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Frogs for Snakes

starring: José Rafael Arango, Nikki Arlyn, David Cale, Nick Chinlund, Robbie Coltrane
directed by: Amos Poe

October 17, 2000
Very self indulgent ACTING. Not much there for the audience, unless you are watching for the ACTING. Pretty much total trash otherwise.

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Grand Isle

starring: Kelly McGillis, Jon DeVries, Adrian Pasdar, Ellen Burstyn, Julian Sands
directed by: Mary Lambert

January 13, 1998
There's something very special about this movie; the book upon which it was based must have something to do with this. I saw it years ago--but it still resonates. One day I'll get around to reading the book+

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Kiss Me Guido

starring: Craig Archibald, Anthony Barrile, Bryan Batt, Craig Chester, Anthony DeSando

September 22, 1998
Basically, a feel good movie with a gay foundation. Very funny! Mixing straight people with gay people in a way they're forced to come to terms with, is always a funny device. Now, doing so using the most macho of male egos, the Guido-type, is the taking of this device to the extreme. But the straight guy in this film was a good egg and willing to learn how to cohabitate as a way to better his entire life. Gay humor, more so the catty wit of the gay male, kills me and this film didn't let me down. Lotta laughs and everybody wins in the end.

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New Jack City

starring: John Aprea, Nick Ashford, Bill Cobbs, Anthony DeSando, Flavor Flav

April 10, 1992
I'm so happy with my purchase of "New Jack City". The shipping was very
fast, and the price was vey reasonable.

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Party Girl

starring: Parker Posey, Omar Townsend, Anthony DeSando, Guillermo Díaz, Donna Mitchell
directed by: Daisy von Scherler Mayer

September 29, 1998
What this Party Girl lacks in depth, it makes up for in effervescence. Daisy von Scherler Mayer's hip, urban comedy, Party Girl (1995), stars Parker Posey in a pre-Waiting for Guffman role as a New York Public Library clerk by day and a self-destructive Manhattan party girl by night. While mastering the Dewey Decimal System, 23-year-old Mary (Posey) buys a Lebanese phrase book just to spark up a romance with a Lebanese falafel street vendor, Mustafa (Omar Townsend). He is too good for her. Proving that girls just wanna have fun, she throws raves and parties with her gay friend, Derrick (Anthony DeSando), and her DJ roommate, Leo (Guillermo Díaz). While this movie lacks depth, Posey carries the film with her wacky, Holly-Golightly-performance as Mary, a charming ... Read More:

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A Day in Black & White

starring: Harold Perrineau, Stephanie Berry, Anthony DeSando, Francie Swift, Lonette McKee
directed by: Desmond Hall

February 18, 2002
Finally a film was made that was bold enough to speak directly to the race problem in America from several points of view. This picture should not only be watched, but it should listened to as well.

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Cement

starring: Chris Penn, Jeffrey Wright, Anthony DeSando, Sherilyn Fenn, Henry Czerny
directed by: Adrian Pasdar

November 20, 2001
The late, great Chris Penn plays a corrupt, drug-dealing, abusing and abusive cop in this modern film noir minor classic. Penn is hip deep in dirty deals with the local mafia when he discovers that his wife (Sherilyn Fenn) is bumping uglies with the son of the local Don. In retribution, Penn decides to bury the kid alive inside a new highway overpass.

CEMENT relies on a number of time-shifts and flashbacks to tell its tale, and the mood is one of dense darkness from start to finish. It's a grand little chestnut with a truly disturbing undertone.

Chris Penn will never have his Academy Award now, but he definitely had the talent and drive to be among the best.

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Hysterical Blindness

starring: Uma Thurman, Juliette Lewis, Gena Rowlands, Justin Chambers, Ben Gazzara
directed by: Mira Nair

April 15, 2003
This is a movie made for HBO TV, but the cast is great: Uma Thurman, Juliette Lewis and Gena Rowlands all three fine actresses who deliver great performances in this film by Mira Nair. We meet two young women who are life long friends. One has a child by her first love, while the other one has never been married or had a meaningful relationship. Both are desperate to find love, get married and have a real family. The problem is that they are trying too hard and they are going to the wrong places such as "Ollie's Bar" where guys care only for one night stand, not for a commitment. As film is progressing, we learn that they are really searching for their fathers since that seems to be the common thread for all of them. They have fathers who have abandoned families when these women ... Read More:

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Cement

starring: Chris Penn, Jeffrey Wright, Anthony DeSando, Sherilyn Fenn, Henry Czerny
directed by: Adrian Pasdar

November 20, 2001
The late, great Chris Penn plays a corrupt, drug-dealing, abusing and abusive cop in this modern film noir minor classic. Penn is hip deep in dirty deals with the local mafia when he discovers that his wife (Sherilyn Fenn) is bumping uglies with the son of the local Don. In retribution, Penn decides to bury the kid alive inside a new highway overpass.

CEMENT relies on a number of time-shifts and flashbacks to tell its tale, and the mood is one of dense darkness from start to finish. It's a grand little chestnut with a truly disturbing undertone.

Chris Penn will never have his Academy Award now, but he definitely had the talent and drive to be among the best.

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Return of Eliot Ness

starring: Robert Stack, Jack Coleman, Philip Bosco, Anthony DeSando, Lisa Hartman
directed by: James A. Contner

June 24, 1997
The guy from Unsolved Mysteries, In A Mystery Movie, Mystery why it was released...

Plot: Eliot Ness and his green partner go somewhere, shoot someone, find a clue, and repeat. Don't waste your time!