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Lost and Delirious, a review by Tom

Title: Lost and Delirious
Year: 2001
Director:Rating: FSK-16
Length: 99 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78
Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, German: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles:

Stars:Plot:
A newcomer to a girl's boarding school is befriended by her two new roommates, and later discovers they are lovers. When one of the lovers decides she doesn't dare continue the relationship, the other becomes desperate in her attempts to win her back.

Extras:
Production Notes
Scene Access
Trailers

Piper Perabo is great as the love-sick Paulie. This movie is good, but like many dramatic lesbian movies, it ends in tragedy. I am more a sucker for happy endings. This is probably why I enjoy romantic comedies more, than I do romantic drama movies.

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(From Lesbian Movie Marathon on March 19th, 2009)

Tomboy, a review by addicted2dvd

Tomboy (1985/United States) Mill Creek Entertainment Director: Herb Freed Writing: Ben Zelig (Writer) Length: 90 min. Rating: R Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: Mono Subtitles: None

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Stars:
Betsy Russell as Tomboy
Jerry Dinome as Randy Starr
Kristi Somers as Seville Ritz
Richard Erdman as Chester
Philip Sterling as Earl Delarue
Eric Douglas as Ernie Leeds, Jr.

Plot:
A budding female race-car driver finally meets her racing idol and unbelievably they fall in love...a love that's quickly put to the test when, having received the chance to show her racing talents, the two find themselves in a race for a multi-million dollar sponsorship contract.

Extras:

• Scene Access

This is a movie that I got in a cheap box set called Too Cool for School Collection. It is a set that has a lot of those teenage sex comedies that was popular in the '80s. Before popping this disc in I had thought this is one I haven't seen before. But it didn't take long to realize I have. I seen it multiple times on cable back when I was a teen. Mainly because I had found Betsy Russell so drool-worthy in this movie. I don't know how I managed to forget this movie over the years as many times as I watched it on cable. Now... how well did it hold up? I found I still enjoyed it quite a bit... but it isn't as good as I remembered it being as a teen. Story was good... but definitely too much music mixed in for my taste. But I still find it worth the time to watch. This set being from Mill Creek Entertainment I am also surprised to say that there is no problems what so ever with the audio/video quality. Though I would have liked to seen some extras.




(From What Movies I Been Watching on January 22nd, 2012)

"Battlestar Galactica" Marathon (1978-2009), a review by DJ Doena

Synopsis: Baltar, the Borellians and the soldiers of the Eastern Alliance plan to escape from the prison barge. And they succeed. Aboard the Galactica they take the Quorum members as hostages (except for Adama and Siress Tinia). Adama has to either let them go or he has to try to free the Quorum members with the risk of getting them killed.

My Opinion: I really liked the irony of this episode's title and the fact that Baltar was the only one who didn't escape. And the moment I saw the dismantled Cylons and Apollo stating that he had a plan I really believed (and hoped) that he and Starbuck would slip into the armour and pretend to be Cylon pilots. Too bad they didn't make that move, that would have been fun.

Synopsis: When the squadron is following the escaped prisoners to Lunar 7, Apollo is suddenly brought aboard the ship of light again. There he's warned of a great danger Terra is in and that it's important for them, for the people in the fleet and even for the light beings that he helps the people on Terra. When he lands there he's recognized as someone else but he has little success in convincing them. Luckily Starbuck and also the Galactica aren't that far behind.

My Opinion: I really liked Edward Mulhare (Devon in Knight Rider) in the role of John. He was a funny guy and yet recognizable as the father figure he would later become to Michael Knight. But I also liked that Terra wasn't Earth, I didn't like the Terra storyline very much.

Synopsis: During a ceremony Starbuck discovers that an old girlfriend of his is still alive and did not die on Caprica as he had suspected. Cassiopeia isn't very thrilled but there's also not much she can do. Starbuck and Apollo follow Aurora  to the Celestra and run in the middle of a mutiny. And Aurora is of course among the mutineers. But not everything is as it appears to be.

My Opinion: It was an OK episode. But it was a bit constructed that the XO developed the plan to get rid of his captain and miraculously a mutiny started in just that moment and gave him the opportunity. The captain also seemed to have lost touch with his crew, otherwise he had to notice that his XO was a "slave driver". But he still got a medal for his excellent leadership.

Synopsis: The Galactica receives a signal that might have come from Earth but soon they detect a hidden Basestar that is looking for them. But Adama and Tigh are both tired of running. Adama develops a plan to attack and destroy the Basestar and its Raiders. Apollo and Starbuck get the most crucial role in that attack: They have to board the Basestar and to destroy its sensors. Both Cassiopeia and Sheba aren't very happy about it.

My Opinion: I really liked that final episode of the old series. It had the right amount (and quality) of humour and charm in it and also a good deal of action - even though they re-used the FX shots once again, there were so many and even some new shots that it looked really good. I also liked the idea that Apollo and Sheba may become a couple, Apollo had been alone since Serina died.

The Series - My Opinion: I will miss these guys. I really like the new series. But it's different there. The old series had its own charm and the characters are still great. Granted, a lot of the episodes have aged a lot and don't hold up in comparison to today's shows but it was still nice to see characters that aren't burdened with a difficult past but are straightforward WYSIWYGs.

(From "Battlestar Galactica" Marathon (1978-2009) on April 17th, 2009)