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The Time Traveler's Wife, a review by Tom

Title: The Time Traveler's Wife
Year: 2009
Director: Robert Schwentke
Rating: 12
Length: 107 Min.
Video: Widescreen 2.35
Audio: English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1, English: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: English

Stars:
Eric Bana
Rachel McAdams

Plot:
Lose yourself in timeless love with this gloriously romantic story of the journey of two hearts. Artist Clare Abshire (Rachel McAdams of The Notebook) shares a deep emotional bond with Henry De Tamble (Eric Bana of The Other Boleyn Girl), a handsome librarian who travels involuntarily through time. Knowing they can be separated without warning, Clare and Henry treasure the moments they have together, imbuing them with the yearning and passion of two people imprisoned by time... and set free by love. Based on the #1 bestseller The Time Traveler's Wife weaves together destiny and devotion, past and future to turn an extraordinary love into an extraordinary love story.


Extras:
Featurettes
Scene Access

I enjoyed this movie. The pacing is similar to Rachel McAdam's other movie I have seen: "The Notebook".
The time-travel aspect has been used well. I didn't notice any obvious mistakes on the writer's part.

Rating:

(From Tom's Time-Travel Movie Reviews on April 24th, 2010)

Spotlight, a review by Antares

Spotlight (2015) 88/100 - I thought I'd never utter or type these words...I've lost my love for films. I've spent a lot of money amassing a large collection of DVDs, which mostly sit in folders, unwatched. Over the last few years, I've bemoaned the fact that a majority of the films coming out of Hollywood are complete crap. A couple of nights ago, I was searching through the Redbox website, and after meandering throughout all the cinemuck, saw Spotlight. I've been pretty much out of the loop as to what's been coming out over the last year, but I knew that this had won the Oscar for Best Picture. I grew up in Massachusetts during the time frame of these atrocities and having attended Catholic schools for 12 years, thought this film might be the one that restores the fire in the dying embers of my film flame... it did. I love a good "journalist investigation" film and this has to rank up there with some of the best. After I finished the film, I went on Criticker and read some of the reviews there. I was surprised to see so many people trashing it, from what I felt, was a misunderstanding of what the film was made for. It's purpose wasn't to make a groundbreaking, technical masterpiece, nor was it made to stir up the crimes of the Catholic church. It was made to show how important a Free Press is to OUR freedom and security. We live in a world where everything is being crammed into either a 15 second sound bite or a 140 character Tweet. It's all disposable information and that's what the corporations, who have taken over our country want. If it's disposable, it's also desensitizing and an apathetic and passive populace is easy prey.

Teal = Masterpiece
Dark Green = Classic or someday will be
Lime Green = A good, entertaining film
Orange = Average
Red = Cinemuck
Brown = The color of crap, which this film is

(From Antares' Short Summations on April 15th, 2016)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

(1989/Japan) IMDb | Wikipedia VIZ Media (United States) Length: 450 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Japanese: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: English

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Plot:
It's not easy being teenaged martial artist Ranma Saotome, but it's even worse when your martial-artist father Genma takes you from home at an early age to go on a decade-long training mission. He doesn't speak a word of Chinese, and yet he insists upon bringing you to the cursed training ground known as Jusenkyo, where falling into one of the many springs there turns you into whoever - or whatever - drowned there last. And then, the two of you have this little accident.

From now on, a splash of cold water will turn your father into a giant panda, while you, well, you turn into a re-haired (and problematically well-built) female version of yourself. Hoy water will reverse the effect, but only until the next time. What's a half-guy, half-girl to do?



1.01 Here's Ranma
Writer: Rumiko Takahashi (Original Material By), Yoshio Urasawa (Screenwriter)
Director: Tsutomu Shibayama
Cast: English Voice Cast), Sarah Strange (Ranma Saotome (boy-type) (voice)), Brigetta Dau (Ranma Saotome (girl-type) (voice)), David Kaye (Soun Tendo (voice)), Robert O. Smith (Genma Saotome (voice)), Ian James Corlett (Dr. Tofu Ono/Jusenkyo Guide (voice)), Ted Cole (Tatewaki Kuno (voice)), Miriam Sirois (Akane Tendo (voice)), Willow Johnson (Kasumi Tendo (voice)), Angela Costain (Nabiki Tendo (voice)), Japanese Voice Cast), Kappei Yamaguchi (Ranma Saotome (boy-type) (voice)), Megumi Hayashibara (Ranma Saotome (girl-type) (voice)), Noriko Hidaka (Akane Tendo (voice)), Minami Takayama (Nabiki Tendo (voice)), Kikuko Inoue (Kasumi Tendo (voice)), Kenichi Ogata (Genma Saotome (voice)), Ryunosuke Obayashi (Soun Tendo (voice)), Hirotaka Suzuoki (Tatewaki Kuno (voice)), Yuji Mitsuya (Dr. Tofu Ono (voice)), Koichi Yamadera (Jusenkyo Guide (voice))

This is a good first episode. So far I only have seen the first season of this series, even though I also own the second one. It is a fun series, but I never had the urge to continue. I own and have read the complete manga though (all 38 volumes). I had bought them cheap on eBay a few years ago. I had enjoyed reading it.

Rating:

(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on June 24th, 2012)