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Black Snake Moan
That Christina Ricci is one sexy little Lolita!
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* Yellow asterisk: funny (maybe).
* White asterisk:
expanded format.
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Blue asterisk: not mine.
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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Borrowed Life, Stolen Love
Borrowed Life Stolen Love (1997) is something of an oddity. You could make a
case for calling it a couples soft-core porn, a thriller, or even a romantic
comedy since it was directed by Valerie Landsburg and definitely shows a woman's
touch.
The premise is kind of a softcore variation on Single White Female. Michelle
Agnew plays the Bridget Fonda role. She is having hot sex with a sculptor who
lives in her basement, but he has little interest in material things, and she
wants more from life. She works as a sous-chef, and dreams of owning her own
restaurant. To make ends meet, she also does stripping telegrams, and phone sex.
Despite all of that, she is way behind on her rent, and is saved from paying
with her body by the arrival of Melissa Carlton, answering her ad for a
roommate, and thus playing the Jennifer Jason Leigh role.
Carlton has plenty of cash, and is welcomed with open arms. Like Jennifer
Jason Leigh in SWF, Carlton seems to
be trying to become her roomate, and even wears her clothes and chases the same
men she is interested in, including the doctor who lives on the penthouse of her
building. It is obvious that Carlton is up to something, the question is what.
Bo Zena Shows everything. Melissa Carlton shows breasts. Michelle Agnew, Gina
Jackson and Janine Stillo show everything.
Unlike SWF, this film has a satisfying resolution. Along the way to finding
the happy ending required by the romantic comedy genre, several women get naked,
and the mysterious agenda of Carlton holds your interest till the end.
This is a C as a "couples erotica" film with lots of naked women to watch
with your wife or girlfriend.
IMDb says 5.2, but with only 11 votes.
Borrowed Life Stolen Love DVD
- 96 Minutes
- English dolby stereo
- Spanish optional subtitles
- 4/3 fullscreen transfer
- Chapter Menu
- Region 1/4
- The video quality is somewhat lacking in this film. It tends toward grainy
and washed out.
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Clean
Another low budget horror, this time a serial killer makes some crazy
friends who like to kill women after doing striptease, but the killer has
another kind of show in mind.
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Notes and collages
Helen Mirren - Day 1
Calendar Girls
and The Passion of Ayn Rand
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A film clip of Drew Barrymore's
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Britney in Mexico, looking like she needs a lot more exercise |
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Sonja Walger in The Vice
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The Comedy Wire
Comments in yellow...
Monday, a US appeals court ruled that the FCC was "arbitrary and capricious"
when it set a new standard for defining indecency after Cher and Nicole Richie
blurted out the F- and S-words during live awards shows. The networks weren't
fined, but the FCC decided that broadcasters could be fined for such moments by
up to $325,000 per incident. The court overruled that and ordered the FCC to
clarify how to deal with "fleeting expletives." But the FCC may appeal to the
Supreme Court. Chairman Kevin Martin angrily declared, "If we can't prohibit
the use of fuck and shit during prime time, Hollywood will be able to say
anything they want, whenever they want."
* And then there'd be freedom of speech! It's insanity!
* I notice that he decided it was okay for him to say those two words.
Poland's Polsat TV reports that Jan Grzebski was hit by a train and went into a
coma in 1988. After 19 years, he finally woke up to discover communism was gone
and everything was much better. He said when he went into a coma, there was
meat rationing, gas lines, and only tea and vinegar in the shops; and now, there
are so many goods, "it makes my head spin." He said, "What amazes me today is
all these people who walk around with their mobile phones and never stop
moaning. I've got nothing to complain about."
* Even the coma was better than communism!
The Daily Telegraph reports that researchers at the University of Michigan's
Brain Cognition and Action Laboratory say the modern idea of "multi-tasking" -
that people can, say, talk on a phone while e-mailing and reading the paper - is
a myth. Director David Meyer said it's like believing you can talk to yourself
about two things at once. New studies show that using a lot of gadgets at
once over-stimulates the brain and reduces your attention span and ability to
focus. He said when kids do their homework while watching TV, texting and
listening to an iPod, they just end up failing.
* Hey, we just said we can do a hundred things at once;
we never claimed we could do any of them well.
Paris Hilton is doing her jail term. She ended up being put in a private cell
without no cellmate after all, and she was allowed to keep the makeup she had on
at the MTV Awards and the hair extensions she was wearing. Officials say she's
being very quiet and a model prisoner.
* She just sits in her cell, staring mindlessly into
space with a blank expression. She's either going stir crazy or she's Paris
Hilton.
* There's no special treatment: her cell is so small,
there's hardly room for the Jacuzzi.
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