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"Kingpin" from Tuna
Kingpin (1996) is a
mixture of plusses and minuses. First, the
minuses. It is a Farrelly brothers production
full of bathroom humor. some scenes drag a
little. Much of the humor is over the top. On the
plus side, it is a Farrelly brothers production
full of bathroom humor. The cast includes Bill
Murray as Big Ernie (bowling legend and world
class slime-ball), Woody Harrelson as Roy Munson
(promising state championship bowler) and Randy
Quaid as Ishmael Boorg (Amish bowling natural).
Vanessa Angel plays the love interest to
Harrelson. Munson has just won the state
championship and is plays his first tour match,
where he defeats the reigning champ, Big Ernie.
Big Ernie graciously puts sugar in the gas tank
of Munson's car, then ropes him in to a hustle,
then abandons him to the angry suckers, who use
the ball return to take off his bowling hand.
Fast forward 15 years.
Munson has spent 15 years drunk, having sex with
a very distasteful landlady to pay rent, selling
condoms to bowling alleys and running cheap
hustles. Munsoned has become synonymous with
having a promising life totally ruined. Munson
runs into Ish (Quaid) who throws a mean bowling
ball, and convinces him that he should let Munson
manage him as a pro bowler, and take him to a
$1,000,000.00 winner-take-all tournament in Reno.
This film is full of movie references (Midnight
Cowboy, Rocky, The Natural, The Color of Money
and Witness for example) and has some truly
inspired humor. You have to see Quaid as a
cross-dressing Amish lap dancer, even if you skip
the rest of the film. Performances are excellent
all around, and Murray is truly inspired. IF you
can tolerate over-the-top humor and occasional
slow spots, this may be worth watching once.
There is no real exposure, but Vanessa gives us
some amazing pokies and a lot of leg.
Thumbnails Vanessa Angel (1,
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"8MM"
from Tuna
8 MM is a disturbing
film with a disturbing topic. Nicholas Cage is a
private detective hired to determine if an
apparent snuff film is genuine by the widow of
the film owner. His investigation draws him deep
inside the murky world of extreme porn, including
S & M, and worse. He meets and receives a lot
of help from an intelligent musician working as a
adult bookstore clerk named Max California played
by Joaquin Phoenix. With the help of Max, he is
able to find the underbelly of the porn industry
and gain entry. Much more of the plot would be a
spoiler. In the DVD commentary, the director
mentions that they had to make drastic cuts in
both nudity and violence to avoid an NC-17
rating. As it is, we have male and female full
frontal, and very graphic violence.
I think this is a very
good film, but that is the minority opinion. Cage
and Phoenix were both brilliant, as were most of
the major characters. The film gives a feel for
what this nearly unmentionable world is like, and
shows the effects on those it touches. Certainly
not a date movie, and not one to watch when you
are already depressed, but a good piece of film
making.
Thumbnails Emily Patrck (1,
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Mary Katharine Garrison (1,
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Stripper (1,
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"Nowhere
to Run" from Tuna
Nowhere to Run is the
best exposure in a film from all-natural Rosanna
Arquette. We have full frontal, and her having
sex with Van Damme. Van Damme is serving a prison
term for a murder he didn't commit, and his
partner that did commit the murder breaks him out
of a prison bus. His partner is shot in the
getaway, and Van Damme camps on Arquette's
property. He develops relationships with her two
children, then her, while trying to save her from
the evil developers and crooked cops that are
trying to force her to sell her land. Van Damme
does lots of kicking and hitting and sucks on a
very nice part of Arquette's anatomy in perfect
Van Damme form.
It felt a little odd to
watch a Van Damme film that was as much a romance
as an action film. Some of the scenery was
breathtaking, and the photography was far better
than it needed to be, as you will see from some
of the top right images. Thumbnails Rosanna Arquette (1,
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