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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, a review by Tom

Title: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Year: 1966
Director: Mike Nichols
Rating: FSK-16
Length: 126 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78
Audio: German: Dolby Digital Mono, English: Dolby Digital Mono, Spanish: Dolby Digital Mono, Commentary: Dolby Digital Mono, Commentary: Dolby Digital Mono
Subtitles: Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

Stars:
Elizabeth Taylor
Richard Burton
George Segal
Sandy Dennis

Plot:
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are ideal as malevolent marrieds Martha and George in first-time film director Mike Nichols' searing film of Edward Albee's groundbreaking 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' Taylor won her second Academy Award® (and New York Film Critics, National Board of Review and British Film Academy Best Actress Awards). Burton matches her as her emotionally spent spouse. And George Segal and Best Supporting Actress Oscar® winner Sandy Dennis score as another couple straying into their destructive path. The movie won a total of five Academy Awards® and remains after 40 years a taboo-toppling landmark.

Awards:

Academy Award	1966	Nominated	Best Actor	Richard Burton
Academy Award	1966	Won	Best Actress	Elizabeth Taylor
Academy Award	1966	Won	Best Art Direction, Black-and-White	Richard Sylbert (Art Direction); George James Hopkins (Set Decoration)
Academy Award	1966	Won	Best Cinematography, Black-and-White	Haskell Wexler
Academy Award	1966	Won	Best Costume Design, Black-and-White	Irene Sharaff
Academy Award	1966	Nominated	Best Director	Mike Nichols
Academy Award	1966	Nominated	Best Film Editing	Sam O'Steen
Academy Award	1966	Nominated	Best Music, Original Score	Alex North
Academy Award	1966	Nominated	Best Picture	Ernest Lehman (Producer)
Academy Award	1966	Nominated	Best Sound	George R. Groves (Sound Director, Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department)
Academy Award	1966	Nominated	Best Supporting Actor	George Segal
Academy Award	1966	Won	Best Supporting Actress	Sandy Dennis
Academy Award	1966	Nominated	Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay	Ernest Lehman
AFI	1966	Nominated	100 Years... 100 Movies (1998)
AFI	1966	Won	100 Years... 100 Movies (2007)
AFI	1966	Won	100 Years... 100 Passions (2002)
AFI	1966	Nominated	100 Years... 25 Scores (2005)	"Composer": Alex North
BAFTA	1966	Won	British Actor	Richard Burton
BAFTA	1966	Won	British Actress	Elizabeth Taylor
BAFTA	1966	Won	Film	Mike Nichols
Golden Globe	1966	Nominated	Actor in a Leading Role - Drama	Richard Burton
Golden Globe	1966	Nominated	Actor in a Supporting Role	George Segal
Golden Globe	1966	Nominated	Actress in a Leading Role - Drama	Elizabeth Taylor
Golden Globe	1966	Nominated	Actress in a Supporting Role	Sandy Dennis
Golden Globe	1966	Nominated	Director	Mike Nichols
Golden Globe	1966	Nominated	Picture - Drama	Ernest Lehman
Golden Globe	1966	Nominated	Screenplay	Ernest Lehman

Extras:
Commentary
Featurettes
Interviews
Scene Access
Trailers

It has been about 15 years since I last saw this movie. The acting by all four stars is fabulous. The big reveal at the end is the one thing I mainly remembered of this movie.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on July 27th, 2009)

The Three Stooges Goes Around the World in a Daze, a review by addicted2dvd

The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze (1963/United States) Mill Creek Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (United States) Director: Norman Maurer Writing: Elwood Ullman (Screenwriter), Norman Maurer (Story By) Length: 93 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: Mono Subtitles:

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Stars:
The Three StoogesMoe Howard as Moe
Larry Fine as Larry
Joe DeRita as Curly-Joe


Plot:
The Stooges set sail for a globe-hopping trip, after being enlisted by a con man that needs to win a bet.

Extras:

• None

Not as good as the last one... but a fun film. They had Curly Joe doing one of Curly's old skits. Going nuts when he hears the tune Pop goes the Weasel. While I never liked Curly Joe as a kid I found I have been able to enjoy him more now. Though I still prefer Curly.



(From November Movie Marathon: Classic Comedy Greats on November 18th, 2017)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

Genshiken: Complete Collection (2004/Japan) IMDb | Wikipedia (United States) Length: 325 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Japanese: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: English

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Plot:
Calling all Scruffy Nerd-Herders!

Welcome to the Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture

It is Sasahara's first day of college and a fateful choice awaits him: which college clubs will he chose to join? But Sasahara is no ordinary young man - a dark secret lurks within his soul. For one thing, he knows what "cosplay" is, how to unlock all the secret characters in "Guilty Gear X," what the plot twist is in episode twenty-five of "Kujibiki Unbalance" because he's read the manga, he's heard of doujinshi, and he needs to know more. Enter Genshiken, the barely legitimized Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture, home to all subspecies of Otaku!

Now Otaku can watch this complete series from the safety of their own basements!!

Contains all 12 episodes of Genshiken plus 3 episodes of Kubijiki Unbalance.


Genshiken
1.01 Gendai ni okeru Shikaku o Chuushin to shita Bunka no Kenkyuu (2004-10-10)
Writer: Shimoku Kio (Original Material By), Michiko Yokote (Screenwriter)
Director: Takashi Ikehata
Cast: Japanese Voice Cast), Takanori Oyama (Kanji Sasahara (voice)), Mitsuki Saiga (Makoto Kosaga (voice)), Satsuki Yukino (Saki Kasukabo (voice)), Nobuyuki Hiyama (Harunobu Madarame (voice)), Tomokazu Seki (Soichiro Tamaka (voice)), Kenji Nomura (Mitsumori Kugayama (voice)), Yuji Ueda (Chairman (voice)), Eiji Yanagisawa (Takayanagi (voice)), Daisuke Kirii (Senior (voice)), Tarusuke Shingaki (Male Student (voice)), Takayuki Kondo (Background Voice A (voice)), Tsugumi Higasayama (Part-Time Worker (voice)), Kujibiki Unbalance), Yuka Imai (Chihiro Enomoto (voice)), Akemi Kanda (Tokino Akiyama (voice)), Yuko Kaida (Izumi Tachibana (voice)), Yukari Tamura (Komaki Asagiri (voice)), Saeko Chiba (Ritsuko Kubel Kettenkrad (voice)), Ayako Kawasumi (Kasumi Kisaragi (voice)), Kana Ueda (Risa Humvee (voice)), Haruko Momoi (Shinobu Enomoto (voice)), Kenichi Suzumura (Mugio Rokuhara (voice)), Ikue Otani (Renko Kamishakuji (voice)), Yuko Goto (Kaoruko Yamada (voice)), Nanae Kato (Kenji Suzuki (voice)), Taro Yamaguchi (Kenji Suzuki (voice)), English Voice Cast), Genshiken), Michael Perreca (Sasahara Kanji (voice)), Carol Jacobanis (Saki Kasukabe (voice)), Kenneth Robert Marlo (Kosake Makoto (voice)), Michael Alston Baley (Haraguchi (voice)), Rachael Lillis (Ohno (voice)), Bill Rogers (Tamaka Soichiro (voice)), Rome Elliot (Kugayana Mitsunori (voice)), William Hirsh (Takayanagi (voice)), Chunky Mon (Narrator (voice)), Jessica Loseth (Cosplayer (voice)), Randall Burton (Ex-Boyfriend (voice)), Tim Breese (Additional Voices (voice)), Meg Francis (Additional Voices (voice)), Ryan Vernierre (Additional Voices (voice)), Jim Festante (Additional Voices (voice)), Joe D. Rob Notoris (Additional Voices (voice)), John Carey (Additional Voices (voice)), Brian MacMullen (Additional Voices (voice)), Todd Garbeil (Additional Voices (voice)), Brian Maillard (Additional Voices (voice)), Mandy Bonhomme (Additional Voices (voice)), Zoe Fries (Additional Voices (voice)), Kujibiki), Rich McNanna (Chihiro Enomoto (voice)), Veronica Taylor (Tokino Akiyama (voice)), Rachael Lillis (Vice President (voice)), Angora Deb (Kamishakuji Renko (voice)), Liz Johnson (Shinobu Enomoto (voice)), Zoe Fries (President (voice)), Lisa Ortiz (Yamada Kaoruko (voice)), Mandy Bonhomme (Komaki Asagiri (voice)), Meg Francis (Izumi Tachibama (voice)), Amanda Veautour (Treasurer (voice)), Tim Breese (Kaburaki (voice)), Tim Breese (Additional Voices (voice)), Ryan Vernierre (Additional Voices (voice)), Jim Festante (Additional Voices (voice)), Rob Notoris (Additional Voices (voice)), John Carey (Additional Voices (voice)), Brian MacMullen (Additional Voices (voice)), Todd Garbeil (Additional Voices (voice)), Brian Maillard (Additional Voices (voice))

Genshiken is one of my favourite mangas. The anime is a good and faithful adaption of it. Though I hope they will make a third season to complete the storyline of the manga. The pilot begins with the opening of the in-verse anime the characters love to watch and discuss. This can confuse first time viewers.

Rating:

(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on June 25th, 2011)