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Roman Holiday, a review by Antares

Roman Holiday (1953) 82/100 - I went into this film with somewhat low expectations, because I've never been a fan of Audrey Hepburn. But lo and behold, I may have found the one film that I like her in. And I have to think it lies in the fact that she's obviously a bit green, it being her first major film role, and she's not stuck yet in that saccharine, coquettish ingenue role that she milked for the next 10 - 15 years. There's a freshness to her performance that would soon be non-existent after making her next big hit, Sabrina. Gregory Peck and Eddie Albert sink their teeth into the comedic parts of the script with a gleeful playfulness, but I wonder how much funnier this film could have been if anyone else besides William Wyler had directed it. He does a serviceable job, but when I think of comedy based films, the name William Wyler hardly harbors a whiff of thought. The story itself, is pretty predictable, and the pacing could have been a bit tighter, but seeing Rome in all its post-war glory made up for these small shortcomings. And when the film was finished, I realized that I enjoyed it quite a bit. Dare I say, I may even consider purchasing it on DVD. That's something I thought I'd never see myself typing out, because of my feelings towards Hepburn and her career.

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 March 27th, 2014)

Up!, a review by Jimmy

Title: Up! (1976)

Genre: Comedy
Director: Russ Meyer
Rating: 18 (British dvd)
Length: 1h21
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Raven De La Croix
Robert McLane
Janet Wood
Monty Bane
Bob Schott

Plot:
Russ Meyer's "tried and true" formula is on target again...outrageously buxom women and dumb, muscular men laying their sexually aggressive prowess on the line. Yes, it's all here in Russ Meyer's Up! Two timers, cops, robbers, joints, and mind-boggling bra-busting women. Sweet L'il Alice...Fast, foxy, and fertile. The Headperson (Candy Samples, aka Mary Gavin)...awesome abundance, Pocahontas...cantilevered, protuberant, the chesty young thing...conical, unrestrained, limehouse...pneumatic bliss - oriental style. The Greek chorus (Kitten Natividad)...the biggest and the best, and the "smothering" Margo Winchester...assault with a deadly bosom. Plus the usual assortment of good-lookin', virile, awesomely hung, klutzy men.

Time for a thriller, but it's sure ain't Hitchcock and thank god (not that I don't like his film, but it's a Russ Meyer's film). Our story starts with the murder of Adolph Schwartz by a mysterious masked killer and we will have to find who had done it.


He sure looks familliar

The story is quite confusing by time, in fact it took me some time to understand what this movie was about, but when a film start with a guy who look like someone we know in a dungeon dominated by 2 women and a man this isn't that evident
By chance we have Kitten Natividad who came to help us to understand the focus of the story...

Not that it's easy to focus on what she say

So not long after we will encounter the principal character of our story : Margo Winchester


The gorgeous Raven De La Croix


After that our story move in a restaurant for quite a while and we will forget about the murder untill the end when the murderer will be revealed (but if you have guess it the first time you are way better than me). So who is the killer?


or is it one of the guy? No spoiler this time


Leonard Box?

Homer Johnson?

Paul?

Rafe?
     
Martin Borman?

or Russ Meyer Himself?


To resume : another fun movie ride

Next time I won't post that many images and before I receive the critic : the men cast isn't hide behind spoiler tag because they aren't nude in the movie and not because I didn't want to post picture.  
 
Rating :

(From The little known movie review depot on January 8th, 2010)

"Due South" marathon, a review by Tom

2.15 Body Language (1996-04-25)
Writer: Paul Haggis (Created By), James Kramer (Writer)
Director: Jon Cassar
Cast: Paul Gross (Constable Benton Fraser), David Marciano (Detective Ray Vecchio), Beau Starr (Lt. Harding Welsh), Tony Craig (Detective Jack Huey), Catherine Bruhier (Elaine), Camilla Scott (Inspector Margaret Thatcher), Lisa Engelman (Ida), Nick Sandow (Barry), Milton Berle (Shelley Litvak), James Gallanders (Mark), Ellen-Ray Hennessy (Waitress), Les Porter (Nelson), Elle Downs (Lily), Laura Catalano (Vi), Lolita Kerr (Mount Olympus Dancer)

An enjoyable episode but nothing special. Again some nice closet fun. What is it with Ray, Fraser and closets?

Rating:

(From "Due South" marathon on August 26th, 2009)