A really weird movie that we got free from Jaman, starring a young and frequently naked Gerard Depardieu and a charming Marcello Mastroianni. It's engagingly eccentric for the first two-thirds or so, then gets dismal and sad, including a scene I really wish I hadn't seen, then picks up again at the end, which I wouldn't call happy, but it is ( Read more... )

Remember that scene in Sleepless in Seattle where the heroine and her friend are watching Affair to Remember and sobbing? Neither of those movies (Sleepless in Seattle or Affair to Remember) made me cry, but this one - Up - did. Twice. Nonetheless, I enjoyed it a great deal!

Pusher 3: an unsatisfying departure from the previous two (in which horrible things happened, quite deservedly, to horrible people); in this one, the horrible person is saved from experiencing horrible things by undeserved competent assistance from an old friend. Note: extremely graphic scenes near the end to the point of delving into cheap horror- ( Read more... )