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 91 
 on: March 27, 2024, 09:43:19 PM 
Started by ER - Last post by LilCerberus
The porn star had to pay the money back.

 92 
 on: March 27, 2024, 09:35:00 PM 
Started by ER - Last post by RCMerchant
Trump is now selling Bibles-yes-BIBLES- to help pay his court costs. One is to PAY A PORN STAR. Bible-pornstar. An ex-president of the US.
What the f**k is going on???

 93 
 on: March 27, 2024, 09:22:04 PM 
Started by RCMerchant - Last post by Allhallowsday
98. Mario Lanza- Some dago tenor who did movies too in the early 50's before rock and roll put him to pasture.



MARIO LANZA died in 1959, at 38 years, also the year of his last movie.  He didn't go "to pasture".  Rock n' Roll had nothing to do with it.   Wink

 94 
 on: March 27, 2024, 09:11:08 PM 
Started by Trevor - Last post by LilCerberus
Redneck Ninja

 95 
 on: March 27, 2024, 08:31:48 PM 
Started by Rev. Powell - Last post by LilCerberus
Killing Joke - "Millennium"
https://youtu.be/Aq3b4YWFwXw?si=gVO2QfSszm7yyaJR

 96 
 on: March 27, 2024, 08:17:36 PM 
Started by RCMerchant - Last post by RCMerchant
98. Mario Lanza- Some dago tenor who did movies too in the early 50's before rock and roll put him to pasture.


 97 
 on: March 27, 2024, 08:08:40 PM 
Started by Rev. Powell - Last post by FatFreddysCat
"Kandyland" (1988)
Joni, a bored young beach bunny (Playboy Playmate Kimberly Evenson) impulsively enters a bikini contest. One of her competitors is an exotic dancer (Sandahl Bergman, "Conan The Barbarian") who is impressed by Joni's moves and invites her to audition for a job at "Kandyland," the strip club she works at. Joni lands a regular gig at the club, despite her boyfriend/fiancee's disapproval of her new career choice. However, the longer Joni hangs around the Kandyland crew, the more she sees the dark side of the scene.
This strange, low budget B-movie tries to walk the line between sleazy T&A fest and gritty, heartfelt drama. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Kimberly Evenson (Miss September 1984) was my favorite Playmate ever, and she's cute as hell, though sadly she can't act worth a damn. There are a lot of other pretty girls in various states of undress as well. Therefore I was entertained.  Think of this as the missing link between "Flashdance" and "Showgirls."

 98 
 on: March 27, 2024, 07:24:36 PM 
Started by Rev. Powell - Last post by M.10rda
Only recently made it through an entire second full-length on a small screen film this month. (It's been one a' those months...)

KILL! (1968):
Okay, so there are these samurai, see, and there's seven of them... oh, you've heard that one before? But wait - did you hear about the one where it's the seven swordsmen who are surrounded on all sides and need to be rescued by a spacy slow-talking vagrant w/ surprisingly fast hands? Also there's a meathead farmer who dreams of the samurai life despite being all thumbs with a sword, a stoic mercenary compromising his principles in order to pay his wife's way out of sexual slavery, a sleepy old man who is absurdly unconcerned about serious threats to his wellbeing, and an extremely complex political conspiracy of crosses and double- and triple- and quadruple-crosses? Oh, so you haven't seen KILL! ...?

This adventure/action/comedy hybrid is the work of director Kihachi Okamoto, whose name rang no bells for me yet who directed SWORD OF DOOM, a very dark, almost literally deranged samurai film from 1966 that I watched and reviewed last year. By "deranged", I mean SWORD OF DOOM actually threatens to depart violently from its own structure and perhaps even from the frames of celluloid or from the sprockets of any 35mm projector struggling to play the final scene. That film's terrifying, loathesome, bug-eyed lead character remains clear in my mind and couldn't be more distinct from KILL!'s big-hearted, good humored, hangdog protagonist... so I was further shocked to find that both were played (impossibly!) by the same actor, Tatsuya Nakadai. That name DID ring bells for me, and I was quickly reminded that Nakadai was the star of Kurosawa's RAN and KAGEMUSHA, as well as a bit player in THE SEVEN SAMURAI, and onscreen in countless other Japanese films.

Clearly both Okamoto and Nakadai have got huge range and utility of talent. KILL! isn't just a world away from SoD, it's also dichotomous in itself: a tense suspense thriller one minute, a broad farce the next. The sense of high stakes are never compromised, somehow, even when supporting actors momentarily bust into the most over-the-top mugging and gesticulation I've  seen outside of anime sex comedies. A lot of the credit has to go to Nakadai's performance, presumably at Okamoto's behest and/or with his input: in a sometimes rambunctious action movie w/ lowbrow larfs, Nakadai's character often remains completely still for long moments, moving only his eyes in ways that communicate volumes. Frankly it's one of the best eyeball performances I can think of. Nakadai makes 90s Kevin Spacey look like he's got lazy eye.

Also w/ some startling fast cuts in both fight scenes and dialogue scenes; early Japanese rifles blowing holes in samurai ala the grisly gun mayhem in RAN; a severed arm that's gorier than the one Ben Kenobi left on the floor in the Mos Eisley cantina 9 years later, even in black and white; music and motifs that ironically appear borrowed from the spaghetti westerns that borrowed stuff from samurai flicks; and very little of substance that's new or unique to the genre, BUT, all executed so professionally and entertainingly that I never cared much.

4/5

Nakadai's performance might qualify this for a 4.5 upgrade. He's tremendous.

 99 
 on: March 27, 2024, 07:06:55 PM 
Started by zombie no.one - Last post by M.10rda
Brendan Gleeson was great in the first one. Terrible film otherwise. No interest in 5 more entries.

 100 
 on: March 27, 2024, 06:51:42 PM 
Started by pacman000 - Last post by ER
It's no worse than getting someone to tell you a story. If you like it, use it. I figure AI will run us by mid-century either way.

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