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Kill Bill: Vol. 2, a review by Antares

Kill Bill Vol. II





Year: 2004
Film Studio: Miramax Films, A Band Apart
Genre: Action, Suspense/Thriller
Length: 137 Min.

Director
Quentin Tarantino

Writing
Quentin Tarantino ...Original Characters By
Uma Thurman ...Original Characters By
Quentin Tarantino...Writer

Producer
Bob Weinstein (1954)
Harvey Weinstein (1952)
Erica Steinberg
E. Bennett Walsh
Lawrence Bender (1957)

Cinematographer
Robert Richardson (1955)

Music
Robert Rodriguez...Composer
The RZA ...Composer

Stars
Vivica A. Fox as Vernita Green AKA Copperhead
Ambrosia Kelley as Nikki
Michael Parks as Earl McGraw
James Parks as Edgar McGraw
Jonathan Loughran as Trucker
Michael Bowen as Buck
Kenji Oba as Bald Guy
Yoshiyuki Morishita as Tokyo Businessman

ReviewKill Bill Volume II to Kurosawa, he has the character of Pai Mei (Chia Hui Liu), the wizened Shaolin priest, stroke his beard repeatedly, just as Kambei, the samurai leader rubbed his shaved head in Shichin no samuraiThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly or Once Upon a Time in the WestSplashAttack of the Fifty Foot Woman to himself.

       Finally we come to David Carradine as Bill. There is a genuine reason why David Carradine made all those B-movie drive in films back in the late 70's and 80's. He has been stuck in his Kwai-Chang Caine character ever since Kung FuBound for Glory or Cole Younger in The Long Riders It once again begs me to ask Tarantino fans one question, what do you find so great, so original or so moving in his films? I am at a loss as to what it could be.


Ratings Criterion

(From Kill Bill Vol. II (2004) on December 10th, 2009)

Tamara Drewe, a review by Tom

Tamara Drewe (2010/United Kingdom) IMDb | Wikipedia Momentum Pictures (United Kingdom) Director: Stephen Frears Writing: Posy Simmonds (Original Material By), Moira Buffini (Screenwriter) Length: 111 min. Video: Widescreen 2.40 Audio: English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Audio Descriptive: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: English

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Stars:
Gemma Arterton as Tamara Drewe
Roger Allam as Nicholas Hardiment
Bill Camp as Glen McCreavy
Dominic Cooper as Ben Sergeant
Luke Evans as Andy Cobb

Plot:
Once the ugly duckling of the rural Dorset village of Ewedown, Tamara Drewe returns as a glamorous high flying journalist, ruffling feathers, rekindling old passions and shaking up the sleepy village with hilarious and heart-warming consequenses.

Directed by Stephen Frears (The Queen), starring a host of great British talent including Gemma Arterton, Dominic Cooper, Roger Allam and Tamsin Greig and based on Posey Simmond's much loved graphic novel, The Daily Mail calls Tamara Drewe "a treat of a film that will delight and excite".

Extras:

• Bonus Trailers
• Featurettes
• Scene Access
• Trailers

What a boring movie. I just couldn't stay focused on it. I popped it in, after I just couldn't make up my mind what to watch and I crabbed the first thing on my unwatched pile which wasn't a series.
The main problem probably was, that I expected a different kind of movie.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on November 16th, 2011)

Pete's Pilots, a review by addicted2dvd

The Brady Bunch


The Honeymoon
Mike Brady (Robert Reed), a widower with three boys, marries Carol Ann Tyler Martin (Florence Henderson), a widow with three girls. But just as the knot is tied, chaos breaks loose as the family pets wreak havoc on the ceremony. Mike and Carol admonish their children for the chaos - and then spend a fretful wedding night feeling guilty about their overreaction.

My Thoughts:
While The Brady Bunch was never a favorite sitcom of mine... it is a big part of my childhood (there was no way not seeing this back then) so it does hold some nostalgic value... even to me. The kids are definitely too goody goody for my taste... and everything was almost always (other then 2 part episodes) solved within the half hour episode. But it is kinda fun sitting back and watching it again now... just for kicks and to make fun of. Like in the pilot episode here... during the wedding the dog gets out of the car by stepping on the automatic window control. Only problem... right above his paw is the window crank where the car didn't have automatic windows. And that is just a minor blunder. I am not even going to go into the problems with the storyline. But as I said... it is fun to watch just for laughs when I am in the mood for something silly and nostalgic.

My Rating:

(From Pete's Pilots on November 9th, 2009)