Ramiro Rivas's DVD of the Month!

Here are some reviews of movies I have recently seen on DVD.  Take a break while on this website, and see if you can make tonight a movie night.  Movies I tend to watch fequently are action/adventure, horror, comedy, foriegn films (when recommended), and documentaries.   Enjoy! 

  

Stardust

The story begins around 150 years ago, in an English town named Wall, which is built beside a wall that is a portal to the magical realm of Stormhold. After a young man named Dunstan Thorn (Ben Barnes) crosses the wall, he meets a princess named Una (Kate Magowan) who is the slave of the witch Ditchwater Sal (Melanie Hill). She gives him a glass snowdrop which she claims will bring him incredible luck, for the price of a kiss. Dunstan kisses her and makes love to her and returns through the portal to his hometown of Wall by the morning, hoping to forget his adventure. However, nine months later, Una sends him a baby boy in a basket, their infant son, Tristan.

Eighteen years later, the King of Stormhold (Peter O'Toole) is dying, and his four surviving sons (Septimus, Primus, Tertius, and Secundus) fight over who will be the next king while their three dead brothers (Quartus, Quintus, and Sextus) look on as ghosts. After Secundus (Rupert Everett) appears late, and is tricked into being pushed off a balcony by Septimus (Mark Strong), he dies and becomes a ghost as well. The King turns a ruby necklace into a diamond necklace and tells his sons that one to retrieve the diamond and turn it red will be the next king of Stromhold. The Diamond travels into space and knocks a star out of the sky, which the grown Tristan Thorn (Charlie Cox) sees while sitting with Victoria (Sienna Miller). Tristan promises to retrieve the star for her to gain her hand in marriage. However, at the same time, three witch sisters, Lamia, Empusa, and Mormo, see the falling star, and Lamia (Michelle Pfeiffer), leaves to capture it. By devouring the star's heart, she and her sisters will be restored to beauty and power. Tristan tries to cross the wall, but the guard, in spite of his old age, manages to stop him.

 

 

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