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The Insatiable, a review by RossRoy

What they say

Harry Balbo (Flanery), a shy salesman, is on his way home one night when he witnesses Tatiana, a female vampire (Ayanna) violently rip the head off her victim. When no one believes his story, Harry decides to build a large cage in his cellar to trap the bloodthirsty killer. Using himself as bait, Harry tricks Tatiana into the cage and imprisons her. But with no source of fresh blood, the strikingly beautiful vampire faces sure death. Not wanting to kill such a remarkable creature, but unable to release a ravenous vampire onto the city streets, Harry is faced with an impossible choice -- give in to her seductive powers or save innocent lives from a gruesome fate.

My Thoughts

I must admit, I bought this movie solely for Charlotte Ayanna. I completely fell under her charms when I first watched Training Day (she plays Ethan Hawke's companion). Those eyes.. So basically, when I stumbled upon this while browsing some DVD shop inventory, I couldn't resist. I didn't read anything about the movie, just the cover blurb you see above. So I knew it involved Vampires and that's about it. But, I didn't expect this. Turns out, it does involve a vampire. It does have killings. It does have blood and gore. But, it's basically a love story, for better or worse. I like the somewhat of a twist of a normal guy falling in love with a vampire, but it's a bit much. And the whole movie holds together on too many impossibilities. One of the most glaring one being that a run-of-the-mill, white collar, office worker can learn how to weld from a book in a single day, and that very same night build a steel cage strong enough to hold a vampire that can easily jump 3-stories high? Yeah... But somehow, I still liked the movie. In no small part thanks to Charlotte Ayanna. I think she played the seducteress vampire perfectly. The guy playing the run-of-the-mill white collar worker is pretty good too. And they happen to have decent chemistry, which helps. I would say The Insatiable is an entertaining little movie. Just be prepared to take some leaps of logic at times, and do not expect a lot of action.

Rating:

(From RossRoy's Random Viewings on October 10th, 2009)

Reservoir Dogs, a review by DJ Doena

Today it get's a bit bloody.

Reservoir Dogs



Harvey Keitel    ...    Mr. White / Larry Dimmick
Tim Roth   ...    Mr. Orange / Freddy Newandyke
Michael Madsen   ...    Mr. Blonde / Vic Vega
Chris Penn   ...    Nice Guy Eddie Cabot
Steve Buscemi   ...    Mr. Pink
Lawrence Tierney   ...    Joe Cabot
Randy Brooks   ...    Holdaway
Kirk Baltz   ...    Marvin Nash
Edward Bunker   ...    Mr. Blue
Quentin Tarantino   ...    Mr. Brown

2 men return from a robbery that went bad, one of them badly wounded. In the course of time others also come back and they try to figure out what went wrong and why - that means, as long as they aren't busy with threats of killing one another.

My opinion:
Tarantino movies are never shown in the order of the events that have taken place, this one's no different. This one starts at the beginning of the second quarter, jumps to the third quarter and then fills the gaps of the first, second and fourth quarter. Of course one has to like Tarantino's way of spilling blood or else one wouldn't like this movie.

(From Tarantino-Mini-Marathon on February 5th, 2008)

Angel Marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

2. Ground State
Original Air Date: 10/13/2002
When Wesley advises Angel to visit Dinza, a dark "goddess of the lost" who has valuable information on how to find Cordelia, he learns that a certain mystical antiquity called the axis can locate souls across dimensions. Angel, Fred and Gunn break into an auction house to retrieve the object only to discover that an electrifying cat burglar has the same intentions.

Guest Stars:
Stephanie Romanov
Alexa Davalos
Rena Owen
Tom Irwin

My Thoughts:
Another excellent episode. I really enjoyed this Gwen character. And if I am not mistaken... we will get to see more of her later in the season. Or maybe next season... I can't remember, but I do believe we see her again. The story is well done... and I like how they gave a back story to Gwen.

My Rating:

(From Angel Marathon on March 16th, 2010)