Year: 2004

Hazard, Olga, and I watched “Dog Soldiers” on DVD today. It is a nice British flick on werewolves. There are a couple of differencies that this movie has from a whole bunch of others. Firstly, it is not another Hollywood blockbuster with shiny details and special effects. This film simply doesn’t have the budget that most US studios have. Secondly, it has a different perspective. Instead of a mixture of werewolves and civil citizens this time you enjoy the point of professional British soldiers. They have organization and weapons. Organization is shown excellently, but the pity is that most of the weapons don’t work against the creatures.

The happy end is present though, which makes it look a bit like a wanna-be-american movie. Overall though I would give it a 6 out of 10 and recommend to watch it on TV when the time will come.

We have seen an excellent French animation – “Les Douze travaux d’Astérix” (“The Twelve Tasks of Asterix”). It’s a geniously drawen action from as far back as 1976. But being old has nothing to do with it, since it covers a range of modern subjects like TV advertising and car parking problems.

Unfortunately for many of us, the only comprehensible way you can see this is in English or Russian translation. But even being translated cannot hide the fact that it is one of the greatest animations ever created.

Strongly recommended for watching with or without kids and having this DVD in the home collection.

As a premier of Hazard’s new TV-set (34″ Tompson or something) we’ve watched “Arlington Road” today on DVD.

There is not surprise this movie wasn’t broadly advertised. It presents a fresh (in American terms) look on terrorism and history of United States. It also doesn’t have a happy ending. But it has a bunch of stars in it, like Jeff Bridges (Dr. Mark Powell in “K-PAX“) and Tim Robbins (Nick Beam aka the white guy in “Nothing to Lose“).

The film is a bit slow and full of drama, but has an nice ending. I’ll recommend it to anyone who ever thought about the terrorism and USA together, but doesn’t have a Bush washed brain.