Movie update

The P/F is whether it passes or fails the Bechdel Test 1) there must be 2 female characters, 2)who talk to each other, 3) about something besides a man.
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19) Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. SOOOOOO Boring. Costner is unconvincing as a British earl. It looks nasty, grimy and fairly realistic for the 13th century. It drags and is riddled with anachronistic attitudes and ideas. Not to mention Marian wimpifies during the movie. And the best parts are Little John's wife, Fanny, and Alan Rickman as the Sheriff of Nottingham. (f)

20) For the Bible Tells Me So. Powerful documentary on how Christian families cope with a family member coming out. Gay family members range from Bishop Gene Robinson to a lovely lady who killed herself on her 30th birthday because of parental rejection.

21) Bubba Ho Tep. Bruce Campbell as Elvis and Ossie Davis as JFK who team up to save their Texas rest home from a marauding mummy. Funny, creepy and very low budget. (f. the 2 women talk about the main character)

22) The Ice Pirates. I hadn't seen this in years. Robert Urich leads a motley crew, including Anjelica Huston and Ron Perlman, in plundering water from the bad guys. So goofy. Huston is beautiful and stern and I totally swiped the bar scene for "Rewriting Old Songs." (p)

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19) Anno Dracula by Kim Newman. I hesitate to call it steampunk, but it is certainly a grim, gritty ugly version of Victorian London. Being a vampire is fashionable ever since Queen Victoria married Vlad Tepes, even as Silver Knife aka Jack the Ripper preys on vampire whores. The mingling of Ripper lore, great fictional and historical characters of the era (Sherlock Holmes and Bram Stoker are imprisoned in a concentration camp, a murgatroyd (overly fashionable vamp) named Lioncourt files suit for a coat ruined in some riots) and the whole mis-en-scene is brillian.

18) The Films of Errol Flynn by Tony Thomas, Rudy Behlmer and Clifford McCarty. Foreword by Greer Garson. An overview of the filmography, with lots of pictures, and more biographical material. Very good.

17) Toybox: Piercing. A decent toybox. Two readable stories and one that required more knowledge or visualization skills than I possess.

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