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Kandahar, a review by Hal

Title: Safar e Ghandehar
Year: 2001
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Rating: NR
Length: 85 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1
Audio: Other: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround, English: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround
Subtitles: English, Other

Stars:
Niloufar Pazira
Hassan Tantai
Sadou Teymouri
Hoyatala Hakimi
Monica Hankievich

Plot:
Winner of a Jury Prize at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, KANDAHAR is an epic tale of hope and courage, inspired by the true story of a woman's attempt to enter Afghanistan.

Nafas, an Afghan-born Canadian journalist, returns to her homeland in a desperate attempt to reach her sister. Overcome with grief after being injured by a landmine and her despair over the Taliban's systemic oppression of women, she had vowed that she will commit suicide at the time of the next solar eclipse, only three days away.

Clothed in the traditional head-to-toe burka, and posing as a subservient wife, Nafas' odyssey takes her across a dramatic desert landscape, where she encounters bandits, corpse-robbers, marooned exiles, overwhelmed Red Cross workers, hordes of land-mine victims, and finally a wedding procession that brings her within eyeshot of Kandahar.

Extras:
Scene Access
Feature Trailers
Closed Captioned




(From Kandahar on July 12th, 2010)

Zodiac, a review by addicted2dvd

Zodiac


My Thoughts:
I went into this movie excited to finally see it... but I tried to keep low expectations so that I wouldn't be too disappointed if it wasn't all that I was originally expecting. I would have watched it much sooner but the length (just over 2 and a half hours) had me keep putting it off. This morning I thought to myself... long or not... I am watching this movie. I have to say... in my opinion... this movie was very well done. It exceeded even my original high expectations! Now... part of me is sorry I didn't wait for the Director's cut of the film coming out next year. But at the same time... I enjoyed this movie so much... I can see having both the Theatrical Version and the Director's Cut.

(From Weekend Movie Marathon: 9/28 - 9/30 on September 28th, 2007)

Tom's TV Finales marathon, a review by Tom

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Babylon 5: Season Five: The Wheel of Fire (1998/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Warner Home Video (Germany) Length: 933 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, German: Dolby Digital 5.1 Subtitles: English, German

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Babylon 5
Season 5.22 Sleeping in Light 25.11.1998
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski (Writer), J. Michael Straczynski (Created By)
Director: J. Michael Straczynski
Cast: Bruce Boxleitner (John Sheridan), Claudia Christian (Susan Ivanova), Jerry Doyle (Michael Garibaldi), Mira Furlan (Delenn), Richard Biggs (Stephen Franklin), Bill Mumy (Lennier), Jason Carter (Marcus Cole), Stephen Furst (Vir Cotto), Jeff Conaway (Zack Allan), Patricia Tallman (Lyta Alexander), Andreas Katsulas (G'Kar), Peter Jurasik (Londo Mollari), Wayne Alexander (Lorien), Romy Rosemont (Publicist), David Wells (Commander Nils), Sharon Annett (Mary), Dan Sachoff (Aide), Lair Torrant (Ranger), Kent Minault (Captain of the Guard), J. Michael Straczynski (Technician)

One of the best series finales ever. Set about twenty years after the events of the series, it makes up a very nice epilogue.

Rating:

(From Tom's TV Finales marathon on January 27th, 2013)