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Knight and Day, a review by Tom

Knight and Day (2010/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (Germany) Director: James Mangold Writing: Patrick O'Neill (Writer) Length: 117 min. Video: Widescreen 2.40 Audio: English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, French: DTS 5.1, Portuguese: Dolby Digital 5.1, German: DTS 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1, Russian: DTS 5.1, Spanish: DTS 5.1, Other: Dolby Digital 5.1 Subtitles: Arabic, Catalonian, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish

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Stars:Plot:
June Havens finds her everyday life tangled with that of a secret agent who has realized he isn't supposed to survive his latest mission. As their campaign to stay alive stretches across the globe, they soon learn that all they can count on is each other.

Extras:

• BD-Live
• Bonus Trailers
• Digital Copy
• Featurettes
• Scene Access
• Trailers

I found this movie quite boring. I had hoped for a funny spy/action movie, but I didn't find it funny and the visual effects were below average.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on February 12th, 2011)

Being Julia, a review by Silence_of_Lambs

Summary:
Tale of amorous folly and revenge set in the world of the London stage in the late 1930's. Reigning diva Julia Lambert's (Annette Bening) success and fame grow suddenly wearisome. She falls head over heels for a young American, Tom (Shaun Evans), and begins a passionate May - December affair. When she realizes that Tom is just a young social climber whose real passion is ambitious young starlet Avice Crichton (Lucy Punch), Julia begins to plot a delightful revenge.

My Thoughts:
The summary really (nearly) says it all, the original material is by W. Somerset Maugham, so no real surprises in the plot are to be expected.
The first time I partially watched this movie was when I accidentally zapped into it on TV. I arrived to enjoy the preparations for the revenge with the final execution of the career of a young actress. Until I finally watched the complete story on DVD I had to ask myself: "What might this girl have done to deserve this?"
What really is great about this movie is the extremely good and ambitioned acting starting with Annette Bening as aging actress over Jeremy Irons as her husband and Michael Gambon as ... let's call it "the spirit of inspiration". The whole cast is extremely well chosen and all down to the tiniest supporting role are doing an amazing job here, which alone is worth watching.

Highly enjoyable

My Rating: (out of possible 5)

(From Michael's random reviews on October 31st, 2010)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs (1984/Japan) IMDb | Wikipedia (Germany) Length: 100 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: German: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles:

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Plot:Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs
1.01 Episode 1

I loved this series as a kid. This was originally a Japanese anime, but it was completely recut and restructure by an American company. Even the names of the characters and the dynamic between them changed. In the original it was not Saber Rider who was the leader, but the young Japanese hothead.

Rating:

(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on June 27th, 2012)