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The Children's Hour, a review by Tom

Title: The Children's Hour
Year: 1961
Director: William Wyler
Rating: 12
Length: 104 Min.
Video: Full Frame 1.33:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital Mono, German: Dolby Digital Mono, French: Dolby Digital Mono, Italian: Dolby Digital Mono, Spanish: Dolby Digital Mono
Subtitles: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Greek, Norwegian, Swedish

Stars:
Audrey Hepburn
Shirley MacLaine
James Garner
Miriam Hopkins
Fay Bainter

Plot:
A child's lie has life-shattering consequences in this daring adaptation of Lillian Hellman's celebrated play. Starring Academy Award winners Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine and co-starring James Garner, Miriam Hopkins and Fay Bainter, this landmark film is "one of the most finely wrought dramas in the history of the screen" (Motion Picture Herald).

Karen (Hepburn) and Martha (MacLaine) are the headmistresses of an exclusive school for girls. When they discipline a malicious little girl, the vindictive child twists an overheard comment into slander and accuses her teachers of questionable behavior. Soon the scandalous gossip engulfs the school's community, with repercussions that are swift, crushing... and tragic.

Extras:
Scene Access

This movie is now almost 50 years old, and for that, it is quite daring for its time. Although the play, it is based on, predates it even almost a further 30 years.
I came to attention of this movie, when I recently watched "If these walls could talk 2", where in one segment the main characters watched this movie at the theater. The scene they had shown in that movie was the following

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX6EhE1ZPXU

Rating:

(From Lesbian Movie Marathon on June 7th, 2009)

Spaceballs, a review by Tom

Title: Spaceballs
Year: 1987
Director: Mel Brooks
Rating: FSK-12
Length: 92 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85
Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1 , German: Dolby Digital 5.1 , French: Dolby Digital 5.1 , Italian: Dolby Digital 5.1 , Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1 , Hungarian: Dolby Digital Mono , Commentary: Dolby Digital Stereo , Commentary: Dolby Digital Stereo
Subtitles: Commentary, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish

Stars:
Mel Brooks
John Candy
Rick Moranis
Bill Pullman
Daphne Zuniga

Extras:
Booklet
Commentary
Featurettes
Interactive Game
Outtakes
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailers



(From Tom's Star Wars marathon on December 8th, 2008)

The One Where It All Began: The Pilot Marathon, a review by DJ Doena

Thunder in Paradise



What's the show about?
R.J. "Hurricance" Spencer has built a very special boat. It is very fast, specially armored and has a lot of special features. He and his partner Brubaker go on special missions for their country.

"Thunder in Paradise"
Spencer is in financial trouble because of the boat he's built. And the hotel owner Megan Whitaker has the problem of finding a husband within two days. So they make a deal...

My Opinion
Of all the "super machine" series I've watched (and I watched them all [Knight Rider, Airwolf, Street Hawk, The Highwayman, Viper, ...]) this one is the cheesiest. The internal measurements of the boat are way larger than the external measurements and the acting is not very good. Ok, what do we expect from a wrestler. It's definitivly more a fun series than anything else.

(From The One Where It All Began: The Pilot Marathon on January 4th, 2008)