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Doubt, a review by KinkyCyborg

Title:Doubt
Year: 2008
Director: John Patrick Shanley
Rating: PG-13
Length: 103 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, French: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Commentary: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo
Subtitles: English, Spanish

Stars:
Meryl Streep
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Amy Adams
Viola Davis
Alice Drummond

Plot:Extras:
Scene Access
Audio Commentary
Featurettes
Closed Captioned



A scandal hitting a church... who'd of thought! Another fine example of how one person's speculations can snowball into an avalanche of accusations. I particularly enjoyed Father Flynn's sermon on rumors. This can be a bit slow at times and it does leave you asking some questions when it is over but it is fascinating to watch how a few slips of the tongue can cause events to spiral out of control. Meryl Streep and Phillip Seymour Hoffman give excellent performances. I wonder if Amy Adams is wearing anything under that habit...

KC

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(From KinkyCyborg's Random Reviews 2010 on June 12th, 2010)

The Green Mile, a review by Tom

Title: The Green Mile
Year: 1999
Director: Frank Darabont
Rating: FSK-12
Length: 181 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78
Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, German: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: Arabic, Bulgarian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Romanian, Swedish

Stars:
Tom Hanks
David Morse
Bonnie Hunt
Michael Clarke Duncan
James Cromwell

Extras:
Featurettes
Scene Access
Trailers

Like "The Shawshank Redemption", this one is written and directed by Frank Darabont. And it is another prison movie. This time with a touch of supernatural. This movie is great, but not as good as Shawshank.
Michael Duncan Clarke had his big break with this movie, and this deservingly so.
Clocking in with three hours, this movie is even longer than Shawshank, but this time it maybe a little too long. I had the feeling in parts, that it moved along a little too slow, but not disturbingly so.

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(From Short Stephen King marathon on May 10th, 2009)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

Berlin, Berlin: Complete Series (2002/Germany) IMDb | Wikipedia Universum Film, Das Erste (Germany) Length: 2150 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78 Audio: German: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles:

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Berlin, Berlin
Season 1.01 Landflucht
Writer: David Safier (Writer)
Director: Franziska Meyer Price
Cast: Felicitas Woll (Lolle), Sandra Borgmann, Jan Sosniok, Matthias Klimsa, Maverick Quek, Charlotte Schwab, Jürgen Mai, Andi Slawinski, Kai Lentrodt, Alexa Wiegandt, Fabio Beyer, Sandra Keller, Kaspar Eichel

This series is often compared to "Mein Leben und ich" (a German TV series I enjoyed watching), but I never saw an episode before. Recently I saw the complete series set cheap on Amazon and decided to take a shot at it. And if the rest of the series is as good as the pilot episode, I won't regret this decision.
So far it really is similar to "Mein Leben und ich" (which in turn is based on the US series "My So-Called Life"), except that here the main protagonist isn't a high school girl, but has just finished school and is moving to the big city (Berlin) by herself.
So far I only know the main star Felicitas Woll from the movie "Liebe Mauer", which I also enjoyed. Though I learned now, that she also replaced Wolke (the main star in "Mein Leben und ich") in the comedy series "Die Camper", after they exchanged the complete main cast after the first season. Quite fitting.

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(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on August 12th, 2012)