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Thunderball, a review by Tom

Title: Thunderball
Year: 1965
Director: Terence Young
Rating: FSK-12
Length: 125 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35
Audio: German: Dolby Digital Mono, Spanish: Dolby Digital Mono, English: Dolby Digital 5.1, Commentary: Dolby Digital Stereo, Commentary: Dolby Digital Stereo
Subtitles: Danish, English, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish

Stars:
Sean Connery
Claudine Auger
Adolfo Celi
Luciana Paluzzi
Rik Van Nutter


Extras:
Commentary
Featurettes
Photo Gallery
Production Notes
Scene Access
Trailers

For some reason this movie didn't really click for me. One of the reasons is probably because Bond is too much of an asshole in this one. He is really forcing himself onto women here. Even going so far as to blackmail a woman into sex.
And he stayed an asshole until the end. There Domino came with another man "who has helped her", and as the boat is about to crash, he pushes the man overboard telling him "I will get you later", and flies away to safety with Domino. The man probably wasn't pretty enough
Highlights: Q was fun as always. And Domino is one hot Bond girl!

Rating:

(From James Bond Marathon on February 16th, 2009)

Zodiac, a review by Antares

Zodiac (2007) 4/5 - From its beginning to its end, I was gripped by this story and how well Fincher weaved the narrative. The murders which are shown, primarily in the first 1/3 of the film, are done with a harsh realism that unnerves, but doesn't come across as gratuitous. This is something that a few directors out there today, could take a lesson from, most notably a certain director named Tarantino. In the end, you have to believe that Graysmith, Toschi and Armstrong were all correct in their belief that Arthur Leigh Allen was the Zodiac killer. How much of this story is embellishment on either Fincher or Graysmith's part, is cause for debate, but when all is said and done, this is a first class film making effort.

(From Antares' Short Summations on December 31st, 2010)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

Noein: To Your Other Self (2005/Japan) IMDb | Wikipedia (United Kingdom) Length: 604 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78 Audio: Japanese: Dolby Digital 5.1, English: Dolby Digital 5.1, Japanese: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: English, Spanish

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Plot:Noein
1.01 Blue Snow
Writer: Kazuki Akane (Original Material By), Takahiro Kishida (Original Characters By), English Version)
Director: Kazuki Akane, English Version
Cast: Japanese Cast), Kudo Haruka (Kaminogi Haruka), Fujiko Takimoto (Goto Yu), Saeko Chiba (Hasebe Ai), Nazuka Kaori (Mukai Miho), Kouki Miyata (Fujiwara Isami), Keiji Fujiwara (Kooriyama Kyoji), Sayaka Ohara (Uchida Ryoko), Kazuya Nakai (Karasu), Kohei Kiyasu (Fukuro), Akemi Okamura (Kaminogi Asuka), Atsuko Tanaka (Goto Miyuki), Mai Nakahara (Nijo Yukie), Mai Nakahara (Nijo Yukie), Takako Honda (Kosagi), Daisuke Ono (Operator A), Yasumoto Hiroki (Operator B), Kondo Takayuki (Operator C), Kirii Daisuke (Operator D), English Cast), Melissa Fahn (Kaminogi Haruka), Yuri Lowenthal (Goto Yu), Dorothy Fahn (Hasebe Ai), Lara Cody (Mukai Miho), Bryce Papenbrook (Fujiwara Isami), Richard Epcar (Kooriyama Kyoji), Cindy Robinson (Uchida Ryoko), Crispin Freeman (Karasu), Robert M. Klein (Fukuro), Mona Marshall (Kaminogi Asuka), Ellyn Stern (Goto Miyuki), Cindy Robinson (Nijo Yukie), Steve Kramer (Kosagi), Steve Kramer (Operators)

I have never watched this series before. The pilot is a good start. Though a little on the slow side. The animation is great and it looks like it could be an interesting story.

Rating:

(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on June 14th, 2012)