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* Yellow asterisk: funny (maybe).
* White asterisk:
expanded format.
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Blue asterisk: not mine.
No asterisk: it probably
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OTHER CRAP:
Catch the deluxe
version of Other Crap in real time, with all the bells and whistles,
here.
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"Sex Traffic"
Sex Traffic (2004) is a two-part Canadian mini-series about trafficking of young women from Eastern Europe to the West. As it opens, a young woman is to be smuggled to Italy. Her young American boyfriend, who is a member of a civilian mercenary peacekeeping force tries to buy her freedom, but is caught, fired, and sent home by his superiors, who are actually running the trafficking. The girl is tossed overboard as a police decoy and drowns. Meanwhile, two sisters, Maria Popistasu and Anamaria Marinca, are about to start down the same path, having been promised a new life in London. They have several very unpleasant stops along the way. We meet an aid agency worker, zealous, but not too careful, who is trying to break up the ring, and the president of the para-military company, and his wife, who is in charge of company charity.
The plight of these women is pretty clearly shown, including shooting one of them for getting VD, brutal beatings, rape, threats of harm to their children, etc.
Maria Popistasu and Anamaria Marinca show breasts and buns, and several unknowns also show breasts.
IMDb readers say 7.9, and there are many enthusiastic comments at IMDb. The performances were fine, and the story is compelling, but at 189 minutes, I was ready for it to end. The locations and photography did not disappoint, and the opportunity for abuse by peacekeeping forces is clearly shown. This is worth seeing, and hence a C. It is now available on DVD from RLDVDs.com, on an all region PAL, in English.
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Dann reports on "Hatchet":
This 2006 horror flick touted itself as "Old School American Horror". Perhaps so; it was a decent enough horror flick but not exceptional, and certainly not destined to become a standout.
During Mardi Gras, a diverse group of tourists take the haunted swamp tour. The group is looking forward to an evening of spooks and fun, but unfortunately, their guide isn't as experienced as he claims, and winds up running the boat onto a stump. It sinks.
Now afoot in a really nasty Louisiana swamp full of alligators and other creatures, the group tries to find their way out, but another denizen of the swamp, a horribly disfigured mutant, turns their outing into a night of real horror.
Hey, it's not bad, although I didn't think the mutant looked as mean as he night have, but while it's not an exceptional horror flick, it's a solid B-horror effort.
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"Van Gogh" (1991)
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