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Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer, a review by addicted2dvd

Title: Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer: The Power Cosmic Edition
Year: 2007
Director: Tim Story
Rating: PG
Length: 92 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.40:1, Pan & Scan 1.33:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, French: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround, Spanish: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround, Commentary: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo, Commentary: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Stars:
Ioan Gruffudd
Jessica Alba
Chris Evans
Michael Chiklis
Julian McMahon
Kerry Washington

Plot:
Brace yourself for even more super-powered thrills and spectacular DVD action with The Power Cosmic Edition of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer! This explosive 2-disc set is packed with fantastic features. Slip behind the wheel of the futuristic and high-flying Fantasticar in an interactive experience. In-depth documentaries take you inside the secret world of the Silver Surfer--from his comic book origins to his CGI transformation. Sneak a peek at exclusive deleted and extended scenes you couldn't see in theaters! Flame on!

Extras:
Scene Access
Audio Commentary
Feature Trailers
Bonus Trailers
Deleted Scenes
Featurettes
Gallery
Closed Captioned

My Thoughts:
I wanted to watch this one... as I have seen the first Fantastic Four movie several times... but only ever watched this one once when I first got the DVD.  It has been so long in fact that I forgot most of the movie. While I think I liked the first one a bit more... this one is still a good movie that I enjoyed a lot. One that is just fun to sit back and watch.... without having to think about too much. I thought the Silver Surfer was done very cool. Jessica Alba looked amazing as always. Not sure how I felt about the changing of powers thing. I think it was fun for the most part... but didn't really care too much when Johnny had all 4 of their powers.



(From Sunday Mini-Marathon: Celebrity Birthdays - June 13th on June 13th, 2010)

Terror! Il castello delle donne maledette, a review by Danae Cassandra

Terror! Il castello delle donne maledette (Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks)

Year of Release: 1973
Directed By:  Robert H. Oliver
Starring:  Rossano Brazzi, Michael Dunn, Gordon Mitchell, Simonetta Vitelli, Christiane Rücker
Rating:  Unrated

Overview:
South Pacific star Rossano Brazzi plays the crackpot Count Frankenstein whose latest creature is a goofy, dome-headed Neanderthal man he's brought back to life and cleverly named Goliath. Typical of monsters, Goliath also has the hots for Frankenstein's new squeeze, Krista (Christiane Royce), who likes to bathe in milk. Things turn ugly, however, when Genz, a horny necrophiliac dwarf, is expelled from the castle for leaving his footprint at the scene of a recent grave robbery and promptly makes friends with Ook, a second Neanderthal man who just happens to be passing through town. Out for revenge, Genz then lets Goliath loose who ends up going head to pointy-head with Ook for a good old-fashioned monster rumble...

Screwball Italian horror from producer Dick Randall (The Mad Butcher) and distributor Harry Novak (The Sinful Dwarf), FRANKENSTEIN'S CASTLE OF FREAKS also stars sword & sandal muscleman, Gordon Mitchell (Atlas Against the Cyclops), "the Italian Peter Lorre" Luciano Pignozzi (billed here as "Alan Collins") and the dubiously named "Boris Lugosi" as the fun-lovin' Ook.

My Thoughts:
Okay, it's not like I didn't know what I was getting into here - between the title, the overview, and the release coming from Something Weird Video, there were plenty of warnings.  This is bad.  Oh, man, was this bad.  Now, I'll admit I haven't seen a lot of versions of Frankenstein, but any other is going to have to work very hard to be worse than this one.  The acting and writing are terrible, the dubbing is laughable, and the film is cheesy, kitschy, and sleazy but I honestly expected more gratuitous nudity to make up for this basically being utter trash.

I guess the answer to whether or not you want to watch this mess depends on how much you like bad 70's exploitation films.

Bechdel Test:  Pass

Overall:  1.5/5

(From Danae's 2012 Horror on October 17th, 2012)

Grey's Anatomy: Complete Sixth Season, a review by addicted2dvd

Grey's Anatomy: Complete Sixth Season (2009/United States)

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Stars:
Ellen Pompeo as Dr. Meredith Grey
Sandra Oh as Dr. Cristina Yang
Katherine Heigl as Dr. Isobel "Izzy" Stevens
Justin Chambers as Dr. Alex Karev
Chandra Wilson as Dr. Miranda Bailey
James Pickens, Jr. as Dr. Richard Webber
Sara Ramirez as Dr. Callie Torres

Extras:

• Bonus Trailers
• Outtakes/Bloopers
• Closed Captioned

Just finished the 6th season. It is another excellent season. I enjoyed every second of watching. Even with such a great season.... it is extremely easy to pick a favorite episode. I have to go with the 2 part season finale where a guy that recently lost his wife comes in shooting up the hospital. Killing many... injuring many... including some regulars that has been on the show since the pilot episode. Excellent season of an excellent series!

Can you believe it? I started this marathon on Thanksgiving day with season one... and in only 8 days I was able to watch 6 seasons!... that is 125 episodes!




(From Addicted2dvd's Random TV Series Watched on December 1st, 2011)