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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, a review by Antares

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre





Year: 1948
Film Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures, First National Pictures
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Length: 126 Min.

Director
John Huston (1906)

Writing
John Huston (1906)...Screenplay
B. Traven (1882)...Novel

Producer
Henry Blanke (1901)
Jack L. Warner (1892)

Cinematographer
Ted D. McCord (1900)

Music
Max Steiner (1888)...Music By

StarsReview
       The film Casablanca may have made Humphrey Bogart a star but to me his role as Fred C. Dobbs, the down on his luck drifter who agrees to go in search of gold in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, is his greatest performance. In this one role we get to witness the versatility of his acting prowess as he portrays Dobbs as a troubled individual with a chameleon personality whose mood and mannerisms change like the wind. One moment he is in good cheer as he recounts for his partners how finding gold will not change him personally and the next he is a rambling, quivering mass of paranoia as he believes everyone is out to rob him blind. Bogart walks this fine line with the agility of a skilled tightrope walker, never going so far as to make his character appear a caricature.

       This would be the second time that Bogart worked with director John Huston, and the arrangement must have suited Bogart well as they would make two more classic films together with Key Largo & The African QueenThe African Queen. Yet, one upshot of his role in this film would be the laying of groundwork for his portrayal of another paranoid and delusional character in The Caine Mutiny, Captain Queeg.  

       If you are un-familiar with the film history of Humphrey Bogart, most people will tell you start by watching Casablanca, but The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is all that and more. It could arguably be placed in the top ten films of all time.


Ratings Criterion
5 Stars - The pinnacle of film perfection and excellence.

(From The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) on December 17th, 2009)

Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes, a review by Danae Cassandra

Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes
2010, USA

A series of diamond heists, a beautiful singer framed as the crook, a dastardly villain on a black horse ... oh, heck, why do you need an overview of the plot?  It's a film titled Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes, that tells you everything you need to know.

We had been planning to watch Jiang cheng xia ri (aka Luxury Car) this evening, but events brought us home later than we planned, so there wasn't enough time for that film before bedtime.  So, instead, we watched this.

Now, I am a huge Sherlock Holmes fan - and I love cartoons.  So, naturally, these two things came together and thus I have this on blu-ray.  It's a cute cartoon, and at just under an hour, exactly what was needed this evening.  There's a lot of laughs in the slapstick style of Tom and Jerry, and obviously this is set in a world where talking, anthropomorphic animals are not unusual, even if Tom and Jerry don't talk.  There were a lot of in-jokes, both for fans of Warner Bros. & Hanna Barbara cartoons, and for fans of Holmes.  It was fun catching them, and at some point I'll go back and watch it again and see if I spotted them all. 

This isn't great cinema, but if you're expecting that in a Tom & Jerry cartoon there is something wrong with you.  It's cute, it's funny, there's plenty of action and fun for everyone.  A very entertaining film and easily as good as the other Holmes cartoon I've seen (The Great Mouse Detective).

Overall: 2.75/5

(From Danae's reviews on March 31st, 2011)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

Elfen Lied (2004/Japan) IMDb | Wikipedia (United States) Length: 325 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, Japanese: Dolby Digital 5.1 Subtitles: English

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Plot:
In Elfen Lied innocence and evil collide in some very dark places. As the rooms in kohta's rented house fill with runaways and killer mutants - danger mounts outside. Whether it's from a renegade soldier or a mutant assassin - one wrong move could mean the difference between life and death!


Erufen Rito
1.01 Begegnung: Kaiko (2004-07-25)
Writer: Lynn Okamoto (Writer), Takawo Yoshioka (Screenwriter)
Director:
Cast: English Vocal Cast), Kira Vincent-Davis (Lucy/Nyu (voice)), Adam Conlon (Kohta (voice)), Nancy Novotny (Yuka (voice)), Jay Hickman (Kurama (voice)), Jason Douglas (Bandoh (voice)), Shelley Calene-Black (Shirakawa (voice)), Monica Rial (Kanae (voice)), George Manley (SAT Captain (voice)), Tiffany Grant (Kisaragi (voice)), Chris Ayres (Sharpshooter (voice)), Xero Reynolds (Man (voice)), Kelly Manison (Secretary (voice)), Christine Auten (Child Kohta (voice)), Marty Fleck (Narrator (voice)), Christine Auten (Additional Voice (voice)), Kelly Manison (Additional Voice (voice)), Brandon Peters (Additional Voice (voice)), Xero Reynolds (Additional Voice (voice)), John Swasey (Additional Voice (voice)), Kira Vincent-Davis (Additional Voice (voice)), Japanese Vocal Cast), Sanae Kobayashi (Nyu/Lucy (voice)), Chihiro Suzuki (Kohta (voice)), Mamiko Noto (Yuka (voice)), Osama Hosoi (Kurama (voice)), Johji Nakata (Bandoh (voice)), Hitomi Nabatame (Shirakawa/Child Kohta (voice)), Maria Yamamoto (Kisaragi/Kanae (voice)), Hajime Iijima (Sniper (voice)), Masakazu Kohara (SAT Captain (voice)), Naoki Kinoshita (Man (voice)), Yuhki Hata (Guard (voice)), Aska Tanii (Secretary (voice))

An anime series with a German title. Even the episode titles are in German. The first few minutes of the first episode are one of the most bloody scenes I ever saw in an animated series.
In my opinion this series is a must-see for any anime fan.

Rating:

(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on April 10th, 2011)