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88 Minutes (2007)
I wrote a vast amount about this film, and the article includes
film clips and pictures, so read it at The
Movie House.
Why am I spending so much time on a film nobody ever heard of?
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It is an unreleased Al Pacino film.
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It will be his first-ever straight-to-vid
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There is virtually no information available on it.
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What little is available, is wrong.
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It's a fairly interesting story, although it didn't result in a
very good movie.
The nudity comes from Leah Cairns,
who plays Racetrack on Battlestar Galactica.
Third Party Videos
Mixed bag of zipped .avis:
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Helen Hunt in
The Waterdance. If you are reading this page, you've probably seen this.
If you haven't, you must, by all means. Not only does it feature Helen in
her prime and stark naked, but it's actually a good movie as well, both
sensitive and funny. It won the audience award at Sundance, showing its mass
audience appeal, and it won the screenwriting award, showing its critical
appeal. For all that, the studio had no idea how to market it, and is
slipped into obscurity. Because of Helen Hunt's nudity, we perves are about
the only people who ever see it.
OTHER CRAP:
Catch the deluxe version of Other Crap in real time, with all the bells and whistles, here.
MOVIE REVIEWS:
Yellow asterisk: funny (maybe). White asterisk: expanded format. Blue asterisk: not mine. No asterisk: it probably sucks.
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Descending Angel (1990)
Descending Angel (1990) is an HBO offering with a wonderful
cast, and absolutely nothing else. Eric Roberts is newly engaged to Diane
Lane, and the two travel to meet daddy, played by George C. Scott. Roberts
knows daddy was old school Rumanian, but what he didn't know was that daddy
was also a mass murderer in WW II, and not above a little recreational murder
of troublesome wives, reporters and future sons-in-law who threaten to expose
him. Seems daddy was the architect of the particularly gruesome slaughter of
an entire village. He and some of his buddies relocated to the US after the
war, and watch each other's backs.
Scoopy
was pretty harsh in his review of this film, although he did admit that it
is the Citizen Kane of Holocaust Romantic Comedies.
I also disliked it, but for different reasons.
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First of all, it bored me, which is enough by itself.
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Second, it didn't seem to have a point of view or a
message. Many angles based on these characters could have been explored.
They could have done a Roberts investigates and Scott squirms thing, or
played it as a sinister Rumanian gang still as lethal as they were in the
early 40s, or an expose of the atrocities in Romania, or as a "love conquers
all" story.
Sometimes I have trouble deciding how to crop a photo,
until I figure out what it is a photo of. Once I can answer that for myself,
it is easy to find the right crop. Had they figured out what this movie was
about, perhaps they could have made a good one.
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The Hunger
Episode "Menage a Trois"
Miss Gati, a wheelchair-bound woman (Karen Black),
hires a new nurse, Steph (Lena Headey). Steph meets Miss Gati's
handyman, Jerry (Daniel "007" Craig), who tries to get involved with
her, but she is not interested.
Suddenly starts paying him visits to his room to
have wild sex.
He is happy at first, but starts thinking something
is going very wrong when Steph treats him just as a co-worker after
every sexual act.
Lena looks at her best in this episode, and the
acting is very good, the current James Bond, Craig, does a good job,
so does Karen Black as the creepy disabled woman.
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Notes and collages
Diora Baird
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Diora Baird
in Big Day
Episode: Boob Zilla |
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Diora Baird
in Hot Tamale |
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Dann reports on "The Blackout" A big-time movie star who
is also a big-time boozer and big-time druggie goes on one too many
benders in this 1997 drama.
When his newly-pregnant girlfriend tells him she's aborted his child
because she doesn't want to bear the child of a drunken doper, he beats
her and then goes on a bender where he blacks out and can't remember what
happened.
Months later, he's clean and sober and still in love with his ex, who
of course wants nothing to do with him. The more he yearns for his
girlfriend, the more he starts getting flashes of bad things which may
have happened during his blackout. He begins to think he may have killed
her, so he begs a mutual friend to arrange a reunion, if only to prove to
himself she is OK.
This isn't a bad movie, nor is it a great one. It will hold your
interest for the most part, but at least some of the casting wasn't great.
However, my main interest was to see Sarah Lassez, who I really liked in
2006's Mad Cowgirl. This was a smaller part for her, and she was 9 years
younger, but she was still impressive, especially in the full frontal
scene at the end of the flick.
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Sarah Lassez |
Beatrice Dalle |
Mercy Lopez &
Daphne Duplaix |
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Pat's comments in yellow...
Oscar nominations were announced Tuesday, and there were a few
surprises. "Dreamgirls" led the list with eight nods, but for some reason, was
not nominated for Best Director or Best Picture. Best Picture nominees did
include "Babel," an art house flick that did little business but got seven Oscar
nominations, and the low budget comedy "Little Miss Sunshine," whose 10-year-old
star Abigail Breslin, was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the
fourth-youngest female nominee ever. And Al Gore was nominated for an Oscar for
the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth."
* This year's Oscarcast will be even longer than usual
because if Al doesn't win, he'll demand a recount.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation says it plans to sue Pfizer Inc. because its
ads for Viagra allegedly encourage men to have risky sex. The group claims that
Viagra ads originally featured older men such as Bob Dole, but when they started
showing younger men and using tag lines such as "Want to improve your sex life?,
it was an illegal promotion of the impotence pill as a "party drug" for
recreational purposes, which the FDA hasn't approved. In short, the lawsuit
claims that Pfizer's ads are to blame if men took Viagra, had more sex, and
spread STDs.
* Because without those ads, men NEVER would've thought
of using Viagra to have more sex.
* Hang on...Isn't the message of EVERY commercial that
if you use this product, you'll have more sex?
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