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Shazam!, a review by Tom

Shazam! (2019/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (Germany) Director: David F. Sandberg Writing: Henry Gayden (Screenwriter), Henry Gayden (Story By), Darren Lemke (Story By) Length: 132 min. Video: Widescreen 2.39 Audio: English: Dolby Atmos 3D, English: Dolby Digital 5.1, German: Dolby Atmos 3D, German: Dolby Digital 5.1, Audio Descriptive: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Subtitles: English, German

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Stars:
Zachary Levi as Shazam
Mark Strong as Dr. Sivana
Asher Angel as Billy Batson
Jack Dylan Grazer as Freddy Freeman
Adam Brody as Super Hero Freddy

Plot:
A newly fostered young boy in search of his mother instead finds unexpected super powers and soon gains a powerful enemy.

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Outtakes

I have the sequel on the way and I had the urge to rewatch the first one first. I really enjoy this movie.This time around though I thought, that it is really sudden that Billy comes around accepting this new family suddenly. But that didn't take away from my enjoyment of this movie. Mark Strong is again a good villain. Enjoyed him in Kick-Ass.

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(From Tom's Random Reviews on June 23rd, 2023)

Kill Bill: Volume 1, a review by addicted2dvd

Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003/United States) IMDb |Trailer |Wikipedia | Motion Picture Distribution, Alliance Atlantis Director: Quentin Tarantino Writing: Quentin Tarantino (Writer), Quentin Tarantino [Q] (Original Characters By), Uma Thurman (Original Characters By) Length: 111 min. Rating: Rated 18A : Gory Scenes, Extreme Violence Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, English: DTS: 5.1, French: Dolby Digital: 5.1 Subtitles: Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish

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Stars:
Uma Thurman as The Bride
Lucy Liu as O-Ren Ishii
Vivica A. Fox as Vernita Green
Daryl Hannah as Elle Driver
David Carradine as Bill
Michael Madsen as Budd

Plot:
The acclaimed fourth film from groundbreaking writer and director Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown) Kill Bill Volume 1 stars Uma Thurman (Pulp Fiction), Lucy Liu (Charlie's Angels, Chicago) and Vivica A. Fox (Two Can Play That Game) in an astonishing, action-packed thriller about brutal betrayal and an epic vendetta! Four years after taking a bullet in the head at her own wedding, The Bride (Thurman) emerges from a coma and decides it's time for payback... with a vengeance! Having been gunned down by her former boss (David Carradine) and his deadly squad of international assassins, it's a kill-or-be-killed fight she doesn't start but is determined to fishish! Loaded with explosive action and outrageous humor, it's a must-see motion picture that has critics everywhere raving!

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Feature Trailers
• Bonus Trailers
• Featurettes
• Music Videos
• Closed Captioned
• 8-Page Booklet

This (along with Kill Bill: Vol. 2) was a gift I got for my birthday this past month. As you may notice by the rating used... I was given the Canadian DVD Releases. I have heard a lot of good things about this movie... and the trailer looked like a lot of fun. So I think I went into this one with my expectations higher then they should have been. Thankfully in this case that didn't hurt much... as I still enjoyed this one quite a bit. There is certain aspects of the film I have mixed feelings about. And that is more with how the film was made then it was the story. The use of a couple scenes in Black & White... the use of animation for one of the storylines in the film... and finally jumping around in the story's timeline a bit. I am not saying these things are bad... just more of a distraction for me. But at the same time I found them to be fascinating as I never seen them all used in a film before. So while it did seem to be a bit of a distraction... it was also one of the things I did enjoy about the film when looked at as a whole. Confused? Yeah... me too! Over-all I found the entire movie both fascinating and entertaining. I enjoyed every moment of it. Definitely one I would recommend.




(From What Movies I Been Watching on June 24th, 2012)

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: The Complete Second Season marathon, a review by Achim

15. Desert Cantos
The Connors investigate the company town connected to the destroyed factory and find something startling. Weaver searches for a survivor of the explosion.

My comments:
The fist half of the show had me bored to tears; too much funeral, too little plot. Around mid-point however the story picks up pace (Cameron finds that the girl John's been talking to is lying, Sarah finds an "evil underground lair"). At the end our party of four realizes that Skynet is way ahead of what they could have possibly imagined, leaving me the viewer quite amazed about that as well. I'll agree with Matthias' review that there is a (relatively) a lot of plot covered and some questions answered, but all that got ultimately in the way of the character development (in an unhealthily unbalanced fashion, I mean).

There is however two lovely bits in there regarding Weaver. The first one when she is having a conversation with Ellison and she gets a little upset because he uncovers her lack of sensibility on the anniversary of "her husband's" death (since it shows her she is is not maintaining a good cover). The even better one is when she interacts with "her daughter", trying to bond and creating an emotional connection. This is something she obviously lacks ability and is therefore an important issue to her. I found the exchange regarding her daughter sitting on her lap a very nice touch!


(because boring us for half of the show)

(From Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: The Complete Second Season marathon on February 21st, 2010)