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NOVA: Lost at Sea - The Search for Longitude, a review by Antares

NOVA: Lost at Sea - The Search for Longitude (1998) 85/100 - To a modern day citizen, finding directions to and fro are as easy as pressing a few buttons on a phone. Global positioning satellites can render your position on the planet down to within a few feet of your actual position. So it's rather curious and somewhat sad that the man responsible for the first true breakthrough in global positioning science is almost completely forgotten by today's historians. We all were taught about Sir Isaac Newton's Law of Gravity, Copernicus' discovery that the Earth revolved around the Sun and Galileo's experiments with a rock & feather. But how many here have ever heard of John Harrison? Who? John Harrison, the carpenter and clock maker who spent his entire life trying to create the most accurate timepiece and prove that astronomy wasn't the way to navigate the world's oceans. Harrison surmised that if you knew when it was twelve noon in England and you had a way to accurately keep time at sea, then you could calculate where you were on Earth within a scant few miles. He set to work on an array of timepieces over 58 years, to prove his hypothesis true. This documentary from PBS details the hardships and problems associated with Harrison's 58 years of tinkering and also of his hardships fighting a bureaucracy that put every obstacle imaginable in front of him in hopes of failure. Through perseverance and eventually, help from his son, he created a portable time piece that proved his theory right. Once again, PBS delivers, through its always fascinating program NOVA, an interesting and captivating story of historic value.

What the color coding means...

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 December 7th, 2013)

V/H/S 99, a review by addicted2dvd

V/H/S/99 (2022/United States) RLJ Entertainment (United States) Director: "Shredding"Maggie Levin, "Suicide Bid"Johannes Roberts, "Ozzy's Dungeon"Flying Lotus , "The Gawkers"Tyler MacIntyre, "To Hell And Back"Vanessa Winter [Vanessa & Joseph Winter], Joseph Winter [Vanessa & Joseph Winter] Writing: "Shredding"Maggie Levin (Writer), "Suicide Bid"Johannes Roberts (Writer), "Ozzy's Dungeon"Zoe Cooper (Writer), Flying Lotus (Writer), "The Gawkers"Chris Lee Hill (Writer), Tyler MacIntyre (Writer), "To Hell And Back"Vanessa Winter [Vanessa & Joseph Winter] (Writer), Joseph Winter [Vanessa & Joseph Winter] (Writer) Length: 109 min. Video: Widescreen 1.78:1 Audio: English: DTS-HD Master Audio: 5.1, Commentary: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo Subtitles: English

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Stars:
"Shredding"Jesse LaTourette as Rachel
Keanush Tafreshi as Ankur
Dashiell Derrickson as Chris Carbonara
Jackson Kelly as Kaleb

Plot:
A THIRSTY TEENAGER'S HOME VIDEO LEADS TO a series of horrifying revelations. Feathuring five new stories from filmmakers Maggie Levin, Johannes Roberts, Flying Lotus, Tyler MacIntyre and Joseph & Vanessa Winter, V/H/S/99 harkens back to the final punk rock analog days of VHS, while taking one giant leap forward into the hellish new millennium.

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Audio Commentary
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Music Videos
• Storyboard Comparisons
• Outtakes/Bloopers

I haven't watched an anthology in a while. This one was right good. Of course, some of the stories was better than others. But I liked them all to some extent. There wasn't anyone I recognized in this one whatsoever. Definitely a fun watch... would recommend.



(From Horror/Halloween Marathon 2023 on September 18th, 2023)

Tom's TV Finales marathon, a review by Tom

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Chuck: Season Five (2011/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Warner Bros. Home Video (United Kingdom) Length: 540 min. Video: Widescreen 1.78 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1 Subtitles: English, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish

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Plot:
Chuck is back with new missions, a new business - and no intersect. the stakes are high as Chuck sets out to become a full-fledged spy. But without the CIA backup, Chuck will have to rely now more than ever on John Casey, Sarah Walker and a new intersect - Morgan Guillermo Grimes.
Across all 13 episodes of this thrilling final season, Chuck will find that his wits, his friends and his family are the only backup he needs.


Chuck
Season 5.13 Chuck Versus the Goodbye
Writer: Josh Schwartz (Created By), Chris Fedak (Created By), Chris Fedak (Writer)
Director: Robert Duncan McNeill
Cast: Zachary Levi (Chuck Bartowski), Yvonne Strahovski (Sarah Walker), Joshua Gomez (Morgan Grimes), Ryan McPartlin (Captain Awesome), Mark Christopher Lawrence (Big Mike), Vik Sahay (Lester Patel), Scott Krinsky (Jeff Barnes), Sarah Lancaster (Ellie Bartowski), Adam Baldwin (John Casey), Angus MacFadyen (Nicholas Quinn), Linda Hamilton (Mary Bartowski), Bonita Friedericy (General Beckman), Mekenna Melvin (Alex McHugh), Mark Pellegrino (Hector), Vladimir Kulich (Renny Deutch), Jessie Heiman (Fernando), Michael Kawczynski (Skip), Ilka Urbach (German Woman), Robert Duncan McNeill (Operative), Alexander Von Roon (Lutz), Lawrence Stachowiak (Larry), Daniel Samadani (Daniel), Gabrielle Eisenstadt (Gabbie), John Jurgens (John), Natasha Soudek (Wienerlicious Girl)

As I just finished watching this series, I am posting this review out of order. This last season was a nice watch. I really enjoyed it. And we got a nice conclusion to the series.
And I have to admit, that I am happy that contrary to rumors I had read when this season first aired
Rating:

(From Tom's TV Finales marathon on February 1st, 2013)