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Resident Evil: Extinction, a review by Hal

Title: Resident Evil: Extinction
Year: 2007
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Rating: R
Length: 94 Min.
Video: Widescreen 2.40:1
Audio: English: Dolby TrueHD: 5.1, French: Dolby TrueHD: 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Portuguese: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Commentary: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround
Subtitles: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Commentary

Stars:
Milla Jovovich
Oded Fehr
Ali Larter
Iain Glen
Ashanti

Plot:
Milla Jovovich is back in the third chapter of the hugely successful Resident Evil franchise! This action-packed horror film is filled with intense special effects and more zombie terror! Also stars Ali Larter, Ashanti, Mike Epps, and Oded Fehr.

Extras:
Scene Access
Audio Commentary
Feature Trailers
Deleted Scenes
Featurettes
Picture-in-picture
Blu-Wizard 2.0

I think they should have just quit after the first one.  Five years after nuking Racoon City, and yet the "bad" guys still have all the power and supplies they need to run their underground complexes; while on the surface, the virus has wiped out the rest of the world except a few odd survivors.  Cites are buried under sand.  Hundreds of clones have been created (full grown, no less), but what exactly is the purpose.  If they really want to cure the virus, why aren't they working together with Alice. How is it that Alice has wandered for 5 years when she is supposedly under the control of the "Alice program".
It's just all too disjointed.  Not to mention that they have to revert to Hitchcock to add something new to the horror.  Just did not work for me!  Maybe I'm just burned out on this storyline.   

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(From Hal's 2010 Horror Marathon Reviews on October 10th, 2010)

Red Dawn (2012), a review by addicted2dvd

Red Dawn (2012/) IMDb |Wikipedia |Trailer | Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Director: Dan Bradley Writing: Kevin Reynolds (Original Material By), John Milius (Original Material By), Carl Ellsworth (Screenwriter), Jeremy Passmore (Screenwriter) Length: 93 min. Rating: Rated PG-13 : Sequences of Intense War Violence and Action, and for Language Video: Widescreen 2.40:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1 Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

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Stars:
Chris Hemsworth as Jed Eckert
Josh Peck as Matt Eckert
Josh Hutcherson as Robert Kitner
Adrianne Palicki as Toni Walsh
Isabel Lucas as Erica Martin
Connor Cruise as Daryl Jenkins

Plot:Extras:

• Scene Access
• Closed Captioned

I must admit I went into this one with a little too high of hopes. As I loved the original so much. I realize this isn't exactly ideal... but I couldn't help it. Luckily it didn't matter... as I enjoyed this remake quite a bit! Definitely more then worth the time put in to watch it. This one has a good story... lots of action. Just when you thought the fighting was done... well guess again! Time just flew by while I was watching it. I thought the cast did a great job. I liked all the characters. If you haven't had the chance to see this one yet... I highly recommend checking it out. I definitely plan on adding this one to my collection as soon as I possibly can. I feel like I could actually watch this one over again already!



(From Weekend Movie Marathon: Library Loans on January 31st, 2014)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi: Complete Collection (2005/Japan) IMDb | Wikipedia ADV Films (United States) Length: 325 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, Japanese: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: English

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Plot:
Crazier than crack, madder than a March Hare!

Whoa! Hold on to your hats and get ready for one wildly wacky, frenetically funny ride as reality takes an extended vacation in Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi!

Arumi Asahina and Sasshi Imamiya seem to be normal, 12-year-old kids living in Osaka. But in Abenobashi, we soon find out that nothing is what it seems! Suddenly, Arumi and Sasshi find themselves in a world like their own... only not. And as they try to fight their way back to the real world, they'll face menacing mushrooms, big-breasted space pirates, killer kung-fu fighters, a tripped-out transvestite, a sorcerer who seems to be in some sort of midlife crisis... and that's just the beginning!

They say there's no place like home, but this ain't exactly Oz, and it sure as heck ain't Kansas! So put the kids to bed, leave Toto with the neighbors and get ready to dive into the madcap, whacked-out world of Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi!


Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi
1.01 Mystery! Abenobashi Shopping Arcade

This is the first time I have seen any episode of this series. It started out a little slow. But towards the end it looked like it could be an interesting series.

Rating:

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