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Hannibal Rising, a review by addicted2dvd

Hannibal Rising
In 'Red Dragon' we learned who he was. In 'The Silence of the Lambs', we learned how he did it. Now comes the most chilling chapter in the saga of Hannibal Lecter - the one that answers the most elusive question of all - why? Written by Thomas Harris, the best-selling author of the Hannibal book series, this "fascinating and terrifying journey into the making of a monster" (Pete Hammond, 'Maxim') reveals for the first time the metamorphosis of a brilliant medical student into "Hannibal the Cannibal." Good Morning America's Joel Siegel says, "if you can keep your eyes open, you're going to get scared."

My Thoughts:
I admit that I went into this one with fairly high expectations... as I really loved all the other Hannibal movies.  But I did have concerns about this one... it is a fairly long movie at 2 hours... and I never heard of this Gaspard Ulliel that plays Hannibal. And lets face it... he had some pretty big shoes to fill. I did find it to move a little on the slow side... which I normally do not like as I can easily dose off on a movie in such cases. But in this case I believe the slow pace works for the movie. As for Gaspard Ulliel... I thought he did a pretty good job at showing us a young Hannibal Lecter. So over all... I really enjoyed this... despite my concerns.

(From Weekend Movie Marathon: Unwatched DVD Collection on April 6th, 2008)

Wonder Man, a review by GSyren

Title	Wonder Man (Disc ID: 3436-D993-1ED6-14F2)
Director	H. Bruce Humberstone
Actors	Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen , Donald Woods, S. Z. Sakall
Produced	1945 in United States
Runtime	98 minutes
Audio	English Dolby Digital Mono
Subtitles	None
Overview
My thoughts	Well, this was definitely a big step up from Up in Arms. Danny Kaye's second feature film shows him in a much better form than the first. The only thing that I didn't particularly like was the Otchi Tchorniya number. There is a thin line between silly/funny and silly/annoying, and for me this number crosses that line. That's the only thing that prevents me from giving this film 4 stars. Not only does this film have a vastly superior script to the previous one. It also has vastly superior female actors. Vera-Ellen is very good, but I absolutely love Virginia Mayo. She would come back to star against Kaye in three more films; The Kid from Brooklyn, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and A Song is Born. She was actually also in Up in ArmsThe Invisible Man invisible, and helped Moses part The Red Sea in The Ten Commandments
My rating

(From Reviews and ramblings by Gunnar on April 13th, 2014)

My PILOT Marathon, a review by Rich

NUMBERS - SERIES ONE - PILOT



First aired: 1/23/2005   
To help capture a serial rapist-turned-killer, FBI Special Agent Don Eppes recruits his genius brother Charlie, who uses a mathematical equation to identify the killer's point of origin by working back from the crime scene locations.

A complete blind buy when I purchased this due primarily to Ridley Scott involvement, after watching the pilot episode, I have to say it was money well spent. The pilot immediately grabbed my interest, the characters appeared real and the interactions are plausible, the direction slick, and the pace perfect. The premise of using maths to solve serial crimes seems ridiculous, but the way with demonstrations and examples it is explained through the programme graphically illustrates that indeed there may be patterns within apparent random crime sprees.
All in all the perfect pilot which leaves you wanting more of the same. 




(From My PILOT Marathon on May 19th, 2008)