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Gestapo's Last Orgy, a review by Jimmy

Title : Gestapo's Last Orgy (1977)

Overview
Under the iron-fisted rule of Commandant Starker is a special prison camp for women frequented by pleasure-seeking Nazis on leave. Disechanted with the usual Nazi decadence, the Commendant develops a fatal attraction to a beautiful prisoner, Lise, who seems underterred by the nastiness that surround her. It becomes his goal to break her will by subjecting her to some of the most unspeakable tortures and atrocities ever witnessed, including a banquet scene your mind won't easily erase. Years later, Lise lures the Commandant back to the scene of the hate-crimes for some serious closure. One of the sickest entries of the Naziploitation genre, GESTAPO'S LAST ORGY takes a rather artistic approach to its utterly repellent subject matter.

My ImpressionRating :

(From My Alphabet Marathon Review on November 24th, 2008)

Necessary Roughness, a review by KinkyCyborg

Title:Necessary Roughness
Year: 1991
Director: Stan Dragoti
Rating: PG-13
Length: 108 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, English: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround, French: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround
Subtitles: English

Stars:
Scott Bakula
Hector Elizondo
Robert Loggia
Harley Jane Kozak
Larry Miller

Plot:
THE TEXAS STATE ARMADILLOS are fourth down and nowhere-to-go after a corruption scandal nearly ends the football program. Now upstanding coach Ed Dennaro (Hector Elizondo) must put together a brand new team.

For the position of quarterback Gennaro recruits Paul Blake (Scott Bakula, 'Quantum Leap'), a 34-year-old former high school star whose field of dreams turned out to be the family farm. Blake still has the arm, but can he score with a team that includes a samurai lineman, a butterfingered receiver, and a Samoan strongman with eyes for the place-kicker (Kathy Ireland)?

Extras:
Scene Access
Closed Captioned


A favorite comedy of mine and even after a half dozen viewings now the laughs still hold up.

There have been a lot of misfit sports comedies in the past but this one sustains the laughs from start to finish. Larry Miller as the conniving school dean is a scene stealer! 

This is one of those movies I throw in when I want some laughs and it delivers every time.

KC

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(From KinkyCyborg's Random Reviews 2010 on September 21st, 2010)

The One Where It All Began: The Pilot Marathon, a review by DJ Doena

Every story has a beginning and for a TV show it's (often) the Pilot. I simply love pilots. It's the one episode that I watch more than any other episode of the show.

I'll watch them in the order in which they stand on my shelves, so there's no secret master plan why one show comes before or after the next.

As Kosh would say: And so it begins.

Xena: Warrior Princess



What's the show about?
The former warlord Xena has reformed and fights now for the good. She and her sidekick Gabrielle travel through the ancient world of Greece, North Africa and Asia. They fight with and against other warlords, demons and gods.

What happend before?
"Xena" is a spin-off of "Hercules" where Xena was introduced. Back then she was still a warlord until she lost her army due to a mutiny. After that she helped Hercules defeat a vicious monster.

"Sins of the Past"
Xena cannot escape her past even when she tries to. On the way to her hometown Amphipolis she saves a group of people - including a young girl called Gabrielle - from being captured and sold into slavery. The attackers are under the command of Draco. When she denies him a real fight he decides to destroy Amphipolis and kill everyone. Now Xena has to protect a town that does not want her to be there...

My Opinion
Since the character was already introduced in "Hercules" one doesn't learn much new about Xena in the pilot. Even if she had an affair with Draco remains unclear.
I always favoured "Xena" over "Hercules" because it was a bit darker and her enemies (Callisto, Ares, ...) were more interesting

But there is one thing that bugs me while I'm watching the show. While I grew up I read a lot of greek mythology. I've read the Iliad, the Odyssey, I watched every Hercules/Heracles movie there was. And I am still used to the german names of everything: Herkules, Achilles, Zeus, ... . While the spelling is only slightly different, the pronunciation is completely different. Everytime I watch Xena or Hercules and they pronounce greek names it sounds totally wrong. Period.

(From The One Where It All Began: The Pilot Marathon on January 2nd, 2008)