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Chungking Express, a review by Antares

The Town (2010) 4/5 - Definitely no sophomore jinx for Affleck. While the story doesn't quite grab you as well as Gone, Baby Gone, it has enough action to keep you on the edge of your seat. What I really liked about the film was the realistic way the characters were portrayed, as opposed to the caricatures that were present in Scorcese's The Departed. This is how you do Boston accents correctly, please take note Hollywood for any further ventures.

(1984) 3/5 - This is my third Miyazaki film and while he is extremely creative in his ideas, his movies just don't do it for me. I've never been a fan of Anime, so maybe that's the reason. But what I found with this film was that it started out great and faltered at the end. This was the same feeling I had with the other two films I watched by Miyazaki previously, Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away.

Chungking Express (1994) 3/5 - Of the threee films I watched this weekend, this was the saddest realization for me. I had heard such good things about this film and after seeing his more famous film I'm in the Mood for Love, I was ready for the same exhilaration I felt for that film. But sadly, this film is no where near the quality of his later film. This is a film that is desperately trying to be unique, artsy and hip. Only for brief moments does it gel completely, but unfortunately, those moments are few and far between. One thing it did show me was where Jean-Pierre Jeunet got the inspiration for Amelie. I'll re-visit it again in the future, hopefully a second viewing will change my mind.

(From Antares' Short Summations on March 28th, 2011)

Better than Chocolate, a review by Tom

Title: Better than Chocolate
Year: 1999
Director: Anne Wheeler
Rating: NR
Length: 102 Min.
Video: Widescreen 1.85
Audio: English: Dolby Digital Stereo, Commentary: Dolby Digital Stereo
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Stars:
Wendy Crewson
Karyn Dwyer
Christina Cox
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Marya Delver

Plot:
"BETTER THAN CHOCOLATE" is a sexy romp of love and lust with surprising results.

Maggie (Karyn Dwyer) meets the woman of her dreams, Kim (Christina Cox), just hours before her mother, Lila (Wendy Crewson), and brother, Paul (Kevin Mundy), move in with her. When the four end up sharing a loft. Maggie believes she must keep her affair a secret but it is Maggie's clandestine romance that inadvertently introduces her family to a host of new experiences, all of which are potentially better than chocolate.

Extras:
Commentary
Scene Access
Trailers



(From Lesbian Movie Marathon on June 10th, 2009)

Tom's TV Finales marathon, a review by Tom

Adventures of Superman: Seasons Five and Six (1957/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Warner Home Video (United States) Length: 677 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 1 Subtitles: French, Spanish

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Plot:
Crime doesn't pay. Not when SUPERMAN is around. Yet that won't stop METROPOLIS miscreants feverishly bent on malevolent misdeeds. A deadly KRYPTONITE ray gun, knights in armor, anti-memory vapor, a gizmo that zaps bad guys across phone lines, even a mind-reading burro who taps out responses (and who has suspicions about CLARK KENT!) - all are called into futile service to thwart the MAN OF STEEL.

"You can set your watch on it" JIMMY OLSEN says about Superman always showing up in the nick of time. The good news for series fans is that he shows up again and again in these 26 flights of fantasy that complete the six season Adventures of Superman. George Reeves returns as the caped hero: stalwart, caring and with a sense of humor...a pairing of star and role that continues to win fans the world over.


The Adventures of Superman
Season 6.13 All That Glitters
Writer: Robert Leslie Bellem (Writer), Whitney Ellsworth (Writer)
Director: George Reeves
Cast: George Reeves (Superman / Clark Kent), Jack Larson (Jimmy Olsen), Noel Neill (Lois Lane), John Hamilton (Perry White), Robert Shayne (Inspector Henderson), Phillips Tead (Professor J. J. Pepperwinkle), Len Hendry (Nick Mitchell), Jack Littlefield (Elbows Logan), Richard Elliott (Mr. Gobey), George Eldredge (John Salem), Paul Cavanagh (Delbert Carter), Myrna Fahey (Miss Dunn)

I only ever saw this series on DVD. But I only have finished the first two seasons so far. It has been some time since then, so I don't remember, if the early episodes were also this bad. It is like they are parodying themselves. Like they made the dialog and story so ridiculous, that there won't be no chance, they wouldn't be cancelled.
Superman/Clark is hardly in this episode. I am not sure if it is only because George Reeves directed the episode, or if this is regularly the case for later episodes.
Also I am not a fan of Noel Neill as Lois Lane. I think the first season's Lois Lane, Phyllis Coates, has the looks and attitude of a proper Lois. Not Noel Neill though.


Rating:

(From Tom's TV Finales marathon on November 26th, 2012)