and Darla. They are worried now knowing this is not like Angel and is not Angelus. They have something totally different to worry about.

My Rating:

(From Angel Marathon on March 5th, 2010)