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The Hills Have Eyes 2, a review by addicted2dvd

The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007)
The loudest screams may be your own when you experience this Unrated Edition of The Hills Have Eyes 2 with gruesome added footage not shown in theaters - plus spine-tingling special features, including graphic featurettes and a killer alternate ending!

With even more blood, guts and gore than its shocking predecessor, this chilling sequel picks up two years after the ill-fated Carter family was attacked by cannibalistic mutants in the New Mexico desert. Now a group of National Guard trainees on a routine mission find themselves up against the same blood-thirsty freaks. But this time, the mutant patriarch isn't looking for a quick bite - he needs female breeders to continue his family line!

My Thoughts:
After I watched and enjoyed the first one recently I wanted to check out the second one. I had one friend telling me how much she enjoyed the second one... possibly even more then the first one. Then I had another friend telling me basically that the second one sucked. What am I to do? Especially when I find a couple of the unrated version on sale cheap at Walmart. So I grabbed it.... and figured I will take a chance and decide for myself. Obvious solution. Right after purchasing it I go online and found the trailer for it. (Yes I bought it before even seeing the trailer!) The first thought that comes to me is that I like that this time it involves the military this time. And that did make the movie more interesting to me. But even with that this movie still isn't quite as good as the first one. I definitely enjoyed it... and glad I added it to my collection. I think (at least for me) where this one went wrong is having the majority of the movie inside the dark mines. I did like that the group was National Guards trainees.... but I didn't care for the Lieutenant who was in charge of the trainees. He just wasn't believable as the bad-ass he was trying to make himself off to be. Over-all I would call this one a good movie... but definitely not great.



(From Weekend Movie Marathon: 5/01 - 5/03 on May 3rd, 2009)

Anna, a review by goodguy

Anna (FR 1967)IMDb Director:   Pierre Koralnik Writer: Serge Gainsbourg, Jean-Loup Dabadie Cast: Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Serge Gainsbourg DVD: Mercury, Universal (FR 2009) My rating:

I decided I needed a break from my Godard marathon (16 movies in and still in the '60 ), and with all the musical talk going on here recently, I picked this French TV musical. Despite starring Anna Karina (so it's not a complete break) and music by Serge Gainsbourg, it has been largely forgotten and was unearthed only a couple of years ago at the Melbourne Film Festival, leading to some raving reviews.

But it's rather forgettable fluff, more a collection of bad romantic music videos than a musical, wearing its new wave and pop art influences like a fashion statement. Still, there are a couple of better moments, such as a small guest appearance by Marianne Faithfull. And of course Anna Karina doing Ro-Ro-Rollergirl.



(From goodguy's Watch Log on April 24th, 2011)

Tom's TV Finales marathon, a review by Tom

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Babylon 5: Season Five: The Wheel of Fire (1998/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Warner Home Video (Germany) Length: 933 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, German: Dolby Digital 5.1 Subtitles: English, German

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Babylon 5
Season 5.22 Sleeping in Light 25.11.1998
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski (Writer), J. Michael Straczynski (Created By)
Director: J. Michael Straczynski
Cast: Bruce Boxleitner (John Sheridan), Claudia Christian (Susan Ivanova), Jerry Doyle (Michael Garibaldi), Mira Furlan (Delenn), Richard Biggs (Stephen Franklin), Bill Mumy (Lennier), Jason Carter (Marcus Cole), Stephen Furst (Vir Cotto), Jeff Conaway (Zack Allan), Patricia Tallman (Lyta Alexander), Andreas Katsulas (G'Kar), Peter Jurasik (Londo Mollari), Wayne Alexander (Lorien), Romy Rosemont (Publicist), David Wells (Commander Nils), Sharon Annett (Mary), Dan Sachoff (Aide), Lair Torrant (Ranger), Kent Minault (Captain of the Guard), J. Michael Straczynski (Technician)

One of the best series finales ever. Set about twenty years after the events of the series, it makes up a very nice epilogue.

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(From Tom's TV Finales marathon on January 27th, 2013)