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Mary and Max., a review by Silence_of_Lambs

Summary:
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary (Toni Collette), a lonely, nine-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.

My Thoughts:
I bought this, because it was recommended in this forum ... and well ... it's great!
Starting with the old fashioned "Stop-Motion" over the gorgeous details and the great "Voice-Over"-Cast to the outstanding story, this little masterpiece is simply adorable.
In Germany this was advertised as "Comedy", which it isn't. It's funny, yes, and transports loads of deep black humour and finest irony, but ever so often the laughs get stuck in your throat.
The comment of the best of all possible wives was: "Compared to this "Coraline" was a delightful movie", and she is correct. Even though this movie has it's funny scenes you always see the deep tragedy behind the comedy. In the end there were actually tears rolling from my eyes.
I love it and am glad to have this in my collection.
Thanks to Sophie for this recommendation, this little gem would have otherwise passed completely unnoticed from me.

My Rating: (out of possible 5)

(From Michael's random reviews on December 3rd, 2010)

Under the Tuscan Sun, a review by Hal

Title: Under the Tuscan Sun
Year: 2003
Director: Audrey Wells
Rating: PG-13
Length: 113 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, French: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Commentary: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo
Subtitles: English, Spanish

Stars:
Diane Lane
Sandra Oh
Lindsay Duncan
Raoul Bova
Vincent Riotta

Plot:Extras:
Scene Access
Audio Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Featurettes




(From Under the Tuscan Sun on July 26th, 2010)

The X-Files Marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

1. Pilot
Original Air Date: September 10, 1993
After a number of Oregon high school teens begin to die mysteriously, Scully and Mulder are called to investigate the matter.

Guest Stars:
Charles Cioffi as Chief Blevins
Cliff DeYoung as Dr. Jay Nemman
Sarah Koskoff as Theresa Nemman
Leon Russom as Detective Miles
Zachary Ansley as Billy Miles

My Thoughts:
This is a well done introduction to the characters. The chemistry between the main characters is there right from the start. The storyline of this episode... while good... there are better. As I said before... never cared much for the Alien stuff. And this is really the start of the series long arc. But of course at this point the arc is interesting.

When I popped this episode in this morning I couldn't get over how young the cast looked. It is hard for me to believe that these episodes are already a good 17 years old. Which I think... for me at least is a good reason to figure on watching the second movie at the end of the marathon. It won't be as much of a visual disruption from the episodes to the movies back to the episodes again.

My Rating:

(From The X-Files Marathon on March 28th, 2010)