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Domestic Disturbance, a review by Eric

Paycheck:  It's definitely not the movie of the century.....or the decade.....not even the year it came out but it's a good movie anyway.  As I expected the surround sound was interesting, I'm usually not a big fan of 5.1 but in certain movies I like it.  Ben Half Luck is equal to himself in this movie (read "not very good") and Uma Thurman is, as usual, not very pretty but sexy and kind of charming.  I personally never like Eckhart, I think he has the face of a clerk, not an actor, no matter what he plays I always only see him, never his character.

That said, if you want to sit in a vegetative state and watch a movie for two hours "Paycheck" is a good candidate.

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Domestic Disturbance:  That's a good thriller with some good actors,  Travolta is good in that kind of movies.  I didn't remember the title but when the movied began I remembered I had seen it before however I didn't mind watching it again although I remembered the whole thing.  There is one of those movies where you can only sit and wait to see when what you already guessed will happen actually happens.  It's a good movie if you've never seen it but it's definitely not a "repeater".

(From The "Quebec Storm" marathon. on March 9th, 2008)

Somewhere in Time, a review by Tom

Somewhere in Time (1980/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia (United States) Director: Jeannot Szwarc Writing: Richard Matheson (Screenwriter), Richard Matheson (Original Material By) Length: 103 min. Video: Widescreen 1.85 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 1, French: Dolby Digital 1, Commentary: Dolby Digital 1 Subtitles: English, Spanish

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Stars:
Christopher Reeve as Richard Collier
Jane Seymour as Elise McKenna
Christopher Plummer as W. F. Robinson
Teresa Wright as Laura Roberts
Bill Erwin as Arthur Biehl

Plot:
Somewhere in Time is the story of a young writer who sacrifices his life in the present to find happiness in the past, where true love awaits him. Young Richard Collier (Christopher Reeve) is approached by an elderly woman who gives him an antique gold watch and who pleads with him to return in time with her. Years later, Richard Collier is overwhelmed by a photograph of a beautiful young woman (Jane Seymour). Another picture of this woman in her later years reveals to him that she is the same woman who had given him the gold watch. Collier then becomes obsessed with returning to 1912 and the beautiful young woman who awaits him there.

Awards:
Won:

Saturn (1980)		Best Costumes (Jean-Pierre Dorleac)
Saturn (1980)		Best Fantasy Film

Nominated:

Academy Award (1980)		Best Costume Design (Jean-Pierre Dorleac)
AFI (1980)		100 Years... 100 Passions (2002)
AFI (1980)		100 Years... 25 Scores (2005) ("Composer": John Barry)
Golden Globe (1980)		Original Score (John Barry)
Saturn (1980)		Best Actor (Christopher Reeve)
Saturn (1980)		Best Actress (Jane Seymour)
Saturn (1980)		Best Music (John Barry)

Extras:

• Closed Captioned
• Commentary
• Featurettes
• Photo Gallery
• Production Notes
• Scene Access
• Trailers

More a love-story than a time-travel story. It must be the movie in my collection which requires the most suspension of disbelieve of how the time-traveling is done, but it works here.

Rating:

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

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

Angel



What's the show about?
To be honest, I don't really know since I haven't seen it yet. But I presume its about Angel fighting demons and vampires and saving the population of Los Angeles.

What happened before?
Angel left Sunnydale after the third season of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" since there's no way of him being together with Buffy.

"City of ..."
After Angel has moved into his basement apartment he comes across Doyle, a half-demon. Doyle gets visions from The Powers That Be regarding people whose lives Angel must touch; true redemption lies not just in saving lives, but in saving souls as well. In an attempt to help a waitress who is harrassed by her former boyfriend he meets a powerful vampire...

My Opinion
Obviously I can't have an opinion - yet.

The End

(From The One Where It All Began: The Pilot Marathon on January 7th, 2008)