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V/H/S, a review by addicted2dvd

V/H/S (2012/United States) IMDb |Wikipedia |Trailer | Magnolia Home Entertainment, Magnet Director: David Brucker, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Adam Wingard, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Radio Silence, Tyler Gillett, Justin Martinez, Chad Villella Writing: Simon Barrett (Writer), David Brucker (Writer), Matt Bettinelli-Olpin (Writer), Nicholas Tecosky (Writer), Ti West (Writer), Glenn McQuaid (Writer), Tyler Gillett (Writer), Justin Martinez (Writer), Chad Villella (Writer), Radio Silence (Writer) Length: 116 min. Rating: Rated R : Bloody Violence, Strong Sexuality, Graphic Nudity, Pervasive Language and Some Drug Use Video: Widescreen 1.78:1 Audio: English: DTS-HD Master Audio: 5.1 Subtitles: English

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Stars:
Calvin Reeder as Gary
Lane Hughes as Zak
Kentucker Audley as Rox
Adan Wingard as Brad
Frank Stack as Old Man

Plot:
V/H/S is a point of view, found-footage horror film from the perspective of America's top genre filmmakers. In V/H/S, a group of misfits are hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house in the countryside to acquire a rare tape. Upon searching the house, the guys are confronted with a dead body, a hub of old televisions and an endless supply of cryptic footage, each video stranger and more inexplicably terrifying than the last...

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Audio Commentary
• Feature Trailers
• Bonus Trailers
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Gallery
• Interviews

I grabbed this one because it sounded interesting to me. It is a mixture of a "Found Footage" film and an Anthology... and I enjoy both these types of films. Over-all I enjoyed this one quite a bit. I found I enjoyed most all the stories. I especially liked the one where the guy and girl was video chatting over the computer. going by reviews I read it seems like basically half the people enjoy it and half the people hate it. But I think if you like Anthologies and found Footage films... this one is definitely worth checking out. I am now looking forward to seeing part 2 when it comes out.



(From What Movies I Been Watching on August 16th, 2013)

Aladdin, a review by Critter

Aladdin (Limited Edition)

Year: 1992

Director(s): Ron Clements, John Musker

Run Time: 86 minutes

Plot: Aladdin, a street urchin, accidentally meets Princess Jasmine, who is in the city undercover. They love each other, but she can only marry a prince.

Cast: DVD Extras:My ThoughtsMy Rating



(From Critter's Animated Film/Anime Marathon on November 23rd, 2009)

Smallville Marathon #2, a review by DJ Doena

Synopsis: A girl hypnotizes Clark and he subsequently breaks up with Lana. He (unwillingly) reveals all his abilities to her and does whatever she wants. What he doesn't know is, that she was hired by Lex, but luckily for Clark she double-crosses Lex and doesn't expose him to Lex but instead tries to kill him (Lex). But Lex has other things on his mind, too. He's located Milton Fine in Honduras and he believes that Milton is a government agent.

My Opinion: Spike Milton is a hard-to-kill kind of guy. It's good that he's back, that means that the Krypton arc is back in the game.
I am sorry and relieved at the same time that the relation of Lana and Clark is over. Sorry for obvious reasons and relieved because that entire hide-and-seek was getting tiresome. Of course it won't completely stop but the amount of lies can go down to normal Clark-level.

Synopsis: With the help of a Kryptonite drug, Lana dies and comes back from the dead. But while she's dead she can talk to her parents. The problem is that one can only die so many times before one stays that way. Both Clark and Lex try to help her and get killed in the process.

My Opinion: This is my third attempt to write this paragraph. I don't know why, but somehow it didn't felt right. I've never been religious, yet I've never had any problem with the concept of an afterlife in a fantasy show. Xena has been to several places for the dead (the Elysian Fields, Tartaros, the Amazon afterworld), Buffy was in Heaven and there were several hell dimensions and still I didn't like the idea that Clark could talk to his dead father and that he could give his son a warning. Sorry, I can't really explain why, but that's how I feel.

Synopsis: Maddie is the foster daughter of Martha's chief of staff. Then her foster mother gets killed and she lives at the Kents's until new foster parents can be found. But Maddie is special, she can control glass with her mind. Has she killed her foster mother?

My Opinion: The actress of Maddie (Emily Hirst) strongly reminded me of Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) in the first Harry Potter movie. I also found it interesting how they managed to make her the prime suspect just to reveal that her father (Callum Keith Rennie, Leoben in Battlestar Galactica) has the same abilities. The concept of second generation meteor freaks has been mentioned before but it was still interesting.

Synopsis: Lionel nearly gets killed when his limo is rammed by a train. But this was no accident, someone has made a game out of the attempts to kill Lionel. But soon it's not only Lionel's life that is endangered, it's Martha's as well.

My Opinion: Everytime I watch that episode, I am sure that Ian Tracey has had a previous appearance on the show, that I've seen him there before. But IMDb tells me, that he hasn't.
While I found the tasks to be interesting I nonetheless recognized the obvious television/movies errors, such as a train that doesn't even stop after it has hit a car or Clark catching a falling elevator without hurting the occupants, even though they've just fallen several hundred feets.

(From Smallville Marathon #2 on June 14th, 2008)