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  • The Notorious Bettie Page 2005

    ★★½ Added

    I guess I have to agree with most of the mixed reviews, this biopic has received. While Gretchen Mole’s performance really is great, cute and believable - and allowedly the “eye candy factor” alone, which comes around with fresh breezes of innocence, nostalgia and unsophistication, really makes it worth a look - this somehow indetermined and shallow film doesn’t succeed to provide anything beyond that. Especially during the middle section depicting her career, there’s only very little actual insight into…

  • The Independent 2000

    ★★★ Added

    While I had high hopes in this to be more fun as a whole than it turned out to be, the DVD of mockumentary-styled “The Independent” still was worth its three bucks because of two things: Some of the many cameos and guest roles (like Anne Meara, Ben Stiller, Johnny Rotten among others) are absolutely hilarious, and so are the many faux scenes and trailers from films, the main character (played by good ol’ Jerry Stiller) is said to have…

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  • Johnny Mnemonic 1995

    ★½ Added

    Aw, 1995. A vision of the future that includes massive CRT screens, laser-whips, A.I.s, underground societies and cybernetically enhanced dolphins. Henry Rollins, Ice-T and Dolph Lundgren. Music by Stabbing Westward and KMFDM.
    It’s one of those movies which actually isn’t any good at all, but I still enjoy watching it from time to time anyway, because It resembles a certain era to me. The time we all watched Star Trek: The Next Generation/ Deep Space Nine and The X-Files, and…

  • Super 2010

    ★★★★ Added

    Who would have thought that James Gunn is capable of something like this? “Super” is hilariously funny, shockingly gross, enthrallingly dramatic, touchingly sad, at times totally crazy and at times solely realistic, and then also placatory … sometimes all of the above at once. It’s odd and beautiful at the same time. Rainn Wilson and Ellen Page succeed to deliver characters that are totally loveable but concurrently insane, Liv Tyler is gorgeous as always, and Nathan Fillion’s scenes are ……