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The Chinese Bungalow (1940)
Watch it if it pops up.
aka "Chinese Bungalow". You haven't seen anything until you catch Paul Lukas playing a Chinese aristocratic character with his full Hungarian accent. That aside, I really enjoyed this film with a mostly British cast. Love, infidelity, revenge, rather clever ending. Authentic looking sets, good dialog. Certainly worth a look. I got my copy from Alpha for five bucks. This is a pretty rare film directed by George King. King directed several Tod Slaughter films in the 30's and knows his stuff. Paul Lucas of course, went on to win the Academy Award for "Watch On The Rhine". I suspect he didn't mention this little treasure on his resume.
Sex and Death 101 (2007)
One of the worst of all time
A black comedy that commits the cardinal sin. It isn't even mildly humorous. The plot is preposterous. Winona Ryder has come down to this??? If it's a choice of watching this "film" or getting open heart surgery, select the latter. I could go on and on, but you get the idea. I happen to like Simon Baker a lot, but his considerable charm is stretched to the limit. I guess I am masochistic and I wanted to force myself to stick around until the (very) bitter end, but at the 75 minute mark I just couldn't take much more and I ripped through the balance at 2x and 4x speed. I slowed down to standard speed for the big finish which is so stupid, I wanted to take out the DVD and fry it in the microwave. If I didn't get my point across, this picture is partially rotten with scattered patches of terribleness.