Movie Review Round Up

Lovelace-Good but unsettling film about the brief porn career of the female lead of the infamous porn movie Deep Throat.  Great performances all around, especially Amanda Seyfried, Peter Skaarsgard, Sharon Stone, and Chris Noth.  There's some nudity and violence directed against women in this film, so be aware.  I recommend this one but no for the squeamish among you.

The Loving Story-Very informative documentary about Mildred and Richard Loving, the couple who took the interracial marriage ban case all the way to the US  Supreme Court.  The Lovings were a simple couple who just wanted to be together and raise their kids near their families in Virginia.  They just wanted to live their lives together and to be left alone, but sometimes history has a way of making ordinary people heroes.  I defy you to watch this film and not fall in love with the late Mildred Loving.  Highly recommend this one.

Silent Running-Bruce Dern is on a spaceship with three smart asses and a shitload of plants and animals.  The guys get recalled back to earth and are told they must destroy all the ships and all it's cargo.  Dern freaks out, kills the others, and sails off with a shipload of trees, plants, animals, and some two legged robots.  I remember seeing this film in the early 1970's and thinking it was the coolest thing ever, sadly, upon reviewing I must revise that opinion.  This one sucks.  It's the logical extension of all those dystopian films like Omega Man, Soylent Green, and Planet of the Apes.  Earth has gone to hell in a hand basket, so a heroic earth worshipper sails away with plants and animals in the hopes that one day he'll colonize another world that we won't fuck up.  It's laughable really.  Recommended only for the cheese factor.

Dean Splaney-A Vicar who was a dog in a past life remembers his dog days when he's lost in drinking his favorite wine.  A pretty slight premise makes a pretty slight film.  Kind of boring too.  Not recommended.

Bounty Killer-In a dystopian future corporations take over everything and bounty killers spring up to kill corporate overlords in an effort to reign in corporate power.  High octane fun this film is.  Writing like Yoda talks I am.  Loving this ultra violent sexy film I am.  Highly recommending it I am.

Burke and Hare (2010) and Burke and Hare (1972)- These two very different films tell the story of Irish murderers Burke and Hare.  These two men found out medical schools in Edinburgh in the early part of the 19th century paid cash for cadavers to dissect so they went out murdering people and selling their corpses.  The earlier of these two films is more historically accurate but the later one is a far more entertaining film.  I recommend the 2010 version, despite it's historical inaccuracies.

Contracted-A woman shags a dude who just fucked a corpse.  The next day she starts bleeding from her orifices and then things go downhill for her from there.  Ugh. I rooted for the disease in this film.  I found most all of the leads annoying and the supporting characters to be idiots.  As the woman degenerates and her disease worsens her friends keep asking her if she's 'doing okay' when one look at her tells anyone with at least one working brain cell that she's not fucking long for this world.  I hated this one and I wanted every charcater in it to die a violent horrible death.

The Iran Job-Eye opening documentary about a b grade basketball player who wasn't quite good enough to play in the NBA but was good enough to play internationally.  He ends up playing in Iran, which is a basketball mad country.  The film documents his life during his first year playing in Iran and it shows just how tough it is to live in a modern day theocracy, especially if you're a female, he befriends a group of women.  Highly recommend this one even if you're not a basketball fan, which I am not.

The Kids Are All Right-A long time lesbian couple's kids find the guy who donated sperm their mothers used to have them with.  One of the lesbians has an affair with him and her partner finds out.  Not a bad film and I could easily see Annette Benning and Julianne Moore as the couple in question, in fact I probably fantasized about them doing it long before this film ever came out.  My only problem with this movie is it's lays all the blame for the affair at the feet of the sperm donor, Mark Ruffalo.  He's not blameless in it, but it takes two to tango.  Recommended with reservations.

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Mark your calendars

My Thanksgiving special will air on the Spuzz Channel at 10:30 PM on Thanksgiving night. This year's show is going to be the bestest one ever!

My co hostSigourney Weaver and I will sing many duets, engage in cheesy comedic banter, make out a bit, and do Tarot card readings for Phylis Schlafly and Christine O'Donnell.

Then we'll track down the ever elusive Julianne Moore
and shave her muff so that we can weave a shirt out of her pubic hair. And we'll give that pubic hair shirt to Sofia Coppola.
Next I'll welcome on Eva Birthistle
and she and I will grease each other up in a mixture of turkey fat, pumpkin pie filling, and Vitalis and we'll tag team wrestle an international contingent of actresses that include Catherine Deneuve
Diane Kruger and Alex Kingston.

And finally Mena Suvrai will drop in to help us kick off the official war on Christmas.

This year, with the help of the liberal media, the labor unions, George Soros, and Barbra Bush's miscarried fetus in a jar, we're going to kick Jesus's ass in the war on Christmas!So don't forget to mark your calendars for this year's show, it's going to be super monkey-tastic!

Monkey Movie Review

We saw this the other night:
The basic plot is everyone in the world goes blind and only Julianne Moore's character can see, until the end of the film that is.

This is a mostly dystopian film that was very unsettling and disconcerting to me. It showed how feral and inhumane we can and will become when something like this happens. I have no doubt that human beings on a mass scale will act like the people in this film when the bad juju starts to happen. I actually think what the characters in this film did to one another will be seen as pretty tame when the shit hits the fan. And while I found this film very disturbing and unnerving, I also thought it was well done and it was a better film than what the corporate media critics would have you believe, they slammed it but it's actually a very good film.

Julianne Moore turns in yet another great performance, seriously, she's amazing in this film. Mark Ruffalo as the eye doctor who goes blind is very good too. Turning in chillingly performances as the film's titular 'bad guys' are Gael Garcia Bernal and Maury Chaykin. Don McKellar does double duty in this film, he's a petty bad guy who is among the first to go blind and he also adapted the screenplay from a Jose Saramago novel.

Despite the heavy subject matter and the horrible things the characters do to one another, the movie ends on a hopeful note when one of the first characters who goes blind gets his sight back. I took it to mean that soon the rest of the world would also regain their sight and maybe they'd regain some of their humanity as well. Or perhaps be better people than they were before. If I didn't think that, then I couldn't recommend this film as highly as I do. It's not for kids and it may give some of you nightmares, but I still recommend it.