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Bend It Like Beckham, a review by Tom

Title: Bend It Like Beckham
Year: 2002
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Rating: FSK-6
Length: 108 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85
Audio: German: Dolby Digital 5.1, English: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: German

Stars:
Parminder Nagra
Keira Knightley
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Anupam Kher
Archie Panjabi

Plot:
Of East Indian origin of the Sikh faith, the Bhamra family have been settled in Great Britain for several years. They have two daughters, Pinky and Jessminder. While Pinky is in the process of getting married, Jessminder is preparing to play football - which is not acceptable to her parents. But Jessminder knows she is good at the sport, and she does receive considerable encouragement. Her parents are clearly uncomfortable with their daughter running around in shorts, chasing a big ball, instead of being clad in a traditional salwar khameez, and learning to cook East Indian recipes. Jessminder must now decide what's important for her. To make matters worse, a football tournament is arranged on the very day of her sister's marriage. Will Jessminder be able to play, or will her dreams be shattered?

Awards:

American Cinema Editors Awards	2004	Nominated	Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical	Justin Krish
BAFTA	2002	Nominated	The Alexander Korda Award For The Outstanding British Film Of The Year	Deepak Nayar, Gurinder Chadha
British Independent Film Awards	2002	Nominated	Best British Independent Film
British Independent Film Awards	2002	Nominated	Most Promising Newcomer	Parminder Magra
Empire Magazine Awards	2003	Nominated	Best British Actress	Keira Knightly
Empire Magazine Awards	2003	Nominated	Best Newcomer	Parminder Nagra
Empire Magazine Awards	2003	Nominated	Sky Movies Best British Film
European Film Awards	2002	Nominated	European Film
European Film Awards	2002	Nominated	The People's Choice Award for Best European Actress	Parminder Nagra
Golden Globe	2003	Nominated	Picture - Musical or Comedy	Gurinder Chadha, Deepak Nayar
National Board of Review Awards, USA	2003	Won	Special Recognition
Online Film Critics Society Awards	2004	Nominated	Best Breakthrough Performance	Keira Knightley
Satellite Awards	2004	Nominated	Best Actress in a Supporting Role – Comedy or Musical	Shaheen Khan
Satellite Awards	2004	Nominated	Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Writers Guild of America Awards	2004	Nominated	Best Original Screenplay	Gurinder Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges, Guljit Bindra

Extras:
DVD-ROM Content
Featurettes
Production Notes
Rezept Aloo-Gobi
Scene Access
Trailers

I haven't watched this move for a while. I still enjoy it very much. This was the first movie I saw Keira Kneightley in, and it is still my favorite performance by her (granted, I haven't seen many movies with her). Parminder Nagra also did a great job. The only other thing I saw her in is as a minor role in "Ella Enchanted" (I never watched ER).
Originally it was supposed to feature a lesbian romance between Jess and Jules, but the producers chickened out. But there still is a hilarious subplot where Jules' mother thinks those two are in a relationship.

I have this movie in my Bollywood category in my collection, because it is directed by an Indian born director (who also directed "Bride & Prejudice) and has a big Indian cast. Now that I have watched it after watching some real Bollywood movies, I still think it belongs in that category. It has a real Bollywood movie feel to it.
Jess' father is played by Anupam Kher, a famous Bollywood actor I already saw in a bunch of movies. I almost didn't recognize him here, because he is playing a Sikh this time around.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on June 4th, 2010)

The Amazing Spider-Man 2, a review by addicted2dvd

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014/United States) IMDb |Wikipedia |Trailer | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Director: Marc Webb Writing: Alex Kurtzman (Screenwriter), Roberto Orci (Screenwriter), Jeff Pinkner (Screenwriter), Alex Kurtzman (Story By), Roberto Orci (Story By), Jeff Pinkner (Story By), James Vanderbilt (Story By), Stan Lee (Original Material By), Steve Ditko (Original Material By) Length: 142 min. Rating: Rated PG-13 : Sequences of Sci-fi Action/Violence Video: Widescreen 2.40:1 Audio: English: DTS-HD Master Audio: 5.1, French: DTS-HD Master Audio: 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Audio Descriptive: Dolby Digital: 5.1 Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

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Stars:
Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man/Peter Parker
Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy
Jamie Foxx as Electro/Max Dillon
Dane DeHaan as Green Goblin/Harry Osborn
Colm Feore as Donald Menken
Felicity Jones as Felicia

Plot:Extras:

• Scene Access
• Audio Commentary
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Music Videos
• Digital Copy

I was so excited to see this movie. While I wasn't disappointed... as it is a good movie... it wasn't as good as the first one. Going by the trailer I was a little concerned on how they portrayed Electro. But after seeing the movie I found they did him pretty cool. Not thrilled with the storyline with Gwen Stacy though I do understand how they got there... so I can forgive that. But what I can't forgive is how they portrayed Rhino. I just did not like how they did him at all. But over-all a very good movie... this one is definitely worth every moment put in to watch it.



(From What Movies I Been Watching on August 22nd, 2014)

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: The Complete Second Season marathon, a review by Achim

2. Automatic for the PeopleMy opinion:
After the first episode opened with a bang the second pulls back a bit and goes in to explore some emotional issues. On the one hand there is mistrust, which obviously is a problematic thing for our little group. Then there is John's desire to be "normal", not having to have the burden of being the hope for humankind's future, which in turn causes conflict with Sarah. Sarah also has to deal with her knowledge of her future death by cancer, or does she...? All this is surrounded by a "problem of the week", which eventually provides some action towards the end.

Quite a solid episode which does some good character progression. Somehow I found Summer Glau's performance a little bit phoned in in this one

(From Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: The Complete Second Season marathon on January 26th, 2010)