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Kiss Me, a review by Tom

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Kiss Me (2011/Sweden) IMDb | Wikipedia TLA Releasing (United Kingdom) Director: Alexandra-Therese Keining Writing: Josefine Tengblad (Story By), Alexandra-Therese Keining (Story By), Alexandra-Therese Keining (Screenwriter) Length: 103 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35 Audio: Swedish: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Subtitles: English

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This year's runaway hit at the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Kiss Me is a stunningly rendered and honest love story about what happens when you follow your heart. When Mia and Frida's eyes meet for the first time at a party the attraction is instant. However, Mia is engaged to be married to a man she believes she loves so acting on anything seems out of the question. When subsequent circumstances throw the two women together, openly gay Frida finds it impossible to resist seducing Mia, and Mia finds it impossible to resist. Soon, Mia must choose between following her heart or fulfilling everyone else's expectations of her. A candid and beautiful film, Kiss Me is a classic lesbian movie in the making.

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Trailers
• Bonus Trailers

Not really any surprises, but a really nice watch with a happy ending. I can recommend it and see myself watching it again.

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(From Lesbian Movie Marathon on February 2nd, 2013)

World Trade Center, a review by KinkyCyborg

World Trade Center



Title:World Trade Center
Year: 2006
Director: Oliver Stone
Rating: PG-13
Length: 128 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, English: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo, French: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Commentary: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo
Subtitles: English, Spanish

Stars:
Maria Bello
Connor Paolo
Anthony Piccininni
Alexa Gerasimovich
Morgan Flynn

Plot:Extras:
Scene Access
Audio Commentary
Feature Trailers
Deleted Scenes
Closed Captioned


I need to stop watching these 9/11 movies and documentaries as they never fail to boil up emotions in me. The World Trade Center attacks changed many peoples lives and mine too. I started looking at things differently since that day and I no longer take so many things for granted. While some will say these 9/11 movies were meant to profit from a truly tragic event I don't see it as such. Movies and film help us to not forget these world changing events and we need to remember because some day, some time in the future some despicable bastard will say that this never happened just like there are people today who say the Holocaust never happened. To them I say F@#k You, your ignorance and/or deceitful agendas.

Oliver Stone's story focuses on two Port Authority officers who were trapped in the rubble but were miraculously saved. They very much kept each other alive by talking intimately about their lives and the reasons they had to keep on living. While this is a story of hope and courage I could still not shake off the unbearable weight of the bigger picture and the thousands of lives lost in such a short span of time.

Also inspiring is the courage of the two marines, Karnes & Thomas who needed to do something and went into the smoky and dangerous rubble to look for survivors when no one else would risk it so soon after the towers fell. Sgt. Thomas, an African American was wrongfully portrayed as a white man I later found out as Stone was unable to locate or properly identify him before shooting started.

Nicholas Cage did a sufficient job in this one although I felt his Bronx accent was a bit overdone. Also his gaunt appearance was rather shocking as he must have went on a crash diet to slim down for this role.

There are important lessons to be learned from movies such as this, United 93 and Schindler's List. I will have my kids watch them some day so that they may understand them and perhaps give them some perspective to their carefree lives.

KC

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(From KinkyCyborg's Random Reviews 2011 on August 1st, 2011)

"Battlestar Galactica" Marathon (1978-2009), a review by DJ Doena

Synopsis: Baltar, the Borellians and the soldiers of the Eastern Alliance plan to escape from the prison barge. And they succeed. Aboard the Galactica they take the Quorum members as hostages (except for Adama and Siress Tinia). Adama has to either let them go or he has to try to free the Quorum members with the risk of getting them killed.

My Opinion: I really liked the irony of this episode's title and the fact that Baltar was the only one who didn't escape. And the moment I saw the dismantled Cylons and Apollo stating that he had a plan I really believed (and hoped) that he and Starbuck would slip into the armour and pretend to be Cylon pilots. Too bad they didn't make that move, that would have been fun.

Synopsis: When the squadron is following the escaped prisoners to Lunar 7, Apollo is suddenly brought aboard the ship of light again. There he's warned of a great danger Terra is in and that it's important for them, for the people in the fleet and even for the light beings that he helps the people on Terra. When he lands there he's recognized as someone else but he has little success in convincing them. Luckily Starbuck and also the Galactica aren't that far behind.

My Opinion: I really liked Edward Mulhare (Devon in Knight Rider) in the role of John. He was a funny guy and yet recognizable as the father figure he would later become to Michael Knight. But I also liked that Terra wasn't Earth, I didn't like the Terra storyline very much.

Synopsis: During a ceremony Starbuck discovers that an old girlfriend of his is still alive and did not die on Caprica as he had suspected. Cassiopeia isn't very thrilled but there's also not much she can do. Starbuck and Apollo follow Aurora  to the Celestra and run in the middle of a mutiny. And Aurora is of course among the mutineers. But not everything is as it appears to be.

My Opinion: It was an OK episode. But it was a bit constructed that the XO developed the plan to get rid of his captain and miraculously a mutiny started in just that moment and gave him the opportunity. The captain also seemed to have lost touch with his crew, otherwise he had to notice that his XO was a "slave driver". But he still got a medal for his excellent leadership.

Synopsis: The Galactica receives a signal that might have come from Earth but soon they detect a hidden Basestar that is looking for them. But Adama and Tigh are both tired of running. Adama develops a plan to attack and destroy the Basestar and its Raiders. Apollo and Starbuck get the most crucial role in that attack: They have to board the Basestar and to destroy its sensors. Both Cassiopeia and Sheba aren't very happy about it.

My Opinion: I really liked that final episode of the old series. It had the right amount (and quality) of humour and charm in it and also a good deal of action - even though they re-used the FX shots once again, there were so many and even some new shots that it looked really good. I also liked the idea that Apollo and Sheba may become a couple, Apollo had been alone since Serina died.

The Series - My Opinion: I will miss these guys. I really like the new series. But it's different there. The old series had its own charm and the characters are still great. Granted, a lot of the episodes have aged a lot and don't hold up in comparison to today's shows but it was still nice to see characters that aren't burdened with a difficult past but are straightforward WYSIWYGs.

(From "Battlestar Galactica" Marathon (1978-2009) on April 17th, 2009)