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"If you're frightened of on one’s deathbed, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your sparkle away."

1990 R / Drama Horror

Directed by:

Adrian Lyne

Starring:

Tim Robbins, Danny Aiello, Jason Alexander

Tagline

The most frightening thing about Jacob Singer's nightmare is that he isn't dreaming.

Summary Capsule

A guy descends into the murky afterlife. Or he's having an acid trip. Vote for your favorite ending now!

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Justin's Rating:

Hey, Satan, paid my dues – hey, I'm in a rockin' band

Justin's Review:

There are few greater blessings and few worse curses than being saddled with an overactive imagination. On one hand, it's a boon to storytelling and other creative projects, and I've always relied on my imagination to fill in the parts of my life that are boring beyond belief (read: long meetings). On the other claw, my imagination loves for me to suffer. Ever since I was a little kid, I vividly imagined the worst, scariest things of the night that undoubtedly lurked in my basement and closets. To be honest? I'm 31 years old, and I still make sure every closet in the house is closed before bedtime.

"To be honest? I'm 31 years old, and I even then make sure every closet in the house is closed previous to bedtime."

So as the years go by, I've honed this unwanted power to freak myself evasion to greater and greater heights, and as a terminate, I've made a decision to stop feeding my brain truly freaky images that might add up to back to (evil laugh) prey on me. Renting

Jacob's Ladder

went against this choice, especially with the anyway "quick head" twitching that wigged me out in

House on Haunted Hill

, but these are the agonies I suffer to train still another cult movie to our mediocre speciality.

Few people knew how to take or interpret

Jacob's Ladder

in 1990, and while it's gained a certain cult notoriety since then, not many more people today can shed a clear light on its proceedings. What we know is this: twitchy Vietnam soldier Jacob (Tim Robbins) experiences an "incident" in the jungle after his platoon is attacked, and they all go crazy. Or get the muchies. Flash-forwards a few years, and Jacob is a mess of a postal worker in NYC who continuously witnesses odd events, such as faceless men abducting people, demons on the subway, and New Yorkers being kind and friendly. As things get more and more surreal, Jacob is tasked for figuring out what the bloomin' onion is going on.

It's here that the film divides into two lengthy explanations of the weirdness. Either Jacob's platoon was the secret test-case of a highly controversial aggression drug (nicknamed "the ladder"), or Jacob died and is in a hell of some kind. While I'm not in the business of spoiling anything for you, I will point out that the downfall of this premise is that the film can't have it both ways: it's either the ladder drug or an afterlife adventure. And whichever one is revealed as the "real" explanation, it makes the other viewpoint seem silly and somewhat pointless.

What is left to savor are odd, potentially frightening scenes (although this is not nearly as terrifying as some of the images that more modern horror directors have produced) that demand you disconnect from directly caring about the plot in order to feed upon the atmospheric circus. Now I'm all for Tim Robbins being slammed around by creepy demons who have nothing better to do with their daily schedule than put on a puppet show for a guy who was late delivering their mail, but I have to admit that the scares would've impacted me more if I had something to care about in this movie.

Therefore, I shall take this DVD and toss it to the dead girl who crawls on my ceiling at night and tell her to share it with the monster in the bathroom drain. I think they have a thing going on between them, and I'm pulling for them big-time.

"Okay, dear? When I said I needed to take a cold shower, this was NOT what I had in mind."

He's home. He's toute seule. And it's so unequivocally wacky.

The Mouth of Sauron demands pizza bites!

Didja Notify?

[some sources: IMDb]

• The "Hell" sign on the subway
• It's the Home Alone brat!
• He reads Dante's Purgatorio
• George from Seinfeld
• All ads in the subway and Bergen Street station are anti-drug ads.
• Jacob and his visions never appear together in the same shot.

Is It Worth Staying Through End Credits?

Not really.

Intermission!

[some sources: IMDb]

Director Adrian Lyne uses a technique in which an actor is recorded waving his head around in blurred and horrific fast motion. Filmmakers have since achieved the effect by digitally removing frames from footage shot at a normal rate. The horror videogame franchise Silent Hill borrows this technique in the second, third and fourth sequels of the game, although it is not seen in the Silent Hill movie.

The film is also viewed by many, including the screenwriter, as a modern interpretation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead.

Groovy Quotes

Louis: If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. If you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.

Army Officer: Mr. Singer. What an appropriate name for a man who can't shut up.

Jacob: You know you look like an angel, Louie? Like an overgrown cherub. Anyone ever tell you that?

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The sophomoric pseudo-satire “Military Intelligence and You!” possesses all the hallmarks of a student film by someone who has watched too much Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert and not enough Stanley Kubrick. Filmmaker Dale Kutzera has plumbed the archives for scads of World War II military training films. With a fake voiceover and scenes staged in period garb and vernacular, he creates a black-and-white pastiche of camp, kitsch and snarky double entendre designed to twit the administration over the faulty intelligence that led to the Iraq war.

Although Kutzera does a great job of cinematic excavation and editing, “Military Intelligence and You!” never manages to overcome its tone of glib condescension and soar to Strangelovian heights. Kutzera comes up with some mildly amusing lines (WWII soldiers are said to be “defending the civil rights we’ve already given up to protect ourselves”), but too often he is content to shoot such rhetorical fish-in-barrels as President Bush’s “evildoers” and “the Axis of Generalities.”

What’s more, the film’s focus on intelligence seems wildly dated, five years into the war. It’s not that observant humor fired by righteous rage isn’t necessary in the arsenal of dissent; it’s just that Kutzera has given us a stunt when what we need is satire.

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Director:


Robert Shaye


Cast:


Chris O'Neil, Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, Joely Richardson,

Timothy Hutton

, Rainn Wilson, Kathryn Hahn,

Michael Clarke Duncan



Writing Credits:


Bruce Joel Rubin, Toby Emmerich, James V. Hart (screen story), Carol Skilken (screen story), Henry Kuttner (short story, "Mimsy Were the Borogoves"), C.L. Moore (short story, "Mimsy Were the Borogoves")

Tagline:


The future is trying to tell us something.

Synopsis:


When Noah and Emma Wilder discover a special box on the beach, they open it and unlock an exciting adventure beyond imagination. Inside they find Mimzy, a magical stuffed rabbit along with other mystical toys, which give the children exceptional powers of their own. Able to move objects with their minds and to solve complex equations, these new wonder kids begin to attract the attention of their parents, teachers … and even the FBI. Surrounding the phenomenon of Mimzy is an awesome secret – one that holds the key to saving the future of all mankind.

Box Office:


Domestic Gross

$21.460 million.

MPAA:


Rated PG

Widescreen 2.35:1/16×9

English Dolby Digital EX 5.1

English Dolby Ambience 2.0

Subtitles:

None

Closed-captioned

Supplements Subtitles:

None

Runtime:

96 min.


Price:

$28.98


Release Date:

7/10/07

Bonus:


• Audio Commentary with Director Bob Shaye

• Fact Track

• 11 Deleted/Alternate Scenes with Optional Director?s Commentary

• Interactive Challenge

• ?The Mandala: Imaginary Palace? Featurette

• ?The Looking Glass: Emma and Alice? Featurette

• ?Sound Waves: Listening to the Universe? Featurette

• ?DNA: The Human Blueprint? Featurette

• ?Nanotechnology: The Human Revolution? Featurette

• ?Wormholes: Fantasy or Science? Featurette

• ?

The Last Mimzy

: Adapting the Story? Featurette

• ?Bob Shaye: Director Profile? Featurette

• ?Casting the Kids? Featurette

• ?Production Design and Concept Art? Featurette

• ??Real Is Good?: The Visual Effects? Featurette

• ?Editing and Music? Featurette

• Music Video

• Trailers

The Model Mimzy (2007)
(July 11, 2007)

We get a science-fiction fantasy adventure in 2007?s

The Last Mimzy

. Spring break comes for 10-year-old Noah Wilder (Chris O?Neil) and his family take a trip to their vacation home on Whidbey Island near Seattle. As he and his younger sister Emma (Rhiannon Leigh Wryn) play on the beach, they find an intriguing box. Inside it they discover some unusual items including a stuffed bunny named Mimzy who talks to Emma.

They also start to develop some strange abilities. Noah and Emma explore these during vacation and continue to do so when school resumes. Noah?s science teacher Larry White (Rainn Wilson) discovers that the kid?s sketching intricate designs called mandalas, and it just so happens that Noah draws the same one that appeared in Larry?s dreams. Noah and Emma start to demonstrate previously untapped intellectual skills as well, and folks start to suspect that they have supernatural powers.

Matters start to come to a head when one of the objects from the box causes a massive blackout. This attracts attention from the feds, as they worry about a terrorist plot. The movie follows all these various threads and the kids? paths toward a mysterious goal.

How did I know something magical was at work when I watched

Mimzy

? Because the movie actually made time slow to a crawl. The first 30 minutes of the film seemed to last about three hours, and matters didn?t get any better from there.

Hoo boy, is this a slow-paced little flick! The tale really drags as it gradually leads us? somewhere. Yeah, we eventually get to the point, but by the time we end up there, we just don't care anymore. Granted, I?m not sure we ever

do

develop any investment in the characters or story. However, any marginal interest that grows dies out well before the flick comes to a conclusion.

You?ll be forgiven if you see multiple parallels between

Mimzy

and



ET the Extraterrestrial



. No, this isn?t a cheap

Mac and Me

-style rip-off, but it seems clear that

Mimzy

uses

ET

as an inspiration at minimum and a firm template at maximum.

Unfortunately, director Bob Shaye isn?t a match for Spielberg circa 1982. Big Steve took a simple story and made it absolutely stunning, partially because he didn?t try too hard. Spielberg developed a minimal tale that enveloped us through its warmth and genuine feel for its subject.

In

Mimzy

, however, Shaye tries his hardest to push all our buttons. He lacks any form of style or charm as he layers on all sorts of faux magic. Maybe the movie should?ve been titled

The Forced Whimsy

since it never generates any real emotion or inspiration.

Shaye?s story-telling abilities certain let down the movie.

Mimzy

suffers from awkward pacing, as it kind of clomps along from one spot to another without much fluidity. We get some connection among events but the film doesn?t progress in an organic way. Instead, it just lumbers along as it touches on its mildly connected plot points.

In addition, the characters receive little development or depth.

Mimzy

features a pretty good cast of adults, all of whom seem to be on autopilot. They can?t add anything to their underwritten parts, and they all basically blend into the wallpaper.

One would expect better definition for the lead kids, but they show no spark either. Both O?Neil and Wryn seem eminently forgettable. They fail to display charm or vivacity in their roles. They offer stiff, wooden performances without any life.

It?s the flat, generic nature of

Mimzy

that really kills it. It throws us a story cobbled together from bits and pieces of other movies and includes completely generic characters without any personality. I kept waiting for the story to go somewhere, but that never happened.

The DVD Grades: Picture B+/ Audio A-/ Perquisite A-

The Last Mimzy

appears in an aspect ratio of approximately

2.35:1

on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for

16X9

televisions. Not many issues affected this solid transfer.

Only a few problems with definition caused distractions. Though most of the movie showed good delineation, occasionally wide shots looked a bit soft. Nonetheless, the majority of the flick was accurate and distinctive. No issues with jagged edges or shimmering occurred, and I detected no edge enhancement. Source flaws also remained absent through this clean image.

Mimzy

went with a natural palette that looked very good. The tones came across as lively and full at all times. Blacks were dense and tight, while shadows appeared reasonably smooth and clear. Overall, this was a positive presentation.

Even better material came from the

Dolby Digital 5.1

soundtrack of

The Last Mimzy

. With all the magical elements, the soundfield presented an active environment. Music offered nice stereo delineation, and effects cropped up from all around the spectrum. The supernatural aspects of the film allowed for the information to come from all around the room and open up the film well.

Audio quality also satisfied. Speech was crisp and natural, while effects showed good clarity and definition. They boasted fine low-end, and music followed suit. The score was lively and dynamic at all times. This was an impressive soundtrack.

This infinifilm edition of

The Last Mimzy

comes packed with extras. We begin with an

audio commentary

from director Bob Shaye. He provides a running, screen-specific look at the film. Shaye chats about story and themes, editing and the effect of test screenings, cast, performances and working with the kids, sets and locations, effects and visuals, music, audio and a few other elements.

I may not think much of Shaye?s film, but he provides a pretty solid discussion of it. Shaye covers all the issues we?d expect and does so in an honest, up-front manner. He doesn?t layer on too much happy talk, and he?s willing to discuss some problems that cropped up along the way. Heck, the guy even gives out his e-mail address so you can send him your thoughts! Despite a few slow spots, this turns into a satisfying commentary.

Another option to accompany the movie arrives via the

Fact Track

. This text commentary uses the subtitle area as it provides small factoids that appear throughout the flick. It covers subjects such as aspects of the production, facts about the actors and others involved, and concepts depicted in the flick.

The material seems moderately interesting at best, and a further problem comes from the sporadic presentation of the information. The factoids don?t pop up very frequently. I doubt many people will want to try to attend to the film itself and read the fact track at the same time, as it could become very distracting, especially since the infinifilm features offer a frequent element of visual confusion. On the other hand, if you check out the movie just to examine the subtitles, you?ll feel irritated by the infrequent use of the feature. This fails to become a terribly worthwhile subtitle commentary.

11

Deleted/Alternate Scenes

fill a total of 13 minutes, 22 seconds. These include ?Science Test? (0:59), ?Noah?s Crush? (0:13), ?Alternate Meditation Scene? (3:59), ?David Calls the Beach House? (0:57), ?Whidbey Fight? (2:30), ?Emma?s Birthday? (1:45), ?Noah?s Crush Part 2? (0:37), ?Alternate Naomi Introduction? (0:24), ?Naomi Is Shocked? (0:36), ?Mandala Drawing Left Behind? (0:32) and ?Extended Broadman Ending? (0:43). The most significant additions give us more information about the various adult relationships, as the clips provide extra coverage of the kids? parents as well as Larry/Naomi. None of these would have fit into the movie very well, so they were logical cuts. All the others just seem extraneous, so they don?t go missed.

We can watch these with or without commentary from Shaye. He tells us some general editorial thoughts as well as the reasons he cut the scenes. Shaye continues to be informative and frank in this useful collection of remarks.

For some games, we head to the

Interactive Challenge

. ?Spider Bridge? is a confusing nuisance, while ?Memory Match? is only mildly more fun. ?Mandala Mix-Up? is another memory game. None of these seem entertaining.

A slew of featurettes appear here. Six of these crop up under the

Beyond the Movie

domain and deal with topics connected to the movie?s story elements. We find ?The Mandala: Imaginary Palace? (5:49), ?The Looking Glass: Emma and Alice? (2:37), ?Sound Waves: Listening to the Universe? (6:20), ?DNA: The Human Blueprint? (4:05), ?Nanotechnology: The Human Revolution? (3:11) and ?Wormholes: Fantasy or Science? (4:19). Across these pieces, we hear from Shaye, California Institute of Integral Studies Professor of Asian and Comparative Studies Steven Goodman, Jungian psychologist Dr. Holly J. Fincher, Tibetan lama Anam Thubten Rinpoche, Lewis Carroll Society of North America vice president Mark Burstein, screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin, sound designer Dane Davis, UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Professor James K. Gimzewski, Columbia University Professor of Physics and Mathematics Brian Greene, National Space Science Data Center planetary radio astronomer James Thieman, Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences deputy director Dr. Erika Shugart, National Geographic and IBM?s Genographic Project director Dr. Spencer Wells, Nanotechnology.com managing director Darrell Brookstein, and UC-Riverside Department of Mechanical Engineering assistant professor Christopher Dames.

We find info about mandalas, a comparison between this movie?s Emma and literary sources, audio issues, and notes about DNA, nanotechnolology and wormholes. Taken as a whole, these components really do let us go ?beyond the movie?. They provide good background information for the different concepts presented in

Mimzy

and help make the experience more valuable. It?s nice to learn more about these topics and see how they fit in with the film?s story.

Six more featurettes come to us within the

All Access Pass

heading. Here we discover ?

The Last Mimzy

: Adapting the Story? (13:51), ?Bob Shaye: Director Profile? (8:56), ?Casting the Kids? (7:10), ?Production Design and Concept Art? (4:05), ??Real Is Good?: The Visual Effects? (8:11), and ?Editing and Music? (13:09). In these, we find notes from Shaye, Rubin, producer Michael Phillips, executive producer Sara Risher, screenwriter/New Line President of Production Toby Emmerich, production designer Barry Chusid, director of photography J. Michael Muro, New Line co-chairman and co-CEO Michael Lynne, visual effects supervisor Eric Durst, Orphanage Inc. senior visuals effects producer Amy Hollywood Wixson, Orphanage Inc. visual effects supervisor Stu Maschwitz, visual effects producer Mark G. Soper, editor Alan Heim, composer Howard Shore, New Line President of Music Paul Broucek, and actors Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, Timothy Hutton, Rainn Wilson, Michael Clarke Duncan, Kathryn Hahn, and Chris O?Neil.

These clips look at the movie?s adaptation and development for the big screen, screenplay elements, notes about director Shaye, casting, visual concepts, various effects, editing, and score. After the background info in ?Beyond the Movie?, here we focus on movie-making issues. Of course, Shaye covers a lot of this material in his excellent commentary, but this collection of clips, we find more detail about the various topics. These prove to be consistently informative and compelling as we get a nice overall look at the flick?s creation.

Next we get a

music video

for Roger Waters? ?Hello (I Love You)?. The song rehashes Waters? old Pink Floyd glories but comes across like a pale imitation of his earlier work. Don?t expect anything interesting from the video, as it just mixes movie clips with studio shots of Waters.

The DVD opens with some ads. We get promos for

Hairspray

and

TMNT

. These also appear in the DVD?s

Sneak Peeks

domain along with clips for

Hoot

,

How to Eat Fried Worms

,

Superman: Doomsday

, and the

Lord of the Rings

trilogy. The set ends with the

trailer

for

Mimzy

.

If you want to find a magical adventure for the kids, keep looking.

The Last Mimzy

won?t satisfy you. Instead, this lumbering, wooden tale tries hard to wow us but just bores us instead. The DVD presents very good picture and audio as well as a pretty good collection of extras. I like what New Line did with this fine DVD, but the movie itself is a dull disappointment.

“Intelligent and compelling.”

Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz

Even though he was only 60 years old, this is Sirk’s goodbye film
to America. Sirk was born of Danish parents in Hamburg, Germany and retired
to live in Germany for the last 25 years of his life. 

Sirk’s film is a re-make of John Stahl’s 1934 Imitation of Life.
Producer Ross Hunter convinced the Ice Queen, Lana Turner, to make her
comeback with nurturing director Sirk. It was a return to stardom for Lana
after her 1958 sordid love affair with low-level gangster Johnny Stompanato,
who was slain by her daughter over a lover’s triangle. 

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This weepie melodrama turned out to be a commercial success despite
some bad early reviews, it was Universal-International’s biggest money
maker for that year. It was also its biggest grossing film until Airport,
yet for all its crowd pleasing melodramatics it is also a very intriguing
and analytical work that demands attention.

Sirk’s film is all of the following: a social consciousness exercise
about America, a look at the breakdown of the nuclear family because of
materialism, a tale about being a good mother, an exploration about what
people strive for in their careers and in their love life, and a probe
into issues of life and death. It’s also a film that sharply examines America’s
racism through a light-skinned black girl who wants to pass for white.
It’s a weird film that defies what it is. Everyone has a different view
about life from the person they are close to and they are all unfortunately
blind to the other’s view. There’s an underlying cynicism to the soap opera
story, despite the attempt to give it a happy ending.

The film opens in the Coney Island of 1947 and a frantic mother,
Lora Meredith (Lana Turner), has lost her 6-year-old daughter Susie on
the crowded beach. She’s found playing with an almost white girl age 8,
Sarah Jane, who is taken care of by a black woman, Annie Johnson (Juanita
Moore), whom Lora mistakes for the maid. When told by her that she’s the
mother, the surprised Lora falters but then accepts it without a question
as if it were a natural thing that a black woman has a white child.

Lora is a thirtyish widow. Her husband was a community theater director
who came from a small town in the sticks to become a Broadway star, while
Annie is an older widow who is homeless. Also on the beach, trying to help
Lora find her child is a handsome aspiring photographer, Steve Archer (John
Gavin). This chance meeting will bring all parties together. Lora, who
is unemployed and struggling to make ends meet, takes Annie and her child
back to her apartment to be a live-in maid. The saintly Annie is troubled
that her daughter is ashamed of being black and tries to pass herself off
in school as white. Annie says: “It’s a sin to be ashamed of what you are
– and it’s a sin to lie about who you are.” The most shameful incident
for Sarah Jane, something she will always shamefully remember, takes place
in school when Annie arrives in her class to bring her an umbrella because
it is raining. The girl never forgives her for embarrassing her in front
of her classmates by letting everyone know she’s colored.

Lora is obsessed to be a star, and in her pursuit neglects the daughter
she loves and spurns the love of Steve. He wants to marry and to support
her, he’s willing to give up his artistic aspirations to take a job as
a photographer with an advertising place. This is something that Lora can’t
understand, as a career is more important to her than love. Susie is raised
by Annie, as Lora’s career gets a boost by sleazy agent Allen Loomis (Robert
Alda). He can’t induce her to cheapen herself for a part, but he accepts
her independence in order to get his ten percent and hooks her up with
successful playwright David Edwards (O’Herlihy). In her first role, in
a play called Stopover, she gets good reviews in a minor role. This propels
her to stardom and for the next ten years she moves in the fast-lane of
the theater, where she’s romantically involved with Edwards. Her cravings
are not for money or love, but to be a success in her chosen career. Steve
has disappeared from her life after stupidly giving her an ultimatum to
marry him and forget about her career. He has not seen her for the last
ten years, but still loves her. He suddenly reappears when Lora is tired
of the roles she’s playing and stars in an arty theater work not written
by David Edwards. It appears they might be getting back together again,
but a new offer arrives for her to be in a film by a noted Italian film
director. She quickly forgets about Steve and is packing to go to Italy,
which sends Steve away again.

Both girls have grown up and are rebelling against their mothers.
Susie chooses to go to college in Denver, far away from home. Sarah Jane
meets a white boy, Frankie, who beats her up when he finds out she lied
to him about being white. Sarah Jane blames her mother for ruining her
life and escapes from home to go to Las Vegas to be taken for a white chorus
girl. When Annie tracks her down and goes to see her there, she realizes
that she can’t live her life through the girl any longer and must let go
even though she deeply loves her. She promises to never embarrass her anymore
by saying she’s her mother.

The film culminates with Annie’s death, as Lora is surprised that
Annie is dying and leaving her alone in the world to face her troubles.
When she lifts her head in tears over the bed of the dying maid, we see
in the background a photograph of the smiling Sarah Jane. At last the girl
seems to be free of her mother and can be who she wants to be. Annie’s
only wish now, is to have a big funeral.

All the characters want what is best for themselves, even if it doesn’t
seem to do them much good. Annie gets her big funeral, but since she’s
dead it doesn’t do her much good. She only wants it because it will give
her an importance she never had in life. Lora gets to be a star, but her
life is far from satisfactory. At the funeral everyone comes together again,
and it seems like everything will be all right. But even as Sarah Jane
forgives her mother when she’s dead as she hysterically throws herself
on the casket, we realize that you can’t change the world or the way people
are. That the same people who you think have changed will revert back to
messing up their lives as they always do. Sarah Jane wants to be white
because she thinks you can live better as a white person. Lana wants to
be an actress not because it is what is right for her, but because she
will have a better status in the world. Sandra Dee falls in love with John
Gavin, who might be right for her. But he thinks he only wants Lana. Poor
Sandra Dee can’t understand why he doesn’t respond and decides that it
is best to run away from her past. These characters are unaware of how
they are manipulated by their social reality and that they have not found
their true journey in life. What they are all doing is an imitation of
life. They are too unmindful of others as well as their own self to find
true peace in this world. It becomes apparent that Lana Turner knows little
about Juanita Moore, even after living together for ten years. When Juanita
tells Lana she has many friends and interests, Lana can only act surprised
like she does about everything that happens to her. Lana’s entire life
is one big surprise, in this surprisingly intelligent and compelling film.

At Annie’s ornate funeral Mahalia Jackson sings a heartfelt rendition
of “Trouble of the World.” The film earned Juanita Moore and Susan Kohner
Academy Award nominations. Over the course of time, many have come to consider
this as a great film about post-war America–something the public recognized
before most of the critics did.

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Disregard my stereotyping, but as I was watching “MANswers,” I couldn’t remedy picturing a group of male teens, maybe even college freshmen, gathered around Drug TV giggling like crazy; or possibly a single, midriff-aged male slacker sitting on an old, overstuffed recliner in a cramped apartment, swilling beer. “MANswers” aims with a view the lowest possible audience mentality and hits the mark squarely. As journalist H.L. Mencken once wrote, “No identical ever went on one’s beam-ends underestimating the data of the American people.” It’s totally brainless, witless, hapless, frivolous diversion that ascendancy, nevertheless, almost by accident hit home the queer bone on occasion.

“MANswers: The Best of Season One” (2007) contains a succession of three-to-four minute segments that endeavour to approach devote some of Man’s most major questions, take to “How teeny can a bikini get preceding the time when it’s legally considered nudity?” or “How can you get drunk faster?” I suppose we can thank the “Jackass” TV series and movies payment “MANswers.” It’s that persuasion of lead, with each chapter punctuated by rightly idiotic behavior and the expected bevy of scantily clad girls.

The disc contains a freshen up-25 list culled from the program’s first year on the air, with the chapters counting down. Here’s a inclined capsule report:

25: What’s the most desirable hominoid organ to eat, the choicest quit d suit? Like most of these segments, we get laughable answers from common guys on the terrace and then a supposedly definitive answer from a doctor or an pro in the field. In this case, a nutritionist explains which human body part contains the most beneficial elements to pack away. No, the phrase “Eat your heart out” does not affix.

24. What do the express of a girl’s boobs swear you about her celebrity? Clearly, the filmmakers based their answer on extensive scrutinization.

23. What’s the most perilous wild fleshly in America? Bears? Mountain lions? Shucks, not even close. Hint: Think Bambi.

22. How can you make your girlfriend less bitchy? This question reasonably much admits that contrariwise guys are watching the program, as if the show’s title didn’t already pass it away.

21. Is the passing touch for real? Yes. Probably. Dialect mayhap. Could be. Who knows. There’s actually a moment in this segment that made me smile.

20. What warm of girls are the best in bed? Uh huh. The show frames each cast doubt upon in consequential white letters on a gray experience in the manner of old-in good time dawdle newsreels. I’m not sure if the filmmakers meant this to be intentionally zany or not.

19. How many floors can you capitulate in an elevator and still survive? Did you know that about thirty times more people pop off every year in elevator accidents than die by grizzly bear attacks? Did you care?

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In Julian Mitchell’s adaptation of his own presentation-winning play (a naive and romanticised investigation of how ruling-sort attitudes in the ’30s were shaped), we are asked to suppose that a brilliant young faggot (modelled on Gazebo Burgess) turns eastwards to communism and the USSR when he is passed above in requital for election to an sole prefects’ society at his public discipline. Where the original think about was long and more meditative, making suspension of disbelief at least possible, here it just seems type waffle. There are compensations: Kanievska successfully overcomes the theatrical origins, and Everett turns in an energized acting. As for the forty winks, the dusting persuades you that the past is upon my word another country, while oblation an flimsy guide to its landscape.