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Loving Annabelle, a review by Tom

Loving Annabelle (2006/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Pro-Fun Media (Germany) Director: Katherine Brooks Writing: Katherine Brooks (Writer) Length: 77 min. Video: Widescreen 1.85 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Commentary: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: German

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Stars:
Erin Kelly as Annabelle
Diane Gaidry as Simone
Laura Breckenridge as Colins
Michelle Horn as Kristen
Gustine Fudickar as Cat

Plot:
Annabelle is the wise-beyond-her-years newcomer to an exclusive Catholic girls school. Having been expelled from her first two schools she's bound to stir some trouble. Sparks fly though when sexual chemistry appears between her and the Head of her dorm and English teacher, Simone Bradley. Annabelle pursues her relentlessly and until the end the older woman manages to avoid the law.

Extras:

• Commentary
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Interviews
• Outtakes
• Photo Gallery
• Scene Access
• Trailers

Based on the German movie "Mädchen in Uniform" from 1931. The movie was okay. Nothing special though. I was entertained during the short runtime. But I found the emotions in this movie forced and not all that natural.

Rating:

(From Lesbian Movie Marathon on December 12th, 2010)

Blazing Saddles, a review by addicted2dvd

Blazing Saddles: 30th Anniversary Special Edition


My Thoughts:
Mel Brooks is the king when it comes to making spoofs... and this movie is no exception. I enjoyed every minute of it. Sure some of it my go a little to far on the dumb side... but I think that is just part of the fun. This release has a nice selection of extras... but the only one I checked out... because I was so curios... was the TV Pilot for Black Bart.... which looked to be just as funny as the movie.

(From Sunday Mini-Marathon: Unwatched DVDs on February 3rd, 2008)

My PILOT Marathon, a review by Rich

CSI: NY: The Complete First Season

Blink
The team finds three young women, all of whom appear to have been brutalized in the same way. With a possible serial killer on hand, the only witness they have is the one of the three who survived, but she can only communicate through blinking. Photographs found at one of the crime scenes lead the team to a couple that had sponsored one of the victims, the boyfriend who claims he hasn't spoken to her in weeks, and the owner of one of the buildings a photo was taken from.



The third edition of the "CSI" franchise sets up shop in the Big Apple, where taciturn Detective Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) and his partner, Detective Stella Bonasera (Melina Kanakaredes), lead a crime-solving team. Like his counterparts in Las Vegas and Miami, Taylor knows that people may lie, but the evidence rarely does.

A vast improvement over the CSI Miami 1st episode, this felt slicker, and the major improvement was a convincing lead actor in Gary Sinise backed up by some good support cast.
The downside is what I found in the other pilot, the solving of the case was just too easy, quick use of lasers to re-fingerprint, and the killer confesses up with no pressure at all, in a Hollywood version of "it's a fair cop guv, you got me banged to rights". In fact I'd go as far as saying based on the 2 pilots of CSI viewed that the suspense and mystery is akin to a scooby doo cartoon. Neither have I warmed to the cast as I did with shows such as NCIS.
But as this is such a popular show with so many people, I am sure that it must develop and the characters become more interesting, so i will definately give the whole series a try in the near future.
 

(From My PILOT Marathon on September 27th, 2009)