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TV Recap
Top
of the Lake
This is a mini-series being
presented on BBC Worldwide.
It is distinguished by two
important breakthroughs:
1. It
was created by, and is
being directed by,
hot-shot director Jane
Campion (The Piano).
2. Elisabeth
Moss, Peggy of Mad
Men fame, gets naked in
episode five.
    
Borgia
Episode 7 of season 2
Isolda
Dychauk
Martina
Gastini
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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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The Wicked Lady
1983
Glynis Barber
  
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Death
Games
(1980)
Johnny's
comments:
The
vault opens and out
comes another
forgotten Australian
Classic off VHS.
Death
Games aka Final Cut is
a 1980 psychological
thriller about wannabe
documentary filmmaker
Chris (Lou Brown) who
with his journalist
girlfriend Sarah
(Jennifer Cluff) score
an interview with the
mysterious and
reclusive millionaire
and possible sleaze
merchant Dominic
(David Clendenning).
Chris and Sarah are
invited on the boat
for a party Dominic is
having with his also
mysterious, possibly
porn star wife Yvette
(Narelle Johnson). It
seems Dominic has had
a bit of trouble,
possibly involving a
murder and Chris is
determined to get to
the bottom of it. But,
Dominic is having none
of that, so he tempts
Chris by giving him a
hint of what happened,
then promptly drugs
his drink. While in a
drug haze, Chris
believe he sees a
bloodied, half naked
woman and attempts to
investigate, but
blacks out. The next
morning it seems he is
missing a reel of
film, the one with the
potentially damaging
information. Later,
Chris and Sarah
continue the interview
at Dominic's penthouse
apartment, where over
the next few days,
Chris and Sarah are
tormented by Dominic
and Yvette, scaring
them, drugging them,
threatening to release
damaging footage of
them drugfucked and
setting them up for
murder. Can Chris and
Sarah survive the
weekend with their
sanity in tact and
expose the rich couple
wicked games? There's
an interesting concept
here in amongst a
surprising amount of
debauchery that is
also surprisingly coy,
especially during a
bizarrely arty lesbian
scene. But Death Games
blows it with a
preposterous final act
that is so ridiculous,
you don't really care
whether Chris and
Sarah survive as
there's a lot of
ridiculous fake outs.
Close, but no donuts.
As
with all VHS Classics,
the quality is not up
to DVD standard and
Death Games was a
bastard to make a copy
of. Even then both the
image and sound has
small issues as in the
image is a little
fuzzy and the sound
has a bit of squeal in
it, but the videos are
still pretty
watchable. Wish this
movie would make it to
DVD as I'd love to
take a ping at a high
quality version as I
like Jennifer Cluff
here and she has a
fair bit of nudity in
this movie, but sadly,
I think this one is a
lost cause. Damn it!
Also, there's a few
70s and 80s Australian
Penthouse Pets in the
cast, but the credits
are terrible past the
main four and I don't
really know who's who,
so maybe someone can
identify the unknown
girls below for me, if
they go back that
far... Particularly
the dancing girl,
really like her
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Film
Clips
Natalie
Martinez
in Broken City
(2013)
(This is the
mainstream
release with
Russell Crowe
and Marky
Mark)
Gemma
Donato in
Alien
Showdown: The
Day the Old
West Stood
Still (2013)
Nadia
Lanfranconi,
also in Alien
Showdown
Troian
Bellisario
in Consent
(2010) in
1080HD
(She flashes
the side of
her nude body
for a couple
of frames.)
Birgit
Koehn in
Wolfsfahrte
(2010)
Mischa
Barton,
young and
slim, in
Assassination
Of A High
School
President
(2008) in
1080p
Pics/Collages
The
immortal
"Fembomb" in
Exterminator
City (2005)
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