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Kamikaze Girls, a review by dfmorgan

Kamikaze Girls

Year: 2004
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima
Cast: Kyoko Fukada, Anna Tsuchiya
OverviewWatched: 13th Feb 2010
My Thoughts:  an interesting film. At its basic level a 'buddy' film but it's much more than that. We have 2 disparate teenagers Momoko, a Lolita fan, and Ichigo, a biker girl, who meet when Momoko starts to sell her fathers Versach, or Ver**ce, clothing to fund her Lolita habit. From there a friendship builds up leading to a climax set to Johann Strauss II's The Blue Danube. For those who are not aware Lolita is a fashion style/subculture, popular in Japan, based on Victorian and Rococo eras of clothing and not related to the book or film of the same name.

Like the recently reviewed Royal Space Force this film is window-boxed. Initially it started full 1.77 for the studio credits but once the cartoon element of the opening started then it went window-boxed and stayed that way for the rest of the film 

My Rating: Interesting and enjoyable so 4

Dave

(From Dave's DVD/Blu-ray Reviews on February 14th, 2010)

Hulk, a review by addicted2dvd

Hulk
The larger-than-life Marvel Super Hero the HULK explodes onto the big screen! After a freak lab accident unleashes a genetically enhanced, impossibly strong creature, a terrifed world must marshal its forces to stop a being with abilities beyond imagination.

My Thoughts:
The first time I watched this movie I was really disappointed. Before this movie the only way I knew the Hulk was from the '70s TV Series. That is all that I was used to. So I pretty much shunned this movie after seeing it the first time. Now that I have seen the great new movie The Incredible Hulk... I thought I should give this movie another chance on it's own merits. So when I was able to get it cheap I grabbed it for a second chance.

After watching it for the second time I can say that I did enjoy it more then I did the first time. But I still think it was a poor attempt at a Hulk movie. The story seemed to go on forever... without much advancement to the plot. I hated all the split screens they used through-out the movie. I mean I know this is a comic book adaptation... I didn't need to be reminded of that by having so many split screens to look like a page of a comic book. That... to me... took away from the story itself. I will probably watch this one every great once in a while... but no where near as much as I will "The Incredible Hulk."



(From My Movie Marathon on February 21st, 2009)

Doctor Who Marathon, a review by Tom

Doctor Who
Series 2.00 The Christmas Invasion
Writer: Russell T Davies (Writer)
Director: James Hawes
Cast: David Tennant (The Doctor), Billie Piper (Rose Tyler), Camille Coduri (Jackie Tyler), Noel Clarke (Mickey Smith), Penelope Wilton (Harriet Jones), Daniel Evans (Danny Llewelyn), Adam Garcia (Alex), Sean Gilder (Sycorax Leader), Chu Omambala (Major Blake), Anita Briem (Sally), Sian McDowall (Sandra), Paul W. S. Anderson (Jason), Cathy Murphy (Mum), Sean Carlsen (Policeman), Jason Mohammed (Newsreader 1), Sagar Arya (Newsreader 2), Lachele Carl (Newsreader 3)

The tenth doctor makes a very good first impression, even though he is asleep throughout most of the episode. But when he wakes up, he steals the scene. And I like his interactions with Rose, Jackie and Mickey.




(From Doctor Who Marathon on February 15th, 2014)