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Liberty! The American Revolution, a review by Antares

Liberty! The American Revolution (1997) 89/100 - Of the four documentaries I watched, this was definitely the cream of the crop. Made by PBS, it took a more creative approach to telling the history involved. Instead of doing phony re-enactments of battles, it used an array of what were at the time, unknown actors, dressed them in the clothes and fashions of the day and had them speak into the camera as if they were being interviewed at the time of the events they described. I was surprised to see Philip Seymour Hoffman, Colm Feore, and Donna Murphy absorb themselves into their characters with ease. It made for an easy involvement in the historical storytelling unfolding before my eyes. What also set it apart from the other three documentaries was the depth and scope of events which led to the war in the preceding decade before the shots fired at Lexington. This is the documentary to seek out if you're interested at all with the subject matter at hand.

What the color coding means...

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 December 12th, 2013)

Eaten Alive, a review by Jimmy

Title : Eaten Alive (1980)

Overview
A girl risks her life and plunges into a jungle hell in search of her missing sister. Throughout her perilous journey, she must fend off hungry cannibal tribes and avoid being served up as a sacrificial lamb for a good old-fashioned suicide cult!

My Impression
One of the first Italian exploitation film that I've bought on dvd and it's always a pleasure to rewatch this one. Very good cannibal exploitation film, not as good as Cannibal Holocaust or Cannibal ferox but a top one. In fact this movie loose a lot of point when you realized that it recycle footage from Man from Deep River, Jungle Holocaust and Mountain of the Cannibal God (not that the footage is that obvious with the exception of the killing of the Me Me Lai character, but it's easy to spot if you have seen those movie previously). The story is a mix of two different subjects : Cannibals and isolated religious cult (an obvious reference to the Jonestown cult massacre of 1974). I think that this amalgam gives more depth to this movie compared to the other cannibal exploitation film (except for the sublime Cannibal Holocaust). The movie had a good cast like most of the Italian film with a mix of Europeans an Americans stars like Janet Agren, Ivan Rassimov, Mel Ferrer, Paola Senatore and, of course, Robert Kerman who give a much better performance in this one than in Cannibal Holocaust. You can even catch, if you know them of course, Gerald Grant (great in Radley Metzger's Score) and Jake Teague (his most known role for most of you is probably Mr. Biddle in Debbie Does Dallas).

Great Italian exploitation film, but of course this type of cinema isn't for everybody.    

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(From Jimmy's 2009 Horror Marathon on October 4th, 2009)

The Flash Marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

Guest Stars:
Richard Belzer as Joe Kline
Jason Bernard as Dr. Desmond Powell
Vito D'Ambrisio as Bellows
Biff Manard as Murphy
Lois Nettleton as Belle Crocker

My Thoughts:
This one I really liked a lot. I liked the whole previous masked man meeting and teaming up with The Flash. It made for a really interesting story... one I was glued to the set to watch!

My Rating:

(From The Flash Marathon on April 13th, 2010)