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Hard Core Logo (1996)
I'm a hostage who will drive.
What can you say about a movie like Hard Core Logo? It's awesome, but more than that, it is so realistic it makes the hair on your arm stand on end. When I first saw it, I didn't know who Hugh Dillon was. I didn't know that was really him singing and he is the lead singer of the Headstones. He plays the most perfect paranoid rock star personality I've ever seen. And Callum Keith Rennie... he deserved an Oscar for his part. I've seen almost everything he has been in and Hard Core Logo really breaks the bank. Not only does he have the physical gorgeous perfection down, but he also has the gorgeous perfect mind to go with it. They are both just excellent.
But, at it's core, Hard Core Logo is a love story, be it in an unconventional fashion. It's the love between two life-long friends that brings the band back together one last time, and the jealousy between them that ultimately rips them apart. This is displayed with Joe Dick's final act because he knows Billy is going to play with Jenifur, which will break his promise to play with Joe forever. Joe knows he will never get Billy back so he shows Billy, "If I can't have you, I don't want to live." It's a story of passion, devotion and jealousy that just leaves you sad, because it had to end the way it did. This is one of those movies that everyone needs to see at least once, just to realize that love doesn't always have to involve sex and lust, that love can be just as passionate between friends.
Due South: Pilot (1994)
Just have to say...
I just have to say that due South is one of the smartest, sharpest, funniest shows that has ever been made and not recognized properly. I will never understand why the networks fought so hard to take it off the air. Some of the lines in this show stay with you like a line from Seinfeld does. I'll find myself chuckling sometimes when I think of certain instances, even though it hasn't been on for years now. The networks really dropped the ball when they let due South go.
Do Not Disturb (1999)
Entertaining.
This may not be the best movie in the world but it is fairly decent to watch. It keeps moving and doesn't lag, and the levity, while brief and strained, can make you laugh out loud at times. The main redeeming point of the whole movie is the stellar performance by Michael Chiklis. Why he is not in more movies is beyond me. The performances by Jennifer Tilley and William Hurt are below average as they seem to be almost falling over one another's lines. Bottom line, it's a good movie and is worth checking out.
The Last Broadcast (1998)
Terrifying.
I realize that I am first viewing this movie about three years after its debut and I admit I had never heard of it before. I truly thought this was a documentary, it looked like a documentary, and it scared the wits out of me. I think I counted three times that I had to stop the tape and collect myself, and usually nothing scares me. It was the whole idea that it was real and never solved. I would recommend this movie to anyone and everyone, especially if you like a good scare. That's the difference between The Last Broadcast and the Blair Witch. This was actually frightening and believable, not to mention these guys were pretty good actors.