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Black Gate was made in the mid-90s, but it is basically a throwback to made-for-TV possession/haunted house movies of the mid-70s.

Talk about a house on a haunted hill. Rebecca Lacey's inn sits perched atop a mountain on the California coast—but it has guests running for the door. In come psychic investigator Scott Griffin and his assistant Justin to draw out the fiend behind the haunting. As paranormal dreams begin to plague Scott, Justin finds himself drawn to a gorgeous woman in white. Soon, an evil force of satanic proportions is unearthed, and it is up to the two men to exorcise the inn's demons.

For those who grew up on hokey 70s horror movies that were budget rip-offs of box office hits, you'll feel right at home with this tame film. There's nothing sleek about it, it isn't gory or filled with intense horror action, and there's no nudity to be found. It's just a...Read the entire review

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But Forever in My Mind is an Italian coming-of-age teen drama that reminds us how incredibly different life is outside our country. This sure isn't American Pie.

Silvio and his other high school buddies have typical adolescent issues of puberty—parent troubles, bullies, girls, and the desire to lose their virginity. But when Silvio kisses a student named Valentina in a closet at school, word soon gets out…to the entire school, including Valentina's jealous boyfriend. But all this is just kids' stuff compared to the sometimes violent student rebellion taking place at Silvio's school.

From the perspective of anyone who grew up on funny or bittersweet films of teen turmoil, this will immediately draw you in, because it starts off feeling like one of those. But it takes matters much more seriously, not reveling in teen sexploitation goodness. While it does delve i...Read the entire review

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The Accidental Hero is a poignant—if slightly depressing—French language film that benefits from a short running time.

Tom, a young teen, can't seem to find any happiness in his life. He is constantly at the throat of his mother, a flight attendant who is rarely around. Tom believes she drove away the father he never met, and resents her for it. When the two are in a horrible car accident, Tom is okay, but his mother wakes up with no recollection of who she is—or who her son is. Tom is placed in a group home, under the guardianship of a tough disciplinarian Tom sees sort of as a father figure. It is up to Tom alone to get his life—and his mother's—back on track.

This is one of those films that gives you a glimpse into a world of misfortune, and rather than taking the easy route and cutting the characters some slack, keeps piling on the heartache. Even so, with ...Read the entire review

The Movie:
The Golden Girls return for a second season, and while the actresses are all more comfortable in the way their characters have developed, overall, it's not as strong a season as the first.

The Story:
This time around, Blanche hits menopause, Rose's daughter and Dorothy's son hook up, and the Girls share the first of only 2 Christmas episodes they'd have together in their long run. There are TWO faux-flashback episodes (new footage is filmed and presented in flashback form). Dorothy's daughter Kate, who was married in one of the first episodes of the series, comes back, played by a different actress, as does Blanche's Big Daddy, played by a different actor. There are a good number of recognizable faces in cameos and guest appearances: Burt Reynolds, Paul Rodriguez, a young George Clooney, and Nancy Walker as Sophia's sister.

It's nice to finally see individual s...Read the entire review

The Movie:
Despite its creepy, demonic-faced cover art, Devil's Harvest does not have the budget to include such visual makeup effects in the film itself. This plot-driven movie does, however, offer a few scares.

Daniel, a young artist, is invited by his childhood friend Natasha to stay at her house in the coastal village where they grew up. Lore has it that a water demon dwells in the ocean, reaping the souls of the guilty. Before long, Daniel is haunted by nightmares from his childhood. He is suppressing a secret that involves, him, Natasha, and a local ex-priest—a secret that has stirred the wrath of a vengeful supernatural force.

This rather melodramatic film does a good job of setting up the legend of a water demon. There are a few well-crafted scares that rely on atmosphere and not special effects. The Omen-like, chanting/orchestral score is quite effective in meetin...Read the entire review

The Movie:
If you're hungry for a campy yet mainstream frolic filled with gay boys, drag queens, gangsters, and Anna Nicole Smith, give Wasabi Tuna a taste.

Five friends, gay and straight (Barney Cheng, Jason London, Alanna Ubach, Antonio Sabato Jr., and Tim Meadows) take Halloween very seriously. Every year, they go to the parade in West Hollywood dressed as some sort of food. This year, they've decided to do something different. Their decision to go as gangsters leads to a huge case of mistaken identity…including the identity of a kidnapped dog. Before they know it, they are being chased by a gang of thugs, the feds, and an obsessed bunch of Anna Nicole Smith drag queens (led by Alexis Arquette).

Despite its simple plot, this movie uses cliché to its advantage and ends up being very funny—sort of like Go on E. It never takes itself seriously, and never tries to be sho...Read the entire review

The Movie:
American Dreamer was a mid-80s gem I caught on cable numerous times, because it starred JoBeth Williams, who played a movie mom to perfection in one of my favorites, Poltergeist.

With American Dreamer, she is once again a mom—a bored housewife named Cathy who is obsessed with reading romantic mysteries. To her delight, she wins a writing contest and is whisked away to Paris. Only a short time after she arrives in Paris, she is knocked unconscious in an accident. Upon waking, she believes she IS a character from her favorite novel, and drags an unsuspecting but loveable guy (played by Tom Conti) into her fantasy. Before long, fantasy becomes a reality of true crime—complete with a bit of pillow talk!

American Dreamer reminds me very much of Foul Play. They're both funny, cute, slapstick comedies involving a woman who gets unexpectedly invo...Read the entire review

The Movie:
This second edition of the Darkness DVD presents us with an unrated version, which hopes to have us at the edge of our seats ... with the lights on. Does it work?

The Story:
In the cryptic opening of Darkness, a male voiceover asks for help of a young child who has escaped the clutches of a seeming madman. We see frightening images of terrified young children in a dark hallway.

Flash ahead 40 years to Spain - a family has moved into an old house to be closer to their family. The daughter Regina (Anna Paquin) wants to move, and with good reason. The mother (Lena Olin) is anyting but motherly, her brother Paul sits in his bedroom drawing horrific and her father has violent outbursts. With only 5 days to a historic eclipse strange things begin to occur. Shadows flash in the dark rooms of the house. Regina keeps seeing a mysterious man on the street. And then the...Read the entire review

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Out of the Past is a bit of a smorgasbord of gay and lesbian history, current affairs, and individual profiles that manages to bring to light some lesser known facts about LGBT history—but it is a rather melancholy experience.

The Story:
I see a good deal of these documentaries on the gay past, and they can begin to weigh heavily on your conscious after a while, because you're going along living a happy and positive life, and then one of these films drudges up the horrors of the past. Sure, you get to see how much things have changed, but you're also reminded of how much hasn't—that your very existence is constantly being attacked by people you don't even know and who will never even cross paths with you in your life. It's plain exhausting…and downright obnoxious and annoying. But having said that, I'll admit, I did indeed learn something from this odd docu...Read the entire review

The Movie:
Knowing this is a gay themed movie, and knowing the titles is Prom Queen, you may be misled to think it's either an over-the-top campy film, or a drag queen flick. It's not. It's actually an endearing, funny and moving Canadian movie about a gay boy who just wants to take his boyfriend to the prom—and it's based on a true story!

The Story:
When our movie starts, blue-haired Marc (Aaron Ashmore) wakes up dancing—and in the process, the vibrations knock the crucifix off his parents' wall. Marc's mother (Marie Tifo) is very religious, his dad (Jean-Pierre Bergeron) is a blue-collar worker, and Marc attends a Catholic high school. But things seem very liberal at his school. All his friends know he's gay, his teacher supports him and wants him to get a scholarship so he can get out of their town. But when Marc puts in a request to take his boyfriend Jason to his p...Read the entire review

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The Carol Burnett Show: Let's Bump Up the Lights! does a retrospective clip show good.

The Story:
I was obsessed with the Carol Burnett Show when I was a little kid. It's been years since I've seen it, and I often wondered if I would still think it as good as I did back then. I remember some of the funniest moments, some of the famous skits—but I also remember that much of it was very much had the variety show feel of that era. But the one thing it did have that they just don't do anymore is the opening Q&A. in this made for television special, running only 42 minutes without commercials, Carol, Vicki Lawrence, Harvey Korman, Tim Conway, and Lyle Waggoner sit before a live audience, and once again, take questions from the audience. These questions work as a kick off to flashing back to some of the funniest questions Carol was asked by audience members durin...Read the entire review

The Movie:
It's time to catch up with the Queer as Folk boys if you missed season 4 on Showtime. And be prepared, because they've pretty much gone from boys to to men.

The Story:
The change in mood is apparent from the all-new opening credits, with a much more mellow, chill out track, and artistic (but still sexy) black and white clips of dancing go-go boys, and for the first time ever, the cast themselves—all looking spectacular. In fact, the atmosphere has changed so much that when the season 4 soundtrack was released, many a queer boy threw his arms up in the air—and not because the soundtrack was filled with gay dance anthems…but because it WASN'T. The music this season reflects the more pensive moods of the cast.

Don't want to spoil things, but I'll try to sum up what you can expect this season. Ted is in rehab, trying to get control of his life again, distanci...Read the entire review

The Movie:
So another questionable slasher "in the tradition of Texas chainsaw Massacre and Halloween" has hit the shelf at your local DVD haunt. But, do you risk adding Malevolence to your thriving collection of good and 'so bad they're good' slashers?

The Story:
Our story begins in May of 1989, when a young boy is removed from a sack in a slaughterhouse—and watches a bound woman brutally slashed by his captor. Disturbingly good so far. Flash ahead to September 1999 (flash forward time lapses, another good sign). Two men meet in a cemetery (during the day) to plan a bank robbery. The plan is set forth as ringmasters Max (Keith Chambers) and Kurt (Richard Glover), along with Max's sister Marilyn (Heather Magee) and her boyfriend Julian (R. Brandon Johnson), rob a bank—where things go wrong and shooting takes place. But the plan must stay on course, so all...Read the entire review

The Movie:
Who Killed Bambi? is a French medical thriller that kept me on the edge of my seat wondering what was going to happen…but in the end, left me slumped back in my seat wondering, What JUST happened?

The Story:
Isabelle (Sophie Quinton), a cute young nursing student who is smart but nervous, catches the attention of the bizarre young Dr. Philipp (Laurent Lucas) when she passes out in front of him. When she awakes, he calls her Bambi. No, not as in "well spank me and call me Bambi." At least, not at first. He claims he's comparing her to the Disney character. But he's so weird with his sullen look and shifty eyes, that she immediately doesn't trust him. Also on staff are Isabelle's boyfriend, an orderly, and her cousin, another nurse. In the dark, brooding, lonely halls of the hospital, things are not right. Anesthesia fails to work when patients are to be operate...Read the entire review

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I'll Bury You Tomorrow is a nasty, gory, demented budget horror film that is going to score big with lovers of much darker, sadistic horror flicks.

The Story:
Wow. There's so much going on here, I don't know where to begin, and hope I don't forget anything. Okay, let me just start with the plot.

A mysterious, pretty blonde named Dolores (Zoe Daelman Chlanda, whose schizophrenic performance is quite impressive as the film progresses) comes to the small town of Port Oram, a mysterious trunk in tow that she's VERY protective of—and that seems to hold the root to a very deranged past we see in her mind every now and then. But when she's not snapping with visions of depraved sex and death, Dolores seems quite nice and normal. She's an experienced mortician, and lands a job at the Beech funeral home, partly because she looks just like the deceased daughter of Mr. ...Read the entire review

The Movie:
I've heard mention that Bad Girls from Valley High is in the tradition of films like Heathers and Jawbreakers, but it doesn't exactly have the spirit…evil spirit, that is…of those films.

The Story:
The blatant title of this movie is as uninspired as the overall execution. I was hoping to love this film that promised to be like some of my favorite mean spirited flicks, but I ended up feeling that this was more of a spoof of those, and not a very funny one at that. See, we have the Huns, an exclusive clique of girls at Valley High—Danielle (Julie Benz), Brooke (Monica Keena), and Tiffany (Nicole Bilderback). A year ago, they pulled a "Jawbreaker", and SORT of killed Charity, who was dating Drew (Jonathan Brandis), the guy Danielle desires. Now, Danielle thinks she has her chance, but new exchange student Katarina (Suzanna Urszuly) from Romania (...Read the entire review

The Movie:
If you're a lover of 80s horror cheese or a lesbian with a REALLY campy, open mind and no qualms about ridiculous stereotypes, you might want to check out the really bad movie The Oracle by Roberta Findlay, the woman who brought you Snuff. But you have to expect BAD.

The Story:
If you thought Witchboard was an original idea when it was released a few years after this was made in 1985, you (and I) would have known better had you seen this movie first, because there's a similarity In a loose sense of the word. We begin with an old gypsy-type lady doing paranormal stuff in her apartment… a form of ouija called automatic writing, with a planchette shaped like a hand as the writing tool. But, it's not good to fool with Mother Supernature. Next, we see a young woman, Jen, looking for the laundry room in her new apartment. Instead, she stumbles upon a tr...Read the entire review

The Movie:
A warrior of the magical arts gets resurrected in your mild-mannered wife. London Voodoo proves that you can easily keep a good woman down when she's possessed by a nymphomaniac looking for a little lovin'.

The Story:
Lincoln (Doug Cockle), a workaholic, relocates his wife and child to London for his job. The first thing he does is set up his fax machine. His wife Sarah (Sara Stewart) is very good about it—until, during renovation of the basement in their new home, she digs up a voodoo grave, complete with an altar and bodies. Not long after, she begins to clash with Kelly (Vonda Barnes), the new au pair, who has the hots for Lincoln (I don't blame her), starts sporting some major nipple action in her tight tops which really turns on the carpenters, and becomes an animal in the bedroom—and upon Lincoln's rejection of her slutty advances, begins screaming bloo...Read the entire review

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Bette Midler dazzles in this made-for TV adaptation of the Broadway musical Gypsy, a whopping 12 years after its television debut.

The Story:
Based on the memoirs of stripper Gypsy Lee Rose, with music by Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim, this lengthy musical with some of the most recognizable tunes going, actually focuses on the overbearing stage mother, Mama Rose (Bette Midler). The story begins with Mama as a three times single mother with two girls, Baby June and Louise, who is living with her father (Ed Asner). The pushy loud mouthed mama is determined to keep her two daughters in showbiz. Angelic, blonde June is so talented and saccharin sweet that you want to slap her. Louise is the black sheep, with no talent, who usually ends up in the back of the number, often dressed like a boy. Mama meets Herbie (Peter Riegert), who she persuades to represent her girl...Read the entire review

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Oh the horror. The reputation of the cult classic Carnival of Souls has been tainted—with color. But, color or not, is this film as frightening as it's made out to be, even in this colorized director's cut?

The Story:
It's 1962 (at least, that's when the film was made), and Mary and her two female friends agree to a drag race in a hick town. Unfortunately, they lose the race, big time. Their car goes off a bridge, and Mary is the only survivor. She picks up her life and moves on—to Utah, to be a church organist. Trouble begins as soon as she hits the road, and sees a frightening zombie-like man basically floating outside her passenger side window. And this frightening man in a suit (played by director Herk Harvey, who was on a wicked budget) begins popping up everywhere when Mary reaches her destination. She boards in the home of an elderly woman. The only ot...Read the entire review

The Movie:
The Boobs are coming! Aaaah! Well, actually, they're just coming to audition for a horror movie (along with their other female body parts) in the indy exploitation film Actress Apocalypse, in an unrated director's cut, along with a bonus CD of the soundtrack by indy band Space Probe Taurus.

The Story:
in this mockumentary by director Richard R. Anasky, filmmaker David Lincoln III (Garo Nigoghossian) is making the ultimate epic movie: "Clearwater Canyon," in which a big Indian stalks and kills women (particularly hot naked women). And he's filming it in his shed. His boom operator, known as "The Golden Terror" (Jay ingle). was supposed to be a main actor in the movie. Unfortunately, he can't act. But he has a love of the phallic grandness of the boom mike. And he loves doing his job while wearing the gayest garb, including jockstraps and capes. Meanwhile, Lincoln'...Read the entire review

The Movie:
More is a mostly English language French film from the late 60s that features early music by Pink Floyd, and involves a young European man and American woman who fall in love while shooting up. It just fills my heart and veins with…well, not warmth.

The Story:
Stefan is traveling from Germany to Paris. After meeting a man named Charly, the two begin getting involved in some illegal activity to make money. At a party, Stefan meets Estelle, a major drug addict, and falls immediately in love. He agrees to meet her in Ibiza, but can't find her right away. He meets Mr. Wolfe, the older man at whose hotel Estelle is staying. But it also seems there may be a sugar daddy thing going on. Estelle does return, and so begins a relationship involving a lot of chasing and searching on Stefan's part because Estelle keeps disappearing. There are mental mind games from Estelle,...Read the entire review

The Movie:
Wooden Camera is an English language film that almost literally lets us see life in post apartheid South Africa through the eyes of children.

The Story:
In modern day South Africa, two young teen boys, Madiba and Sipho, have a dead body literally roll to their feet after a train goes by. They find two things on the body: a gun and a video camera. Sipho takes the gun, Madiba, the camera. To avoid questions, Madiba's friend Benny builds a box to put the camera in so it looks fake, and Madiba can film stuff without raising eyebrows. While Madiba immerses himself in filming everything and everyone around him, Sipho begins a dangerous street life involving drugs and theft—thanks to the power he discovers in his mostly bulletless gun. Both boys befriend a privileged white girl named Estelle, who has no prejudice running through her system, despite her completely raci...Read the entire review

The Movie:
Other People's Money is what the movie company will be stealing if you go out and purchase or even rent this Danny DeVito film produced when he was still a hot ticket at the box office.

The Story:
At the late tale end of the yuppie nightmare "me, me, me" 80s, Danny DeVito did yet another movie involving himself and money scams. The thought seemed to be to target the Wall Street mindset with a sort of comedy that delved into economics, corporate takeovers and "green mailing." I guess it was supposed to be a 'smart comedy'? Any fool could have seen it as more of a financial disaster, if you ask me.

Danny DeVito is Lawrence Garfield, a business tycoon ready to take down any corporation that gets in his way. This time, it's the New England wire and cable company owned by Andrew Jorgenson (Gregory Peck). Kate Sullivan (Penelope Ann Miller), daughter of Jorgen...Read the entire review

The Movie:
At last, someone wholeheartedly takes on the lives of a whole group of bi-sexual individuals. And, like its title, this French film takes the perspective To The Extreme.

The Story:
Thomas is a well-off party boy. He's bisexual, and although he's with an older woman with a son named Gregory, he's still getting it on the side, most notably from a sexy young blond man named Vincent. Therefore, he won't commit to his girlfriend like she wants, or move in and be surrogate father to her son. But then, she dies in an accident. He doesn't want to raise the boy. But then he does. But then he discovers he can't get custody of the boy, who ends up in an orphanage. He tries everything he can think of to win custody, and eventually, it looks like the only solution is to break the boy out of his "prison."

But that's not the only plot line. Thomas is non-committal with his bo...Read the entire review

The Movie:
Wam! Bam! Squirt…Squirt…Splat! Orgazmo is here to save the day! He's finally cum to DVD, with loads of extras.

The Story:
Joe Young (Trey Parker) is a good Mormon from Utah, doing his missionary work in L.A. But he rings the wrong doorbell when he interrupts a photo shoot by porn star director Maxxx Orbison (Michael Dean Jacobs), who sends his henchmen out to take down the disrupting caller. But it turns out Joe Young is a hell of a fighter…and just in time, because Maxxx needs a man who can fight to play the role in his latest porn, Orgazmo. Maxxx convinces Joe that he can do the film and have a stunt erection take his place whenever there's sex involved. Offering a huge amount of money helps, too, because Joe needs money to give his fiancée the wedding she desires. He takes the job, and meets a wacky circle of people. There's Dave, the lighting guy (Matt...Read the entire review

The Movie:
Well, I'll be whipped with a Cat O'Nine Tails…and like it! Because one of my favorite cheesy 80s teen musicals, The Pirate Movie, has finely made it to DVD, although the soundtrack, which I still have on double vinyl, has yet to surface on CD….

The Story:
Take the musical The Pirates of Penzance, borrow elements of the plot and some of the more familiar songs, add some original pop tunes and pop references as well as adolescent slapstick humor, and you've got this somewhat campy piece of loveable trash that rates right up there with and From Justin To Kelly.

Way back when, in 1982, Kristy McNichol was still working to keep her face on the map, after her stint on the TV show Family, her role in the teen flick Little Darlings, and her dramatic role in Only When I Laugh. She made the unexpected move of doing t...Read the entire review

The Movie:
Dead Birds may not be the most appropriate title for this creepy indy film that builds heart-racing intensity with the freakiest faces and creepiest children in white that I've seen since The Ring.

The Story:
The setup is simple, if not a little long. A group of Outlaws in 1863 gallop into town and shoot up everyone in the bank (in a quick and bloody shootout), steal all the gold, and then plan to hide in a deserted plantation mansion before heading to Mexico. If only they knew back then what we know now—old abandoned plantations guarantee evil ghostly happenings….

William (Henry Thomas—still hanging in there) leads this motley crew to their doom. Along with him is his girl Annabelle (Nicki Lynn Aycox), his brother Sam (Patrick Fugit), an African-American dude named Todd (Isaiah Washington) and a couple of tough guys who are there mostly to raise t...Read the entire review

The Movie:
The Final Cut is a misleading name for this film starring Robin Willams. It's not a slasher/suspense movie, and it's not a movie about filmmaking. It's actually an intriguing, unassuming drama with sci-fi elements that doesn't get bogged down in sci-fi overkill.

The Story:
It's some time—in the future? Don't know, because it could easily be right now, which makes this movie so easy to imagine. But anyway, Robin Williams is Alan, who works for a living as a cutter. What is a cutter? A cutter is a person who edits Zoe implants. What's a Zoe implant? It's this amazing sort of "microchip" that is voluntarily implanted in individual's memories when they are children (so, it's more like you're volunteered by your parents). Throughout an individual's life, the Zoe records EVERY single moment of that person's experience, good or bad. When the individual dies, in comes ...Read the entire review

The Movie:
High Roller: The Stu Unger Story proves that if you take a gamble on a biopic, you're gonna lose…2 hours of your life.

The Story:
Stu Unger, I learned from watching this movie, was a poker champion, who won the biggest major poker championship (didn't know about those either) two times, before losing all his winnings within a decade. But there's so much more to his life story—and it's all like something you'd see in a made-for-tv movie, which this is.

We begin with Stu (Michael Imperioli) sitting in a dark hotel room smoking. In the darkness is a mysterious stranger who asks to hear a story, so Stu takes us back. Picture it, New York, 1966. We begin with Stu's young years, learning how to play poker from his mom, and how to defend himself from his dad. Young, Jewish Stu befriends a whole bunch of gangsters, in particular, Vincent (Michael Nouri), who ends u...Read the entire review

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Testosterone.The title says it all. This one is all about men—their lust, their desire…and their ability to totally to let their feelings play out through hardcore physical contact.

The Story:
"I met him on a Sunday and my heart stood still." Ironic that the opening lines of a song by the girl group The Crystals should open this movie that's ALL about men. The opening is also visually awesome, featuring a sexy graphic novel style to set up the relationship between Dean and Pablo. Dean (David Sutcliffe) is a graphic novelist (that explains it) madly in love with his sexy Argentine boyfriend Pablo (Antonio Sabato Jr.). And man, are they a fine couple…until Pablo disappears without a trace. But Dean needs closure. So he blows off everything, including a showing at an art gallery, to hunt down Pablo in Buenes Aires. He gets a cold reception from Pablo's well-to...Read the entire review

The Movie:
Kelly Clarkson: Behind Hazel Eyes takes us back to Kelly's home in Texas (with Kelly leading the way, of course). So, is it about the music, about Kelly, about both, or just about making a quick buck?

The Story:
This is a new compilation fans, meaning, it includes references to the new album. So the good news is that we're not being fed old clips we've seen on various MTV specials. The bad news is the rest of it. Where to start?

Well, Kelly looks and sounds awesome. And this disc sort of seems like a reminder that, although she's shed her American Idol sweetheart image (which is what I want from a real pop star—although many of her fans don't seem to want to let go of that old image), she's still a down home girl with a healthy, wholesome family life. Kelly is comfy in front of the camera as she takes us on a tour of her life, family and friends. She ...Read the entire review

The Movie:
My Wife Maurice sounds like a great title for a pro-gay marriage comedy, doesn't it? Well, that's not exactly what this French film is about….

The Story:
Blond boy Johnny (Götz Otto) is stalking his fiancée, Emmanuelle (Alice Evans). Well, not really. He follows her because he thinks she's cheating on him. After all she is in Venice on the arm of an older man—and Johnny does see her entering a hotel with the man. And she is cheating—with Georges (Philippe Chevallier). Until a phone call from Georges's wife makes it clear to Emmanuelle that Georges isn't divorced like he swore he was. So Emmanuelle goes all S&M on Georges. When she whips out a blowtorch, Georges barely escapes with his life! Meanwhile, Maurice, who volunteers for the Fraternal Aid Society, rides around on his moped collecting clothes donations. Georges, back at home with his wife, soon...Read the entire review

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The DVD case for Proteus promises a beautiful, visually stunning look at the love between two male prisoners in the 1700s. Is it false advertisement?

The Story:
In 1725 in South Africa, a black man, Claas (Rouxnet Brown), is sentenced to 10 years hard labor on an island prison. There, he is warned by his inmates to stay away from white Dutch sailor Rijkhaart, imprisoned for acts of homosexuality. Claas has caught the eye of closeted gay English botanist Virgil, a married man who oversees the cultivating of the island's garden, and depends on Claas's knowledge of the mysterious Proteus flower to help grow a better garden—and make money. But Rijkhaart and Virgil aren't the only two men who are gay. As in reality, the gays are everywhere, meeting in their own secret societies to get off when necessary. And that's what happens with Claas and Rijkhaart. Over the cou...Read the entire review

The Movie:
Masala is an indy Indian film from way back in 1992 that still seems edgy today, because it in no way sticks to the formalities of proper ancient Hindu culture.

The Story:
It's hard to say what the "main" plot of Masala is. After all, "masala" is a term used in India to describe a mix of spices (thanks to the DVD extras for clarifying for me). But for starters, we have Krishna (played by director Srinivas Krishna), a down on his luck young man just out of detox, living in Canada, who is still dealing with loss of his parents in a plane crash when he was young—a plane he was supposed to be on. There's only one place to go. The home of his aunt and uncle. His uncle, Lallu (played by Saeed Jeffrey, who takes on a trio of roles in this film), is in the money-making business. Mr. Tikkoo (Saeed Jeffrey again), apparently Lallu's brother-in-law, is a passive man whos...Read the entire review