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Wyatt Earp, a review by Rogmeister

Wyatt Earp
Directed by Lawrence Kasdan
Music by James Newton Howard

Interestingly, this movie and another movie about Wyatt Earp called Tombstone both hit the big screen within a year or so of each other...maybe they both came out the same year...I'm not real sure.  But becasue they were released so quickly together, many people compared them together which may be an unfortunate thing.  I've yet to see the other film so I won't do that.  Unlike Tombstone, which I assume concentrates on one part of Wyatt Earp's career, this film (which was originally planned to be a TV mini-series and later turned into a feature film when director Kasdan came aboard.  Perhaps the span was too great for one film...it certainly is a long one, beginning when WSyatt was a teenager and ending a bit after the infamous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (with a tacked-on finale with Wyatt in his later years following the Alaskan Gold Rush.  This film stars Kevin Costner as Wyatt with a terrific performance by Dennis Quaid as Doc Holiday who lost a lot of weight t play the ill doctor who was suffering from tuberculosis.  There's a lot of familiar names in this film from Isabella Rosselini (as Big-Nose Kate) to Tom Skerritt.  It's got some great photography and a great score and I can't complain about the direction.  But I do think the film is a bit long and includes perhaps too much.  Among the extras, in fact, are even more scenes that didn't make the final cut...here they call them "lifted" rather than deleted scenes for some reason.  There are also some other extras including a documentary and TV special.  My one gripe about the DVD is they divide the movie over 2 discs...at one point you have to take Disc 1 out and put in Disc 2 to continue watching the film.  But while I do think the film includes too wide a sweep, I must say I actually enjoyed it more than I thought I would since I had read a few not-so-great reviews of this film.  This isn't the best Wyatt Earp film around but I did enjoy it.

(From Roger's Ongoing Westerns Marathon on December 20th, 2009)

Infection, a review by Jimmy

           

Title: Infection (2004)
Original Title: Kansen

Genre: Horror
Director: Masayuki Ochiai (Parasite Eve)         
Rating: R
Length: 1h38
Video: Widescreen
Audio: Japanese
Subtitles: English and Spanish

Stars:
Michiko Hada (Flowers of Shanghai)
Mari Hoshino (Go-Con! Japanese Love Culture)
Tae Kimura (Go-Con! Japanese Love Culture)
Yoko Maki (The Grudge)   
Kaho Minami (Teito taisen)

Plot:
A patient in a hospital dies due to malpractice. The doctors responsible panic and stage a cover up. Shortly thereafter, another patient is left at the hospital doors dying of bizarre symptoms. When the patient dies, the doctors involved in the cover up being acting strangely, then one by one, develop the same mysterious and deadly symptoms.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysgwg2OBtUw

(From The little known movie review depot on February 27th, 2008)

Smallville Marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

1. PILOT
Rescue Lex, avoid Lana's killer green necklace, stop an avenging scarecrow man and don't reveal your powers to anyone. Who says being a teen hero is easy? Clark also learns he's not exactly from the neighborhood.

My Thoughts:
This is a good start to a great series! The start of the friendship between Clark and Lex... Clark's unbreakable infatuation with Lana... And who can forget Chloe with her Wall of Weird... It has been so long since I have seen these early episodes... this is going to be a fun marathon!

2. METAMORPHOSIS
Is Lana fated to a cocoon of doom? A nerdish bug collector is transformed into a monster by the irradiated bugs of Smallville - and he wants Lana for his bug-world queen.

My Thoughts:
Another good episode... most of them are! In this one Clark gets his first real fight as the Bug Boy is strong too. Of course (like most the episodes) Clark must save Lana from the freak of the week.

3. HOTHEAD
He has a burning desire for victory! A win-at-any-cost football coach turns deadly when unexpected exposure to 'kryptonite' gives him the power to cause his critics to engulf in flames.

My Thoughts:
This is a decent episode... but not one of my favorites. I don't know what it is about this episode... I guess it is a mixture of 2 things.. first that couch bugs the crap out of me for some reason... just don't like him.... plus I am not much of a sports fan... so this episode having a lot to do with football kinda gets lost on me. Other then that... I am still able to enjoy it.

4. X-RAY
Clark is startled to discover he has the power of X-ray vision - a power that may be useful when he confronts a challenging-like student who can take on the appearance and emotional traits of anyone.

My Thoughts:
Now... this on the other hand is one of my favorites. In the Smallville series there is 2 type of episodes I really like. One being... like this one... where Clark develops one of his powers. and the other is when the other superheroes comes into the series... which don't happen to the later seasons if I remember correctly. I must admit... of all of Clark's powers... this is the one I would like to have! Of course I don't think I could be as strong as Clark on not looking at things I shouldn't!

(From Smallville Marathon on July 31st, 2007)