Movie Trivia A Short Quiz for the Holidays
December 18, 2006 by Joe Boyle · Leave a Comment
With the holidays nearly in full swing and everyone shopped out with present buying I thought a movie trivia quiz would be a nice idea so here are few questions every home theater fanatic should know? In case you were wondering the answers will be posted on the week during New Year so you can see how you did ?
Q. Which movie was the first to appear on DVD?
Q How many formats of DVD were there originally?
Q Who is the new James Bond to be seen in the new movie Casino Royale ?
Q What aspect ratio is traditional wide screen ?
Q Up to how many language tracks can a DVD carry ?
Q Which famous director was responsible for the development of the THX system?
Q What is another name for Dolby Digital?
Q Which cult film features the characters Mia , Vincent , Jules and Butch?
Q In Monty Python And The Holy Grail which animal does the woman weigh the same as confirming she is a witch?
Q In Santa Claus the 1994 movie Tim Allen burns the christmas turkey which restaurant do they end up eating instead a) Arbys, b) Denny’s c) McDonalds d) KFC
Q Which famous car features in the movie the Italian Job
Q Which movie staring [tag-tec]Hollywood[/tag-tec] heart throb stars Tom Cruise as hit man hired to kill all the witnesses in a trial?
Q Which 2004 movie features Tom Hanks stuck in a airport where he starts to live?
Q Which famous girl friendly sports casr are the cars Mia and Tia in the movie [tag-tec]CARS[/tag-tec] modelled on ?
Q Which famous Die Hard Actor stars as the voice of RJ in Over The Hedge?
Q Which colorfully named star appeared in tne movie Nacho Libre?
Q Who the Davinci Code which was made into a movie in 2006 ?
Q Which Martin Scorsesse film of this year featured Jack Nicholson and Leonardo Di Caprio ?
Q Which actor played slevin in lucky number slevin ?
Q In which year was the original Poseidon Adventure released and was remade in 2006?
Q In snakes on the plane some say the movie of 2006 which are killed more of snakes or people ?
Q Who is the female star of Ultraviolet?
Q Which part does Halle Berry play in Xmen and [tag-tec]Xmen 2[/tag-tec] ?
Q Which was Disney Channels most succesful High School Movie of all time getting over 7.7 million viewers?
Q Which movie starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock see them as a furstrated architect and a doctor in the romance movie of 2006?
Unless I can’t count and I have had a couple of drinks there are 25 questions don’t forget to check back soon for the answers .. if you enjoyed this we could make a regular feature say once a month ..
Don’t forget HFT is still growing and we are always looking for new ideas it’s early days but we will be expanding more rapidly in 2007.
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DVD Reviews
December 14, 2006 by Joe Boyle · Leave a Comment
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Here’s some of the video’s you might not have on your christmas list the less seedy but rather unerotic Babette/Monique, My love is probably one best to avoid and Diary of Serial Killer also not exactly holiday fayre either and if I am honest not my cup of tea any time.I think if you have seen SEVEN you would be about as excited as the little boy that Santa forgot.
I was beginning to think the christmas period was going to end up watching the TV when I found that Monster in a Box and Mash - Martinis and Medicine were rather more the sort of thing worth watching over christmas. If you to young to know Mash first time round it is based on the Korean War and is very funny so get a copy and laugh all the way to the holidays.
Ooops nearly forgot Japanese anime Zieram special edition could be worth a look as well …
So here are todays reviews thanks to our reviewers.
Babette/Monique, My Love
12 Dec 2006 at 5:37pm
Rent It As their only DVD release in December, Something Weird Video uncorks a couple of static Sappho epics movies that dish out the same sex shenanigans with an apoplectic aplomb that makes similar Skinamax offerings seem sensible by comparison. As the chief champion of cinema’s sleazoid past, Mike Vraney and the gang continue to unearth motion pictures that, in some cases, should have stayed dead and buried in the first place. This time around, we get the strange saga of New York’s “secret society” scene, all told in a manner that makes the erotica seem aggravating instead of arousing. First up, a financially needy Manh…Read the entire review
H6 - Diary of a Serial Killer
12 Dec 2006 at 5:37pm
Skip It The Product:
We’re long past the moratorium stage now. Somehow, the serial killer genre has become such a formulaic fright flick mainstay that even foreign countries are getting into the act. These are not novel twists on the whole slice and dice ideal, or visually arresting variables on the mass murdering mindset, however. No, most of these ineffectual offerings are direct descendants of the whole hackneyed horror ideal of the current post-modern macabre. You know the drill supposedly smart psycho who can slaughter at will; an unwilling accomplice who doesn’t know about the death occurring right under her nose; lame law enforcement who couldn’t solve a one man game of Clue; and lots and lots of kinetic killing. Spain’s most recent example of this terror type H6: Diary of Serial Killer considers itself a deep and dark Sie7e like scarefest. The truth is far more flaccid. Th…Read the entire review
Monster in a Box
12 Dec 2006 at 4:12pm
Recommended The Series:
Spaulding Gray, who died in 2004, was an actor and writer. What reallymade him famous however were his monologs. His one man show Swimming toCambodia, about Gray’s experiances while filming the movie The KillingFields, was filmed by Jonathan Demme and was a surprise hit. Five years later Spaulding was back in front of the camera with anothermonolog, Monster in a Box, in which he discussed how fame treatedhim, working in LA, and writing an autobiographical novel. This touching,funny, and interesting work has now been released on DVD for all of Gray’sfans to enjoy.
As he relates at the beginning of the show, Spaulding was contractedto write a novel, entitled Impossible Vacation by a large publishinghouse. He wrote and wrote, hundreds and hundreds of pages, well over1000, and then he just couldn’t write an…Read the entire review
M*A*S*H - Martinis and Medicine Complete Collection
12 Dec 2006 at 1:29pm
Highly Recommended Wow. I’ve spent the last three weeks immersing myself in the M*A*S*H: The Martinis & Medicine Collection, and I must say that it was a surprisingly emotional experience for me. I was seven when the show premiered in 1972, and almost eighteen when it ended in 1983. I grew up with M*A*S*H being one of the most talked about and watched TV shows during those influential years of mine, and I was rather taken aback at the flood of memories and feelings I’ve had during this month, reviewing this mammoth box set. I can remember sitting down next to my father on the couch, watching the first, funniest years of the show (his favorite episodes from the series, as well as mine and many other fans). And I remember going over to the house of this girl I was crazy about in high school, where she threw a “Farewell M*A*S*H” party for the celebrated Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen f…Read the entire review
Zeiram: Special Edition
12 Dec 2006 at 11:25am
Recommended Background: Science fiction movies often tend to borrow concepts from one another, building on the ideas of what has gone before. The same holds true for anime so it was of interest to me to see the latest version of a Japanese classic, Zeiram: Special Edition recently for review, as it is another example of this concept, with all the cheese I remember from when it came out so many years ago. Fans of the genre may want to know that the original release of the movie (titled Zeram by Image Entertainment has long been out of print but since it had few extras to speak of, no original language track, and looked like no one cared how it was mastered, so this remastered update from Tokyo Shock should make a lot of you happy (I’m still keeping my old copy unless I get a good offer though). As a side note, the animated OVA has long been considered a compelling story with more quality then …Read the entire review
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DVD Reviews
December 5, 2006 by Joe Boyle · Leave a Comment
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Rocky: Collector’s Edition
5 Dec 2006 at 1:41am
DVD Talk Collector Series The Movie
Growing up in Philadelphia you learn at any early age: The Eagles are holy, Cheese Steaks are mother’s milk, and Rocky is god. How cool it was as a kid to see Rocky in the movies or on TV — and there he was! Running up the same art museum steps that we ran up last week! Running through the Italian Market! Wow, look, there’s I-95!
Of course there’s a lot more to Rocky than just the setting, but for a kid growing up in Rocky’s own neighborhood, the flick always had a very special appeal. And it only got better as I grew older and learned a little bit about how movies were made. Several years and gradually worsening sequels later, it might be easy to forget what a fantastic movie the original Rocky is, but I guess that’s why we re-watch the classics over and over. And if you happen to be a fan of [tag-tec]sports movies[/tag-tec], Rocky might not have been the first, but it s…Read the entire review
Walt Disney Legacy Collection - True Life Adventures, Vol. 4: Nature’s Myst…
5 Dec 2006 at 1:41am
DVD Talk Collector Series Fridays at my elementary school were, for me at least, anticipated not only because of the coming weekend, but also because, quite often, my teachers would schedule a film for the day. Rolling out the heavy, seemingly huge Bell & Howell 16mm projector, the teacher would turn over its operation to the kids who could thread it up properly and run it (usually me) as well as not screw around by deliberately messing with the focus or making hand shadows on the screen — while he or she would relax at their desks, waiting too for the weekend. And invariably, we’d see some kind of Disney educational short; if it wasn’t something like Seal Island or Beaver Valley, it would be a cartoon like Donald in Mathmagicland. As well, at our local second-run movie house, at least once a month a [tag-tec]Disney[/tag-tec] feature re-release of some kind would appear for a Saturday matinee, with a True-Life…Read the entire review
Walt Disney Legacy Collection - True Life Adventures, Vol. 2: Lands of Expl…
4 Dec 2006 at 10:39pm
DVD Talk Collector Series Fridays at my elementary school were, for me at least, anticipated not only because of the coming weekend, but also because, quite often, my teachers would schedule a film for the day. Rolling out the heavy, seemingly huge Bell & Howell 16mm projector, the teacher would turn over its operation to the kids who could thread it up properly and run it (usually me) as well as not screw around by deliberately messing with the focus or making hand shadows on the screen — while he or she would relax at their desks, waiting too for the weekend. And invariably, we’d see some kind of Disney educational short; if it wasn’t something like Seal Island or Beaver Valley, it would be a cartoon like Donald in Mathmagicland. As well, at our local second-run movie house, at least once a month a Disney feature re-release of some kind would appear for a Saturday matinee, with a True-Life…Read the entire review
Walt Disney Legacy Collection - True Life Adventures, Vol. 3: Creatures of …
4 Dec 2006 at 10:39pm
DVD Talk Collector Series Fridays at my elementary school were, for me at least, anticipated not only because of the coming weekend, but also because, quite often, my teachers would schedule a film for the day. Rolling out the heavy, seemingly huge Bell & Howell 16mm projector, the teacher would turn over its operation to the kids who could thread it up properly and run it (usually me) as well as not screw around by deliberately messing with the focus or making hand shadows on the screen — while he or she would relax at their desks, waiting too for the weekend. And invariably, we’d see some kind of Disney educational short; if it wasn’t something like Seal Island or Beaver Valley, it would be a cartoon like Donald in Mathmagicland. As well, at our local second-run movie house, at least once a month a Disney feature re-release of some kind would appear for a Saturday matinee, with a True-Life…Read the entire review
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Two Takes - Criterion Collection
4 Dec 2006 at 10:39pm
Highly Recommended The Movies
[tag-tec]Filmmakers [/tag-tec]have been creating self-reflexive works about the art of making movies for nearly as long as the medium has existed — from Man with a Movie Camera, Dziga Vertov’s 1929 stylistic deconstruction of filmic language to Federico Fellini’s luminous 1963 opus 8 1/2 to Francois Truffaut’s love letter to the silver screen, 1973’s Day For Night — and nearly all of them survey the often tortuous process as a journey worth taking, an artistic pilgrimage that results in transcendent experiences. However, few films have ventured where avant-garde African-American auteur William Greaves’ little-seen but unforgettable 1968 work Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One dares tread: turning the “film-within-a-film” conceit inside out, Greaves goes a step further than merely paying homage to the power of cinema, but rather tears the medium apart, pulling at lit…Read the entire review
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