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The Stepford Wives, a review by addicted2dvd

The Stepford Wives: Full Screen Special Collector's Edition (2004/United States) Paramount Home Entertainment Director: Frank Oz Writing: Ira Levin (Original Material By), Paul Rudnick (Screenwriter) Length: 93 min. Rating: PG-13 Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, English: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround, Commentary: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo, French: Dolby Digital: 5.1 Subtitles: English, Spanish

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Stars:
Nicole Kidman as Joanna Eberhart
Matthew Broderick as Walter Kresby
Bette Midler as Bobbie Markowitz
Glenn Close as Claire Wellington
Christopher Walken as Mike Wellington
Roger Bart as Roger Bannister

Plot:Extras:

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

I decided to watch this one next because I am a Nicole Kidman fan. I know this is a remake to an older movie... but I never seen either version before today. So I can't say how faithful to the original movie this one is. Though I hope that it isn't. I can't be sure of course... but while watching it... it felt more like they were making fun of the original movie more then anything else. I got to say... this one didn't impress me as much as I would have liked. I just found it to be a little too weird and silly. But it does make me wonder if I would like the original movie.




(From Alphabet Marathon: The Unwatched Version on September 28th, 2011)

Band of Outsiders, a review by Antares

Band of Outsiders (1964) 3/5 - This was my first Godard film and after it was finished, the first thought that ran through my mind was a scene from the movie Amadeus. After Mozart's first royal commissioned opera, is finished, Emperor Joseph II comes on stage to praise Mozart for the work. He is at a loss for words, but manages to blurt out that it was 'quite new', but with slight trepidation in his delivery. Mozart retorts It is new...isn't it your Majesty? as if being new instantly makes it praise worthy. But sometimes, being new doesn't make something a masterpiece, and I felt that Godard was more interested in being fashionably different as opposed to making an interesting film. Sure, it does have it's share of crafted shots, but as a whole the story was lacking in creativity. I will admit that just looking at Anna Karina was worth the effort of watching this film, but aside from her, the rest was pretty shallow and a bit self exalting on the part of the director. It won't stop me from seeking out his other films, but now at least, I know what I can expect and hopefully, this was just an aberration, and not the norm.

(From Antares' Short Summations on July 13th, 2012)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Marathon, a review by DJ Doena

Synopsis: The cult of the Pah-Wraith believers grows and even a Vedek and a friend of Kira's is now one. He abducts Kira from DS9 and brings her to Empok Nor where Dukat has become the leader of a group of that cult. They want to show her that the Pah-Wraiths are actually the good gods because they wanted to guide the Bajorans and that they would have never allowed to occupation to happen. And Kira has to learn that some Bajorans believe so strong in their former oppressor that they would give their life for him.

My Opinion: Now Dukat's religious phase begins. I don't like that story.

Synopsis: Two months ago, Nog has lost his leg in the Battle of AR-558 and now he's returning to DS9 with a new biosynthetic leg. But he's still on medical leave and he choses to avoid real life and become a permanent guest in Vic Fontaine's Las Vegas hotel. Ezri tries to reach out to him but the only one who can connect to Nog is Vic.

My Opinion: This was a decent episode. It reminded me a bit of Reginald Barclay III who also tried to escape reality back on the Enterprise. And I have to say that Vic is a better counsellor than Ezri. . But I also liked that Ezri could convince Vic that it was time for Nog to return into the real world and how Vic threw him out of his program. And I found it amusing when Nog complained about the realism in Shane when Shane didn't bleed after he got shot.

Synopsis: O'Brien who was looking for a missing woman on New Sydney has gone missing, too. An involvement of the Orion Syndicate is very likely since both are directly connected to O'Brien's undercover mission in the last year. Sisko sends Ezri home to her family who has some influence in the system since they are the sixth-biggest mining operation company in the sector. But Ezri and her mother have some unresolved issues.

My Opinion: Hmm. Maybe I am prejudiced and I don't want to like her but I couldn't care less about Ezri's family.

Synopsis: Mirror-Ezri comes to DS9 and "convinces" Quark and Rom to steal a klingon cloaking device. Zek tried to open negotiations in the mirror universe and became prisoner to the Regent. But neither Quark nor Rom trust Mirror-Ezri and go with her to the other side. There they find not only a pleasant and kind Brunt, but also a real Vic Fontaine.

My Opinion: Oh c'mon, really? A real Vic - are you kidding me? And of course a Mirror-Ezri. They couldn't resist. And they even killed Jadzia in the mirror universe, too, instead of simply not showing her.

(From Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Marathon on March 1st, 2009)