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Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, a review by Antares

Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (2016) 58/100 -  This was quite a chore to get through. I don't know if it was supposed to be a loving tribute or character assassination of Debbie Reynolds. Everyone knows what a train wreck Carrie Fisher was and this documentary is a warts and all treatment of her life, mainly warts. I can understand that it must be hard to grow up in the shadow of a famous parent, but her self-loathing and her desire to wallow constantly in the pain of her past is for the most part pathetic and incredibly tedious to watch. But you do get a sense of where all that material came from in Postcards From the Edge.


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 July 11th, 2020)

Bound, a review by Tom

Title: Bound
Year: 1996
Director: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski
Rating: 18
Length: 104 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85
Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, Commentary: Dolby Digital Stereo
Subtitles: English

Stars:
Gina Gershon
Jennifer Tilly
Joe Pantoliano
Mary Mara
Susie Bright

Plot:
There's $2 million dollars in a suitcase on a desk in an apartment in Chicago...

Ceasar (Joe Pantoliano) launders money for the Mob. Violet (Jennifer Tilly) is his alluring Mafia Moll. Corky (Gina Gershon) is an ex-con who just got out of the joint.

What's the last thing that could come between a sleazy wise guy like Ceasar and all that money? A couple of women with bodies to die for and brains to match. They become engulfed in a physical attraction that spurs them to relieve Violet's boyfriend of the $2 million in cash.

Corky and Violet are about to learn the meaning of trusting someone with your life. And Ceasar? He's about to learn a little something about women. In the end, it all comes down to one question...

WHO CAN YOU TRUST?

Extras:
Commentary
Featurettes
Production Notes
Scene Access
Trailers

A fun caper movies with some beautiful women. Especially Gina Gershon is very hot in this movie.
What I like about this movie is, that the two women came out as winners in the movie, because they trusted each other, whereas everyone else was distrustful of each other.
Also great performance by Joe Pantoliano as Caesar!

Rating:

(From Lesbian Movie Marathon on March 16th, 2009)

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

15. The Prodigal (2000-02-22)
Writer: Tim Minear (Writer)
Director: Bruce Seth Green
Cast: David Boreanaz (Angel), Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia Chase), Alexis Denisof (Wesley Wyndam-Pryce), Elisabeth Rohm (Kate Lockley), Julie Benz (Darla), John Mahon (Trevor Lockley), J. Kenneth Campbell (Angel's Father), Henri Lubatti (Suit #1), Frank Potter (Uniformed Delivery), Eliza Szonert (Chamber Maid), Bob Fimiani (Grounds Keeper), Christina Hendricks (Bar Maid), John Maynarnd (Uniformed Worker), Glenda Morgan Brown (Angel's Mother), Mark Ginther (Head Demon Guy), John Patrick Clerkin (Black Robed Priest), Michael Vendrell (Suit #2)

The story in this episode is average, but we got a few nice flashbacks to Angel's past and what happened to his family.

Rating:

(From Tom's Buffy and Angel Marathon on May 22nd, 2009)