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Hulk Vs. Wolverine, a review by addicted2dvd

Title: Hulk Vs. Wolverine
Year: 2008
Director:
Rating: PG-13
Length: 37 Min.
Video: Widescreen 1.78:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1, Commentary: Dolby Digital Stereo
Subtitles: English, Spanish

Stars:
Fred Tatasciore
Steve Blum
Bryce Johnson
Janyse Jaud
Mark Acheson

Plot:
Alberta, Canada. The Incredible Hulk has been tearing a line across the Canadian wilderness, leaving a swathe of destruction in his wake. He has to be stopped, and there's only one man up to the job. He's the best at what he does, but what he does isn't very nice. He's Wolverine, an elite agent of Canada's top secret Department H, and he's been put on Hulk's trail with a single objective: stop the green goliath...at all costs. Hulk and Wolverine are about to enter the fiercest battle of their lives.

Extras:
Scene Access
Audio Commentary
Trailers
Featurettes
Closed Captioned

My Thoughts:
Brittany and I decided to watch this one today. She said you can expect a review from her later. The one thing about this movie going into it that had me nervous at all is the short length. This movie runs a total of 37 minutes. But I guess that is why they gave us 2 animated Hulk movies in one release. I really enjoyed this movie. (and I do feel weird calling such a short story a movie) It was wonderfully animated... and interesting story. It even had it's share of blood and violence. Be sure to stick around after the credits for one final scene!



(From Weekend Movie Marathon: Anything Goes on January 23rd, 2010)

Black, a review by Tom

Title: Black
Year: 2005
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Rating: 12
Length: 119 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35
Audio: Hindi: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: Arabic, English, French, Hindi, Spanish

Stars:
Amitabh Bachchan
Rani Mukherjee
Shernaz Patel
Ayesha Kapur
Dhritiman Chaterji

Plot:
I know now that there is God...
He is not in the holy spirit we pray to... He isn't written about in
religious texts...
He is someone who is a part of our lives... Whom we live for...
Because of whom we live...
Michelle Mcnally is "special" in more ways than one. She cannot see ... nor hear nor speak...She inhabits a world of infinite black ... of a seamless, endless void where nothing reaches her and she reaches nothing. Her world is frightening in its complete remoteness. On the sheer will of her ferocious rage against destiny, Michelle struggles to stay afloat in the impenetrable whirlpool her life has become.
Into this devastating isolation enters a battle weary teacher, Debraj Sahai, life's wounded but arrogantly insolent warrior. With a single minded obsession, Debraj takes up a challenge that is next to impossible - to lead this wild, uncontrollable child into the light of knowledge.
Thus begins a journey of two headstrong individuals. They will overcome failures, obstacle, even ridicule as they tread the path less taken. What they seek is that moment of miracle when the ray of knowledge will penetrate through the dense black of Michelle's life...Black is the cathartic tale of a deaf, mute and blind girl who saw what people with sight fail to see, a vision of her God. Michelle Mcnally saw what other lesser mortals could not.
She saw her God, heard Him and walked with Him into the light...

Awards:

Filmfare Awards	2006	Won	Best Actor Award	Amitabh Bachchan
Filmfare Awards	2006	Won	Best Actress Award	Rani Mukerji
Filmfare Awards	2006	Won	Best Background Score Award	Monty Sharma
Filmfare Awards	2006	Won	Best Cinematographer Award	Ravi K. Chandran
Filmfare Awards	2006	Won	Best Director Award	Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Filmfare Awards	2006	Won	Best Editing Award	Bela Sehgal
Filmfare Awards	2006	Won	Best Movie Award
Filmfare Awards	2006	Won	Best Sound Award	Bishwadeep Chatterjee
Filmfare Awards	2006	Won	Best Supporting Actress Award	Ayesha Kapoor
Filmfare Awards	2006	Won	Critics Award for Best Movie
Filmfare Awards	2006	Won	Critics Award for Best Performance	Amitabh Bachchan, Rani Mukerji
IIFA Awards	2006	Won	Best Actor	Amitabh Bachchan
IIFA Awards	2006	Won	Best Actress	Rani Mukerji
IIFA Awards	2006	Won	Best Director	Sanjay Leela Bhansali
IIFA Awards	2006	Won	Best Movie
IIFA Awards	2006	Won	Best Supporting Actress	Ayesha Kapoor

Extras:
Featurettes
Interviews
Scene Access
Trailers

I stumbled across this movie when I went through the filmography of one of my favorite Bollywood actresses, Rani Mukherji. I became curious when I read, that this movie is about a blind, deaf and mute woman (Michelle), I wondered how this would work. If someone can pull this off, then it's Rani Mukherji. And I was not disappointed.
This movie is heavily influenced by Helen Keller and the movie "The Miracle Worker", which I have never seen. Also this one is a very atypical Bollywood movie. There is no singing, no love story and this movie is "only" two hours long. It has won multiple awards and is the record-holder for the most Filmfare awards (Indian oscars) won. And I can understand why, especially the actor awards. Both Rani Mukherji, who plays the adult version of Michelle, and the girl who played the character as a child, were faboulous. It is probably the best performance Rani has given to date. Amitabh Bachchan was great as always playing Michelle's teacher.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on August 7th, 2009)

Angel Marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

18. Five by Five
Original Air Date: 4/25/2000
Wolfram & Hart approach Faith with the promise to get all the murder charges she faces back in Sunnydale dropped in exchange for one small favor - killing Angel.

Guest Stars:
Julie Benz
Christian Kane
Thomas Burr
Tyler Christopher
Stephanie Romanov
Eliza Dushku

My Thoughts:
Not only do we get flashbacks of when Angelus first gets his soul back... but we also have Faith coming to town. Awesome episode! Faith really roughed up Wesley a bit!

My Rating:

(From Angel Marathon on February 28th, 2010)