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Zombie Night, a review by addicted2dvd

Zombie Night: Unrated Version (2013/United States) IMDb |Wikipedia |Trailer | The Asylum Home Entertainment Director: John Gulager Writing: Richard Schenkman (Story By), Keith Allan (Writer), Delondra Williams (Writer) Length: 88 min. Rating: Unrated Video: Widescreen 1.78:1 Audio: English: DTS-HD Master Audio: 5.1 Subtitles: None

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Stars:
Anthony Michael Hall as Patrick
Daryl Hannah as Birdy
Alan Ruck as Joseph
Rachel G. Fox as Tracie Jackson
Shirley Jones as Nana
Jennifer Taylor as Karin

Plot:
As night falls in a small California town, the dead rise from its graves, mausoleums, and morgues. The townspeople must fight to survive until sunrise.

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Feature Trailers
• Bonus Trailers
• Featurettes
• Outtakes/Bloopers

This is actually a TV movie that originally aired this past year on the SyFy Channel. The first thing I notice is... Damn! there is a lot of trailers you have to get through before you can even get to the main menu! I don't mind trailers before the menu,,, but they shouldn't disable the menu button to easily bypass them if you choose to do so. It did allow you to hit next to skip the currently playing trialer... but that was it... and you couldn't skip the final trailer at all.

As for the movie itself... being a SyFy Original Film... I went into it with lowered expectations... as some of their movies can be rather cheesy. And it was probably a good thing I did so... I must say.. after finally finishing off the latest season of The Walking Dead... this one is a bit of a let down when it comes to zombie fun. I won't go so far to say this is a bad movie... but there isn't much here that I haven't seen elsewhere before... and the zombies themselves need a bit of work. Basically the best I can give this is an average film. I could see myself watching it again so will keep it in my collection. Though it isn't one I would watch often.



(From Monday Mini-Thon: Blu-Day on April 7th, 2014)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a review by Jon

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3 out of 5



The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backward. From his birth in New Orleans in 1918, across the high seas, through the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and back home again - Benjamin's journey is as extraordinary yet as common as any man's life can be. Directed by David Fincher (Zodiac, Fight Club) and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett as the time-crossed soul mates Benjamin and Daisy, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a time-traveler's epic adventure into the joys of life, the sadness of death and a love that endures beyond time.

David Fincher directing The Curious Case of Benjamin Button? Forrest Gump with the visual punch of Fight Club? Sounds like a treat!

Unfortunately, not only is ButtonButtonForrest GumpZodiac in that respect for making the location part of the fabric of the story. And it is so much like Forrest Gump, the ultimate Marmite film, that maybe, if you like GumpForrest Gump will focus on the preachy aspect of the story, but at least Zemeckis and Hanks both brought considerable charm and a sense of identity. ButtonForrest Gump, The Curious Case of Benjamin ButtonForrest GumpThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a load of old wank! Sorry, cheap shot. 

To be absolutely fair, at its best it is beautiful, honest and heartfelt, but lacks consistency and the arcs of some characters are just so lazy and frustrating. Maybe Fincher was onto something though so if he makes a Director's Cut that actually does "cut", it could be fantastic.



(From Jon's Random Reviews on June 24th, 2010)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Marathon, a review by DJ Doena

Synopsis: It's the birthday of Kira's mother who died during the occupation when Nerys was 3 years old. But then Dukat contacts her from an unknown location and claims to have known her mother and that they even were lovers. That unnerves Kira so much that she uses the Orb of Time to look into events that happened nearly 30 years ago. And there she finds a Kira Meru she didn't expect.

My Opinion: It must be hard to have an idealistic image of someone that gets not only crumbled to ashes but turns into an perverted inversion of that image. She was a collaborator and I believe that's the one thing Nerys can't forgive. Unfortunately they will never pick up on that topic again, it was a "one gig only" kinda thing.

Synopsis: A security breach has happened, someone transmitted secret information from the station to the Dominion. Deputy Director Sloan from Starfleet Security investigates all of the senior staff. Soon his prime supsect becomes Bashir who has quite an impresive number of "coincidences" in his history.

My Opinion: Ah, Sloan and "Section 31" (the Federation's secret intelligence service). Finally. It was interesting to see how Sloan tried to trick Bashir into admitting that he was a collaborator and how Bashir dismissed it out of hand despite the presented "evidence" and even after "Weyoun" "rescued" him.

Synopsis: The war gets worse with every week. Even Betazed has fallen to the Dominion's advance. Sisko and Starfleet devlop a plan to convince the Romulans to join the war. But for this they need Garak and Garak has his won ways in doing things and these ways are most certainly not in accordance with the self-perception of the Federation.

My Opinion: This was certainly one of most interesting episodes of the entire show because everything was so morally ambiguous. Garak hit the spot as he explained to Sisko why Sisko came to him. "The first victim of war is the truth." This sentences matches perfectly to this episode. And I really liked how hard it was for Sisko to bend the truth so much. But there was nothing to be gained by telling the truth after Garak had killed the Romulan.
To every critic of this episode out there: Yes, this episode had nothing to do with Roddenberry's vision of a Federation full of perfect people who will do always the right thing bud sadly there will always be a "necessary evil".

Synopsis: Bashir has brought a new holosuite program to the station: Vic Fontaine. Vic is more than your run-of-the-mill program, for starters he's aware of being a program and he has basic computer access - he can end his own program, can communicate with people outside the holodeck. And he's a ballroom singer.

My Opinion: I said I have no interest in Odo's love life but I still liked this episode a lot because it was so lovely how Vic played the "matchmaker" (I have a weaknes for romance movies you know). And Vic has a nice singing voice, too.
Vic Fontaine is a homage to Frank Sinatra and was played by James Darren (T.J. Hooker) who's a good friend of Frank Sinatra jr. and he will re-appear in that role from now on.

(From Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Marathon on February 22nd, 2009)