Reviews
Somewhere in Time (1980)
The Ben-Hur of Love Stories
Somewhere in Time was like the Ben-Hur of sappy love movies.
I would rather be beaten with an axe handle than miss seeing Somewhere in Time when it's shown on television. It's an epic! It's great! It's fantastic! It has time travel! It has irony! It has Christopher Reeve being whisked forwards in time by a 1980 penny! Christopher Plummer's best role to date, save General Chang in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
The Starlost: Deception (1980)
Recycled Starlost Episodes from '73.
Starlost: The Deception is the result when Glen-Warren Productions takes two episodes of Starlost from 1973 and glues them together back-to-back. The orignal episodes are titled "Mr. Smith of Manchester" and "Gallery of Fear". In the former, Devon, Rachel and Garth spend time in a highly polluted over-industrialized dome dishing out CTV-Grade wisdom. In the latter, Our heroes encounter Magnus, a computer that causes them to see hallucinations of friends and family. Magnus also has a museum filled with CTV-grade art, and is up to no good.
Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975)
I'm still yawning.
Going on the hype surrounding this film as being "the most disgusting movie ever made", my significant other and myself picked it up on DVD to check it out. What a waste that turned out to be.
As you've surely read, four well-to-do fascists take each other's daughters as wives, and then select 8 or 9 young men who are all captured "criminals". The four men visit local brothels to select an equal number of young women. All are taken back to their castle and informed of "the rules". They're to listen to erotic stores and then have a daily orgy. Anyone practising heterosexual sex is to be killed on the spot.
There are a lot of scenes that depict rape, anal rape (both male & female) and a few scenes that depict the eating of feces. Most of these scenes are spaced out with talk that'd put you to sleep. Eventually the ones who accept their new masters get to torture and kill the ones who tend to stand up for themselves. Each of the four men take turns watching/getting off as the insolent die.
I really didn't care for this movie, and that has nothing to do with the content. Quite frankly, it was absolutely boring, save the last five minutes, which were almost intense, except for the laughable special effects.