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The Orphanage, a review by Jon

The Orphange (El Olfanato)
4 out of 5



(From October Marathon: Horror! on October 9th, 2008)

Alucard, a review by Jimmy

Title : Alucard (2003)

Overview
A modern telling of Bram Stoker's classic!

My Impression
My god this movie is endless...  It is not only long by its running time (2h30), but by the way it is construct. Let me explain, all the movie is based on the diary of the principal characters (I think that the original Bram Stoker's book was like that also) and everytime something a little bit interesting happen we switch to a new diary. This switching make a very confusing film (of course, I've to be honest by confessing that I've fallen asleep a couple of time). This is a really big negative, because the movie itself is well made and a good conversion of an old story in the modern time. The movie is just too long for a low budget... But the last 10 minutes are great!

Maybe you will like it Pete, since you're a biggest vampire movie fan than me. Don't let my review discourage you  

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(From Jimmy's 2009 Horror Marathon on October 4th, 2009)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

Suzuka: The Complete Series (2005/Japan) IMDb | Wikipedia FUNimation Entertainment (United States) Length: 610 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Japanese: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: English

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Plot:
Love is not a spectator sport.

High school is a hectic time of change for most... But for happy-go-lucky Yamato, it's gonna be a complete revolution! He's the new kid in class, having transferred to the big city to attend Aoba High, where he finds himself smitten with the local rising star of track and field. Yet two people could not be more different! And as Suzuka remains completely uninspired by Yamato's cheerfully irresponsible nature, things progress from bad to worse with record-breaking speed! So when the young man decides to step up his efforts and join the track team, his best might not measure up...

It's mixed signals and high school hormones with everyone running in circles! Throw in the antics of a handful of high school stereotypes, and Yamato's completely out of his league! When love is not a spectator sport, the only question is who will go the distance?


Suzuka
1.01 Anticipation
Writer: Koji Seo (Original Material By), Hiroko Tokita (Screenwriter)
Director: Hiroshi Fukutomi
Cast: English Cast), Leah Clark (Suzuka (voice)), Todd Haberkorn (Yamato (voice)), Kate Bristol (Miho (voice)), Gwendolyn Lau (Ayano (voice)), Colleen Clinkenbeard (Yuka (voice)), Carrie Savage (Megumi (voice)), Rob McCollum (Yasunobu (voice)), Meaghan Albach (Extra (voice)), Trina Nishamura (Extra (voice)), Sonny Strait (Extra (voice)), Japanese Cast), Kanako Mitsuhashi (Suzuka Asahina (voice)), Daisuke Nakamura (Yamato Akitsuki (voice)), Satomi Akesaka (Miho Fujikawa (voice)), Yuki Kaida (Ayano Fujikawa (voice)), Masami Suzuki (Yuka Saotome (voice)), Hatsumi Miura (Emi Matsumoto (voice)), Mika Ishibashi (Student (voice)), Mariko Nagahama (Student (voice)), Shinobu Matsumoto (Teacher (voice)), Iori Hayashi (Teacher (voice)), Kenji Iwama (Teacher (voice))

I have enjoyed watching this series. So much so, that I also read the manga. At least as far it was released in the English translation. They stopped releasing them shortly before the series was finished

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(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on July 28th, 2012)