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X-Men 2, a review by DJ Doena

Patrick Stewart   ...    Professor Charles Xavier
Hugh Jackman   ...    Logan / Wolverine
Ian McKellen   ...    Eric Lensherr / Magneto
Halle Berry   ...    Storm / Ororo Munroe
Famke Janssen   ...    Jean Grey
James Marsden   ...    Scott Summers / Cyclops
Anna Paquin   ...    Rogue / Marie D'Ancanto
Rebecca Romijn   ...    Mystique / Grace
Brian Cox   ...    William Stryker
Alan Cumming   ...    Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
Bruce Davison   ...    Senator Kelly
Aaron Stanford   ...    John Allerdyce / Pyro
Shawn Ashmore   ...    Bobby Drake / Iceman
Kelly Hu   ...    Yuriko Oyama / Deathstrike

Synopsis: While Wolverine is searching for his past, his past is coming to him - in form of Colonel Stryker. Stryker once gave him his adamantium skeleton and now he wants "Cerebro", Xavier's technology to find all the mutants in the world. And Stryker wants to control them with it. But he hadn't anticipated that the "X-Men" and Magneto's "Brotherhood of Mutants" would join forces to stop him.

My Opinion: It's the best of the three X-Men movies, the main characters are all aready introduced and we see much more mutants and abilities. The story is very enthralling but also balanced between action scenes and more quieter ones like the one at Bobby's parents. I'Ve never noticed this before, but: Bobby's parents ask him whether he has tried not being a mutant. As if the question itself isn't funny enough, Buffy's mother asked a similar one: Whether she can't be the Slayer anymore (must have been in Becoming [second season's finale] if I remember correctly).
Too bad that Bryan Singer decided to make Superman Returns instead of the third X-Men movie. Just like with Spider-Man the third part can't keep up with it's predecessors.

(From DJ Doena's movie watchings 2009 on January 8th, 2009)

Guns of Navarone, a review by Rich

One of my favourite destinations - Greece...



Two powerful German guns control the seas past the Greek island of Navarone making the evacuation of endangered British troops on a neighboring island impossible. Air attack is useless so a team of six Allied and Greek soldiers is put ashore to meet up with partisans to try and dynamite the guns. The mission is perilous enough anyway but are the Germans on the island getting further help too?

A very enjoyable adventure story (set around WW2) with one of my favourite actors David Niven. Perfect old-fashioned Nazi ass-kicking movie, with great effects (for the time) and a solid cast of heroic leads. Boys film    6/10


(From Around the World in 80 DVD's on January 23rd, 2008)

Doctor Who Marathon, a review by Tom

Doctor Who
Series 2.02 Tooth and Claw
Writer: Russell T Davies (Writer)
Director: Euros Lyn
Cast: David Tennant (The Doctor), Billie Piper (Rose Tyler), Pauline Collins (Queen Victoria), Ian Hanmore (Father Angelo), Michelle Duncan (Lady Isobel), Derek Riddell (Sir Robert), Jamie Sives (Captain Reynolds), Ron Donachie (Steward), Thomas J. Smith (The Host), Ruthie Milne (Flora)

Not one of my favorites. I don't think that Doctor Who and a werewolf story fit together. This episode shows the foundation of the Torchwood institute.




(From Doctor Who Marathon on March 12th, 2014)