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It Could Happen to You, a review by addicted2dvd

It Could Happen to You (1994/United States) Trailer |Wikipedia |IMDb | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (United States) Director: Andrew Bergman Writing: Jane Anderson (Writer) Length: 102 min. Video: Widescreen 1.85:1 Audio: English: Dolby TrueHD: 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital: 5.1, French: Dolby TrueHD: 5.1, Portuguese: Dolby TrueHD: 5.1 Subtitles: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Stars:
Nicolas Cage as Charlie Lang
Bridget Fonda as Yvonne Biasi
Rosie Perez as Muriel Lang
Wendell Pierce as Bo Williams
Isaac Hayes as Angel

Plot:Extras:

• Scene Access
• Bonus Trailers
• BD-Live

This is a film I haven't seen in many years. And it was even better then I remembered it being. Nicolas Cage is pretty hit and miss for me... but I thought he was great in this one. A feel good movie which apparently is based off a true story. Definitely one I would recommend.



(From Within My Lifetime: 2017 Edition on June 16th, 2017)

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, a review by dfmorgan

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Year: 2009
Director: Terry Gilliam
Cast: Christopher Plummer, Lily Cole, Tom Waits, Heath Ledger
Overview: Directed by visionary genius Terry Gilliam, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus features Heath Ledger in his last role, plus a stellar cast including Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell. Dr. Parnassus (Christopher Plummer) is an immortal who leads a travelling theatre troupe. Their props include the 'Imaginarium' - a mirror doubling as a magic doorway into a world that makes your wildest dreams a reality.

Parnassus's immortality has come at a price however - he will lose his daughter Valentina (Lily Cole) to the Devil himself (Tom Waits) unless he persuades five more souls to lose themselves in the Imaginarium. "A wild and wonderful fantasy" - Alan Frank, Daily Star

Watched: 27th Mar 2010
My Thoughts: Ok a strange film but then again not. Terry Gilliam in a weird phase, been there before and will be again, but making an excellent film which in places was very Pythonesque, not too sure if that is good or bad. There will be nuances and depths that I have missed in this first viewing, one thing you can't do with a Terry Gilliam film is to remove your brain and let it rest on the side, but hopefully they will appear and clear when I rewatch this in future. The basic premise is the usual fight between Good and Evil represented here by Doctor Parnassus (Christopher Plummer) as the Good and Mr. Nick (Tom Waits) as the Devil. Both these came over well and with good support from Verne Troyer, Andrew Garfield and Lily Cole as Doctor Parnassus's troupers.

One of the main talking points about this film, also heavily touched upon by Terry Gilliam in his introduction to the film, was the fact that Heath Ledger died before his role had been completed. Three other actors, Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell, stepped in to save the film by taking on the uncompleted parts which luckily were those that involved Heath Ledger stepping into the Imaginarium. Did that work? I have to say that to me it appeared that yes it did work, I presume though that Terry Gilliam and his co-writer had to amend their original scripts to cater for this but it came over well.

My Rating: Overall a 4

Dave

(From Dave's DVD/Blu-ray Reviews on March 28th, 2010)

Tom's TV Finales marathon, a review by Tom

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Torchwood: Miracle Day (2011/United Kingdom) IMDb | Wikipedia 2 entertain Video (United Kingdom) Length: 529 min. Video: Widescreen 1.78 Audio: English: DTS-HD High Resolution 5.1, Audio Descriptive: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: English

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Plot:Torchwood
Series 4.10 The Blood Line
Writer: Russell T Davies (Created By), Jane Espenson (Screenwriter), Russell T Davies (Screenwriter), Russell T Davies (Story By), Visual Effects by Lion Visual Effects)
Director: Billy Gierhart, Visual Effects by Lion Visual Effects
Cast: John Barrowman (Captain Jack Harkness), Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper), Mekhi Phifer (Rex Matheson), Alexa Havins (Esther Drummond), Kai Owen (Rhys Williams), Bill Pullman (Oswald Danes), Lauren Ambrose (Jilly Kitzinger), Candace Brown (Sarah Drummond), Sharon Morgan (Mary Cooper), William Thomas (Geraint Cooper), Marina Benedict (Charlotte Wills), Paul James (Noah Vickers), John de Lancie (Allen Shapiro), Tom Price (Sgt. Andy Davidson), Teddy Sears (Blue Eyed Man), Frances Fisher (The Mother), Benito Martinez (Captain Santos), Chris Butler (The Cousin), McKenzie Applegate (Girl), Veronica Diaz (Female Soldier), Noemi Del Rio (Sandra Morales), Fernando Fernandez (Young Male Soldier), Cici Lau (Chinese Woman), Laura Waddell (Cat One Nurse)

A not so good conclusion to a good show. This last season has a good premise, but ten episodes was too much for it. They should have done a five episode story arc like in the third season and I think it would have been much better. Also I thought that Jack and Gwen became more and more out of character as this season went on.
And to make it worse, it ended on a cliffhanger.




(From Tom's TV Finales marathon on January 15th, 2014)