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* Yellow asterisk: funny (maybe).
* White asterisk:
expanded format.
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Blue asterisk: not mine.
No asterisk: it probably
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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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Malicious
(1995)
Malicious (1995) is a low budget straight-to-vid example of the bunnyboiler
genre started by Clint Eastwood in Play Misty for Me, and made
famous in Fatal Attraction.
This time the guy is a premed student and baseball jock. His
girlfriend goes off for the weekend for an interview at Stanford,
and he ends up in the sack with Molly Ringwald. He gives Molly a
second shot the same weekend, and then finds himself with a serious
problem. She believes they are now a couple, and constantly tries to
insinuate herself into his life. Further, she is in med school, and
is the TA in one of his classes, so she can't be avoided. Not only
does his girlfriend figure out what happened and leave him, but he
is in danger of losing his shot at a pro contract with the San
Francisco Giants because his preoccupation with Molly takes his mind
off of his game. There is, of course, a final showdown. I bet you
can't guess what the power hitter that Molly has always called
"slugger" does to knock her out of an upper story window.
I have seen the same "obsessed female stalker" plot time after
time, and it seems a little worse each time it is remade. Play Misty
is rated 7.0 at IMDb, and Fatal Attraction a less respectable 6.7.
This one is rated 4.7. Ringwald was fine in the lead, but frankly peaked in Breakfast Club and 16
Candles, and has never found the right roles since. She is certainly
attractive enough for female leading roles, and proved her comic
ability early in her career opposite comedy geniuses and with great
material. I hope she finds her adult stride. If you enjoy this
genre, you might also like this example, making it a C-.
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Notes and collages
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Latin Lover
Another visit to the lusty, R-rated Peruvian soap opera.
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Segunda Piel
Ariadna Gil tribute, part 3
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The Apostate
After seeing Bridget White in 1997's Childhood's End recently, and
enjoying the scene where she posed nude for her photographer brother, I
decided to see what else was around for her. Turns out she played a model
again in 1998's crime thriller The Apostate, this time an artist's model,
and showed even more. She's done several movies (no more nudity,
apparently) and a ton of TV including soaps and the 2007 TV pilot for
State of Mind. The Apostate isn't great, but Bridget and Johanna Quintero
both have cool nude scenes.
A priest who is also an accomplished artist views the scene of his
brother's grisly murder, one of several gripping San Jan, Puerto Rico.
After seeing the way the blood has been splashed on the wall, he
recognizes that the killer is an abstract painter who is using the blood
of his victims as art.
The rest of the movie consists of the priest, who is questioning his
own faith, trying to assist his police detective uncle in identifying the
killer.
It's pretty bad, partly because they cast pretty-boy Richard Grieco as
the priest, and he flat can't act. They also cast Dennis Hopper as the bad
guy, and although he really can act, it isn't enough to save this movie.
Still, Bridget and Johanna do a good job and look great doing it.
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