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Assassins, a review by GSyren

Title	Assassins (Disc ID: 3A65-7065-A4AB-C7DF)
Director	Richard Donner
Actors	Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas, Julianne Moore, Anatoli Davydov, Muse Watson
Produced	1995 in United States
Runtime	133 minutes
Audio	English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, French Dolby Digital 5.1, German Dolby Digital 5.1, Italian Dolby Digital 5.1, Japanese Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital Dolby Surround, Portuguese Dolby Digital Mono
Subtitles	Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
Overview	Robert Roth (Sylvester Stallone) is the best hitman around, but the code and sense of duty once part of his deadly career are lost in a post-Cold War world of freelance guns. He wants out. Not so Miguel Bain (Antonio Banderas), a driven killer who knows how to claim the top spot of his shadowy profession: eliminate Roth. Julianne Moore turns up the heat as a wily hacker swept into the duo's running battle. Co-written by the Wachowski Brothers (The Matrix) and Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential) and directed by Richard Donner (the Lethal Weapon series), this awesome action tale plunges you into a world where what counts isn't making the first move, but surviving the last.
My thoughts	Sometimes you forget almost everything about a movie except a key scene. I had such a vivid memory of a key scene in Assassins that I was convinced that I has seen it. But no. When I just watched it on BD I realized that I had never seen it before, after all. I must just have seen the trailer. So I'm glad I got it in the Stallone box set. This may not be the best film that Richard Donner ever has directed, but it's a good enough action movie. Banderas is really good in it. Julianne Moore has done better roles, but I like her anyway. And Stallone is Stallone. Like most action movies, this one requires a little bit of suspension of disbelief, but not too much. There aren't any real roll-your-eyes moments. Well, at least not unless you stop to question how you get $16,000,000 in bills into a hand held bag. And I didn't, until afterwards. That's 160,000 $100 bills. Or if it's easier to visualize then in bundles of 100 bills each, that's 1,600 bundles. But that's part of the Hollywood myth, right? Ridiculous amounts of money take hardly any space at all. It's right up there with cars exploding like a bomb if they're driven over a cliff, or bodies flying backwards when shot by a shotgun (or even a pistol). So we let it go, even though we know it's hokum. So to sum it up, this is a better than average, but not really great, action film. A little bit too long for my taste, but at least it never gets boring.
My rating

(From Reviews and ramblings by Gunnar on April 24th, 2014)

Bacchanales Sexuelles, a review by Jimmy

Title: Bacchanales Sexuelles (1973)

Genre: French Softcore
Director: Jean Rollin
Rating: Unrated
Length: 1h42
Video: Widescreen
Audio: French
Subtitles: English

Stars:Plot:
Valerie, a beautiful young girl, watches over her cousin's place while he's away for six months. She spends her first night there reading, playing records and calling her girlfriend over for some hot lesbian sex! That night, members of a crazed sex cult break-in and mistakenly kidnap Sophie. Valerie's cousin, a member of this cult, has some incriminating photos and the leader wants to ruin his life. Once the kidnapping plot is uncovered, Valerie and Sophie's horny friend Fred go to the cult's mansion stronghold to stop all this madness!



(From The little known movie review depot on September 10th, 2009)

The X-Files Marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

11. Eve
Original Air Date: December 10, 1993
After the fathers of two identical girls are murdered on opposite sides of the country, Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate.

Guest Stars:
Harriet Harris as Sally Kendrick
Erika Krievins as Cindy Reardon
Sabrina Krievins as Teena Simmons
Jerry Hardin as Deep Throat
George Touliatos as Dr. Katz
Tasha Simms as Ellen Reardon

My Thoughts:
This is another excellent episode. Great story.... well done by all involved. It remains one of my favorites from season 1 (if not the entire series).

My Rating:

(From The X-Files Marathon on March 30th, 2010)