Reviews
Naked Wishes (2000)
A great "B" movie
Taj (Jeff Kueppers) is a young psychiatrist and is engaged to be married. Unfortunately has been plagued by nightmares all his life: he dreams that he was a servant in a sort of Arabian Nights story and was caught by his lover's fiancé, Ahmed (Lance Moseley), in flagrante delicto. What is worse, both his lover, Samithia (Chanda Marie) and her fiancé are genies. When he is caught, Taj is made a eunuch and Samithia is condemned to spend one thousand years in a bottle.
When Taj opens a chest he inherited, and rubs some dust off an old bottle, who should pop out but Samithia? Naturally a variety of misunderstandings follow.
To borrow a page from Joe Bob Briggs's book, this flick features plenty of aardvarking and a high breast count. It is not Citizen Kane' but is blessed by better writing and acting than several recent big budget Hollywood movies I could name. For those of you that like this sort of thing (and I am one who does) this is just the sort of thing you'll like.
Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane (1998)
This is a great movie!
I really enjoyed this movie. The dialogue was great, and I liked the editing and the way each scene was introduced with a cryptic title. It is clearly not a big-budget Hollywood production, but I had no idea that it was a real low-budget picture. It reminded me of Repo Man and Straight To Hell, though it was not really like either of those two movies.
High Noon (1952)
Too proud to run, but not too proud to beg. Cooper is pathetic.
'High Noon' is set in the West, during the right period, but is by no means a Western. Cooper is a pitiful wimp, crawling from one person to another, begging the townspeople for help dealing with a couple of desperadoes who are scheduled to arrive in town at noon. Furthermore, Westerns are not noted for historical accuracy; but this movie is notable for even more glaring anomalies than the usual Western. These flaws make the film impossible to take seriously, and its painful earnestness makes it impossible to enjoy it as camp.