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Beverly Hills Cop, a review by addicted2dvd

Title: Beverly Hills Cop: Special Collector's Edition
Year: 1984
Director: Martin Brest
Rating: R
Length: 105 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, English: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround, French: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo, Commentary: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround
Subtitles: English

Stars:
Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley
Judge Reinhold as Det. Billy Rosewood
John Ashton as Sgt. Taggart
Lisa Eilbacher as Jenny Summers
Ronny Cox as Lt. Bogomil

Plot:
The heat is on in this fast paced action-comedy starring Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley, a street smart Detroit cop tracking down his best friend's killer in Beverly Hills. Axel quickly learns that his wild style doesn't fit in with the Beverly Hills Police Department, which assigns two officers (Judge Reinhold & John Ashton) to make sure things don't get out of hand.

Dragging the stuffy detectives along for the ride, Axel smashes through a huge culture clash in his hilarious, high-speed pursuit of justice.

Featuring cameos by Paul Reiser, Bronson Pinchot and Damon Wayans, Beverly Hills Cop is an exhilarating sidesplitting adventure!

Extras:
Scene Access
Audio Commentary
Feature Trailers
Featurettes
Gallery
Interviews
Closed Captioned
Location Map

My Thoughts:
This is just a completely fun movie from beginning to end. I must have watched this movie 100 times since it was originally released... and I enjoy it just as much this time as I did the first time I ever saw it. In my opinion... this is Eddie Murphy at his best. I thought it was a really good combination of comedy and action. Even though there was much more action then comedy it just worked so well together. I highly recommend checking out this one.... as well as the sequels.



(From Weekend Movie Marathon: Anything Goes on April 3rd, 2010)

She Demons, a review by Jimmy

                 

Title: She Demons
Year: 1958
Genre: Horror
Director: Richard E. Cunha (Missile to the Moon)         
Rating: Unrated
Length: 1h16
Video: Widescreen
Audio: English
Subtitles: No Subtitles

Stars:
Irish McCalla (Sheena: Queen of the JungleShe Devil)
Victor Sen Yung (Kung FuPhantom from Space)
Gene Roth (Attack of the Giant Leeches)   

Plot:
A hurricane shipwrecks an expedition of American treasure-hunters on an uncharted Pacific island. Searching for food, the Americans happen upon a secret Nazi base where a sadistic scientist is conducting experiments on a tribe of local jungle maidens. Horrific experiments mutate the island beauties into hideous, savage she-creatures!

We are on fifties B-movies territory with this one. We start with 4 shipwreck survivors, all of them are one stereotype : an all-american man, a rich spoil woman, a comic relief asian man and a black man (who is doom from the beginning and is the only one to die). But the stereotype don't stop with them since they are not the only one on this island. So we have the natives women who don't do nothing except a native dance. The rest of the people are escape German nazi with really funny accent, the way they are represented make me wonder how it was possible for them to win a single battle (they are really presented as caricature).

The story is stupid : the German doctor was working on a way to remove scar, because the Aryan as to be perfect (I don't invent that it's the doctor who say that). So they are gone on a volcanic island to experience, the method is a blood (??) transfer but the donor receive blood and animal DNA (something like that). This procedure transform the donor to a she-demons for a couple of days, after that she returns to normal but doesn't have any memory at all (I don't invent that either, the doctor explain it). The story continue untill the nazi doctor try the experience on the white woman, but at this moment the island come under shellfire (why? No idea the war is over for quite some times) and the three survivors escape. I've forgot something : the all-american man and the rich spoil woman fall in love even if they hate each other at the beginning.

The acting are not really good, except for Irish McCalla (enough to make me interested in her TV series, but it is not release yet and will probably never been). The make up effect for the She-demons are well done and the filming location look good too.

I don't necessary think that it's a bad movie, but many others b-movies of this time are better than this.

Rating : 
Movie Trailer : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV82_LkAjZY

(From The little known movie review depot on February 11th, 2008)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (1998/Japan) IMDb | Wikipedia Ember Power (Malaysia) Length: 569 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: Japanese: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Subtitles: Chinese, English, Other

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(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on June 28th, 2011)