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That Man from Rio, a review by GSyren

Title	That Man from Rio (8-809154-130562). Original title: L'Homme de Rio
Director	Philippe de Broca
Actors
Produced	1964 in France
Runtime	111 minutes
Audio	French Dolby Digital Mono, Russian Dolby Digital Mono
Subtitles	English, Korean
Overview	An eight-day pass, a kidnapping, and a greedy group of South American Indians provide the basic ingredients of this madcap adventure. A French air force pilot has the pass and plans to use it to see his girl friend in Paris. He gets there just in time to see a gang of South American Indians, who believe that the girl knows the location of a set of statues that can pinpoint the location of a fabulous jungle treasure, kidnapping her. He follows them to the Brazilian jungle and many riotous adventures ensue. Eventually the lovers manage to escape and return to France just before the pilot's pass expires.
My thoughts	From looking at the cover image you might think that That Man from Rio is a Bond spoof. It isn't. It's more of a romantic adventure in the Indiana Jones style, with a bit of Tintin thrown in. Philippe de Broca made several great movies, many with Belmondo. My favorites, apart from this one, are Cartouche and Le MagnifiqueLe Magnifique. It's also hard to find, but there is a French R2/PAL release that has French, English and German audio.
My rating	3 out of 5

(From Reviews and ramblings by Gunnar on June 26th, 2013)

Django, Prepare A Coffin, a review by GSyren

Title	Django, Prepare A Coffin (5-027035-010229)
Director	Ferdinando Baldi
Actors
Produced	1968 in Italy
Runtime	92 minutes
Audio	English PCM 2-Channel Stereo, Italian PCM 2-Channel Stereo
Subtitles	English
Overview	Django the drifter returns in this classic Sixties Spaghetti Western from Ferdinando Baldi (Texas Addio, Comin At Ya!), starring Terence Hill (They Call Me Trinity) as the wandering gunslinger, hired as executioner to a corrupt local politician who is framing innocent men, sending them to hang in an evil scheme to take hold of their land. But Django has other ideas...
My thoughts	Django, Prepare a Coffin (aka Viva Django) was the sequel to the original Django. Franco Nero couldn't play Django this time, because he was busy in Hollywood doing Camelot. Instead the producers chose a relatively unknown young actor named Mario Girotti, who had just taken the stage name Terence Hill. Two years later Hill would become famous in "My Name is Trinity" (aka "They Call Me Trinity"). In this film, Django works as a hangman, but he saves the lives of innocently convicted men (and a woman) by staging fake hangings. The films doesn't make it clear if he actually hangs any guilty villains. He organizes a gang with these men in order to avenge the killing of his wife, who was shot during the robbery of a gold transport. This is not a comedy western like the many he did together with Bud Spencer. This is quite violent. In fact, when this was first shown in Sweden in 1969, it was with 11 cuts totaling over 7 minutes. Now we can see it uncut, though. And in the aspect ratio in which it was shot, 1.66:1. IMDb claims it was 2.35:1, but that is wrong. It seems, though, that it was shown in several countries matted to 1.85:1. The picture quality of this Blu-Ray disc is good, but not stellar. At times it shows its age. The disc comes with Italian and English audio. As with most spaghetti westerns of this era, both language tracks are dubbed, since they used actors of many different nationalities all speaking their own language. As far as I can determine, the Italian track uses Hill's own voice. The English dub doesn't quite sound like the voice I remember from the Hill/Spencer films, so it seemed a little off to me. The extras consist of a Viva Django trailer and an eight minute interview with Kevin Grant, author of Django Explained. I haven't seen Tarantino's Django Unchained yet. I guess it's time to get that on and see how it compares to this and to the original Django.
My rating	3.5 out of 5

(From Reviews and ramblings by Gunnar on July 1st, 2013)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

Andy Richter Controls the Universe: The Complete Series (2002/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia CBS DVD, Paramount Home Entertainment (United States) Length: 417 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Commentary: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles:

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Plot:
The rules of comedy are about to be broken in Andy Richter Controls The UniverseAndy Richter Controls the Universe
1.01 Pilot
Writer: Victor Fresco (Created By), Victor Fresco (Writer)
Director: Andy Ackerman
Cast: Andy Richter (Andy Richter), Paget Brewster (Jessica Green), Irene Molloy (Wendy McKay), Jonathan Slavin (Byron Togler), James Patrick Stuart (Keith), Rick Hoffman (Arnich), John Bliss (Mr. Pickering), Jonathan Tipton Meyers (Co-Worker), Jordan Anita Moseley (Little Girl)

I liked this series since I first saw this pilot when it originally aired and was sad to see the series cancelled so soon.
Here is my review of the season set.

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(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on March 26th, 2011)