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Love Sick, a review by Tom

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Love Sick (2006/Romania) IMDb | Wikipedia TLA Releasing (United Kingdom) Director: Tudor Giurgiu Writing: Cecilia Stefanescu (Original Material By), Cecilia Stefanescu (Screenwriter), Razvan Radulescu (Writer) Length: 84 min. Video: Widescreen 1.85 Audio: Romanian: Dolby Digital 5.1, Romanian: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: English

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Stars:
Maria Popistasu as Kiki
Ioana Barbu as Alex
Tudor Chirila as Sandu
Catalina Murgea as Dna. Benes
Mircea Diaconu as Dl. Dragnea

Plot:
Love knows no boundaries when a fiery lesbian love affair between two Romanian students is put to the test. It's Alex's first year at university and her world turned upside-down when she meets savvy and sexy Kiki. Despite her lover's baggage, the naive freshman falls head over heels in love.
But threatening their bliss is Kiki's emotionally explosive brother whose attachment to her seems downright incestuous. Directed with a poetic eye, Love Sick spins its quick wit and hard-edged romance into a sublimely sensual portrait of first love.

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Trailers
• Photo Gallery
• Bonus Trailers

This is my first Romanian movie. I always was interested seeing one, since I work daily with Romanian colleagues. But they couldn't recommend me a good one. Last week I stumbled across this one while browsing Amazon.
I enjoyed this movie. On Wikipedia it is said to be often compared to "My Summer of Love". There are some similarities, but I enjoyed "Love Sick" more.

Rating:

(From Lesbian Movie Marathon on January 12th, 2013)

Friday the 13th - Part V: A New Beginning, a review by RossRoy

WHAT THEY SAY

MY THOUGHTS

Well the series is starting to feel a bit redundant here. It also reeks of studio involvement/director sellout. I mean, it's worse than an Agatha Christie novel! Always the same plot, just a different setting! They did try to mix things up a bit, but boy did it fall flat on its face and I can't even think of a single reasoning how they thought, even for a mere second, that it would work and that fans would still like it! (well, I guess fans did like it enough.. after all, there's still 5 movies (6 if you count the Freddy crossover, 7 with the remake) to go! (click to show/hide) I'm talking about the fact that "Jason" here is a mere copycat! With a different mask to boot! I can pretty much sum up my feeling for this installment with a single onomatopoeia: meh! Is it me who is different? I mean, you could do a "Friday the 13th" in 60 seconds very easily. Line up 10 teenagers, have them each say their name, then have random sex, because we all know you need boobs to sell a horror movie. Then have Jason kill each of them from behind, one after another, in rapid succession. Have the last person finally notice what's going on, pull a knife and drive it into Jason's head. Cut to mental institute, add quick dream sequence of imaginary Jason attacking. Voila! Friday the 13th in 60 seconds! (click to show/hide) Ok, it's not actually for a Friday the 13th, but it's close enough: http://www.angryalien.com/0605/freddyjasonbuns.asp But then, that's me being a bit harsh. It did keep me entertained. It's just gotten to a point where the movie is just too predictable. But I give it points for having an actress who actually bears the name Voorhees: Debi Sue Voorhees who plays Tina. And she's incredibly beautiful! And we get to see her naked!

RATING

(From RossRoy's Random Viewings on October 20th, 2009)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Marathon, a review by DJ Doena

Synopsis: The cult of the Pah-Wraith believers grows and even a Vedek and a friend of Kira's is now one. He abducts Kira from DS9 and brings her to Empok Nor where Dukat has become the leader of a group of that cult. They want to show her that the Pah-Wraiths are actually the good gods because they wanted to guide the Bajorans and that they would have never allowed to occupation to happen. And Kira has to learn that some Bajorans believe so strong in their former oppressor that they would give their life for him.

My Opinion: Now Dukat's religious phase begins. I don't like that story.

Synopsis: Two months ago, Nog has lost his leg in the Battle of AR-558 and now he's returning to DS9 with a new biosynthetic leg. But he's still on medical leave and he choses to avoid real life and become a permanent guest in Vic Fontaine's Las Vegas hotel. Ezri tries to reach out to him but the only one who can connect to Nog is Vic.

My Opinion: This was a decent episode. It reminded me a bit of Reginald Barclay III who also tried to escape reality back on the Enterprise. And I have to say that Vic is a better counsellor than Ezri. . But I also liked that Ezri could convince Vic that it was time for Nog to return into the real world and how Vic threw him out of his program. And I found it amusing when Nog complained about the realism in Shane when Shane didn't bleed after he got shot.

Synopsis: O'Brien who was looking for a missing woman on New Sydney has gone missing, too. An involvement of the Orion Syndicate is very likely since both are directly connected to O'Brien's undercover mission in the last year. Sisko sends Ezri home to her family who has some influence in the system since they are the sixth-biggest mining operation company in the sector. But Ezri and her mother have some unresolved issues.

My Opinion: Hmm. Maybe I am prejudiced and I don't want to like her but I couldn't care less about Ezri's family.

Synopsis: Mirror-Ezri comes to DS9 and "convinces" Quark and Rom to steal a klingon cloaking device. Zek tried to open negotiations in the mirror universe and became prisoner to the Regent. But neither Quark nor Rom trust Mirror-Ezri and go with her to the other side. There they find not only a pleasant and kind Brunt, but also a real Vic Fontaine.

My Opinion: Oh c'mon, really? A real Vic - are you kidding me? And of course a Mirror-Ezri. They couldn't resist. And they even killed Jadzia in the mirror universe, too, instead of simply not showing her.

(From Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Marathon on March 1st, 2009)