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Hoosiers, a review by Antares

Hoosiers





Year: 1986
Film Studio: Orion Pictures, Hemdale Film Corporation
Genre: Sports, Drama
Length: 115 Min.

Director
David Anspaugh (1946)

Writing
Angelo Pizzo...Written By

Producer
John Daly (1937)
Carter DeHaven
Derek Gibson (1945)
Graham Henderson
Angelo Pizzo

Cinematographer
Fred Murphy (1942)

Music
Jerry Goldsmith (1929)...Composer

Stars
Gene Hackman (1930) as Coach Norman Dale
Barbara Hershey (1948) as Myra Fleener
Dennis Hopper (1936) as Shooter
Sheb Wooley (1921) as Cletus
Fern Persons (1910) as Opal Fleener
Chelcie Ross (1942) as George
Robert Swan as Rollin
Michael O'Guinne as Rooster

Review
       The basic formula for a successful sports film is to not over burden the audience with facts and to pitch a David versus Goliath scenario. We as Americans love to root for the underdog, and no sports film in history has stayed the course more rigidly and unwaveringly as the film HoosiersHoosiersRocky in 1976, Hollywood has been rehashing this tried and true method of sports film screenwriting, and almost every film that has been released using this formula, has been fondly accepted by the viewing public. HoosiersReview Criterion

(From Hoosiers (1986) on May 12th, 2010)

Star Trek: First Contact, a review by Tom

Title: Star Trek: First Contact
Year: 1996
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Rating: FSK-12
Length: 106 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35
Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, Czech: Dolby Digital Stereo, German: Dolby Digital 5.1, Hungarian: Dolby Digital Stereo, Polish: Dolby Digital Stereo
Subtitles: Bulgarian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Turkish

Stars:
Patrick Stewart
Jonathan Frakes
Brent Spiner
LeVar Burton
Michael Dorn

Extras:
Scene Access
Trailers

My favorite Star Trek movie. This is a good example how you can bring beloved TV characters to the big screen. And obviously it was made by people who know their Star Trek stuff. A lot of little thinks to please the hard core fans. A cameo by the EMH and by Barclay, for example. Then of course it has time-travel, which is always a plus in my book
Again the first officer of the Enterprise has shown, that he is capable on the director's chair.

I really like the soundtrack to this movie. Especially the opening and closing theme. I also think it is a great choice to play "Magic Carpet Ride" during the warp ship launch.

Sadly this has been the high point of the Next Generation movies. From here it goes downhill to almost killing the franchise. Even going so far, that everybody is excited now to have new actors as a young original crew. Fans would have had a fit, if they would have tried it ten years ago. Actually they almost did try it for a sixth Star Trek movie. Only with the 25th anniversary coming up, they changed their mind and made another movie with the original crew.

Rating:

(From Tom's Star Trek Movies Marathon on February 6th, 2009)

Pete's Pilots, a review by addicted2dvd

Eerie Indiana
Thirteen-year-old Marshall Teller has just been uprooted from his beloved home in New Jersey to Eerie, Indiana which seems at first to be the most normal place in the world, but Marshall soon discovers that there's more to Eerie than meets the eye. Underneath the illusion of normality, Eerie is swarming with weird stuff; women who seal themselves in giant tupperware, werewolves, even Elvis who lives on Marshall's paper route! The only person that believes him is his new friend, ten-year-old Simon Holmes. Together they decide to investigate Eerie's weirdness and keep record of it in hopes to one day show the world.

Forever Ware
The Tellers are welcomed to Eerie by Betty Wilson, who invites Marilyn to attend a demonstration of Foreverware, a very special type of plastic container: It's guaranteed keep anything fresh... Forever.

My Thoughts:
This is a cute family horror series. I don't enjoy this one as much as I do Goosebumps. But it is a decent way to spend some time with your kids. Unfortunately Britt didn't feel like watching it with me this time. Though she does have the complete series in her collection.

My Rating:

(From Pete's Pilots on January 24th, 2010)