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My Little Bride, a review by Tom

My Little Bride (2004/South Korea) IMDb | Wikipedia EDKO Films (Hong Kong) Director: Ho-joon Kim Writing: Sun-il Yu (Writer) Length: 116 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78 Audio: Korean: DTS ES 6.1 (Discrete), Korean: Dolby Digital 5.1, Cantonese: DTS 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: Chinese, English

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Stars:
Rae-won Kim as Park Sang-min
Geun-Young Moon as Seo Bo-eun
Sun-yeong Ahn as Teacher Kim
Bo-kyeong Kim as Ji-su
In-mun Kim as Bo-eun's grandfather

Plot:
Boeun is an ordinary high school girl who worries about her study and gets a crush on baseball team ace at school. One day, her grandfather orders her and Samgmin to get married. Sangmin, who grew up with Boeun and now an university student, always makes fun of Boeun and treats her like a little sister. Although both of them object this marriage, their undercover marriage life begins and Boeun even starts dating the team ace. It seems everything goes smooth until Sangmin is assigned to Boeun's school as a pupil teacher...

Extras:

• Music Videos
• Photo Gallery
• Production Notes
• Scene Access
• Trailers

The cover doesn't help disclaim the notion that this is some sick movie. They chose to show her like she is supposed to be some little girl. But she is a 16 year old high school student and he is in his early 20s. Of course she is still too young to marry, but it is handled quite well here. They both are forced by their families into this marriage and they both are opposed to this idea. They never crossed the line in this movie of making it immoral.
The movie is worth a watch, even though it may not have any particular surprises

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on October 21st, 2010)

The Lost Boys, a review by Antares

The Lost Boys (1978) 2.5/5 - A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled upon the film Finding Neverland on HDNet. It told a rather fanciful and creative tale of the author J.M.Barrie, and his relationship with five brothers growing up in England around the turn of the 20th century. The boys would be the basis for the creation of Barrie's most famous work, Peter Pan. When I wrote that review, I mentioned that I had never read the book, nor seen the famous Disney film. But due to its rather creative way of the spinning its story, had completely absorbed me. After I watch something that is based upon an historical character, I always find myself scouring the web, to get more in depth knowledge of said character. When I perused many articles about Barrie and his relationship with the Llewellyn Davies brothers, I kept reading about a BBC mini-series which chronicled the same story as Finding Neverland. That film had a more dubious reputation when it came to the historical accuracy of its story, but had been such a delight to watch, that I forgave it for its shortcomings in the truth department. The Lost Boys

(From Antares' Short Summations on March 8th, 2012)

Charmed: The Complete Series, a review by addicted2dvd

Stars:
Shannon Doherty as Prue
Holly Marie Combs as Piper
Alyssa Milano as Phoebe
Brian Krause as Leo Wyatt
T.W. King as Inspector Andy Trudeau
Dorian Gregory as Inspector Darryl Morris
Jennifer Rhodes   as Grams
Drew Fuller    as Chris
Finola Hughes as Patty Halliwell

The Packaging:
I really have a love/hate relationship with this packaging. On one hand I think it is an extremely cool idea to use a replica of the Book of Shadows.  And it came out great! I love the look and feel of it. And it is a perfect size with lots of pages of information you can read... including a complete episode guide for the series.  But on the other hand I am not thrilled with how the actual discs are housed on the pages of the book. I fear with multiple viewings the discs will become scratched.

The Show:
As most of you know already... I love this series. It is one of my all time favorite series. Sure... some seasons are better then others... but on a whole it is one of my all-time favorite shows. Because of this series I became a fan of all the actresses that have played the sisters. The discs included are the same discs released in the individual season sets. This means there is no real extras until the final season of the series. Speaking of the final season. For you fans of the Big Bang Theory out there... Kaley Cuoco (Penny on TBBT) joins the cast as a young witch that the sisters take in and train. If by chance you never seen this series... it is one I highly recommend!

Bonus Disc:
Buying the complete series set is the only way to get this bonus disc. The disc includes...

Unaired Pilot:
This is a 30 minute version of the pilot episode. The main difference is that a different actress plays one of the sisters (Phoebe) and a different actor plays Inspector Andy Trudeau. It is a fun watch... though weird seeing Charmed without Alyssa Milano.

There is also a whole series of Featurettes:
- The Demons of Charmed
- Charmed Effects
- The Men of Charmed
- The Book of Shadows
- The Power of Three
- Directing Charmed
- The Making of a Monster

I haven't watched all the featurettes yet... but what I have watched so far has been interesting.

Over-all Thoughts:
I originally had all 8 of the individual season sets... which I traded off to get the complete series set. And I must say... I really a glad I did. Not only is the complete set very cool... it gave me a reason to re-watch the series again. Over-all I feel the complete series set is more then worth it. I just wish the discs themselves were housed differently.





(From Charmed: The Complete Series on March 21st, 2014)