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If These Walls Could Talk 2, a review by Tom

Title: If These Walls Could Talk 2
Year: 2000
Director: 1961, Jane Anderson, 1972, Martha Coolidge, 2000, Anne Heche
Rating: 15
Length: 94 Min.
Video: Full Frame 1.33:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital Stereo

Stars:Plot:
If These Walls Could Talk 2 is an intimate look at the lesbian experience in America in different social and politicla climates from the sixties to the millennium, as told in three different love stories:

An elderly woman,'widowed' when her companion of 50 years dies in 1961... A feminist co-ed discovering her attraction to an outsider in 1972... A loving couple eager to experience parenthood in 2000.

Three couple, three different decades. If These Walls Could Talk 2 is an honest portrayal of women in three very different times, all searching for love and acceptance.

Extras:
Photo Gallery
Production Notes
Scene Access
Trailers



(From Lesbian Movie Marathon on April 5th, 2009)

Subspecies, a review by GSyren

Title	Subspecies (5-037899-047194)
Director	Ted Nicolaou
Actors	Angus Scrimm, Anders Hove, Irina Movila, Laura Tate, Michelle McBride
Produced	1991 in United States
Runtime	83 minutes
Audio	English DTS-HD Master Audio 2-Channel Stereo, Commentary Dolby Digital 2-Channel Stereo
Subtitles	None
Overview
My thoughts	I have mixed feelings about Subspecies. On the plus side - and this is a big plus for me - it's vampires done right. Radu (Anders Hove) is evil through and through. With his long fingers he looks quite a bit like Nosferatu. And the story itself isn't bad. And they put the Romainian locations to good use. So far, so good. But there are quite a few things on the minus side. Most prominently the subspecies. These small creatures were initially done by actors in red suits. But these sequences were deemed not fantastic enough, so David Allen was tasked with replacing them with puppets. The big problem was that he had no background plates that were shot with this in mind, so he had to use whatever footage from the Romainan shoot that could possibly be used. The result is that the title creatures don't actually do very much, storywise. And the quality of these special effects is variable, to say the least. Then there is Angus Scrimm. Wait, was Scrimm in the picture? Oh, right, he's the vampire king that gets knocked off right at the start of the film. And for that he gets top billing. That doesn't leave a whole lot in the acting department. Oh, Anders is probably a capable actor, but this film doesn't really focus on his acting but more on his looking scary. Which he does. The females look good, and that's fine, but none of them have any particular acting skills. A check of their resumes on IMDb confirm my suspicions. None of them have more than 10 titles to their name. The films generated three direct-to-video sequels. I haven't seen any of them, but I wonder if any of them actually featured the titular subspecies. I rather suspect they didn't. They did feature Anders Hove as the vampire Radu, though. So, in conclusion, a bit of a disappointment, but not without interest. Recommended if you prefer Nosferatu and Christopher Lee's Dracula to True Blood.
My rating	3 out of 5

(From Reviews and ramblings by Gunnar on September 6th, 2013)

Tom's Random Reviews, a review by Tom

Title: Knight Rider: Season One
Year: 2008
Director:
Rating: 15
Length: 769 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78
Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Subtitles:

Stars:


Plot:
An iconic TV classic is back and better than ever in the reinvented, updated and super-charged Knight Rider Season One. From executive producers Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity franchise), David Bartis (The O.C.) and Glen Larson (Battlestar Galactica) comes this action-packed series about the coolest car ever created K.I.T.T. (Knight Industries Three Thousand), that's equipped with artificial intelligence capable of hacking into any computer, the weapons system of a jet fighter, and incredible custom body technology that allows it to transform into other vehicles. Relive every Season One episode as an elite team of crime-fighters work with K.I.T.T. (voiced by acting legend Val Kilmer) to track down elusive, hight-tech villains. Presented in uninterrupted Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, you won't want to miss this fast-paced ride to the wild side!

Awards:
Extras:
Commentary
Featurettes
Outtakes

I have seen the pilot when it first aired. Even though I had some problems with it, I was excited overall for a new series. But when the reviews of the actual series came in, I didn't bother picking up the DVD set when it was released.
But when it was on sale now and it's only a single season, I decided to give it a chance.
I have to admit, that I enjoyed the pilot more than I remembered it being. I thought it did a good job setting up the series and also acknowledging the 80s series.
But when I saw the episodes from the actual series, I was heavily disappointed. Bad acting overall. Especially bad was the guy who played Sarah's father. He always had to do the exposition and he always looked like he didn't know what he is talking about. Hard to believe that this guy is supposed to be the inventor of both KITTs.
Horrible scripts which sole aim seem to have been to get the lead actresses into a bikini or down to their underwear. Also I think it is a terrible idea to make KITT a transformer, being able to transform in any kind of Ford car (pick-up truck and even a big van etc.). They should have left it with the "attack mode" (which essentially is the updated version of the "super pursuit mode" of the original KITT). Although the attack mode could have looked better. I looks cheap and ugly. It almost seems like they wanted to top the series Viper, which also had a super car which transformed into the Defender mode. So they couldn't leave it with one alternate forms, but had to have multiple. Or they wanted to get in as much product placement for Ford as possible.
They even had KITT's evil twin KARR be an outright transformer! A robot in disguise of a car. It even has Optimus Prime's voice! Though to be fair this is a nod to the original series, where Peter Cullen also did the voice for KARR.
I liked that they used the windshield as a head up display. But I think it is very stupid to take up the whole windshield for incoming calls. They hardly couldn't see the street anymore when talking on the phone.

After the first 13 episode they retooled the show. Kicked out all the bad supporting cast and kept the ones which were the only fun back in the headquarters scene. And moved the direction of the series more to be like the original series. They even did a bit with petty criminals trying to steal KITT, which was a running joke in the old series.
I have to say, that I enjoyed the last five episodes. And if they would have done it like this from the get-go, maybe the series would still be on today.
I loved how KITT seems to constantly put down Michael at the end. Like when Michael told him to track something, and KITT was like "No shit, dickhead. I am already on it. You don't need to tell me every little thing."

One other thing: I liked the new intro. I starts out as an updated version of the original theme and sounds like the theme of "IT Crowd" towards the end.

#	Episode	Rating
01	Prometheus (Pilot Episode)
02	A Knight in Shining Armor
03	Journey to the End of the Knight
04	Knight of the Iguana
05	A Hard Day's Knight
06	Knight of the Hunter
07	Knight of the Living Dead
08	I Wanna Rock & Roll All Knight
09	Knight of the Zodiac
10	Knight Fever
11	Don't Stop the Knight
12	Day Turns Into Knight
13	Knight to King's Pawn
14	Exit Light, Enter Knight
15	Fight Knight
16	Fly By Knight
17	Knight and the City
18	I Love the Knight Life

(From Tom's Random Reviews on July 11th, 2010)