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The Descent, a review by Hal

Title: The Descent: Original Unrated Cut
Year: 2005
Director: Neil Marshall
Rating: Unrated
Length: 100 Min.
Video: Widescreen 2.35:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital EX: 5.1 (Matrixed 6.1), English: PCM: 5.1, Commentary: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo, Commentary: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo
Subtitles: English, Spanish

Stars:
Shauna Macdonald
Natalie Mendoza
Alex Reid
Saskia Mulder
MyAnna Buring

Plot:Extras:
Scene Access
Audio Commentary
Feature Trailers
Deleted Scenes
Featurettes
Gallery
Production Notes
Storyboard Comparisons
Outtakes/Bloopers
Rated Version

A less than satisfactory story of a group of female spelunkers who enter a cavern in the Appalachians which has never been explored (not likely) or we're supposed to believe may have been explored but no one has ever emerged to lay claim to the cavern.  They run into some "creatures" that I've seen countless times in other films (LOTR for one).  Zero for originality here.  The opening scene of the car accident doesn't really seem to tie in all that well, unless it was supposed to provide Sarah with some added inner strength to survive.  

Rating:

(From Hal's 2010 Horror Marathon Reviews on October 6th, 2010)

The Titanic (1996), a review by Tom

Title: The Titanic
Year: 1996
Director: Robert Lieberman
Rating: FSK-12
Length: 171 Min.
Video: Full Frame 1.33:1
Audio: German: Dolby Digital Stereo, English: Dolby Digital Stereo
Subtitles:

Stars:
Peter Gallagher
George C. Scott
Catherine Zeta Jones
Eva Marie Saint
Tim Curry

If Cameron's Titanic is remake of "A Night to Remember", then this two-part TV movie is a remake of the 1953 Titanic. You have a lot of TV movie-style drama going on. This is also the only Titanic movie watch wraps up the different storylines in the last 15 minutes after the lifeboats are salvaged.
Tim Curry plays yet another of his typical villain roles, like it seems are the only roles he has played since Rocky Horror.

Rating:

(From Titanic Marathon on June 1st, 2009)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Marathon, a review by DJ Doena

Synopsis: Sisko receives a vision of the Prophets and he suddenly finds himself in another time and space. He's Benny Russell, a "coloured" science-fiction autor in the 1950s United States. He works for a monthly magazine but it must never come out that he is black - or that K.C. Hunter (Kira) is a woman. When their illustrator shows him a picture of a space station, Benny devlopes the idea of a black captain and a space station called "Deep Space Nine".

My Opinion: I liked this episode a lot, it felt really like the fifties and Brooks played the role of Benny very well. But the others were great, too: Jake as this young crook, Worf as this baseball player who's only acepted because he can play, Dukat and Weyoun as the white, racist cops and Quark and Odo always on one another's throat. Great.

And I also liked to see the main characters without masks for once:

Brunt, FCA


Dukat


Martok


Nog


Odo


Quark


Weyoun


Worf


Synopsis: To explore the possibilites of transwarp technology the crew of the Defiant uses a natural phenomenon to shrink a runabout and its crew to matchbox size. But then the Defiant is taken over by the Jem'Hadar and Dax, Bashir and O'Brien try to help them as "the fly on the wall".

My Opinion: This was an OK episode with all the gags and puns that miniaturization brings along. The funniest scene was O'Brien and Bashir crawling inside a computer terminal with huge chips and optical cables and O'Brien trying to re-route them.

Synopsis: O'Brien goes undercover as a "tinkerer" who's had bad luck in recent years. Her infiltrates the Orion Syndicate by repairing some items for them. His objective is to find out who the person is that sells Starfleet internal information to the syndicate. But he also has to learn that the syndicate and the Dominion have become partners.

My Opinion:Synopsis: The Defiant is patrolling when Kira receives a new order. Dax and Worf take a runabout to fly deep into cardassian space to extract a defector who has vital inside information. To get to him they have to march through 20 kilometers of jungle to avoid detection. And when Jadzia gets severely hurt Worf has to make a choice.

My Opinion: This one I liked again because they took the time to focus on Jadzia and Worf and their marriage. And I am in the same position as Sisko: Officially it was a really bad choice to abandon the mission. The information from that man could have saved countless lifes. But I can also understand that Worf couldn't leave his wife behind. But such things also explain why Worf was never promoted to commander or above.

(From Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Marathon on February 22nd, 2009)