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Nostalgia for the Light, a review by Danae Cassandra

Nostalgia for the LightOverview:My Thoughts:
A powerful and moving portrait of man's search for meaning and answers in life, Nostalgia is the story of our struggles with memory and time. This is one of the most beautiful films I've ever seen. I'm not exaggerating, Nostalgia's cinematography is absolutely gorgeous. This is also one of the few films that after I had finished it, I could have watched it again. Immediately. Highly, highly recommended.

Bechdel Test: N/A

Overall: 5/5

(From March Around the World 2016 on March 23rd, 2016)

Omen 4: The Awakening, a review by addicted2dvd

Omen IV: The Awakening
Gene and Karen York are the living embodiment of the American dream. Rich, influential attorneys, they have everything a couple could want...except a child.

When the Yorks learn of a beautiful baby girl wanting to be adopted, they instantly fall in love with baby Delia and adopt her. But terror and destruction seem to follow Delia wherever she goes. The priest who baptized her mysteriously dies, and her nanny falls from a second-story window, impaling herself on a merry-go-round.

Soon, Delia's mother begins to question the coincidence of these catastrophes. Her thoughts can't help turn toward the biblical prophecy of Armageddon...the final confrontation between the forces of good and evil, beginning with the birth of Satan in human form.

My Thoughts:
OK... I have seen that most everyone feels that this is the worst of the entire series. So I went into it expecting nothing at all. But what I found here is a movie that I personally enjoyed very much! STEP BACK!... everyone put away your pitch-forks away... And don't even think of stringing me up. I found that this movie (at least the majority of the movie) was more of a retelling of the original movie... only with a girl... so that is how I looked at it while watching it. I didn't look at it as a continuation at all. The first thing I noticed when I watched this movie is that it starred Faye Grant... who I enjoyed in everything I have seen her in since the TV Series The Greatest American Hero. I can definitely see myself watching this one again.

OK... Now should I turn in my membership... never to return?

(From Weekend Movie Marathon: Unwatched DVD Collection on April 19th, 2008)

Tom's TV Finales marathon, a review by Tom

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The Brittas Empire: Series Seven (1996/United Kingdom) IMDb | Wikipedia (United Kingdom) Length: 232 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 1 Subtitles: English

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Plot:
Gordon Brittas goes from strength to strength. Despite his failed endeavour, and despite the endeavours of both his staff and his wife to depose him, Whitbury Leisure Centre continues to thrive.

Brittas continues to dream up new schemes to promote and improve the centre including a bungee jump, sequential staff reviews and computerisation - all with the usual Brittas diplomacy, aplomb and mayhem. Julie, heavily pregnant, embraces the bungee jump whereas Tim tries everything he can to avoid it at all costs. Meanwhile Colin has several tons of elephant manure delivered in a bid to find his engagement ring, lost at the zoo. The ring holds the key to his future happiness with Mrs Harcourt.

Julie is enjoying armed police protection and the constant body searches begin to irritate Brittas; Helen however does not share this irritation particularly as a certain PC Edwards is not such a bad looking chap! Helen is studying to be a therapy counsellor and needs to understand the benefits of both giving...and receiving! Maybe the body searches aren't such a bad thing after all.

Finally, the goings on at Whitbury bring about the attentions of Roger Ferguson, Investigative Journalist. Brittas believes this to be a serious documentary, begins coaching his staff in television presentation techniques and recruits a good looking male model as a stand in for Colin! Colin's rat takes a swim in the pool and there follows a strange outbreak of Bobula fever. Will Whitbury survive?


The Brittas Empire
Series 7.08 Curse of the Tiger Women
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Cast: Michael Burns (Colin), Judy Flynn (Julie), Chris Barrie (Brittas), Harriet Thorpe (Carole), Tim Marriott (Gavin), Pippa Haywood (Helen), Jill Greenacre (Linda), Russell Porter (Tim), Stephen Churchett (Councillor Druggett)

An average episode which brings some closure to one of the final storylines. But I am not sure about the ending. On the one hand it is fitting, but on the other hand I don't like when .

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(From Tom's TV Finales marathon on February 18th, 2013)