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Spicy Movie Reviews
    Okay, so these aren't necessarily spicy, but it fits in with my whole theme, so yeah.  I work at a video store, so I believe that my opinions carry a bit of weight!  These are just films that I have seen recently, or just that I feel really deserve a good review... or don't, heh.

= My Version of a Star       = Don't Watch This One with a Family Member

= Tear-Jerker

Let the reviews begin!

The Good Girl   out of 5

Okay, okay, some of you look at the box for this movie and tell me, "Ewww, I hate Jennifer Aniston!"  Well, you know what?  So do I, but I have overlooked this small detail because the movie itself was good.  (And besides, how can you hate a movie with Jake Gyllenhaal!?)  Aniston plays a clerk at a local discount store and has a boring life.  (Like we haven't heard this one before, right?)    But everything changes when she meets "Holden" (Gyllenhaal), a mentally disturbed twenty-two year old who just wants to be "got" by someone.  This is probably the best job that I have seen Aniston do with hiding her perky, yuppie self.  There are some wonderful dark tones and characters in the film, and if you enjoy dark humor, you could most likely get into this would be drama.
Oh, and when you see Tim Blake Nelson walk outside with just a sheet on LOOK AWAY!


Pumpkin   out of 5

Damn this was a great movie!  It was so twisted and so creative that I couldn't help but fall in love with it!  Pumpkin stars Christina Ricci in what I think has been her best role to date.  Ricci plays a sheltered, suburban girl whose sorority house is about to take on a new community service project that involves helping the mentally and physically challenged prepare for the Special Olympics.  Everything works out until Ricci discovers that she has fallen in love with her challenged partner, Pumpkin, who is semi-crippled and mentally retarded.  She then finds her tiny world crumble before her as she is banned from the sorority, shunned by her classmates, and gets the guilt trip from hell from her boyfriend.  This film is a must for dark comedy enthusiasts.


Cherish    out of 5

Cherish is a totally underrated B-movie with that cutie Robin Tunney and Tim Blake Nelson from O Brother Where Art Thou.  Miss Tunney plays a young computer animator who easily gets cabin fever and ends up getting put on house arrest for a crime that she didn't commit.  While trying to be cleared of her supposed misdoings she ends up befriending a gay, Jewish wheelchair-bound man and house arrest bracelet repair man.  Aside from being inventive and charming, the film also has great music from the '70s and '80s.  Oooh! And five bonus points to you if you can spot the washed up 90210 character!  What a kewl movie.


Austin Powers: Goldmember    out of 5

Although the recycled Mike Myers jokes were somewhat funny in certain parts of the movie, I would have to say that on the whole this movie was rather blase.  It was a giant advertisement (like most movies these days are) and that alone gave the movie a cheap quality that made me feel as though the director truly thought I was an idiot.  But if you like those kind of flicks go on ahead an watch it!  

Storytelling   out of 5   

This is a really great dark comedy with Selma Blair and John Goodman.  The movie consists of two stories that the director (Todd Solondz) labels as "Fiction" and "Nonfiction," and the fact that the labels are meaningless gives an even darker streak to the film.  This movie was great, especially if you like to pick up on ironic contasts with characters and plots.  Plus, you get to see John Goodman get hypnotized by a ten-year-old sadist and Selma Blair get nekkid.  

Amelie   out of 5

This is a great French film by the director of "City of the Lost Children," which is another great foreign flick.  Amelie goes through a lot of pain in her life (or perhaps a lack there of which is painful in itself) but eventually manages to use her spare time helping other people instead of worrying about her life.  Don't get me wrong.  This isn't some sappy film on altruism, the girl has a bit of fun while running around and doing all of this.  Just watch it, it's great, trust me.

Y Tu Mama Tambien   out of 5        

Don't like foreign movies?  Too bad! Watch this! It is amazing!  It has sex, action, stupidity, politics, coming -of-age, threesomes, lies, secrets, and all narrated in a seksie Spanish tongue!  Two boys run off with their uncle's lovely young wife who has just gotten some very important life-altering news from her doctor.  As they travel cross-country, the woman's history and the tragic political history of the country unravels, and the boys discover what their friendship can really stand.  This is a truly amazing movie, go see it... and, uh, get the unrated version if you can! ;)


Minority Report    out of 5

Okay, the idea of this movie was a pretty good one.  So, I will give it an extra pepper for effort.  There were some things about the movie that bugged me, though.  For one, Tom Cruise is too old to be that active, so the stunts weren't very believable.  Also, the movie was a Steven Spieilburg film, which didn't work very well in a spript that is supposed to be semi-hardcore sci-fi.  (Without the Kubrick influence in A.I. Spieilburg never would have been able to make it fly!)  It was a very awkward movie, and it was predicatble as all get out, but if you have nothing better to do and you like futuristic stuff, this is an okay movie.