DVD Collectors Online

You Can't take it With You, a review by Rich

Academy Award Best Picture winner 1938

You Can't take it With You





A film where everything comes in small doses, at times funny, slightly uplifting, a touch moralistic, touching and vaguely inspirational.
I'd hoped for a great performance by James Stewart in this, but as the young stick thin drawling fiance, I was pretty underwhelmed with his performance. Fortunately it was bolstered by Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold and of course Lionel Barrymore.
Overall I found it a little bit disappointing, the so-called liberated characters came across as annoying, it is way too over sentimental, and I could not swallow the fact that big business and corporate greed can be beaten by sitting down playing a harmonica!
 

(From Riches Random Reviews on February 10th, 2009)

The Kids Are All Right, a review by James

3 year necro-bump! Switching from a 10 point scale to a 5 point scale too.

The Kids Are All Right (2010/United States) (United States) Director: Lisa Cholodenko (1964) Writing: Lisa Cholodenko (1964) (Writer), Stuart Blumberg (1969) (Writer) Length: 106 min. Video: Widescreen 1.85:1 Audio: English: DTS-HD Master Audio: 5.1, English: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo, Spanish: DTS: 5.1, French: DTS: 5.1 Subtitles:

---

Stars:
Annette Bening (1958) as Nic
Julianne Moore (1960) as Jules
Mark Ruffalo (1967) as Paul
Mia Wasikowska (1989) as Joni
Josh Hutcherson (1992) as Laser

Plot:Extras:

• Audio Commentary
• Featurettes
• BD-Live

I was looking forward to this, thinking that it was in the same film family as Sideways. I'm now puzzled however that this is being marketed as a comedy. It's not. It's a family drama with some occasional witty, ironic humor. The idea of the children of a lesbian couple searching for their bio-dad was intriguing. It's definitely topical and modern. For me, the script has a fatal flaw though: As for the actors, they all did a terrific job. Annette Bening rightly garnered kudos for her performance. Mark Ruffalo is perfect as the carefree lothario.

2 on the cellophane scale.  

(From The Viewage of James aka m.cellophane on March 20th, 2011)

Tom's Random Star Trek Reviews, a review by Tom

TNG 6.06 True Q
WriterDirector: Robert Scheerer
Cast: Patrick Stewart (Capt. Jean-Luc Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Cmdr. William Riker), LeVar Burton (Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge), Michael Dorn (Lieutenant Worf), Gates McFadden (Dr. Beverly Crusher), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Deanna Troi), Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data), Olivia D'Abo (Amanda), John P. Connolly (Lote), John de Lancie (Q)

Though this episode is mostly about Amanda, a guest character, without much involvement of the core cast, I always liked this episode.
This episode shows a much more serious side of Q than the previous episodes. There is hardly any banter between him and the Enterprise crew. But I liked it, when he changed Dr. Crusher into a dog while she was arguing with him

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Star Trek Reviews on October 12th, 2009)