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Lost and Delirious, a review by Tom

Title: Lost and Delirious
Year: 2001
Director:Rating: FSK-16
Length: 99 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78
Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, German: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles:

Stars:Plot:
A newcomer to a girl's boarding school is befriended by her two new roommates, and later discovers they are lovers. When one of the lovers decides she doesn't dare continue the relationship, the other becomes desperate in her attempts to win her back.

Extras:
Production Notes
Scene Access
Trailers

Piper Perabo is great as the love-sick Paulie. This movie is good, but like many dramatic lesbian movies, it ends in tragedy. I am more a sucker for happy endings. This is probably why I enjoy romantic comedies more, than I do romantic drama movies.

Rating:

(From Lesbian Movie Marathon on March 19th, 2009)

Beetlejuice, a review by Tom

Beetlejuice (1988/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Warner Home Video (Germany) Director: Tim Burton Writing: Michael McDowell (Story By), Larry Wilson (Story By), Michael McDowell (Screenwriter), Warren Skaaren (Screenwriter) Length: 88 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, German: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, Spanish: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, Music Only: Dolby Digital 5.1 Subtitles: Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

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Stars:
Alec Baldwin as Adam
Geena Davis as Barbara
Annie McEnroe as Jane Butterfield
Maurice Page as Ernie
Hugo Stanger as Old Bill

Plot:
A couple of recently deceased ghosts contract the services of a "bio-exorcist" in order to remove the obnoxious new owners of their house.

Awards:
Won:

Academy Award (1988)		Best Makeup (Ve Neill, Steve LaPorte, Robert Short)
AFI (1988)		100 Years... 100 Laughs (2000)
Saturn (1988)		Best Horror Film
Saturn (1988)		Best Makeup (Ve Neill, Steve LaPorte, Robert Short)
Saturn (1988)		Best Supporting Actress (Sylvia Sidney)

Nominated:

AFI (1988)		100 Years... 100 Songs (2004) (Day-O)
Hugo Award (1989)		Dramatic Presentation
Saturn (1988)		Best Director (Tim Burton)
Saturn (1988)		Best Music (Danny Elfman)
Saturn (1988)		Best Special Effects (Peter Kuran, Alan Munro, Ted Rae, Robert Short)
Saturn (1988)		Best Supporting Actor (Michael Keaton)
Saturn (1988)		Best Writing (Michael McDowell, Warren Skaaren)

Extras:

• Production Notes
• Scene Access
• Trailers

This movie always entertained me. A lot of the scenes stayed with me since I first saw the movie as a kid. Like the dinner scene. Or the man in the waiting room with the shrunk head. He looks funny, and the idea behind it as a little creepy.
Michael Keaton does a really great job as Beetlejuice. A character vastly different to Batman, who he played a year later. No wonder the studio was really wary about casting him as Batman.

Rating:

(From Tom's Horror Marathon 2012 on October 6th, 2012)

Pilot Season 2014-15, a review by DJ Doena

Silicon Valley



Silicon Valley @ Wikipedia
Silicon Valley @ IMDb

Synopsis: Unlike AMC's Halt and Catch Fire, HBO chose to do a comedy based on today's Silicon Valley.
While working at a Google-like company and living in a start-up incubator, Richard almost accidentally develops a new super-compressing, lossless audio algorithm.
And now he has to make a choice: Sell it to his employer for a fixed sum and be done with it or go with an investor and create his own success story.

My Opinion: Unlike The Big Bang Theory this is not a laugh track comedy and it doesn't expect you to laugh or even just smile after every sentence.
The characters are funny just the way they are and I really enjoyed this whole first season.

Interesting side note: The Weissman score which is used on the show like a scoreboard of the home vs. guest team was developed just for this show. But it was developed by actual computer scientists at Stanford University and is currently adapted for the real world.

Gavin Belson: "It's weird. They always travel in groups of five. These programmers, there's always a tall skinny white guy, a short skinny Asian guy, fat guy with a ponytail, some guy with crazy facial hair and then an East Indian guy. It's like they trade guys until they all have the right group."





(From Pilot Season 2014-15 on September 9th, 2014)