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Wake up S!d, a review by Tom

Wake up S!d (2009/India) IMDb | Wikipedia UTV Home Entertainment (United Kingdom) Director: Ayan Mukerji Writing: Niranjan Iyangar (Screenwriter), Ayan Mukerji (Story By), Ayan Mukerji (Screenwriter) Length: 140 min. Video: Widescreen 2.35 Audio: Hindi: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Hindi: Dolby Digital 5.1 Subtitles: Arabic, English

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Stars:
Ranbir Kapoor as Sid
Konkona Sen Sharma as Aisha
Supriya Pathak
Anupam Kher
Rahul Khanna

Plot:
Sid is a qunitessential Mumbai slacker boy - wealthy, lazy and completely lacking in focus. An unexpected meeting with Aisha, a driven, bold and ambitious writer from Calcutta, results in a summer of discoveries, realizations and coming of age.

Awards:
Won:

Filmfare Awards (2010)		Best Debut Director (Ayan Mukherjee)
Filmfare Awards (2010)		Best Female Playback Singer ("Iktara": Kavita Seth)
Filmfare Awards (2010)		Critics Award for Best Performance (Ranbir Kapoor)
IIFA Awards (2010)		Best Female Playback ("Ek Tara": Kavita Seth)

Nominated:

Filmfare Awards (2010)		Best Actor (Ranbir Kapoor)
Filmfare Awards (2010)		Best Director (Ayan Mukerji)
Filmfare Awards (2010)		Best Film
Filmfare Awards (2010)		Best Lyricist ("Iktara": Javed Akhtar)
Filmfare Awards (2010)		Best Music Director (Shankar Ehsaan Loy)
Filmfare Awards (2010)		Best Supporting Actress (Supriya Pathak)
IIFA Awards (2010)		Best Actor (Ranbir Kapoor)
IIFA Awards (2010)		Best Director (Ayan Mukerji)
IIFA Awards (2010)		Best Story (Ayan Mukherji)
IIFA Awards (2010)		Best Supporting Actress (Supriya Pathak)

Extras:

• Music Videos
• Scene Access

Just your regular story of a rich spoiled boy who is directionless, but after leaving home and moving in with a female friends learns responsibility and finds his calling. Also falls in love with the girl, of course. Even though the movie has no surprises, it was fun to watch. Although I was a little sad that there were no dance numbers
But there were some nice background songs.
If you like Ranbir Kapoor in this movie, I can recommend checking out "Bachna Ae Haseeno".

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on January 22nd, 2011)

Child's Play, a review by addicted2dvd

Title: Child's Play: Chucky's 20th Birthday Edition Year: 1988 Director: Tom Holland Rating: R Length: 87 Min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, English: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround, French: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround, Spanish: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo, Commentary: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo, Commentary: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo, Commentary: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo Subtitles: English, Spanish

Stars:
Catherine Hicks
Chris Sarandon
Alex Vincent
Brad Dourif
Dinah Manoff
Tommy Swerdlow

Plot:Extras:
Scene Access
Audio Commentary
Feature Trailers
Bonus Trailers
Featurettes
Gallery
Interviews
Closed Captioned

My Thoughts:
It has been a couple years since I seen this one... so was good to watch again. I really enjoyed it. Sure the plot is a little on the silly side... but what do you expect from a movie that is about a killer doll? Besides... it makes for a fun watch. If by any chance there is someone out there that hasn't already seen this '80s classic... I would recommend checking it out.




Count:
Movie Count: 28
TV Ep. Count: 13
Other Count: 2
Time Started: 9:30am

(From Month Long Horror/Halloween Marathon: 2010 on October 9th, 2010)

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

Synopsis: After having been exposed to radiation poisoning, O'Brien is being thrust forward five hours in time and then back again. This happens at a regular intervals and O'Brien sees his own death as well as the destruction of DS9 in that future. And he plans to prevent both from happening.

My Opinion: Despite once again having some flaws in the time travel logic, I liked this episode, especially the parts where there were two O'Briens and one helped or protected the other. And they've finally installed the Darts board in Quark's bar. I like all of O'Brien's and Bashir's recreation time activities.

Synopsis: After Bashir has been attacked by an alien, he awakes at the infirmary. But except for him, Quark and Garak and that alien the station seems to be abandoned. He wanders through the place, trying to figure out, what has happened and why he is hearing distant voices.

My Opinion: This one was an OK episode but since it didn't happen much in it, there's also not much to say about it.

Synopsis: O'Brien threatens Sisko with a phaser and beams them both off the station. It's "Smiley", the O'Brien from the mirror universe and he needs Sisko to help him. Sisko's wife on the other side - Jennifer (who died at Wolf 359 on this side of the mirror) - is building a sensor array that would crush the Terran resistance.

My Opinion: This one I liked again. Out-of-character-episode. What can I say. The only thing that bugged me a bit was that Sisko slept with Mirror-Dax just to maintain his cover. It's basically the same as Faith being in Buffy's body and sleeping with Riley or Bizarro pretending to be Clark and sleeping with Lana. It's just not right.

Synopsis: Garak's shop gets blown up and Garak is hurt. Odo starts to investigate and soon discovers that the Romulans might have something to do with it. When Garak learns that five of his former associates were killed on the same day, he tries to contact Enabran Tain - the former head of the Obsidian Order - because he fears for Tain's life.

My Opinion: This was a great Garak episode. His interpretation of the "cry wolf" fable ("Never tell the same lie twice."), it being him who had blown up the shop, him rejoining with Tain - it fitted the character and helped shape it even more. I also thought that this plan was indeed something the Obsidian Order and the Tal Shiar (romulan intelligence) would come up with.

(From Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Marathon on November 1st, 2008)