DVD Collectors Online

Clash of the Titans, a review by addicted2dvd

Clash of the Titans (2010/United States) IMDb |Trailer |Wikipedia | Warner Home Video Director: Louis Leterrier Writing: Travis Beacham (Screenwriter), Phil Hay (Screenwriter), Matt Manfredi (Screenwriter), Beverley Cross (Original Material By) Length: 106 min. Rating: Rated PG-13 : Fantasy Action Violence, Some Frightening Images and Brief Sensuality Video: Widescreen 1.85:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, French: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital: 5.1 Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

---

Stars:
Sam Worthington as Perseus
Liam Neeson as Zeus
Ralph Fiennes as Hades
Jason Flemyng as Calibos/Acrisius
Gemma Arterton as Io
Alexa Davalos as Andromeda

Plot:
In Clash of the Titans, the ultimate struggle to power pits man against kings and kings against gods. But the war between the gods themselves could destroy the world. Born of a god but raised a man, Perseus (Sam Worthington) is helpless to save his family from Hades (Ralph Fiennes), vengeful god of the underworld. With nothing to lose, Perseus volunteers to lead a dangerous mission to defeat Hades before he can sieze power from Zeus (Liam Neeson) and unleash hell on earth. Battling unholy demons and fearsome beasts, Perseus and his warriors will only survive if Perseus accepts his power as a god, defies fate, and creates his own destiny.

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Bonus Trailers
• Deleted Scenes
• Closed Captioned

The original Clash of the Titans from 1981 has always been an old favorite of mine. When I first heard they were remaking it... once I got passed the initial thought of Why? I hoped they would do it well. And to me doing a remake well means walking a fine line of changing and updating enough to make a remake exciting.... while at the same time keeping the main storyline so that you can see just enough similarities to know the story they are remaking. In my opinion they did a fine job on this... amping up the action helped in this. While I think I may still prefer the original... I definitely can see myself rewatching this one as well. Definitely worth the time put in to watch it. I am glad I finally got around to checking this one out.



(From Weekend Movie Marathon: Unwatched DVDs on June 22nd, 2013)

Black, a review by Tom

Title: Black
Year: 2005
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Rating: 12
Length: 119 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35
Audio: Hindi: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: Arabic, English, French, Hindi, Spanish

Stars:
Amitabh Bachchan
Rani Mukherjee
Shernaz Patel
Ayesha Kapur
Dhritiman Chaterji

Plot:
I know now that there is God...
He is not in the holy spirit we pray to... He isn't written about in
religious texts...
He is someone who is a part of our lives... Whom we live for...
Because of whom we live...
Michelle Mcnally is "special" in more ways than one. She cannot see ... nor hear nor speak...She inhabits a world of infinite black ... of a seamless, endless void where nothing reaches her and she reaches nothing. Her world is frightening in its complete remoteness. On the sheer will of her ferocious rage against destiny, Michelle struggles to stay afloat in the impenetrable whirlpool her life has become.
Into this devastating isolation enters a battle weary teacher, Debraj Sahai, life's wounded but arrogantly insolent warrior. With a single minded obsession, Debraj takes up a challenge that is next to impossible - to lead this wild, uncontrollable child into the light of knowledge.
Thus begins a journey of two headstrong individuals. They will overcome failures, obstacle, even ridicule as they tread the path less taken. What they seek is that moment of miracle when the ray of knowledge will penetrate through the dense black of Michelle's life...Black is the cathartic tale of a deaf, mute and blind girl who saw what people with sight fail to see, a vision of her God. Michelle Mcnally saw what other lesser mortals could not.
She saw her God, heard Him and walked with Him into the light...

Awards:

Filmfare Awards	2006	Won	Best Actor Award	Amitabh Bachchan
Filmfare Awards	2006	Won	Best Actress Award	Rani Mukerji
Filmfare Awards	2006	Won	Best Background Score Award	Monty Sharma
Filmfare Awards	2006	Won	Best Cinematographer Award	Ravi K. Chandran
Filmfare Awards	2006	Won	Best Director Award	Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Filmfare Awards	2006	Won	Best Editing Award	Bela Sehgal
Filmfare Awards	2006	Won	Best Movie Award
Filmfare Awards	2006	Won	Best Sound Award	Bishwadeep Chatterjee
Filmfare Awards	2006	Won	Best Supporting Actress Award	Ayesha Kapoor
Filmfare Awards	2006	Won	Critics Award for Best Movie
Filmfare Awards	2006	Won	Critics Award for Best Performance	Amitabh Bachchan, Rani Mukerji
IIFA Awards	2006	Won	Best Actor	Amitabh Bachchan
IIFA Awards	2006	Won	Best Actress	Rani Mukerji
IIFA Awards	2006	Won	Best Director	Sanjay Leela Bhansali
IIFA Awards	2006	Won	Best Movie
IIFA Awards	2006	Won	Best Supporting Actress	Ayesha Kapoor

Extras:
Featurettes
Interviews
Scene Access
Trailers

I stumbled across this movie when I went through the filmography of one of my favorite Bollywood actresses, Rani Mukherji. I became curious when I read, that this movie is about a blind, deaf and mute woman (Michelle), I wondered how this would work. If someone can pull this off, then it's Rani Mukherji. And I was not disappointed.
This movie is heavily influenced by Helen Keller and the movie "The Miracle Worker", which I have never seen. Also this one is a very atypical Bollywood movie. There is no singing, no love story and this movie is "only" two hours long. It has won multiple awards and is the record-holder for the most Filmfare awards (Indian oscars) won. And I can understand why, especially the actor awards. Both Rani Mukherji, who plays the adult version of Michelle, and the girl who played the character as a child, were faboulous. It is probably the best performance Rani has given to date. Amitabh Bachchan was great as always playing Michelle's teacher.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on August 7th, 2009)

Angel Marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

13. Happy Anniversary
Original Air Date: 2/6/2001
Angel and the Host search for a physicist they fear will cause the end of the world---and who unknowingly has help from two apocalypse-lovin' Lubber demons.

Guest Stars:
Brigid Brannagh
Matt Champagne
Darby Stanchfield
Mike Hagerty

My Thoughts:
This is really just an average filler episode. really. It does little to advance the main storyline of the season. Unfortunately I couldn't get myself to care about the characters in this one. Just a nothing special episode.

My Rating:

(From Angel Marathon on March 8th, 2010)