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TV Round-Up
Tatort:
Puppenspieler
The latest episode of the
long-running (43 years)
German crime show:
Jella
Haase film clip
collage below:
Cuentame
Katia Klein captures from
two recent episodes of the
Spanish show:
(s14, e7)
  
(s14, e6)
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* Yellow
asterisk:
funny (maybe).
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White
asterisk:
expanded
format.
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* Blue
asterisk: not
mine.
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No
asterisk: it
probably
sucks.
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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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About
Cherry
Part II
(The first part is in
yesterday's page)
Johnny's comments:
About Cherry is a drama
about Angelina (Ashley
Hinshaw), a teenage girl
who is looking to get out
of her home situation. Her
father is dead and her
mother (Lili Taylor) is a
drunk and there looks like
there is no hope. Then,
her skanky boyfriend asks
her if she would do a porn
shoot for a friend of his.
She reluctantly accept and
things go from there. With
her best friend Andrew
(Dev Patel), Angelina
moves to San Francisco
where they share a bed in
friend Vaughn's small
apartment. Angelina gets a
job as a waitress in a
strip club, where she
meets Francis (James
Franco), a sleazy looking
sort of lawyer and she
falls for him. Angelina
sees all the strippers
making more money than
her, so she decides to
start doing some real
porn. In porn, Angelina
becomes Cherry and is
welcomed into the world of
porn, not in the least by
lesbian director Margaret
(Heather Graham) who
instantly falls for her
and goes well on the way
to ruin her relationship
because of Cherry. But, as
it always seems to be with
porn, things start to
crack as her career takes
off and her relationships
with Andrew and Francis
crack under that pressure.
So, how will
Angelina/Cherry get
through all this..?
About Cherry is a film
that has its heart in the
right place, but is too
jumbled to pull off the
story it is trying to
tell. It's neither
aggressively for or
against porn, which works
to the film's advantage,
but the stories with the
side characters in
Angelina's/Cherry's life
aren't fully fleshed out
and the ending seems to be
more self-serving than
earned. A failure, but not
without its plusses, the
biggest one being Ashley
Hinshaw, who is not only
absolutely gorgeous, but
is an definite actress to
watch for in the future as
she is excellent in this
film (also good in her
limited role in
Chronicle).
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