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Spider-Man: No Way Home, a review by addicted2dvd

Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021/United States) Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (United States) Director: Jon Watts Writing: Chris McKenna (Writer), Erik Sommers (Writer), Stan Lee (1922) (Original Material By), Steve Ditko (Original Material By) Length: 148 min. Video: Widescreen 2.39:1 Audio: English: Dolby Atmos: 3D, Audio Descriptive: Dolby Digital: 5.1, French: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Audio Descriptive: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Portuguese: DTS-HD Master Audio: 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Thai: Dolby Digital: 5.1 Subtitles: Chinese, English, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Other

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Stars:
Tom Holland (1996) as Peter Parker / Spider-Man
Zendaya as MJ
Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange
Jacob Batalon as Ned Leeds
Jon Favreau as Happy Hogan

Plot:
For the first time in the cinematic history of Spider-Man, our friendly neighborhood hero's identity is revealed, bringing his Super Hero responsibilities into conflict with his normal life and putting those he cares about most at risk. When he enlists Doctor Strange's help to restore his secret, the spell tears a hole in their world, releasing the most powerful villains who've ever fought a Spider-Man in any universe. Now, Peter will have to overcome his greatest challenge yet, which will not only forever alter his own future, but the future of the Multiverse.

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Bonus Trailers
• Featurettes
• Outtakes/Bloopers
• Digital Copy

Besides my being a life-long Spider-Man fan... I absolutely loved this film.This is actually the second time watching the film. The first time I borrowed the Blu-Ray from the library. Now I recently bought it on 4k and just had to watch it again as I had to see how it looked in 4K! Which was great! As always with the MCU I was hooked from start to finish. Loved the returning characters... not to mention all the returning characters from the previous Spider-Man franchises! I couldn't recommend this higher. Just remember this is coming from a life long Spider-Man fan!

One Weekend I will have to watch all the Spider-Man films back to back!  




(From 4K Marathon on March 20th, 2023)

The Morning After, a review by KinkyCyborg

The Morning After



Title:The Morning After
Year: 1986
Director: Sidney Lumet
Rating: R
Length: 103 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: Mono, French: Dolby Digital: Mono, Commentary: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Stars:
Jane Fonda
Jeff Bridges
Raul Julia
Diane Salinger
Richard Foronjy

Plot:Extras:
Scene Access
Audio Commentary
Feature Trailers
Closed Captioned


Excellent Sidney Lumet thriller with Jane Fonda at the top of her game as a washed up actress who is now a lush and wakes up next to a dead man in bed. Fonda, a younger, still boyishly looking Jeff Bridges and a favorite actor of mine, Raul Julia all give solid performances.

Fonda, who would have been 49 when this was filmed sure could pull off sexy, even at that age. The scene where Bridges slams her against the wall and she looks up at him, diabolically licking her lips was hot!!

I could see where it was heading as to who the culprit was although I guessed wrong at his reason for doing it. A very satisfying ending.

A few knocks... Fonda's scenes where she was stumbling drunk were a bit too overplayed and the musical score at times seemed too uplifting and happy-go-lucky considering the theme of the movie and the morbid subject matter but those bits can be overlooked when appraising the film as a whole.

Great watch!

KC

Rating:

(From KinkyCyborg's Random Reviews 2011 on April 26th, 2011)

"Stargate SG-1" Marathon, a review by DJ Doena

First I thought about a re-run of Smallville but I have watched this in the middle of last year and it's been a while since I've watched Stargate SG-1.

In order to watch Stargate SG-1, one has to watch Stargate first.



Kurt Russell ... Col. Jonathan 'Jack' O'Neil
James Spader ... Dr. Daniel Jackson
Alexis Cruz ... Skaara
Viveca Lindfors ... Catherine
Mili Avital ... Sha'uri
John Diehl ... Lieutenant Kawalsky
Leon Rippy ... General W.O. West
Erick Avari ... Kasuf
French Stewart ... Lieutenant Ferretti
Jaye Davidson ... Ra

Synopsis: Dr. Jackson is not very renowned in the scientific community. But he is convinced that the great pyramids weren't build during the fourth dynasty 5,000 years ago. He believes that they are much older. A digging back in 1928 confirms his suspicions: buried in the sands of Egypt under a great cover stone with unknown symbols - not hieroglyphs - the Door to Heaven Stargate was found. The Stargate is an ancient device to open an intergalactic connection to the planet Abydos. Dr. Jackson and Colonel Jack O'Neill (and a group of soldiers) go there. O'Neill's job is to evaluate the danger of the situation they are facing.

My Opinion: Unfortunately I haven't seen this movie in the theatres (I went to Star Trek: Generations instead). The idea that alien cultures have been to Earth and have had an influence isn't new, but it was interestingly presented. I also liked that the Abydosians really spoke abydosian (a variant of ancient egyptian) and not just english. The fights were very well choreographed, too, I didn't have the feeling that the weapons of the humans were a match to the ones of Ra's.

To adopt the story for the series they had to make some adjustments (this contains spoilers in regard to the pilot of the series):

• In the movie, Ra is portrayed as the last of his kind, in the series he is one System Lord amongst many - although the most powerful one
• In the movie, Ra is no Goa'uld, his alien body looks totally different
• In the movie, Abydos is in another galaxy, in the series it's the planet closest to Earth
• In the movie, the Stargate is a point-to-point connection to Abydos, in the series it's one in a great network of Stargates
• Ra's Jaffa (who aren't called Jaffa in the movie) don't have an abdomen pouch in which they carry a Goa'uld larva (the term Goa'uld is also an invention of the series)

Additionally one has to activate one's "suspension of disbelief" even more than in the movie, because:

• On most planets the people speak english, no explanation is given (Universal Translator in Star Trek, Translator Microbes in Farscape)
• Most planets look like canadian forrests
• On some planets are earth-like cultures that developed only after the gate was buried
• We never see normal Goa'ulds, they are either rulers or at least scientists, but the huge number of Gua'uld larvae in the Jaffa have to result in a much larger Goa'uld population

Now we can get started ...



(From "Stargate SG-1" Marathon on February 29th, 2008)