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Dead Silence, a review by RossRoy

WHAT THEY SAY

Dare to unlock the deadly curse of Mary Shaw... From the writers and director od 'SAW' comes a new thriller of relentless terror! Ever since Mary Shaw was hunted down and killed, the small town of Ravens Fair has been haunted by horrific deaths. When a local's wife is brutally murdered, he returns home to unravel the terrifying legend of Mary Shaw and the reason why when you see her, you should never, ever scream. Beware the stare of Mary Shaw. She has no children, only dolls. If you see her in your dreams, be sure you never, ever scream or she'll rip your tongue out at the seam.

MY THOUGHTS

Well! I've always found ventriloquist dolls quite creepy. This is not going to help But I was disappointed again. The movie is OK, but I find it lacked tension. The kills and makeup effects are nice, but there's very little tension leading to them. (click to show/hide) But, the biggest offender that actually destroyed the movie for me is the dad. If he's been dead the whole movie, and manipulated by Mary Shaw, where is the mouth cut in his chin? I realise Mary Shaw's been trying to make the perfect doll, which is implied as having happened with the dad. But if that's the case, why are all the other human-perfect-dolls cut in the chin but not the dad? Sure I know why they didn't show the cuts - they didn't want to sell the twist so early. But once you realise it, and see the picture of the other human transformed into dolls, it breaks the whole movie. Also, if it me, of does Billy (on the cover) almost looks like an unfinished and/or alternate/early version of the Jigsaw mask (from Saw)?

RATING

(From RossRoy's Random Viewings on January 24th, 2010)

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)

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

Synopsis: Worf is missing in action after his ship was destroyed near the Badlands. The Defiant searches for him but has to abort when the Jem'Hadar are closing in on her. Ezri takes matters into her own hand and continues the search in a runabout. Meanwhile Benjamin proposes to Kasidy and she accepts. And on Cardassia the Founder gets more and more ill due to the plague that has infected the Great Link a few months ago. And Dukat reappears and asks Damar for a favour.

My Opinion: Now the story is marching toward the end and these ten episodes form one continuous arc. There are now multiple parallel storylines and some of them are more interesting than others.
Even though it puts Ezri in the center agin, I mostly enjoyed this episode. It was a good start to this conclusion of the series.

Synopsis: Sisko takes the warning of the Prophets seriously and isn't sure anymore that he really should marry Kasidy. He beasically un-proposes to her and she doesn't take it lightly. Worf and Ezri - who had crashed on a planet and were captured by the Breen - are on a Breen ship and are being brought to an unknown destination. And Dukat - now surgically altered to look like a Bajoran - meets with Kai Winn who got a vision from the Prophets in which they instructed her to work with him (although she doesn't know who he really is).

My Opinion: These Prophets and their prophecy. They are a bit of a PITA. But I am glad that Ben made up his own mind and married Kasidy. They are a nice couple and they deserved it. I didn't care much about Worf's and Ezri's argument though. But it didn't bother me either. What did bother me was the Winn/Dukat storyline. Dukat was a brilliant villain character before they made up this religious storyline. I guess it's a bit like with The Lord of the Rings. In order to watch the great battles and the interesting characters around Aragorn you have to endure Frodo's march to Mount Doom.

Synopsis: The Dominion and the Breen have signed a treaty that makes the latter part of the Dominion. Ezri and Worf are now prisoners on Cardassia. Damar becomes more and more uneasy and when Weyoun sacrifices half a million cardassian soldiers in a pointless battle he finally comes around and decides to do something about it. Meanwhile Kai Winn learns that the vision was not sent by the Prophets but by the Pah-Wraiths but when she seeks forgiveness the Prophets don't answer her.

My Opinion: I really liked it that Worf and Ezri talked things out. They couldn't behave awkwardly around each other forever. And I liked it how Worf snapped Weyoun 7's neck and how Damar enjoyed seeing this even though he knew that there would be a Weyoun 8. And I loved it when Martok and Sisko dicussed marriage and Martok compared it to wars and battles. He's a typical Klingon.

Synopsis: Ezri and Worf are back on DS9 and they bring the news about the Breen with them. But they didn't have to. The Breen have just launched an orbital attack on the Starfleet Headquarters in San Francisco. And now they try to re-take the Chin'toka system. A combined fleet tries to prevent that but it ends in disaster. Meanwhile Winn and Dukat (still disguised as Anjohl Tennan) study the old books about the Pah-Wraiths in order to find a way to release them in order to bring restauration to Bajor.

My Opinion: Damar's troops destroyed the cloning facilities of the Dominion. It seems that Weyoun is going to be OOP. What I liked about this episode was that they didn't show only fighting and war but also that all these people still have a private life, that life goes on despite the war. And I loved that huge "The Alamo" model of Miles's. Too bad they had to give up the Defiant. She was a fine ship.

(From Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Marathon on March 6th, 2009)