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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 Last Starfighter, a review by addicted2dvd

The Last Starfighter: 25th Anniversary Edition (1984/United States) IMDb |Wikipedia |Trailer | Universal Studios Home Entertainment Director: Nick Castle Writing: Jonathan Betuel (Writer) Length: 101 min. Rating: PG Video: Widescreen 2.35:1 Audio: English: DTS-HD Master Audio: 5.1, Commentary: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

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Stars:
Kay E. Kuter as Enduran
Dan Mason as Lord Kril
Lance Guest as Alex Rogan
Dan O'Herlihy as Grig
Catherine Mary Stewart as Maggie Gordon
Barbara Bosson as Jane Rogan

Plot:Extras:

• Scene Access
• Audio Commentary
• Feature Trailers
• Featurettes
• Gallery
• BD-Live

This is the first time I have seen this one in years... probably since it first came out in the '80s. The story holds up well... even if the special effects has not. But then would you really expect them to on a film like this? I found this film to be a lot of fun. I have read reviews putting down the Beta Unit... the robot that stayed on Earth to tak Alex's place. But I enjoyed those scenes as well. This one is well worth the time put in to watch it. This is one I recommend checking out if you never seen it.



(From What Movies I Been Watching on August 11th, 2014)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

The Office: Series One (2001/United Kingdom) IMDb | Wikipedia (United Kingdom) Length: 174 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: English

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Plot:
BAFTA winning comedy about the Slough paper-merchant where life is stationery...
David Brent (Ricky Gervais) is a petty, pompous boss who thinks he's the funniest, most popular man in the world. Pedantic jobsworth Gareth (Mackenzie Crook) agrees with him.

They're both wrong.

Tim (Martin Freeman) really is popular and funny but the joke is on him, as he's stuck in the middle of their little world - a world in which he hates everything except the receptionist Dawn (Lucy Davis). Will Tim escape? Will Dawn choose the right man? Will MI6 ever call on Gareth to help them out? And will David Brent ever regret letting a film crew into The Office?


The Office
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Writer: Ricky Gervais (Writer), Stephen Merchant (Writer)
Director: Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant
Cast: Ricky Gervais (David Brent), Martin Freeman (Tim Canterbury), Mackenzie Crook (Gareth Keenan), Lucy Davis (Dawn Tinsley), Oliver Chris (Ricky Howard), Stirling Gallacher (Jennifer Taylor-Clark), Joel Beckett (Lee), Robin Hooper (Malcolm), Paul Sharma (Sanj), Yvonne D'Alpra (Joan), Ben Bradshaw (Ben), Angela Clerkin (Jackie), Jamie Deeks (Jamie), Neil Fitzmaurice (Alex), Jane Lucas (Sheila), Ewen MacIntosh (Keith), Emma Manton (Emma), Alexander Perkins (Ralph), Phillip Pickard (Phillip)

A great series. Though this is more of a one-man show than the American remake. When they started to make the American remake, I thought they will never get it to work as well as here. But I have to admit, that I enjoy the American version even more. But only after they started doing their own thing instead of trying to recapture what was done in the original series.

Rating:

(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on June 17th, 2012)