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Ocean's 11 (1960), a review by RossRoy

Original Title: Ocean's 11 Year: 1960 Country: United States Director: Lewis Milestone Rating: NR Length: 127 Min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital Mono, French: Dolby Digital Mono, Commentary: Dolby Digital Stereo Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

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I don't know what to think. I've seen the remake a while ago, and I remember enjoying it a lot, thinking it was entertaining and fun. So I thought the original would be pretty much the same. And in a sense, it is. You've got a bunch of stars having fun making a light hearted movie. Thing is, to me, the stars of the remake are much more Stars, than the Rat Pack. Oh sure, I know the members of the rat pack, but mostly for their music. Not much for their film work. And I think this might've dragged down my enjoyment of it a little. Ok, a lot.

The film, by itself, without the star power, is not really all that interesting to me. I mean, the movie starts with the heist already all planned out, so they're right smack in the middle of preparations, with gathering the gang together. The preparation of the heist itself is not that entertaining, nor suspenseful. The heist itself is pretty bland. I guess the high point is the ending, with that twist at the end. It's like the whole movie never found a rhythm, which is surprising, seeing as it is so star studded with famous singers of the swing era.

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(From RossRoy's Random Viewings on November 1st, 2008)

But I'm a Cheerleader, a review by Tom

Title: But I'm a Cheerleader
Year: 1999
Director: Jamie Babbit
Rating: 15
Length: 89 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85
Audio: English: Dolby Digital Stereo
Subtitles:

Stars:
Natasha Lyonne
Clea DuVall
RuPaul Charles
Melanie Lynskey
Michelle Williams


Plot:
Megan thinks she's cheering for the same side, but her parents thinks she bats for the other side!

Megan has got it all - she is popular, pretty a model student and is dating the captain of the football team.

However, the cheerleading teenager is accused of being gay by her religious, over-zealous parents. They pack her off to a sexual reorientation camp not realising that it is "camp" in more ways that one!

What Megan's parents hoped would set her on the straight and narrow is a revelation to her, and a breeding ground for her burgeoning sexuality!

Extras:
Scene Access
Featurettes
Interviews
Trailers

I have always enjoyed this movie. It is really campy, but in a fun way. The camp is used to satirize the ignorant people who think one has a choice to be gay or not.
One of the workers at the sexual reorientiation camp is played by RuPaul in probably in one of few appearances out of drag.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MihKLBP4DQ

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(From Lesbian Movie Marathon on March 14th, 2009)

Tom's Random Star Trek Reviews, a review by Tom

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
5.22 Children of Time
WriterDirector: Allan Kroeker
Cast: Avery Brooks (Captain Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Michael Dorn (Lt. Commander Worf), Terry Farrell (Lt. Commander Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Alexander Siddig (Doctor Bashir), Nana Visitor (Major Kira), Gary Frank (Yedrin Dax), Jennifer S. Parsons (Miranda), Davida Williams (Lisa), Doren Fein (Molly), Brian Evaret Chandler (Brota), Marybeth Massett (Parell), Jesse Littlejohn (Gabriel)

The Defiant crew land on a planet, where they meet descendents of themselves. As it turns out, they will catapulted back two hundred years when trying to leave the planet and crashland there.
Now they have deal with the dilemna that avoiding the accident which brings them back in time would result that the colony of 8000 people will never have existed.
A well executed episode which I always enjoyed.

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(From Tom's Random Star Trek Reviews on November 17th, 2011)