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Arachnophobia, a review by addicted2dvd

Title: Arachnophobia
Year: 1990
Director: Frank Marshall
Rating: PG-13
Length: 109 Min.
Video: Widescreen 1.85:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1
Subtitles: English

Stars:
Jeff Daniels
Harley Jane Kozak
John Goodman
Julian Sands
Stuart Pankin
Brian McNamara

Plot:Extras:
Scene Access
Feature Trailers
Featurettes
Closed Captioned

My Thoughts:
This is an enjoyable movie... but one I can only watch but so often... because of my own bad case of arachnophobia. Watching this movie (or any involving spiders) makes my skin crawl.  This movie has a couple faces I am familiar with. First we see Julian Sands... who I know from the first couple Warlock movies. Then for comic relief we have John Goodman who was Dan on Roseanne. I wouldn't say this is the best horror movie I ever seen... probably not even the best movie about spiders. But I do enjoy it... I would say it is an above average movie.



(From The Movies From Within My Lifetime on April 4th, 2011)

The Maze Runner, a review by addicted2dvd

The Maze Runner (2014/United States) IMDb |Trailer |Wikipedia | Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (United States) Director: Wes Ball Writing: Noah Oppenheim (Screenwriter), Grant Pierce Myers (Screenwriter), T. S. Nowlin (Screenwriter), James Dashner (Original Material By) Length: 113 min. Video: Widescreen 2.40:1 Audio: English: DTS-HD Master Audio: 7.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital: 5.1, French: Dolby Digital: 5.1, French: DTS: 5.1, Italian: DTS: 5.1 Subtitles: Arabic, Czech, Dutch, English, French, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish

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Stars:
Dylan O'Brien as Thomas
Aml Ameen as Alby
Ki Hong Lee as Minho
Blake Cooper as Chuck
Thomas Sangster [Thomas Brodie-Sangster] as Newt

Plot:Extras:

I been curious about this film since the first time I saw the trailer. Not being familiar with the books... this film is my introduction to this story. I enjoyed it quite a bit... but at the same time I found I was expecting a little more from it, But I really can't put my finger on what it was that bothers me here. It is definitely worth the time put in to watch it... but at the same time I found my mind wondering off and on throughout the entire film.



(From What Movies I Been Watching on February 15th, 2016)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Marathon, a review by DJ Doena

Synopsis: During his stay at the Utopia Planitia ship yards (prior to his assignment to DS9), Sisko has helped designing and building a ship whose sole purpose was to fight the Borg: The Defiant. It's over-powered and over-gunned for a ship this size but now DS9 needs it. And the feature list has been updated. In the hope to find the Founders of the Dominion without having to engage in battle the Defiant has got a cloaking system - sponsored by the Romulan Empire. Sisko hopes to contact the Founders and show them that the Federation is no enemy of them.

My Opinion: From a diplomatic and tactical POV this was a stupid idea. If you'd want to negotiate with the leaders of an enemy force, would you take your biggest gunship and try to sneak into enemy territory? It would be like taking a B-2 Spirit, landing it on the Red Square and trying to talk to Khrushchev. But I liked the general idea of the Defiant from the beginning. The Star Trekian universe has never been a very peaceful one and the Federation is surrounded mostly by hostile forces. I wonder how many Starfleet ships have been destroyed in the cardassian border wars because they weren't really equipped to fight in a war.

Synopsis: Unfortunately the cloaking system didn't help in the end and when the crew returns to DS9, the Vorta are already there and they negotiate with Starfleet. But Sisko and the others become more and more uneasy because of where these negotiations are going. Meanwhile Kira and Odo are still in the GQ because Odo has finally found his people.

My Opinion:Synopsis: A drunken Klingon attacks Quark in his bar but accidentally kills himself. But Quark tells a story how he heroically killed the warrior in a battle of life and death. And ironically, some Klingons actually want that he sticks to that story, although for different reasons. And suddenly Quark finds himself as the head of a klingon house.

My Opinion: I loved this episode. Quark and Grillka were great together and the clashing of ferengi and klingon culture was also fun to watch. But divorce seems to be painful. And it was nice to see chancellor Gowron again although I have to admit the more klingon episodes I watch the less I can wait for Martok to make his appearance.

Synopsis: Dax begins to behave irrationally and aggressively. Additionally she has hallucinations. Bashir fears that the symbiosis is breaking apart and that they may lose Jadzia. Sisko and Bashir return with her to Trill but the mystery is getting bigger instead of being solved. Something isn't right with one of Dax's previous hosts.

My Opinion: This was an average episode. The 'revelation' wasn't that interesting and the episode hadn't much plot at all.

(From Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Marathon on October 18th, 2008)