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Hidden Figures, a review by addicted2dvd

Hidden Figures (2016/United States) IMDb |Wikipedia |Trailer | Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (United States) Director: Theodore Melfi Writing: Allison Schroeder (Screenwriter), Theodore Melfi (Screenwriter), Margot Lee Shetterly (Original Material By) Length: 127 min. Video: Widescreen 2.39:1 Audio: English: DTS-HD Master Audio: 7.1, Audio Descriptive: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital: 5.1, French: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Portuguese: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Czech: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Hindi: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Other: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Hungarian: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Thai: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Turkish: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Commentary: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo Subtitles: Arabic, Bahasa, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, English, French, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Korean, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, Commentary, Other

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Stars:Plot:Extras:

• Scene Access
• Audio Commentary
• Feature Trailers
• Bonus Trailers
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Gallery
• Digital Copy

I have to say I loved this film. A truly interesting and powerful story with a great cast. I could not turn away from this film. It grabbed my attention so easily that I was surprised when it was over. And this film is just over 2hrs long! If you are like me and enjoy true stories this is one not to miss. I highly recommend it! I can hardly wait to watch it again when I show it to Gen and Moira.



(From What Movies I Been Watching on May 21st, 2017)

Footloose (1984), a review by addicted2dvd

Footloose: Special Collector's Edition (1984/United States) IMDb |Wikipedia |Trailer | Paramount Home Entertainment (United States) Director: Herbert Ross Writing: Dean Pitchford (Writer) Length: 107 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital EX: 5.1 (Matrixed 6.1), English: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround, French: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo, Commentary: Dolby Digital: Mono, Commentary: Dolby Digital: Mono Subtitles: English, Spanish

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Stars:
Kevin Bacon as Ren
Lori Singer as Ariel
John Lithgow as Rev. Shaw Moore
Dianne Wiest as Vi Moore
Christopher Penn as Willard

Plot:
Footloose jumps with spirit, dazzling dance numbers and an electrifying musical score. It portrays the timeless struggle between innocent pleasure and rigid morality, when city-boy Ren McCormick (Kevin Bacon) finds himself in an uptight Midwestern town where dancing has been banned. Ren revolts with best friend Willard (Chris Penn) and the minister's daughter (Lori Singer). Features a treasury of Top 10 songs - Kenny Loggins' "Footloose," Shalamar's "Dancing In The Sheets," Deniece Williams' "Let's Hear It For The Boy," Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out For A Hero," and the Footloose love theme, "Almost Paradise."

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Audio Commentary
• Feature Trailers
• Featurettes
• Closed Captioned

This is one I have watched on several occasions with Dawn. It is a fun movie. I enjoyed every minute of it. The entire cast did a great job. I even liked John Lithgow as the reverend....and I normally don't care for him at all. This is one I feel comfortable recommending to everyone. Well worth the time put in to watch it.



(From July Movie Marathon: Musicals (Yes... You read right!) on July 15th, 2016)

The One Where It All Began: The Pilot Marathon, a review by DJ Doena

Star Trek: The Next Generation



What's the show about?
The crew of the Galaxy class starship Enterprise, designation NCC-1701-D, "explores strange new worlds, new civilizations and goes bodly where no one has gone before". Captain Picard and his men, women and android travel through the known universe and beyond, analyze space phenomena and negotiate peace or trade treaties.

What happened before?
TNG plays roughly a century after Captain Kirk's five year mission ("Star Trek") and about 70 years after the Kithomer conference ("Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country"). Klingons and the Federation are no longer enemies.

"Encounter at Farpoint"
Captain Jean-Luc Picard has just taken over the command of the Enterprise. On the way to the newly-built Farpoint Station on the planet Deneb IV the Enterprise is attacked by a being that calls himself a "Q". It demands that the human race is to return to their own solar system. After a "trial" which seems to take place in a late-21st-century court room, judge Q decides to put the ship's crew on probation depending on whether they are able to solve the mystery of Farpoint Station.

My Opinion
When I watched the pilot for the first time back in 1990 or 1991 on german television I was thrilled. Star Trek was back on the screen! I devoured every new episode and I liked Q from the beginning. Since I wasn't born when the original series ran and I watched it only a few years earlier I was unprejudiced about the new show.
TNG is my second-favourite Star Trek show (directly after DS9).

Again I was surprised when I watched the show with english audio track. No one of the main characters is able to pronounce the captain's name correctly, not even the captain himself.

(From The One Where It All Began: The Pilot Marathon on January 2nd, 2008)