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Category 7: End of the World, a review by addicted2dvd

Category 7: End of the World


TV Stars:
Shannen Doherty (Charmed)
Tom Skerritt (Picket Fences)
Rachel Skarsten (Birds of Prey)

My Thoughts:
This is the first time I ever watched this one. It is actually a TV Miniseries that I missed when it originally aired. It is a sequel to the miniseries Category 6: Day of Destruction. I got this miniseries (along with Category 6) from a friend for Christmas this past year. I remember feeling that on Category 6 the storm effects being hit and miss... but they improved on that for this one. I enjoyed Category 7 more then I did the first one. Though I do feel that the added storyline of the kidnapped teens, while it added suspense, it was not needed.


Trailer:
http://www.videodetective.com/TitleDetails.aspx?publishedid=00532173

(From Weekend Movie Marathon: TV Stars in the Movies on March 28th, 2009)

The Shop Around the Corner, a review by Tom

Title: The Shop Around the Corner
Year: 1940
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Rating: NR
Length: 99 Min.
Video: Full Frame 1.33:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital Mono, French: Dolby Digital Mono
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Stars:
Margaret Sullavan
James Stewart
Frank Morgan
Joseph Schildkraut
Sara Haden

Plot:
Tell bickering Budapest gift-shop workers Alfred and Klara that they love each other and they might call you crazy. No lovers can compare to the romantic, secret pen pals each knows only as Dear Friend.

What Alfred and Klara don't know, or course, is that they are each other's Dear Friend. In the third of their four luminous screen pairings, Margaret Sullivan and James Stewart star in this valentine to love wrapped in the ribbon of director Ernst Lubitsch's trademark touch: wit instead of buffoonery, sentiment instead of sentimentality, affection instead of attitude.

As enchanting as it was yesterday, The Shop Around the Corner was breezily updated to the electronic age when Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan clicked together in You've Got Mail. In any age, your patronage will be cheerfully rewarded.

Awards:

AFI	1940	Nominated	100 Years... 100 Laughs (2000)
AFI	1940	Won	100 Years... 100 Passions (2002)

Extras:
Closed Captioned
Featurettes
Production Notes
Scene Access
Trailers

This movie was the inspiration for the remake "You've Got Mail". I enjoy both movies. I think this was the first movie that I ever saw James Stewart in (could be that I saw "It's a Wonderful Life" before this one though). He did a great job here. For anyone enjoying "You've Got Mail" I recommend checking this one out. You will find many familiar scenes here, which found their way into the remake. I can definately see Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan during the restaurant scene, so similar was it.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on March 7th, 2010)

My PILOT Marathon, a review by Rich

Torchwood - Series 1

Everything Changes
WPC Gwen Cooper is at the scene of a brutal murder, when the "special ops", known only as Torchwood, arrive. After witnessing the group bring the dead man back to life, Gwen goes in pursuit of this mysterious organisation, only to see weirder things than she could ever imagine existed. Soon after, she begins to regret giving in to her curiosity, when she meets Captain Jack Harkness.



This exciting and leftfield DOCTOR WHO spin-off finds philanderer of the future, Jack Harness arriving in contemporary Cardiff and being inducted into Torchwood – a covert extra terrestrial and paranormal investigation agency

For the first half an hour or so I enjoyed this fresh series, the mix of sci-fi, special powers, aliens etc blended well with some light hearted banter and a few interesting characters. But towards the end when the lovely Indira Darma (Rome) was killed off in ridiculous fashion, and the constant horrendous Welsh accents started grating, I was glad it finished.
The budget is noticably small, production feels a bit cheap and nasty, the main character is too comical to be taken seriously, and the insertion of swear words made me feel this programme may lose it's identity in terms of intended audience.
A promising idea spoilt.
 

(From My PILOT Marathon on September 18th, 2009)