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Eastern Promises
Correction:
One reader wrote in to tell me that the naked Ukrainian prostitute in
Eastern Promises was played by Theresa Srbova, not Elisa Lasowski. He
seems to be 100% correct. Viggo asks her in Russian, "What is your name?"
She replies, "Kirilenko." According to IMDb, Kirilenko is Theresa
Srbova.
So, my mistake for just accepting the previous day's ID without
researching it. Here are the corrected collages. (Same collages you saw yesterday, except
for the labeling.)
   
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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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My Mother Frank
(2000)
The titular Frank is a depressed 50-year-old widow trying to raise a son
who is a university student. She helps the local nuns and takes care of her
daughter's kids, but the frequent explosions of pineapple cans in her pantry
are a strong clue that things could be better with her. Her son finally tells
her to get her own life and stay out of his, so she decides to go back to the
university to study poetry. Son Matthew is mortified, and feels that his
mother's presence will prevent him from ever winning the girl of his dreams,
Rose Byrne, away from his best friend who doesn't deserve her. This sets the
stage, and I will leave the twists and turns of this delightful film for you
to discover.
Male IMDb readers rate the film 6.8, but it receives a whopping 8.1
from women. While I am not surprised at the estrogen response to this film
about a strong woman, it is not without something for the guys, with the
subplot of a nice guy trying to win the girl from Mr. Macho. Performances from Sinéad
Cusack, Rose Byrne, Sam Neill and Matthew Newton are all excellent. The
characters jump off the screen.
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Notes and collages
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Part 7 of 13
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Rise of the Dead
Although it's not a bad horror movie, an awful lot of people bitched
about this 2007 flick for one reason: it is not a zombie movie.
Apparently, the title and DVD art misled people into expecting
brain-slurping zombies, so they were disappointed with what it really is,
a possession story. Not a bad one though, just no zombies.
Laura (Erin Wilk) is attacked by a normal lawyer who appears to have
gone over the edge. Next, Laura's roommate is murdered for no apparent
reason and Laura and her boyfriend become suspects.
Further complicating this is the fact that a woman has already been
murdered, and she had ties to Laura because she had adopted a child that
Laura had given up when she was 16. Strangely, though, Laura didn't know
the woman who had adopted her child, but that still moved Laura up on the
suspect ladder.
When Laura's own mother goes unexpectedly nuts and attacks her, Laura
decides she can no longer depend on the cops to figure things out, and
starts looking into the murders on her own.
While this is a B-movie all the way, the acting is not terrible for the
most part, and the storyline is pretty good, so it's worth watching as
long as you're not dying to see zombies.
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