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Murder at 1600, a review by addicted2dvd

Murder at 1600 (1997/United States) IMDb |Wikipedia |Trailer | Warner Home Video Director: Dwight Little Writing: Wayne Beach (Writer), David Hodgin (Writer) Length: 107 min. Rating: Rated R : Sexuality, Violence and Some Language Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78:1, Pan & Scan 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, French: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

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Stars:
Wesley Snipes as Detective Regis
Diane Lane as Nina Chance
Daniel Benzali as Spikings
Dennis Miller as Detective Stengel
Alan Alda as Jordan
Ronny Cox as President Jack Neil

Plot:Extras:

• Scene Access
• Feature Trailers
• Production Notes
• Closed Captioned

I remember seeing this movie years ago when it first came out on VHS. I remember enjoying it back then... but I haven't watched it since. This DVD was in a box full of DVDs that was given to me a couple years back... and I am just now getting the chance to watch it again. This one held up well for me over the years. I still found I enjoyed the movie quite a bit. Unfortunately shortly into the movie I remembered the ending... who the murderer was... even after all these years. But that's ok...it don't take away from the enjoyment. Recommended... if you never seen it.... check it out.




(From The Movies from Within My Lifetime: 2012 Edition on June 23rd, 2012)

Bad Lieutenant, a review by Achim

Title: Bad Lieutenant
Year: 1992
Director: Abel Ferrara
Rating: NC-17
Length: 96 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital Surround
Subtitles: Spanish

Stars:
Harvey Keitel
Brian McElroy
Frankie Acciarito
Peggy Gormley
Stella Keitel
Victor Argo

Plot:
He has survived on the streets for twenty years. He's a gambler... a thief... a junkie... a killer and a cop. Now he's investigating the most shocking case of his life, and as he moves closer to the truth his self-destructive past is closing in. Harvey Keitel gives a searing performance as an out-of-control police detective on a collision course with disaster in director Abel Ferrara's brilliant and deeply disturbing melodrama.

Extras:
Scene Access
Production Notes
Closed Captioned

The cover pretty much says it all already! It's a film about a cop who lost his path (assuming he used to have it) and is going down the wrong lane way too fast. Only once do we see him try to do actual police work, but at that point it seems already too late and the results he gets confuse him more than they help the case (not sure why the cover doesn't say it, I think it's no secret that a nun gets raped).

Keitel is a great fit for the role of the Bad Lieutenant, who curses like a dock worker (even in front of his young kids; pre-teens...?), takes drugs as soon as his kids leave the car to go to school and is more concerned about his gambling than catching a thug who does hos stealing right in front of him. The films theme seems to be faith, with Keitel's character's faith in his baseball team failing him bitterly and the nun's faith helping her to forgive the guys who attacked her. This is a Ferrara film, so the violence incl. the rape are quite in your face, which helps to give the film its tone.

This is not a popcorn film, but a great watch when you are in the mood for something with a doomed main character (some may call this a spoiler, but I found this to be inevitable right from the start).

I specifically added Victor Argo to the above cast list because he is just great anytime I see him. But besides him, this film is riddled with great faces which give the piece a nice authenticity.



(From DCO third annual November Alphabet Marathon - discussion/review/banter thread on November 9th, 2009)

Tom's Buffy and Angel Marathon, a review by Tom

09. Hero (1999-11-30)
Writer: Howard Gordon (Writer), Tim Minear (Writer)
Director: Tucker Gates
Casthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F-JfoXSzuk

What I really liked in this episode is the final scene with the pre-recorded videotape of Doyle.

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10. Parting Gifts (1999-12-14)
Writer: David Fury (Writer), Jeannine Renshaw (Writer)
Director: James A. Contner
Cast: David Boreanaz (Angel), Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia Chase), Glenn Quinn (Doyle), Maury Sterling (Barney), Carey Cannon (Female Oracle), Randall Slavin (Male Oracle), Alexis Denisof (Wesley Wyndam-Pryce), Jayson Creek (Producer #1), Sean Smith (Producer #2), Sara Devlin (Producer #3), Jason Kim (Soon), Brett Gilbert (Reptilian Demon), Henry Kingi (Kungai Demon), Lawrence Turner (Hank), Cheyenne Wilbur (Concierge), Dominique Jennings (Mac), Kotoko Kawamura (Ancient Korean Woman)

I like the introduction of Wesley. At first introduced as a hard-assed demon hunter, but as it turns out, he hasn't much changed since we last seen him on Buffy.
"I am a rogue demon hunter!" - "What's a rogue demon?"

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11. Somnambulist (2000-01-18)
Writer: Tim Minear (Writer)
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Cast: David Boreanaz (Angel), Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia Chase), Alexis Denisof (Wesley Wyndam-Pryce), Elisabeth Rohm (Kate Lockley), Jeremy Renner (Penn), Nick McCallum (Skateboard Kid), Kimberleigh Aarn (Precinct Clerk), Paul Webster (Uniform #1), Brien DiRito (Task Force Member #1)

Finally Kate has a bigger and a better role in an episode. Here she learns the truth about Angel.

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(From Tom's Buffy and Angel Marathon on April 18th, 2009)