Johnny Worricker - Turks and Caicos & Salting The Battlefield

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Johnny Worricker Turks & Caicos was sitting there on dvdigi and I have it a chance and I'm happy that I did. This turned out to be decent spy drama and I was entertained and loved the acting.

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Johnny Worricker Salting The Battlefield is apparently the last of the trilogy. But I had no idea and I watched these two in reverse order. This one was not as good as Turks and Caicos (lots of politics along with spy stuff) but the actors are all good and watching them act is a delight in itself.

Intolerable Cruelty

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Intolerable Cruelty is one of the film I have watched in theatre thinking that I should. Looking back I wonder why since I don't care for George Cloony and I don't care for Catherine Zeta Jones. Why would I want to watch a rom com starring the two? Maybe because it is Coen brothers, anyway, the film didn't improve on this second viewing. I can't call it bad, it is one of those films that is just not for me . 

Fargo

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Fargo is one of the best films I have seen. I'm not a total Coen brothers fan. I love some of their films (The Big Lebowski, Burn After Reading, Inside Llweyn Davis) I like their films for one time only (Intolerable Cruelty, O' Brother Where Art Thou?, No Country for Old Men, Raizing Arizona, Hudsucker Proxy) and bored with some of them (Blood Simple - fell asleep during-, Miller's Crossing - fell asleep during and never even bothered with the others)

Fargo is different. I think it is their masterpiece so far. Simply a perfect film where I wouldn't change a single thing.
  

Visions

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Visions This film is bad, very bad. Isla Fisher's performance fails to amuse after five minutes into the film. The direction, the cast, everything is awful. Just stay away from this one. 

The Harlequin

The Harlequin is among the novels I bought in LA (The Last Stand book store) and despite remembering Anita Blake fondly (I think I was totally hooked when I was in my early thirties or something) she seemed to be getting out of hand. Ok this lady is a necromance, human servant to a Master Vampire, has at least four types of lychanthropy inside her, she has her own animal to call and her own vampire servant. There should be a limit at some point I suppose but I was totally entertained by her love life and complications and they fact that her vampire lover, her werewold lover and herself and her animal to call and her vampire servant can only get power through sex. Despite sounding like an erotica it is not. She is powerful, independent and not rigid so that she doesn't know how to compromise but not clingy so she doesn't let go when she knows that the relationship is going bad. By compromise I mean that her one of her live in lovers wants her to dominate him and she is not really into that but at the end of the novel SPOILER she decides that she at least needs to learn and try  :) All in all this is not the type of novel to give serious thoughts but it is entertaining, I like its message and strong, capable heroine. This will not make back to following these series again but I'm glad that I got another one at the store. 

Avengers:Age of Ultron

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Avengers: Age of Ultron is the typical super hero film. All the avengers are fighting against an artifical intelligence (from outer space via Loki's scepter, helped out by Stark and Banner thinking they are doing a good thing). It is entertaining but filled with a lot of characters (as if Avenger team was not enough) and a bit longer than it needs to perhaps. I enjoyed it though. 

Zac and Miri Make a Porno

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Zac and Miri Make a Porno was a film I was curious about. Not because I was interested in porn (eewwww) but because I used to like Kevin Smith and wanted to check it out but it was never widely acclaimed or anything and now that I have seen it (the glimpses I got while dosing off at Ko Samui do not count) I know why. First off I didn't like the male character. Seth Rogen acts as Zac a selfish loser who wastes his money on ice skates when they have months of utility debts and gets his mate's hand warmer in a freezing car. Miri doesn't mind though and she seems to like Zac as a person (a mystery as far as I'm concerned). These two are friends from elementary school and live together as room mates and they are not lovers or anything. They are very very poor though working at menial jobs and Zac not caring about their debts. After Miri's granny pants (filmed by two teen losers at the coffee shop where Zac works) prove to be an internet sensation, Zac has the brilliant idea to make a porn film and sell it on line to their high school alumni and pay all their bills (they are at this point without water and power at home, freezing and they still have rent debts) Miri is sceptic but her weakness is Zac and she gives in (and we find out in this scene that these two are orphans and they don't have any relatives, I felt sorry for them in a different way this time, and kind of understood why Miri is enabling Zac). Anyway they decide on a Star Wars themed film called Star Whores. And while filming etc. they realise that they actually love each other but misunderstandings about who sleeps with whom separates them and Zac moves out (without informing anyone). Of course there is the happy ending in the end but I still felt sorry for Miri. 

Anyway I hope the title of this film does not cause misundertandings. Yes there is a porn in the film but it is not displayed as porn and we just see obviously fake breasts and some back nudit really. I think a woman someone takes it all off at the auditon scene but it is blink and you'll miss it.