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Blade II, a review by RossRoy

Original Title: Blade II Year: 2002 Country: United States Director: Guillermo Del Toro Rating: R Length: 117 Min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital Surround EX, English: DTS ES (Matrixed), French: Dolby Digital Surround, Commentary: Dolby Digital Surround, Commentary: Dolby Digital Surround, Music Only: Dolby Digital 5.1 Subtitles: English

What they say
When the world is threatened by a new and deadlier breed of super vampire, the legendary Blade (Wesley Snipes) and his mentor Whistler (Kris Kristofferson) must join forces with the Bloodpack, an elite team of vampire warriors made up of Blade's sworn enemies. These ravenous fiends must be destroyed at all costs in this high-voltage adventure exploding with spectacular effects and martial arts action. The electrifying Snipes reprises his role from the original cult classic, 'Blade.'

My Thoughts
Finally! Blade shown as his superhero self, stylized combat and all! This is my favorite of the series*. As I said, Blade is finally given the superhero treatment, a new breed of über-vampire (love them!), the lovely Nyssa, lots of killings, well done effects, a betrayal you see coming miles ahead. Yeah, I like this movie a lot. Only little thing that bugged is that sometimes, it is very obvious they used CGI for some fighting moves, but hey, it's all part of making Blade the superhero he really is!

Rating:


(From RossRoy's Random Viewings on October 6th, 2008)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, a review by Critter

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs



Year: 1937

Director(s): David Hand

Run Time: 80 minutes

Plot: Snow White, pursued by a jealous queen, hides with the Dwarfs; the queen feeds her a poison apple, but Prince Charming awakens her with a kiss.

Cast: DVD Extras:My ThoughtsMy Rating



(From Critter's Animated Film/Anime Marathon on January 10th, 2010)

Tom's Random Reviews, a review by Tom

Title: Veronica Mars: Season One
Year: 2004
Director:
Rating: FSK-12
Length: 883 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78
Audio: English: Dolby Digital Surround, French: Dolby Digital Surround, German: Dolby Digital Surround, Hungarian: Dolby Digital Surround, Italian: Dolby Digital Surround, Spanish: Dolby Digital Surround
Subtitles: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish

Plot:
A little bit Buffy. A little bit Bogart. A dash of Nancy Drew. Veronica Mars takes the best and brainiest of the American culture of crimesolving and adds a unique vision of its own - brooding, edgy, darkly funny and just plain dark - to become one of the hottest, sleekest series of the new century.

Veronica (Kristen Bell) is an outcast in a trendy SoCal beach town. Once she ran with Neptune High's in crowd. But she's on the outside after her best friend is murdered and her sheriff father accuses the wrong man as the perp: the dead girl's billionaire father. Dad loses his job, Veronica loses her popularity and both struggle to build a detective agency and new lives. E-mail scams, cults, car thefts - you name it, Veronica investigates it. But her obsession is the murder of her friend. And she'll take any risk to solve it.


Awards:

American Film Institute Awards	2005	Won	TV Programs of the Year
Saturn	2004	Nominated	Best Actress - Television Series	Kristin Bell
Saturn	2005	Won	Best Actress in a Television Series	Kristen Bell
Saturn	2006	Nominated	Best Actress in a Television Series	Kristen Bell
Saturn	2005	Nominated	Best Network Television Series
Saturn	2006	Nominated	Best Network Television Series
Teen Choice Awards	2005	Nominated	Choice TV Breakout Performance - Female	Kristen Bell
Teen Choice Awards	2005	Nominated	Choice TV Breakout Show
Teen Choice Awards	2006	Nominated	TV - Choice Actress: Drama/Action Adventure	Kristen Bell
Teen Choice Awards	2006	Nominated	TV - Choice Parental Unit	Enrico Colantoni
Teen Choice Awards	2006	Nominated	TV - Choice Sidekick	Percy Daggs

Extras:
Deleted Scenes

When this first season was on sale, I finally took the chance to check this series out. For me it was very much like taking Chloe (my favorite character from Smallville) and giving her her own series. Veronica is very similar to her in my opinion.
I liked this season. Though I liked it from the start, I am not sure if I would have stayed with it if I would have started watching it while it originally aired. But watching all episodes in a row it constantly kept my interest.
But it was only towards the end it really sucked me in. But what a damn cliffhanger the last scene is! I wanted to wait with buying the second season until a later point, but now I am not sure if I can wait. But I will probably be disappointed with the resolution to this scene.

This series has also interesting choices of guest-stars. Although I was put off when Paris Hilton guest-starred in the second episode, there were other appearences which were more fun. Like Alyson Hannigan, of course. Also funny, that we got two Jimmy Olsens in one episode (Smallville's Jimmy and Superman Returns' Jimmy).
Sadly they missed themselves by one episode, but we almost had a reunion with Home Improvement's Brad and Randy.
From the regulars I have only known Kristen Bell (from "Heroes" and "Forgetting Sarah Marshall") and Enrico Colantoni (from "Just Shoot Me!" and "Galaxy Quest").

A storyline which I hope they will follow up on in the second season is Mac and her real family.

#	Episode	Rating
01	Pilot
02	Credit Where Credit's Due
03	Meet John Smith
04	The Wrath of Con
05	You Think You Know Somebody
06	Return of the Kane
07	The Girl Next Door
08	Like a Virgin
09	Drinking the Kool-Aid
10	An Echolls Family Christmas
11	Silence of the Lamb
12	Clash of the Tritons
13	Lord of the Bling
14	Mars vs. Mars
15	Ruskie Business
16	Betty and Veronica
17	Kanes and Abel's
18	Weapons of Class Destruction
19	Hot Dogs
20	M.A.D.
21	A Trip to the Dentist
22	Leave It to Beaver

(From Tom's Random Reviews on October 30th, 2009)