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02.06.03 by ScottC @ 11:05 pm   Film: Written by: William Welch Released by: Sony Pictures My Advice: Good for a MST3K party with lots of alcohol. Interested in recapturing the fresh flower of youth? Forget plastic surgery, botox injections, illegal cloning, they're passé. Join The Brotherhood of Satan and you can get a new body and enjoy causing horrible violence and death for the low price of your immortal soul. All a coven needs is a small town to cut it off from civilization with horrible death as the punishment for anyone trying to leave. Then simply lure children into your power while killing their parents. Don't let the local authorities, the sheriff (Jones) and the priest (Robinson), interfere or else Satan will not be happy. You do not want Satan unhappy. If extra children are needed, don't hesitate to allow strangers into the town, just don't let them leave. Just add one Black Mass and you will be as good as new. Just ask the satanic high priest of Woodley (Martin) and he'll tell you he was fully satisfied with the results. So contact your local Antichrist and join the brotherhood today. Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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01.21.03 by ScottC @ 7:22 pm  Film: Written by: Quentin Tarantino, based on the novel Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard Features:
Released by: Miramax Entertainment My Advice: Own It, motherfucker. Jackie Brown (Grier) is a flight attendant making some extra cash smuggling a little undeclared income between L.A. and Mexico for gunrunner Ordell Robbie (Jackson). The cops led by ATF agent Ray Nicolette pick her up and want her to cooperate. She knows that people who cooperate against Ordell end up dead. But she can't go to jail. She decides to turn this setback into an opportunity. With the help of bail bondman Max Cherry (Forster), she is going to play one side against the other and get away with half a million dollars. If she makes a mistake, that could all she wrote. Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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01.15.03 by ScottC @ 9:22 pm  Film: Written by: Margaret Cho Features:
Released by: Winstar My Advice: Rent it. Margaret Cho was an up-and-coming comedienne with the usual problems of low self-esteem and need for acceptance. When she, like many other successful stand-up comics, got her own show, she was on top of the world. But she felt the responsibility of being the first Asian-American woman to star in her own sitcom. So she let the suits at the network give her notes about her being overweight--such as how her face was too full. She never realized that she was "this giant face taking over America". She had to deal with people saying she wasn't Asian enough. The network even hired an Asian consultant who advised Margaret Cho on how to be Asian. So after putting up with all the static from network executives, focus groups, and Asian interest groups, her show was cancelled. Suffering this massive rejection, Margaret descended into alcoholism to the point of being hung over in bed and debating whether to pee in the bed or get up to the bathroom. She got herself clean and sober and did what most comics do, turn her painful experiences into comedy. This forms the basis for her one-woman show I'm the One That I Want. Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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12.12.02 by ScottC @ 1:41 pm  Film: Written by: Gregory Ramon Anderson & Rob Hardy Features:
Released by: Sony Pictures My Advice: Just rent real porn. Mia DuBois (Calhoun) is a walking cliché--a successful therapist with an unsuccessful marriage. Her husband, Victor (St. John), is more interested in working on his laptop than on her. So she is very receptive to hearing about the wild sex life that her new client Tammy (Wilson) and Tammy's husband enjoyed, before he was murdered. Mia even accepts an invitation from Tammy to Pandora’s Box, a no holds barred secret club of sex, drugs, and even more sex. She falls under the spell of a dark, handsome stranger named Hampton (White), a walking streak of sex. But is Hampton all he seems? It there more going on than just hot, sweaty sex? Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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11.25.02 by ScottC @ 6:53 pm  Film: Written by: Anthony Shaffer, based on his play Features:
Released by: Anchor Bay My Advice: Own It. During a weekend in an English country manor, a game will be played. The players are Andrew Wyke (Olivier), an aristocratic, self-satisfied, but rather clever and successful mystery writer and owner of said manor...and Milo Tindle (Caine), a working class, ambitious but street smart up and coming owner of several hair salons who is also Wyke’s wife’s lover. The object of the game begins with an insurance fraud over some stolen jewelry, but the game becomes a battle of wits and wills where each man tries to outthink and outbluff the other with pride and eventually life on the line. The rules of the game are that there are no rules in Sleuth.  Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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