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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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Sex Files: Mr. X
(1971)
Sex Files: Mr. X (1998), AKA The Sexacutioner, is a Cinemax late
night effort. A penitentiary has three executions the same week, and
hires Mr. X, an executioner, to perform the honors. Mr. X has some
peculiarities. One is a black hood and robe, so nobody can see what
Mr. X looks like. Another is that Mr. X demands to spend the night
before the execution with the prisoner, and nobody else around.
Meanwhile, a serial killer is first up to be fried. He has a long
fantasy about Blake Pickett, then Mr. X is brought into the cell. It
is then that we learn that Mr. X is Jennifer Thomas, and that rather
than saving his immortal soul or something, she just gets him excited,
then knees him in the groin. The execution goes off the next day
without a hitch. Then we start getting the back story for Mr. X.
The flesh and storyline meet the minimum criteria for a soft core,
and the story might even be a tad above the norm, but the image
quality leaves much to be desired, and several of the cast members
flubbed lines in this low budget effort.
IMDb readers say 4.1 but based on very few votes.
Blake Pickett and Jennifer Thomas show everything. Jamaica Charley
and Loryn Miller show breasts and buns.
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Notes and collages
Witchery
Back in November of last year Tuna posted a commentary with his collages
regarding this film. I had forgotten the film's name but I recognized the
scene from a rental many years before. I recall it so vividly because the
character is violently raped by a hellish man-thing in a manner so visually
intense that I can't get it out of my brain. I would have put the "man's" face
in the collages if it were not such an oozy, lurid creep-fest. The rape scene
is freaky scary; if the rest of the film were as passionate at this one scene,
the film could have been so much more than a blip from the late 80's.
Regarding the film itself as a whole, I agree with Tuna's negative review.
Starring David Hasselhoff and Linda Blair, Witchery is just another B movie
made on a small budget with poor direction and poor production values. The
film was killed by the hollow conversations, the simplistic camera shots and
the cheap of the special effects.
But what could have been ...
Oh, well.
Leslie Cumming
The film career of Ms. Cumming at IMDB consists of only two
listings from 1987 & 1988, so she either found a different career or (hopefully
not) died.
Scoop's note: Actually, I think that's an IMDb
glitch. I think that the two women they list as Leslie Cumming and Leslie
Cummins are one and the same woman. I say this not because I know, but because
an IMDB commenter, writing about a 1994 film, says that "Leslie Cummins" had
once become semi-famous for her earlier work in Grade Z films - and she has no
previous IMDb credits! Merge the two biographies together and it all makes
sense, particularly since the bio for Leslie Cumming already lists Leslie
Cummins as an alternate name!
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Whispers in the Dark
Therapist Ann Hecker (Annabella Sciorra) meets Douglas McDowell in the elevator of her office building and becomes involved with him. But then she discovers that he may be involved with one of her patients, the volatile Eve Abergray (Deborah Kara Unger). But then after Eve finds Ann together with Douglas and swears vengeance, she is found murdered in her apartment. As the police investigate, Ann hides behind patient confidentiality, uncertain whether Douglas or others around her are the murderer.
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Español
¿Quién puede juzgar a 10 chicas, casi adolescentes, del Este
de Europa que quieren buscar un futuro mejor en Bélgica? Nadie, incluso
aunque sea aceptando un contrato muy sospechoso de unos hombres que les
ofrecen una vida de glamour como bailarinas de una compañía, incluso
aunque les adviertan de que esos hombres lo que pretenden en realidad es
prostituirlas. Sólo quieren una vida mejor, aunque puede que el viaje que
inician vaya directo a un infierno del que no podrán escapar.
Esto es Matrioshki, la cruda, terrible, pero realista historia de un
puñado de chicas arrancadas de sus hogares con mentiras y condenadas a ser
esclavas sexuales por una despiadada banda de delincuentes que no tienen
el menor problema por traficar con mujeres, obligarlas a prostituirse e,
incluso, matarlas. A lo largo de los 10 episodios de Matrioshki,
acompañaremos a estas jóvenes en su viaje hacia el infierno.
English
Ten Eastern European girls, barely past adolescence, take a chance on a better future in Belgium,
even though it involves being bound by a very suspicious contract to men who offer
a glamorous life as dancers, but intend to force them into prostitution.
This is Matrioshki, the crude and horrifying but realistic history of a
handful of girls uprooted from their homes with lies and turned into sex
slaves by ruthless criminals who would not hesitate to kill them. Throughout the 10 episodes of Matrioshki, we will
accompany these young people on their trip towards a hell from which they
may not be able to
escape.
Capítulo 9 / Chapter 9
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The Comedy Wire
Comments in yellow...
New York hotel billionaire Leona Helmsley's will was made public Wednesday, and
it wasn't good news for some family members. The "Queen of Mean" left $100,000
to her chauffeur, $5 million each to two grandchildren, nothing at all to her
other two grandchildren, "for reasons which are known to them," and a whopping
$12 million to her Maltese dog, Trouble. The New York Post story about the
trust fund dog was headlined "Rich Bitch."
* So was their obituary for Leona.
Lindsay Lohan was let off with a one-day jail sentence because L.A.
authorities were impressed that she was so serious about recovery, she had
already checked into rehab. But it turned out photos of her writing in a rehab
journal and reading the Alcoholic's Anonymous book
were posed shots for OK magazine. Meanwhile, FemaleFirst.com reports that
counselors suspected she'd been sneaking drugs into rehab and forced her to take
a drug test, which she failed after cursing the director and storming out of the
room. And ShowbizSpy.com claims the staff caught her in a compromising sexual
position inside one of the bathrooms with a male rehab patient.
* It wasn't sexual! She just had to be in that position
to snort the coke off his lap.
* It's official: Lindsay Lohan is now a bad influence on drug addicts.
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