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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, a review by Tom

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002/United Kingdom) IMDb | Wikipedia Warner Home Video (United Kingdom) Director: Chris Columbus Writing: Steve Kloves (Screenwriter), J.K. Rowling (Original Material By) Length: 161 min. Video: Widescreen 2.40 Audio: English: Dolby Digital EX 5.1 (Matrixed 6.1), English: PCM 5.1 (Matrixed 6.1), French: Dolby Digital EX 5.1 (Matrixed 6.1), French: Dolby Digital EX 5.1 (Matrixed 6.1), German: Dolby Digital EX 5.1 (Matrixed 6.1), Italian: Dolby Digital EX 5.1 (Matrixed 6.1), Spanish: Dolby Digital EX 5.1 (Matrixed 6.1), Dutch: Dolby Digital EX 5.1 (Matrixed 6.1), Japanese: Dolby Digital EX 5.1 (Matrixed 6.1), Spanish: Dolby Digital EX 5.1 (Matrixed 6.1), Catalonian: Dolby Digital EX 5.1 (Matrixed 6.1), Danish: Dolby Digital EX 5.1 (Matrixed 6.1), Flemish: Dolby Digital EX 5.1 (Matrixed 6.1), Swedish: Dolby Digital EX 5.1 (Matrixed 6.1) Subtitles: Chinese, Danish, English, French, German, Finnish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Catalonian, Flemish

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Stars:
Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter
Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley
Emma Watson as Hermione Granger
Richard Griffiths as Uncle Vernon
Fiona Shaw as Aunt Petunia

Plot:
Cars fly, trees fight back and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger await when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber of Secrets has been opened. To save Hogwarts will require all of Harry, Ron and Hermione's magical abilities and courage.

Awards:
Won:

BMI Film & TV Music Awards (2003)		BMI Film Music Award (John Williams)
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards (2003)		Best Composer (John Williams)
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards (2003)

Nominated:

BAFTA (2002)		Achievement In Special Visual Effects (Jim Mitchell, Nick Davis, John Richardson, Bill George, Nick Dudman)
BAFTA (2002)		Production Design (Stuart Craig)
BAFTA (2002)		Sound (David Randall Thom, Dennis Leonard, John Midgley, Ray Merrin, Graham Daniel, Rick Kline)
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards (2003)		Best Digital Acting Performance (Dobby)
Golden Trailer Awards (2003)		Best Animation/Family
Grammy Awards (2004)		Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media (John Williams)
Hugo Award (2003)		Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
MTV Movie Awards (2003)		Best Virtual Performance (Dobby)
Online Film Critics Society Awards (2003)		Best Visual Effects (John Richardson)
Saturn (2002)		Best Costumes (Lindy Hemming)
Saturn (2002)		Best Director (Chris Columbus)
Saturn (2003)		Best DVD Special Edition Release
Saturn (2002)		Best Fantasy Film
Saturn (2002)		Best Makeup (Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight)
Saturn (2002)		Best Performance by a Younger Actor (Daniel Radcliffe)
Saturn (2002)		Best Special Effects (John W. Mitchell, Nick Davis, John Richardson, Bill George)
Visual Effects Society Awards (2003)		Best Character Animation in a Live Action Motion Picture (David Andrews, Steve Rawlins, Frank Gravatt, Douglas Smythe (For "Dobby's Face"))
Visual Effects Society Awards (2003)		Best Compositing in a Motion Picture (Dorne Huebler, Barbara Brennan, Jay Cooper, Kimberly Lashbrook)

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Trailers
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Interviews

I enjoyed this one more than the first one. At first I feared that this movie would end up with the same fate as the first one, because I really liked the beginning (even more so than in the first movie), but I got bored as soon they entered Hogwart. But thankfully the movie picked up again and I enjoyed the end of it.

Rating:

(From Tom's Harry Potter Movie Marathon on December 2nd, 2012)

Leave Her to Heaven, a review by Rick

Leave Her to Heaven

Hollywood Legends:
Gene Tierney
Cornel Wilde
Vincent Price

Overview:My thoughts:My Rating: Right now I have to rate it as a   I did see enough to make me want to know what happens next, so as of now I am recommending it.

(From DCO third annual November Alphabet Marathon - discussion/review/banter thread on November 28th, 2009)

Tom's Random Star Trek Reviews, a review by Tom

Enterprise
Season 3.18 Azati Prime
Writer: Manny Coto (Screenwriter), Rick Berman (Original Material By), Brannon Braga (Original Material By), Manny Coto (Original Material By)
Director: Allan Kroeker
Cast: Scott Bakula (Jonathan Archer), John Billingsley (Dr, Phlox), Jolene Blalock (T'Pol), Dominic Keating (Malcolm Reed), Anthony Montgomery (Travis Mayweather), Linda Park (Hoshi Sato), Connor Trinneer (Charles "Trip" Tucker III), Matt Winston (Daniels), Randy Oglesby (Degra), Scott MacDonald (Reptilian Commander), Tucker Smallwood (Xindi-Humanoid), Rick Worthy (Xindi-Arboreal), Christopher Goodman (Thalen)

This episode has a short scene where Archer gets pulled 400 years into the future. Nothing special though. I find the storyline with the Xindi boring.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Star Trek Reviews on October 16th, 2013)