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Speed, a review by Tom

Speed (1994/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (Germany) Director: Jan de Bont Writing: Graham Yost (Writer) Length: 111 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, German: Dolby Digital 5.1, German: DTS 5.1, Commentary: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Commentary: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: English, German, Commentary

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Stars:
Keanu Reeves as Jack Traven
Dennis Hopper as Howard Payne
Sandra Bullock as Annie
Joe Morton as Capt. McMahon
Jeff Daniels as Harry

Plot:Awards:
Won:

Academy Award (1994)		Best Sound (Gregg Landaker, Steve Maslow, Bob Beemer, David MacMillan)
Academy Award (1994)		Best Sound Effects Editing (Stephen Hunter Flick)
AFI (1994)		100 Years... 100 Thrills (2001)
BAFTA (1994)		Editing (John Wright)
BAFTA (1994)		Sound (Stephen Hunter Flick, Gregg Landaker, Steve Maslow, Bob Beemer, David MacMillan)
BMI Film & TV Music Awards (1995)		BMI Film Music Award (Mark Mancina)
MTV Movie Awards (1995)		Best Action Sequence
MTV Movie Awards (1995)		Best Female Performance (Sandra Bullock)
MTV Movie Awards (1995)		Best On-screen Duo (Sandra Bullock, Keanu Reeves)
MTV Movie Awards (1995)		Best Villain (Dennis Hopper)
MTV Movie Awards (1995)		Most Desirable Female (Sandra Bullock)
Saturn (1994)		Best Actress (Sandra Bullock)

Nominated:

Academy Award (1994)		Best Film Editing (John Wright)
American Cinema Editors Awards (1995)		Best Edited Feature Film (John Wright)
BAFTA (1994)		Achievement In Special Effects (Boyd Shermis, John Frazier, Ron Brinkman, Richard Hollander)
Cinema Audio Society Awards (1995)		Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Feature Film (Gregg Landaker, Steve Maslow, Bob Beemer, David MacMillan)
MTV Movie Awards (1995)		Best Kiss (Sandra Bullock, Keanu Reeves)
MTV Movie Awards (1995)		Best Male Performance (Keanu Reeves)
MTV Movie Awards (1995)		Best Movie
Saturn (1994)		Best Action / Adventure / Thriller Film
Saturn (1994)		Best Director (Jan De Bont)

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Commentary
• Trailers
• Photo Gallery
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Production Notes
• Multi Angle
• Music Videos
• Interviews
• Storyboard Comparisons

I haven't seen this movie for a long time. It is still great fun to watch and really holds up. I enjoyed every minute of it. Keannu Reeves and Sandra Bullock both did a great job.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on March 27th, 2023)

Paradise, a review by Jimmy

                   
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Title: Paradise
Year: 1982
Genre: Adventure
Director: Stuart Gillard (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III)         
Rating: 13
Length: 1h31
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English and Spanish
Subtitles: Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish

Stars:
Willie Aames (Zapped!)
Phoebe Cates (Private School)
Tuvia Tavi (Death Before Dishonor)
Richard Curnock (TekWar: TekLab)
Neil Vipond (Kings and Desperate Men)

Plot:
David and Sarah travel with a caravan from Baghdad to Damascus. At an oasis the white-slave agent 'Jackal' raids them, mainly to add the beautiful young Sarah to his harem. Only David and Sarah can flee, all the others are slayed. Their flight leads them to a beautiful oasis - their paradise - where they discover love and sex.



(From The little known movie review depot on February 22nd, 2008)

My PILOT Marathon, a review by Rich

Monarch Of The Glen

Episode 1
Young restaurant owner Archie MacDonald is called urgently from London back to his ailing fathers bedside in the ancestral home in Scotland, Glenbogle. He soon discovers that Hector has nothing worse than a cold and his sweet but dotty mother Molly has called him home on a pretext and has worked events so he can't easily escape back to London.



Inspired by the highland novels of Compton Mackenzie, this show follows Archie MacDonald as he finds himself thrown into the role of the new Laird of Glenbogle, his family's financially failing Scottish estate. With the help, and sometimes hinderance, of his family and faithful retainers he works to get the noble estate back on its feet.

Dull, charmless and twee melodrama/comedy that sparked no interest through it's pilot episode.
Clearly not every great series is preceded by a wonderful 1st/pilot offering, but there was nothing here in terms of characters, storyline, actors or direction that generated any level of enthusiasm to rush back and watch further offerings. I am sure it must improve as it had such a long run, but for me it is a dead duck from the get-go.
 

(From My PILOT Marathon on September 5th, 2009)