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SamuelPlankmaker
Reviews
Between Two Women (2003)
Beautiful mediation on love
This jewel of a film is strictly for romantics. The film is a quiet character study of a woman who finds the courage to open herself to the possibilities of love and happiness. After a lifetime of repression and fear of disappointing family, the lead character can no longer deny the intense feelings that have developed between herself and her son's schoolteacher, and finally allows herself to experience what she really wants. The film may not contain the flash and raunchiness that many viewers are used to (no kissing, although there is some very heart-warming hand-holding), but for this viewer, it was stirring and captivating, and one of the most vividly romantic pieces I've seen in a long time. Magnificent acting highlighted this beautiful story.
Creepshow (1982)
Creepshow: so campy, it's good
If you have a couple of hours to kill, and you like horror that doesn't take itself too seriously (or seriously at all, by the looks of it), Creepshow is the movie for you. After watching this film for the first time in 10 years, I never realized how many stars were in it! Ed Harris, Adrienne Barboa, Leslie Nielsen, Ted Danson, and Steven King (if he wrote it, you KNOW he's in it!) are just a few of the stars that grace this good-natured, campy horror flick.
I endorse Creepshow. I will admit it isn't an epic, but it is definitely fun, above all else. I mean, where else will you see a corpse creep out of a grave exclaiming, "I...want...my...CAKE!"?
Secretary (2002)
Absolutely wonderful
I rented Secretary after having wanted to see it since it first came out, and now I wonder what the hell took me so long! The movie was absolutely wonderful! The strangeness of the characters, the strange way they related to each other in the beginning (what kind of woman wouldn't have killed her boss for talking to her and picking at her like Spader did?), and then the beautiful (so daring and unconventional, yet so perfect for them) relationship that ultimately comes about made this film move into my Top 10 list immediately.