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The Philadelphia Experiment, a review by Tom

The Philadelphia Experiment (1984/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Anchor Bay Entertainment (United States) Director: Stewart Raffill, Cinemotion Pictures Writing: Wallace Bennett (Story By), Don Jakoby (Story By), William Gray (Screenwriter), Michael Janover (Screenwriter), Cinemotion Pictures) Length: 101 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Subtitles:

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Stars:
Michael Paré as David Herdeg
Nancy Allen as Allison
Eric Christmas as Longstreet
Bobby Di Cicco as Jim Parker
Louise Latham as Pamela

Plot:
Philadelphia, 1943: A top-secret experiment is underway to make U.S. Navy ships invisible to enemy radar, but something goes horribly wrong, and the Battleship Eldridge disappears. Two sailors jump overboard... and are mysteriously transported 41 years into the future. On the run and trapped by the past, can they stop the experiment that has torn a hole in time?

Michael Pare (Eddie & The Cruisers) and Nancy Allen (Carrie, Dressed To Kill) star in this provocative sci-fi action hit, executive produced by Halloween creator John Carpenter!

Awards:
Nominated:

Saturn (1984)

Best Actress (Nancy Allen)

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Trailers

This movie is a little on the boring side. Not a must-see in my opinion.

Rating:

(From Tom's Time-Travel Movie Reviews on January 6th, 2008)

Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes, a review by Danae Cassandra

Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes
2010, USA

A series of diamond heists, a beautiful singer framed as the crook, a dastardly villain on a black horse ... oh, heck, why do you need an overview of the plot?  It's a film titled Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes, that tells you everything you need to know.

We had been planning to watch Jiang cheng xia ri (aka Luxury Car) this evening, but events brought us home later than we planned, so there wasn't enough time for that film before bedtime.  So, instead, we watched this.

Now, I am a huge Sherlock Holmes fan - and I love cartoons.  So, naturally, these two things came together and thus I have this on blu-ray.  It's a cute cartoon, and at just under an hour, exactly what was needed this evening.  There's a lot of laughs in the slapstick style of Tom and Jerry, and obviously this is set in a world where talking, anthropomorphic animals are not unusual, even if Tom and Jerry don't talk.  There were a lot of in-jokes, both for fans of Warner Bros. & Hanna Barbara cartoons, and for fans of Holmes.  It was fun catching them, and at some point I'll go back and watch it again and see if I spotted them all. 

This isn't great cinema, but if you're expecting that in a Tom & Jerry cartoon there is something wrong with you.  It's cute, it's funny, there's plenty of action and fun for everyone.  A very entertaining film and easily as good as the other Holmes cartoon I've seen (The Great Mouse Detective).

Overall: 2.75/5

(From Danae's reviews on March 31st, 2011)

Grey's Anatomy Marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

11. Owner of a Lonely Heart


My Thoughts:
This is a good episode. It continues where the last episode leaves off with the quintuplets. Izzie really learns a hard and painful lesson concerning the baby she was caring for. Then there was the female prisoner that decides to get a break from prison by swallowing four (taped) razor blades. The things people get in their heads to do sometimes is unbelievable.

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12. Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer
Cristina and Burke squabble over a young boy's heart transplant, as the interns pitch in to help Alex pass his upcoming exam and Meredith reminds Izzie about the spirit of the season.

My Thoughts:
A good Christmas episode. I like how they made it Cristina that gave the boy the will to live... what with her being so anti-holidays. I also liked the idea of how the doctors have to be careful of what is said while a patient is asleep and they are doing surgery (in this case brain surgery) because you do not know what will find it's way to the subconscious and effect a person in a personal way.

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13. Begin the Begin
A new patient named Denny Duquette (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) helps Izzie get over Alex, as George finds his hands full treating a teenage hermaphrodite.

My Thoughts:
Denny is introduced in this episode. I always liked Denny. And I realized today I actually know him from another series... as he played the father of the Winchester Brothers on Supernatural. I also liked how the whole teenage hermaphrodite was handled. Probably not good as a doctor... but I would have been just like George in that situation.

My Rating:

14. Tell Me Sweet Little Lies
George has difficulty discharging an older patient who refuses to leave Seattle Grace and Alex finally learns the results of his exams. Meredith and Cristina vent to each other about the state of their relationships.

My Thoughts:
This is a very standard episode. The cases were kinda bland... the personal life stuff was a little on the boring side. Most of the stuff in this episode I really didn't care to much about. Though there were a couple saving grace scenes that pushed this episode to a rating of .

My Rating:

15. Break on Through
The doctors must fend for themselves as the nurses' union goes on strike; while treating a young patient, Meredith makes a mistake that the patient's friends catch and Izzie treats a young pregnant girl.

My Thoughts:
A good episode. I liked the storyline of the strike. Though I think they ended it a little too soon. We hear about it at the end of the episode before this one. And it is over by the end of this episode. I would have probably had it not end till maybe the next episode... as I think they probably could have done a little more with it. We also get to learn a little bit more about Izzie. Dr. Bailey is now out on maternity leave... so the interns gets a replacement teacher. When I saw her she immediately looked familiar to me... but I just couldn't place it. After the episode I checked DVDP to see what else I had with her in it... and no wonder she looked familiar. She was in a few episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Helfrak.

My Rating:

(From Grey's Anatomy Marathon on September 8th, 2009)