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Snowballin', a review by Jimmy

Title: Snowballin'
Original Title:Year: 1971
Genre: Comedy
Director: Roger Cardinal (Rating: Unrated
Length: 1h12
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: No subtitles

Stars:
Daniel Pilon (Le Viol d'une jeune fille douceTanya's IslandGina)
Janine Sutto (SymphorienJamais deux sans toiPlot:
A ski instructor gives "private lessons" to a group of beautiful snow-bunnies and soon finds that his techniques keep him very busy on and off the slopes. His personal attention and devilish good looks bring his students running to him long after classes are out eagerly willing to display their own special talents.

Now I have to go on angry mode a little bit

[Angry mode onAngry mode off

But the DVD have a real big problem : This is not the original version. The version that I own is the very badly cut US one and more than 30 minutes is missing. Because of that the story doesn't make sense anymore and, worst the movie is dub in english and because of this all the comic timing of Labelle and Desrosiers is missing. That's why my rating will be low, because the original version of this film is really great.
 
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(From The little known movie review depot on February 19th, 2008)

Dial 1119, a review by Antares

Dial 1119 (1950) 65/100 - Before I started the film, I watched the trailer and it looked like a pretty good premise for a noir. But it's let down by some bad acting and some melodramatic dialog that really doesn't sound right when spoken by certain characters. Marshall Thompson, in the beginning of the film, has a quiet menace to him. But as the story progresses, and he kills someone in the bar, he suddenly looks as though he's a little kid who has had a bit too much sugar and has ants in his pants. He bounces all over the screen looking like someone who just needs a good spanking. Andrea King, who plays a young woman who is about to go away on a trip with a married man, does some of the worst acting I've ever seen in a film. The only bright spots in the cast are William Conrad and Virginia Field, who play a bartender and a barfly floozy. Had MGM found a more seasoned actor for the main role, and maybe a much more talented director who could bring a bit more focus on the part of the cast, then this might have turned out to be a small classic. It's not a bad film, just one that could have been crafted better.

Teal = Masterpiece
Dark Green = Classic or someday will be
Lime Green = A good, entertaining film
Orange = Average
Red = Cinemuck
Brown = The color of crap, which this film is

(From Antares' Short Summations on November 24th, 2014)

Tom's Buffy and Angel Marathon, a review by Tom

19. New Moon Rising (2000-05-02)
Writer: Marti Noxon (Writer)
Director: James A. Contner
Cast: Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy Summers), Nicholas Brendon (Xander Harris), Alyson Hannigan (Willow Rosenberg), Seth Green (Oz), Anthony Stewart Head (Giles), Marc Blucas (Riley Finn), James Marsters (Spike), Amber Benson (Tara), Leonard Roberts (Forrest Gates), Bailey Chase (Graham Miller), Robert Patrick Benedict (Jape), Conor O'Farrell (Colonel McNamara), George Hertzberg (Adam), Emma Caulfield (Anya), Seth Green (Oz), James Michael Conner (Scientist #1), Mark Daneri (Scientist #2), Doron Keenan (Commando #2)

Nice to see Oz again. And I am glad that we got the chance to see Willow choosing between Oz and Tara. Though I am glad about the choice that she made, it also means that it was the last time that we got to see Oz (okay Seth Green probably wouldn't have come back often anyway, as he is a very busy man).

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(From Tom's Buffy and Angel Marathon on September 12th, 2009)