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Wir sind die Nacht, a review by Tom

Wir sind die Nacht (2010/Germany) IMDb | Wikipedia Highlight Video (Germany) Director: Dennis Gansel Writing: Dennis Gansel (Writer), Jan Berger (Writer) Length: 100 min. Video: Widescreen 2.35 Audio: German: DTS-HD High Resolution 5.1, Commentary: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: German

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Stars:
Karoline Herfurth as Lena
Nina Hoss as Louise
Jennifer Ulrich as Charlotte
Anna Fischer as Nora
Max Riemelt as Tom

Plot:
Extras:

• Scene Access
• Commentary
• Trailers
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Production Notes
• Interviews
• Bonus Trailers
• B-Roll
• Booklet
• Wendecover

I stumbled across this German vampire movie on Amazon. I never heard of it before. As I am currently in a vampire movie and TV series mood, I ordered it.
I did enjoy this movie. Well done. Though I didn't like the acting of some of the cast. Especially Nina Hoss as Louise bothered me.
The only actor I knew beforehand was Anna Fischer. She did a good job.
Going by the cover I originally expected a silly movie, but it was not. It had very serious themes and was not a comedy at all.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on November 8th, 2012)

Young and Innocent, a review by addicted2dvd

Title: Young and Innocent
Year: 1937
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Rating: NR
Length: 82 Min.
Video: Full Frame 1.33:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: Mono
Subtitles: N/A

Stars:
Nova Pilbeam
Derrick De Marney
Percy Marmont
Edward Rigby
Mary Clare
John Longden

Plot:
A writer accused of murdering his girlfriend escapes police custody with a young woman in tow and the two fugitives attempt to find the real killer to prove the man's innocence.

Extras:
Scene Access

My Thoughts:
This is another movie I got in the Alfred Hitchcock: The Legend Begins set. This one turned out to be an enjoyable movie as well. It is a nice little murder mystery with a bit of comedy and romance thrown in for good measures. I do think the mystery was solved a little too easily at the end though. While not the best I ever seen... I thought the quality of the DVD was surprisingly good. But that is probably because of two things... how old the movie is and how cheap the set is. So I was expecting very low quality. Watched 2 movies out of this set now... and enjoyed them both. This is turning into a right good purchase.



(From My Alphabet Marathon Reviews on July 10th, 2010)

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Marathon, a review by DJ Doena

Synopsis: A series of flashbacks shows us how Angel became Angelus the first time, how he drove Drusilla into insanity, how he was cursed by the Gypsies and how he finally found his way to Sunnydale, to help Buffy. But in the here and now he has stolen Acathla, a transfixed demon who will swallow the world if he is re-awakened. But Buffy gets help: Kendra is back. And Willow wants to perform the curse to restore Angel's soul.

My Opinion: I never noticed it before that Darla says "Close your eyes" before she turns him - a sentence that Buffy will also use at the end of the next episode. And I really liked how they argued about how to deal with Angelus with Xander being the advocate for killing Angelus. He never trusted Angel or any Vampire for that matter and that won't change until the end of the show and this distrust will lead to serious arguments with Buffy again, especially in the sixth and seventh season.
And sorry to sound like a broken record, but when Xander asked whether Buffy wanted to restore Angel's soul, go on "with the smooches" and pretend as if nothing had happened I involuntarily registered that as a side-remark towards Smallville. But that's impossible since Smallville wasn't even produced yet.

Synopsis: After Dru has killed Kendra and taken Giles to the mansion, Buffy is wanted for murder by the police. She has to sneak into the hospital to visit the injured Xander and the comatose Willow. But she has a lucky break: Spike (who secretly can walk again) teams up with her in order to defeat Angelus and get Dru back. Meanwhile Angelus tortures Giles to learn how to awake Acathla.

My Opinion: In just one episode Buffy's world fell apart. She has saved the world (again) but had to sacrifice pretty much everything for it. It must have been so hard for her to kill Angel - whose soul had been restored just moments ago - to close Acathla's vortex. She was thrown out from home, expelled from school and had to kill her boyfriend - can it get any worse?
But I also found the events that happened before the final fight very interesting, especially her temporary alliance with Spike whom she also hates but who was the lesser of two evils at that moment. And that Xander lied to her and didn't tell her that Willow was trying the soul restoration again will also become an issue again.
These two episodes have a place on the Olympus of season endings and together with the ending of season five this was the strongest ending of any Buffy season.




The Season - My Opinion:

(From "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Marathon on May 21st, 2009)