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Murder in the First, a review by Rich

Murder in the First





Terrific fact based film, with an outstanding set of performances from Bacon, Oldman and even Slater!
At times a little over-intense, emotionally exhausting, but always entertaining and in it's context of being a true story quite shocking. Gary Oldman is a sinister monster as the nasty Warden Glenn who you can't help but despise, and R Lee Ermey was wonderfully cast as the abrupt judge. The portrayal is slick and keeps you interested, I was just disappointed by some of the camerawork, particularly when it was swivelling around the characters, which I found an unnecessary distraction.
A haunting film that stays with you.
  

(From Riches Random Reviews on May 22nd, 2009)

Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), a review by addicted2dvd

Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer (Lionel Atwill), plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan goes sour when the monster turns malevolent and goes on a rampage.

My Thoughts:
While still enjoyable for what it is... the storyline for the Frankenstein movies is getting a little on the old side... which in turn is dampening my enjoyment somewhat. I believe that the rest of the movies with Frankenstein in them also has the other movie monsters in them as well... which I believe (well hope) will breath a much needed new life into the character. Up to this point the whole series was someone from the Frankenstein family trying to either make the monster live again... or improve upon him. So after so many movies like that... that particular storyline got a bit tiresome.

(From Classic Monster Movie Marathon on May 18th, 2008)

The One Where It All Began: The Pilot Marathon, a review by DJ Doena

What's the show about?
Dr. House leads a team of diagnosticians who have specialized in rare and/or extraordinary cases. House himself is a misanthropic cripple who doesn't like to handle the patients personally, basically because "everybody lies". He bounces ideas off his team and together they find the disease but not always fast enough to actually save the patient.

"Pilot"
A young kindergarten teacher is brought to the hospital because she has lost the ability to speak and five different doctors have made five different diagnoses based on the same evidence. House's friend Dr. Wilson tricks House into accepting this patient and he and his team try to diagnose her illness. And the hospital boss Dr. Cuddy forces House to do clinic hours, too.

My Opinion
It's not lupus. Whatever it is, it's never lupus. The case of the week follows a fairly regular pattern. Patient comes in, something makes it interesting for House, they treat, they mistreat, they treat again, they nearly kill the patient and then something totally unrelated to the case gives House the solution. Case closed, patient (maybe still) alive. For me that's not the reason to watch this show. For me it's about House himself and his friend Wilson and Cuddy and his three doctors and how they interact and what they do besides treating the patient. And even though the case always follows the same pattern, the position of the players (even House's) is constantly changing and will change again when the show goes into its sixth season this fall.

(From The One Where It All Began: The Pilot Marathon on September 1st, 2009)