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TV
Recap
Three interesting segments
in the August 17th edition
of Naked
News:
Isabella
Rossini is running
around the beach again
Melissa
Childs is hanging out
in the Caribbean
Eila
Adams is doing her
exercises with some kind of
machine that makes her
entire body vibrate
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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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Fever
(1988)
Johnny's
comments:
It's
been a while since I've
gone through the VHS
collection, so here's a
'classic' from the year of
1988.
Fever is a 1988 noir
thriller set in some far
out town in South
Australia, where cop Jack
Welles (Bill Hunter) is
watching a big deal being
made by a couple of
international crooks.
Meanwhile, his much young
wife Leanne (Mary Regan)
is having her way with
local stud Jeff (Gary
Sweet). When one of the
crooks blows up the
suitcase he exchanged,
Jack goes after him and in
the ensuing chase, the
crook overturns his
vehicle and dies. Jack
spies a suitcase, which is
full of $100 notes and
decides to take it for
himself before the other
cops arrive to assist him.
He drives home to hide the
suitcase and catches
Leanne and Jeff having sex
and in the ensuing fight,
Jeff accidentally kills
Jack. Of course, the now
need to hide the body and
come up with a believable
story, so they decide to
dump him in an abandoned
mineshaft. By this time,
another cop Morris (Jim
Holt) has worked out that
Jack is up to something.
And with Jack destroying
Jeff's car, they take Jack
beat up old station wagon
where he's hidden the
suitcase full of cash.
Also, Jack is not dead and
he wants his money.
Watching this movie it
struck me that it was
reminiscent of director
Craig Lahiff's last film
(sadly he died recently),
Swerve. And by
reminiscent, I mean pretty
much exactly the same.
But, nowhere is Swerve
considered a remake which
I suppose isn't a problem
if your remaking your own
movie. Strange, I'll have
to get out Swerve to see
if it's mentioned. Anyway,
Fever is alright thriller
that actually doesn't have
the issues in the final
act that plague Swerve and
even has the same last
minute twist. Fever is far
better grounded and much
faster paced with the plot
continually flowing as
this movie takes place in
one day where there's an
overnight stay in Swerve.
OK, Fever is a better
movie than Swerve even
though it's pretty much
the same movie.
As always with VHS series,
the quality is down. The
picture is fine, but sadly
the sound is crackling all
the way through the Fever
videos. I doubt they'll be
a better version, not even
a DVD release for the
movie. )
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