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Wind Chill, a review by Rich

Title: Wind Chill

Runtime:87
Certificate:15
Year:2007
Genres:Horror

Plot:Desperate to get to Delaware for Christmas, a college student (Emily Blunt, Devil Wears Prada) catches a ride with a strange classmate (Ashton Holmes, A History of Violence). As soon as she begins to uncover that he knows a little too much about her, the stranger decides to take a shortcut down a remote country road. Caught in a raging snowstorm, the young travellers are suddenly forced off the road by a mysterious car. Stranded, they soon realise the cold is the least of their worries.
From Executive Producers George Clooney, Ben Cosgrove and Steven Soderbergh comes this chilling horror about the terrifying legacy of a sinister road that dates back to the terrible events that occurred there in the 1950s.

My Review:
Old fashioned ghost story with the twist of using it within a road trip movie. No real blood guts and gore, but a few chilling and jump out your seat moments. I hope that doesn't make it sound too interesting, because it wasn't.
Both leads are ok without being outstanding, as is the storyline which is pretty simplistic and fairly short. There is not enough suspense to peak any major interest, nor enough characterisation to make you care what happens to the 2 stranded in the car.
Low budget, needed sharpening, and in the end merciful that it was less than 90 minutes long.
Not my cup of tea.


(From December Marathons - DISCUSSION AND REVIEW THREAD on December 14th, 2009)

The Fifth Element, a review by Tom

Title: The Fifth Element
Year: 1997
Director: Luc Besson
Rating: PG-13
Length: 126 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35
Audio: English: DTS 5.1, English: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai

Stars:
Bruce Willis
Gary Oldman
Ian Holm
Milla Jovovich
Chris Tucker

Plot:
Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman and Milla Jovovich star in acclaimed director Luc Besson's outrageous sci-fi adventure, an extravagantly-styled tale of good against evil set in an unbelievable twenty-third century world. All aboard for "A futuristic, eye-popping adventure!" - Bill Diehl, ABC Radio Network

Extras:
Closed Captioned
Scene Access

A great movie with a lot of attention to details. And great use of cuts to create hilarious scenes.
I think it is one of Bruce Willis' finer movies. And also the other actors are great in it. Especially Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman and Chris Tucker.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on February 19th, 2009)

Angel Marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

12. You're Welcome
Original Air Date: 2/4/2004
Cordelia returns to help her friends one last time after an old nemesis shows up determined to defeat Angel by overriding a secret failsafe created by the Powers That Be.

Guest Stars:
Charisma Carpenter
Christian Kane
Sarah Thompson
Ryan Alvarez
T. J. Thyne

My Thoughts:
An excellent episode. This is the 100th episode of the series. So you know they do a big one for that. Which also means I only have 10 more episodes of this series to watch now. In this episode we get closure of the Cordelia storyline as well as the Lindsey storyline. And I think they did an excellent job on both... especially with Cordelia. That character really grew since the self-centered character of the early days of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

My Rating:

(From Angel Marathon on March 24th, 2010)