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Twilight Zone: The Movie, a review by Tom

Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Warner Home Video (United States) Director: John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, George Miller Writing: Rod Serling (Original Material By), John Landis (Writer), George Clayton Johnson (Screenwriter), Richard Matheson (Screenwriter), Josh Rogan (Screenwriter), George Clayton Johnson (Story By), Richard Matheson (Screenwriter), Jerome Bixby (Original Material By), Richard Matheson (Screenwriter), Richard Matheson (Original Material By) Length: 101 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, French: Dolby Digital 1, Spanish: Dolby Digital 1 Subtitles: Chinese, English, Portuguese

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Stars:
Prologue
Dan Aykroyd as Passenger
Albert Brooks as Driver
Segment 1
Vic Morrow as Bill
Doug McGrath as Larry
Charles Hallahan as Ray

Plot:
1959. Friday nights. We time-traveled. Witnessed surprising twists. Entertained aliens. Experienced fear. And first journeyed to The Twilight Zone of Rod Serling's memorable TV series. And guided by four imaginative moviemakers, we traveled there again in 1983. Directors John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, and George Miller fashion stories based on or inspired by classic episodes. Landis weaves the tale of a bigot who gets a walloping dose of his own hatred. Spielberg takes over with a fable of senior citizens offered a magical rejuvenation. Dante serves up a terror trip with a child who uses his cartoon-inspired powers to enslave his family. Then fright goes aloft with Miller's finale about a neurotic passenger who sees a monster on the jetliner's wing. Or does he?

Awards:
Won:

Saturn (1983)

Best Supporting Actor (John Lithgow)

Nominated:

Saturn (1983)		Best Horror Film
Saturn (1983)		Best Supporting Actor (Scatman Crothers)
Young Artist Awards (1984)		Best Young Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture (Jeremy Licht)
Young Artist Awards (1984)		Best Young Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture (Christina Nigra)

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Trailers

I enjoyed this movie more than the last time. It is not as good as the better known Twilight Zone episodes, but enjoyable nonetheless. Too bad that there was such a tragic accident on the set, that cut one of the segments short.

Rating:

(From Tom's Horror Marathon 2012 on October 21st, 2012)

The Cat and the Canary, a review by addicted2dvd

The Cat and the Canary (1939/United States) Universal Studios (United States) Director: Elliott Nugent Writing: Walter DeLeon (Screenwriter), Lynn Starling (Screenwriter), John Willard (Original Material By) Length: 74 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: Mono Subtitles:

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Stars:
Bob Hope as Wally Campbell
Paulette Goddard as Joyce Norman
John Beal as Fred Blythe
Douglass Montgomery as Charlie Wilder
Gale Sondergaard as Miss Lu

Plot:
Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six relatives, including Joyce Norman (Paulette Goddard) and Wally Campbell (Bob Hope). Organized by Norman's lawyer, Crosby (George Zucco), the six meet at Norman's eerie New Orleans Gothic mansion. During the reading, the superstitious housekeeper declares that someone will be dead by midnight.

Extras:

• None

This is a bit different of a Bob Hope film then I have seen before. While there is a little comedy here... this is much more a suspense/thriller. And a really good one at that. Bob Hope was better then I was expecting acting in a more serious roll. I am also getting to like the actress Paulette Goddard. I am going to have to look into more of her films.



(From November Movie Marathon: Classic Comedy Greats on November 22nd, 2017)

My PILOT Marathon, a review by Rich

Dollhouse

1/ Ghost (apparently there was an unaired pilot prior to this)
Echo is one of the "Actives" in the elite and illegal Dollhouse. Through different personality downloads, she plays the role of a lovestruck girl on a romantic weekend, and then a ruthlessly efficient kidnapping negotiator.
Meanwhile, FBI Agent Paul Ballard is struggling with his assignment to uncover information on the Dollhouse. The chase has destroyed his marriage and is wrecking his career, and it doesn't seem that he'll stop until he uncovers the truth.



FROM JOSS WHEDON, CREATIVE MASTERMIND BEHIND Buffy the Vampire Slayer  and Angel, comes the provocative Dollhouse, a sexy, suspenseful thriller starring the stunningly talented Eliza Dushku.
As an "Active," the mysterious Echo (Dushku) serves as an unwitting agent of Dollhouse, an illegal undergroound organization that provides its elite clientele with programmable human beings.  Actives receivve persoonality imprints, allowing them to temporarily become anyone or anything - the perfect burglar, lover, spy, or assassin.  Now, with the FBI and her own shadowy past closing in, Echo must face a rogue Activve who will stop at nothing to bring Dollhouse down - forever.

As has been mentioned several times before, this series began very slowly and picked up around the 5th episode.
The first episode is quite confusing to follow and understand exactly what is going on, who is who, are the dolls victims or volunteers, what is what, why the Dollhouse, are they good or bad?? The idea of wiping a 'persons' mind and imprinting a new one, whether that be an assassin, lover, fighter etc, is quite novel and shows promise.
It is eye candy gone mad with a host of bronzed beauties to appeal to both sexes, but the majority unfortunately on first showing appearing rather lightweight in the acting skills. Adele DeWitt looks like she has secured a great role, and I am interested to see how this develops through the series.
Certainly a pilot that could put you off a series as it was just too confusing, but with the knowledge of how this improves and where it leads to I will be watching the remainder of series 1 very soon.
 


(From My PILOT Marathon on September 14th, 2009)