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All Over Me, a review by Tom

Title: All Over Me
Year: 1997
Director: Alex Sichel
Rating: FSK-12
Length: 95 Min.
Video: Full Frame 1.33:1
Audio: German: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Subtitles:

Stars:
Alison Folland
Tara Subkoff
Cole Hauser
Wilson Cruz
Leisha Hailey

Plot:
If you've forgotten what it's like to be fifteen, it all comes crashing back in this wonderfully edgy look at the relationship between a sensitive, vulnerable young girl named Claude (Boys Don't Cry's Alison Foland) and her beautiful, quick-witted best friend Ellen (Freeway's Tara Subkoff). Filmed on the streets of New York City, this raw and realistic account follows an adolescent girl's struggle to find friendship and love in a world where kids don't count. Crossing the line between sexuality and friendship, innocent discovery and lifelong regret, she discovers what coming of age is really about.

Awards:

Independent Spirit Awards

1998

Nominated

Best Female Lead

Alison Folland

Extras:
Photo Gallery
Production Notes
Scene Access
Trailers

A very low-budget film. Overall I did enjoy it. Better than most other low-budget lesbian movies.
Leisha Hailey (Alice from The L Word) appears as the second love interest.

Rating:

(From Lesbian Movie Marathon on July 3rd, 2010)

Event Horizon, a review by Jon

Event Horizon
3 out of 5



The Event Horizon is a ship with a gravity drive that disappeared 7 years ago. Now it's reappeared and no-one knows where it has been. But as it can fold space and can generate black holes, that could be anywhere. The designer Dr. Weir (Sam Neill) accompanies a rescue crew headed by Captain Miller (Laurence Fishburne) to see what can be salvaged...

(From Jon's Marathon of Horror! 2009 on October 12th, 2009)

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: The Complete Second Season marathon, a review by Achim

6. The Tower Is Tall But The Fall Is Short
The weight of their mission takes a toll on the Connors when they infiltrate the office of a family therapist who also has ties to ZeiraCorp.

My comments:
Great episode here, where the Connors and Weavers path cross, without them noticing each other.

The Connor's story is trying to understand the meaning of one of those names they found on a wall (am I supposed to know who wrote them there? because I don't). As usual the question is whether their target needs protection or must be taken out. They visit Dr. Sherman (Dorian Heapwood, who is a pleasure to watch) pretending to need his services as family consultant. Well, obviously it turns out that not much pretending is required as there are strong issues between Sarah and John. Interestingly they get to resolve one of those issues (is that flashback something from season 1 or is it made up for the purpose of this episode?) by proxy of the doctor without ever confronting each other. This is the strongest part of the episode, with lots of small excellent dialog and acting bits.

The second plot deals with (New) Weaver learning to fake being affectionate to the child she "adopted" so that the child doesn't feel alienated by its own mother. Some references to T-2 can be found here. I am beginning to warm up to Weaver's story line, hoping it will continue to go down the same path, which previously felt overly gratuitous to me. The child actress playing the daughter Savannah gets to shine here a little bit.

A third, smaller, thread deals with Derek meeting his old flame from the future and getting involved with her. I was suspicious of her right away and we are presented some evidence to be just that towards the end. Will be interesting to see how this develops.

I hope Ellison's thread pays of sufficiently later, because the way they slowly build up the story with him better don't lead to him simply getting killed of or other stupid stuff like that. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy his bits immensely, I just hope it goes somewhere.



Can anyone tell me what the title of this episode refers to?

(From Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: The Complete Second Season marathon on February 3rd, 2010)