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Conspiracy, a review by Antares

Conspiracy





Year: 2001
Film Studio: British Broadcasting Corporation, Home Box Office, HBO Home Video
Genre: Drama, Television, War
Length: 96 Min.

Director
Frank Pierson (1925)

Writing
Loring Mandel (1928)...Written By

Producer
Frank Doelger
Nick Gillott (1945)
C. Cory M. McCrum-Abdo
Frank Pierson (1925)
Rudi Teichmann (1955)
David M. Thompson (1950)
Peter Zinner (1919)

Cinematographer
Stephen Goldblatt (1945)

Stars
Kenneth Branagh (1960) as Reinhard Heydrich
Clare Bullus as Maid
Stanley Tucci (1960) as Adolf Eichmann
Simon Markey as Stenographer
David Glover (1927) as Supervising Butler
David Willoughby as Orderly #1
Tom Hiddleston (1981) as Phone Operator
David Spinx (1951) as Cook

Review
       In 1942, at the confiscated estate of a Jewish businessman, Reinhard Heydrich, Adolf Eichmann and the upper echelon members of the Nazi party, came together to set in motion the plan to execute all people deemed irrelevant and unnecessary to the forging of the new German state. The decisions made at the would lead to the systematic extermination of over 14 million Europeans, of which 6 million were Jews, and would be forever remembered as the ConspiracyRatings Criterion4 Stars - Historically important film, considered a classic.

(From Conspiracy (2001) on December 8th, 2009)

My Sassy Girl, a review by Tom

My Sassy Girl (2001/South Korea) IMDb | Wikipedia EDKO Films (Hong Kong) Director: Jae-young Kwak Writing: Ho-sik Kim (Original Material By), Jae-young Kwak (Screenwriter) Length: 123 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85 Audio: Korean: Dolby Digital 5.1, Cantonese: Dolby Digital 5.1, Korean: DTS 5.1 Subtitles: Chinese, English

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Stars:
Tae-hyun Cha as Kyun-woo
Ji-hyun Jun as The Girl
Jin-hie Han as The Girl's father
Sook-hee Hyun as The Girl's mother
Il-woo Kim as Quintuplets

Plot:
One night, Kyun-woo meets a terribly drunken girl. He is ashamed to help her, but once he does, a deep sense of responsibility has been developed within him: he decides to heal her pain. Even though she slaps him, pushes him into the pool, forces him to wear heels, he tolerates. Will she stay after the pain is healed?

Awards:
Won:

Hong Kong Film Award (2002)

Best Asian Film

Extras:

• Deleted Scenes
• Scene Access

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on October 17th, 2010)

Babylon 5: Marathon, a review by DJ Doena

Synopsis:  Na'Toth attacks a women who just left a space ships and declares that she is Deathwalker, a Dilgar war criminal. But that is impossible, even if she is still alive she would be much older than that woman. Except of course she had found the fountain of youth.

My opinion: Great episode. Asks a lot of valid questions, e.g. how much are you willing to pay and what to sacrifice to become immortal.

Quote of the episode:
Kosh: "Thuth is a three-edged sword."


Synopsis: Two aliens bring their sick child to the infirmary. But to heal their son Dr. Franklin has to resolve to surgery. But the parents believe system does not allow the opening of the body because the soul would leave the body.

My opinion: Great conflict between science and religion. Who is right and who is authorized to make such a decision?

Quote of the episode:
Kosh: "The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote."


Synopsis:  Earth Alliance president Santiago plans a visit to Babylon 5. But the station is shaken by bomb explosions and a presidential team takes over the security department while Garibaldi is supected to be an assassin.

My opninion: We get a glimpse into Garibaldis history on Mars (Garibaldi, like Sinclair, was born on Mars) and his drinking problems back then. Good episode about revenge and paranoia.


Synopsis: Overworked and underpaid the dock workers of Babylon 5 go on strike after some of them have been killed and hurt because of errors due to the stress. But the Earth government threatens to break the strike with force, if necessary. Meanwhile G'kar is trying to get hold onto a G'Quan Eth flower for a religious ritual and the only one having one on B5 is - Londo Mollari.

My opninion: Good episode. Showed that in the B5 universe some things haven't changed at all throughout the centuries. And personally I think episodes like this make the show much more realistic than the Happy World of Star Trek. I also loved the resolution of Sinclair for both problems (strike / G'Quan Eth).


(From Babylon 5: Marathon on August 4th, 2007)