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Red Eye, a review by addicted2dvd

Red Eye: Widescreen (2005/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia DreamWorks Home Entertainment Director: Wes Craven Writing: Carl Ellsworth (Story By), Dan Foos (Story By), Carl Ellsworth (Screenwriter) Length: 85 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.40:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, English: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround, French: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Commentary: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

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Stars:
Rachel McAdams as Lisa
Cillian Murphy as Rippner
Brian Cox as Dad
Laura Johnson as Blonde Woman
Max Kasch as Headphone Kid

Plot:
FEAR TAKES FLIGHT at 30,000 feet in this non-stop action thriller! An overnight flight to Miami quickly becomes a battle for survival when Lisa (Rachel McAdams) realizes her seatmate plans to use her as part of a chilling assassination plot. As the miles tick by, she's in a race against time to warn the potential victims before it's too late. Get ready for the non-stop, adrenaline-pumping thrill-ride that Peter Travers of Rolling Stone claims "will pin you to your seat."

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Audio Commentary
• Bonus Trailers
• Featurettes
• Outtakes/Bloopers
• Closed Captioned

This is one I never heard of before a friend of mine sent it to me in a box of movies. But after watching the trailer I looked forward to checking it out. Especially after finding out it is one of Wes Craven's movies. After watching it I found that I did enjoy it... but it wasn't quite as good as I was expecting. I mean it is a decent suspense/thriller... but I think I went into it with my hopes up a little too high. But I think it is worth watching and I am glad I have it in my collection.  Just don't go into it expecting too much.




(From What Movies I Been Watching on May 22nd, 2011)

Star Trek Into Darkness, a review by Antares

Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) 50/100 - There's a moment in the early part of the film that best sums up what I feel about J.J. Abrams' captaining of Gene Roddenberry's flagship. After being reprimanded for disobeying Starfleet regulations and putting his ship and crew at risk, the command of the Enterprise is taken away from James Kirk. Kirk's mentor, Christopher Pike, explains to him that he doesn't respect "the chair" and it's because "he's not ready for it." What made Star Trek an endearing favorite of so many people back in the mid-sixties, is that it painted a picture of the future where war, inequality and bigotry were remnants of a bygone era. In essence, a hope for the future of mankind. In his first venture as director of the franchise, he acted as a teenager would when handed the keys to a vintage sports car. He did doughnuts in the parking lot, never understanding the underlying power of the basic premise of the series. In his second outing, now that he's gotten all of the giddiness out of his system, he tries to add a little depth into the story by infusing a bit of the paranoia and violence associated with today's "war on terror." But instead of following the bread crumb trail that Roddenberry had laid out for him back 50 years ago, he decides to follow the Reese's Pieces trail that was laid down by Steven Spielberg and to a greater extent, George Lucas, twelve years later. There was a brief moment while I was watching this film, where I was enjoying myself, but when Abrams bowed to the irrational fear of making a thinking man's science fiction film in an age where intelligent storytelling is deemed fodder for flop, the film loses its direction. Take away the skeletal framework of having the Star Trek characters and this is no different than any generic action film being cranked out today ad nauseum.

Teal = Masterpiece
Dark Green = Classic or someday will be
Lime Green = A good, entertaining film
Orange = Average
Red = Cinemuck
Brown = The color of crap, which this film is

(From Antares' Short Summations on February 22nd, 2015)

The Cape: The Complete Series, a review by addicted2dvd

The Cape: The Complete Series (2011/United States) He's righteous. He's heroic. He's The Cape. Vince Faraday (David Lyons, E.R.) is an honest cop on a corrupt police force. When he's framed for murder and presumed dead, he finds that he must go into hiding - leaving behind his wife, Dana (Jennifer Ferrin, Life on Mars), and son, Trip (Ryan Wynott, Flash Forward). Determined to battle the criminals who now control his hometown, Vince takes the law into his own hands and becomes The Cape-his son's favorite comic book superhero. Featuring an incredible supporting cast, including James Frain (The Tudors), Keith David (Death at a Funeral), Summer Glau (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles), Dorian Missick (The Manchurian Candidate), Martin Klebba (Pirates of the Caribbean) and Vinnie Jones (Snatch), it's the action-packed series that has critics raving, "'The Cape' is cloaked in awesome." (OK! Magazine) Episodes: 1. Pilot 2. Tarot 3. Kozmo 4. Scales 5. Dice 6. Goggles and Hicks 7. The Lich, Part 1 8. The Lich, Part 2 9. Razer 10. Endgame

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Stars:
David Lyons as Vince Faraday/The Cape
Keith David as Max Malini
Summer Glau as Orwell
James Frain as Peter Fleming/Chess
Jennifer Ferrin as Dana Thompson-Faraday
Ryan Wynott as Trip Faraday
Dorian Missick as Marty Voyt

Extras:

• Bonus Trailers

I just couldn't wait to check out this series... so started it yesterday. I just finished it... and I must say that I enjoyed it quite a bit! I enjoyed the story.... was hooked on all the action...and liked all the characters. Another series that was canceled before it's time. I would have liked to seen it... at the very least... gotten 1 full season. But in this case it was canceled after 9 episodes. The DVD set has all 10 episodes that were produced. When I saw that episode 10 was titled Endgame I had hopes that they managed to give the series decent closure. But no such luck. One of the main reasons I wanted to check out this series is because Summer Glau is part of the main cast. And as usual... she didn't disappoint. Sure there is a bunch of bad CGI with all The Cape can do... but I also enjoyed that in a fun, suspend all disbelief type of way. The DVD release has no show related extras what so ever... but at least it does have a "Play All" option for those of us that likes that option. If you don't mind having short-lived series.... with no real conclusion & can forgive the CGI used... this is one series I would recommend.




(From Addicted2dvd's Random TV Series Watched on January 16th, 2012)