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The Public Enemy, a review by Antares

The Public Enemy





Year: 1931
Film Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Genre: Action, Drama, Classic
Length: 84 Min.

Director
William A. Wellman (1896)

Writing
Kubec Glasmon (1889)...Writer
John Bright (1908)...Writer
Harvey F. Thew (1883)...Screen Adaptation

Producer
Darryl F. Zanuck (1902)

Cinematographer
Devereaux Jennings (1884)

Music
David Mendoza (1894)...Composer

Stars
James Cagney (1899) as Tom Powers
Jean Harlow (1911) as Gwen Allen
Edward Woods (1903) as Matt Doyle
Joan Blondell (1906) as Mamie
Donald Cook (1901) as Mike Powers
Leslie Fenton (1902) as Nails Nathan
Beryl Mercer (1882) as Ma Powers
Robert Emmett O'Connor (1885) as Paddy Ryan

Review
       When it was released in 1931, The Public Enemy was considered a groundbreaking film in the new genre. But time has not been kind to this classic. Hollywood was still getting its feet wet in The Roaring Twenties, Each Dawn I Die and Angels with Dirty Faces. Only with the release of Yankee Doodle DandyJohnny DangerouslyReview Criterion

(From The Public Enemy (1931) on June 6th, 2010)

The Parent Trap, a review by addicted2dvd

Title: The Parent Trap
Year: 1961
Director: David Swift
Rating: G
Length: 129 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, English: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Stars:
Hayley Mills
Maureen O'Hara
Brian Keith
Charles Ruggles
Una Merkel
Leo G. Carroll

Plot:The Parent Trap. Mills stars as Susan and Sharon, identical twins separated at birth. Neither twin knows the other exists until a simple twist of fate finds them at the same summer camp. Then, realizing who they are, they plan a little twist of their own. They switch places with high hopes of getting their parents back together. This delightful and heartwarming comedy will have your whole family doubling up with laughter.

Extras:
Scene Access
Feature Trailers
Bonus Trailers
Featurettes
Music Videos
Interviews
Closed Captioned

My Thoughts:
While I knew I seen the remake with Lindsay Lohan... going into this movie I couldn't remember if I ever seen the original. After watching it I can definitely say I didn't. Being over two hours... it is longer then I expected from a family movie. But it is one I enjoyed quite a bit. I did notice that the remake does follow this one pretty well. I just can't decide which I like more the original or the remake.  I guess all I can say on that is I enjoyed them both. This movie has some good laughs in it. It does look a little dated... but the movie is almost 50 years old now.

This movie came in a 2 movie set with part 2.  It is a nice release... with lots of extras as well. Though I did find it odd how they put the set together. The two movies are on disc 1... it is a single sided disc... so when the menu comes up you just pick which movie of the two you want to watch. Then there is a second disc with extras for both movies. I would have thought it would have made more sense to put each movie on it's own disc with the extras for each movie on the disc with that movie. But oh well... what can you do but take it the way they decide to give it to you.

I still haven't watched the second movie yet. That one I never seen before either. The second part is a made for TV movie made 25 years later and once again Hayley Mills returns to play Sharon and Susan. I am looking forward to watching it as well.



(From My Alphabet Marathon Reviews on July 9th, 2010)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

MADtv: Season One (1995/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Warner Home Video (United States) Length: 806 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

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Plot:
Relive the MADness of the first complete season of 'MADtv', dubbed by TV Guide as "the most mercilessly acute TV parody of the decade, perhaps of all time." It's wall-to-wall pop culture sendups in 19 trailblazing hours plus hilariously MAD-to-the-bone Special Bonus Features.

You'll find brilliant movie parodies, irreverent Madvertising spoofs and political smackdowns. Plus favorites like the Vancome Lady; UBS Guy; 'That's My White Mama'; the animated 'Spy Vs. Spy', Don Martin classics and 'Raging Rudolph'; and TV sendups of 'ER', 'Baywatch', 'Oprah' and 'Star Trek'. No wonder USA Today stated "No show is better than 'MADtv' at mocking TV."


MADtv
1.01 Season One

When I first saw this, I only knew three of the main cast: Orlando Jones, Phil LaMarr (mainly as voice actor, but also his role in Pulp Fiction which he reprises in this episode in a parody sequence) and Nicole Sullivan. It's her which I think brought in the best performances in this episode. And also the only laughs I had.

Rating:

(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on June 9th, 2012)