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Mahiha ashegh mishavand, a review by Danae Cassandra

Mahiha ashegh mishavand  (The Fish Fall in Love)  
2005, Iran

Aziz returns to his hometown after 22 years away.  He finds that the house he owns has been turned into a restaurant by his former fiance, Atieh.  She and her friends believe he has returned to sell the house.  To convince him to stay, she prepares his favorite dishes and serves them to him each day.  However, their inability to communicate may stand in the way of the love they are rediscovering in each other.

This is the third Iranian film I've seen, the others being Baran and Tam'e guilass (Taste of Cherry), and all of them have had a few things in common:  a slow pace, character driven story, ambiguous ending.  Oh, and all the people look like real people, not like they've all had plastic surgery and the latest Photoshop tricks.  

They're also all ... I guess you'd say "clean" .... they lack the gratuitous sex and violence of Hollywood films.  Yes, I know a lot of people would cry censorship, because I know Iran has codes about what can and can't be made, but I miss the kinds of films where you had a real love story, not just a story about unnaturally pretty people in lust with each other.  Sex and violence have their place in things, but sometimes I want a story without them too.

In case you couldn't tell, I enjoyed this film quite a bit.  It's very low budget, it's slow paced, there's no quick cut camera work or anything fancy.  It's just a nice little slice-of-life story about two middle aged people reconnecting with each other and finding love in their hearts again.  Not for everyone though - the ending is one that you decide for yourself.  I have a friend I could never show this to, because the ending (or lack thereof) would upset her too much.

Oh, and finally ... Atieh's food looks absolutely delicious.  I would eat at her restaurant any time.

Overall: 3/5

(From Danae's reviews on March 24th, 2011)

Young Frankenstein, a review by Hal

Young Frankenstein: Special Edition (1974/United States) Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (United States) Director: Mel Brooks Writing: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley [Mary Shelley] (Original Material By), Gene Wilder (Screenwriter), Mel Brooks (Screenwriter) Length: 106 min. Video: Widescreen 1.85:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: Mono, French: Dolby Digital: Mono, Spanish: Dolby Digital: Mono, Commentary: Dolby Digital: Mono Subtitles: English

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Stars:Plot:
Mel Brooks' monstrously crazy tribute to Mary Shelley's classic pokes hilarious fun at just about every Frankenstein movie ever made. Summoned by a will to his late grandfather's castle in Transylvania, young Dr. Frankenstein (GENE WILDER) soon discovers the scientist's step-by-step manual explaining how to bring a corpse to life. Assisted by the hunchbacked Igor (MARTY FELDMAN) and the curvaceous Inga (TERI GARR), he creates a monster (PETER BOYLE) who only wants to be loved. CLORIS LEACHMAN, MADELINE KAHN, KENNETH MARS and GENE HACKMAN co-star in this inspired vision of lunacy.

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Audio Commentary
• Feature Trailers
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Gallery
• Production Notes
• Closed Captioned
• Interviews

With the exception of this film and Blazing Saddles I've never been a big Mel Brooks fan, but this movie is absolutely hysterical at times.
Although the humor is a bit silly at times, the acting is just tremendous and the comedic timing, especially of Wilder and Feldman, is simply marvelous.  With many familiar scenes from the original 1931 film, Brooks has built on the story adding new and hilarious moments.  The scene where Madeleine Kahn breaks out in song with "Oh sweet mystery of life, at last I've found you..." had me laughing my ass off!  Very funny stuff!

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(From Hal's 2010 Horror Marathon Reviews on October 24th, 2010)

Pete's Pilots, a review by addicted2dvd

Monster Squad
Originally screend on Saturday mornings on NBC in the late 70's The show stars Fred Grandy (The Love Boat) as Walt, a criminology student working as a night watchman in a wax museum. To pass the time, Walt built a prototype "Crime Computer". When Walt plugged in his Crime Computer, the "oscillating vibrations" broght to life three legendary monsters. Dracula, The Werewolf and Frankenstein. These creatures hated and feared for centuries are now determined to make up for their past misdeeds by using their unique abilities to fight crime and bust super villians wherever they find them. Together they are the Monster Squad!

Monster Squad was a hugely popular Saturday morning kids action adventure series created by the same team that brought you the infamous 1960's Batman series. Now for the first time ever on DVD see all 13 episodes of this classic series now fully restored to it's former glory!

Queen Bee
The Queen Bee (Alice Ghostley) tries to make Dracula her mate...

My Thoughts:
This show I wouldn't expect any adult to get for themselves for any other reason then pure nostalgia. This is not what you would call interesting for an adult mind. I only got this set because I watched it as a kid. And let me tell you it is hard to watch as an adult. Sure there is a little nostalgia for me on watching it. But there is no way I could watch any more then 1 episode here and there.

My Raitng:

(From Pete's Pilots on May 17th, 2010)