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Erotibot (Review)
Erotibot
aka Karei naru erogami-ke no ichizoku: Shinsô reijô wa denki shitsuji no yume o miru ka aka The Great Ero-gami Family – Do Sheltered Young Ladies Dream of Electric Butlers? aka 華麗なるエロ神家の一族
2011
Directed by Naoyuki Tomomatsu
Erotibot is the story of a girl and her robots, and also a cautionary tale of why you should never share an inheritance.
Erotibot is one of the scores of direct to video junk Japan films each year. It probably wouldn’t even leave the land of the rising sun were it not for the presence of Asami Sugiura and Maria Ozawa in the cast. As Asami Suguira gained fame in the West after appearing in many of the Noboru Iguchi ultragore films, and Maria Ozawa is one of the most downloaded AV stars, overseas sales are assured.
Despite the “star” power, Erotibot isn’t really a star vehicle for either of them. It also doesn’t fit well into the genre Asami Sugiura is known for. And while Maria Ozawa is well known for being a most prolific star of pornography ranging for normal to beyond frakked up, her more serious acting turns are not that well known. Besides appearing in the most recent batch of Kekko Kamen flicks, she’s also popped up in a horror movie or three. But that’s about it. Erotibot is not exactly a feather for her cap, if you know what I mean. It’s interesting (sort of), but it isn’t good.
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Classified as Murder – Books I Done Been Reading!
Classified as Murder
by Miranda James
A Cat in the Stacks Mystery
We return to the world of Charlie Harris and his Maine Coon cat Diesel with Classified as Murder, the followup to Jame’s Murder Past Due. It’s now several months later, and Charlie’s son Sean drops by for a surprise visit. A visit that will be more permanent since he quit his job as a lawyer, though he won’t say why. Sean also has a poodle named Dante in tow. Meanwhile, Charlie is invited by the local rich eccentric James Delacorte to inventory his rare book collection for eventual inclusion in the local university library. And to find out what volumes are missing, as one of Delacorte’s relatives are stealing! That’s a secret they don’t want solved, as soon James Delacorte is dead and Charlie and Diesel are once again caught up in a murder mystery. Delacorte’s relatives are mostly a pack of angry, bitter folk all eager to get their hands on the inheritance (except for Eloise Morris, a niece-in-law who is too out of her mind to be greedy, and Stewart Delacorte, a nephew who just wants to get out of the Delacorte house.) Imagine their surprise when the butler gets everything!
Clues to the murder might be solved by what books are missing and why, so Charlie must finish his job in the house where the murder took place among the possible murderer family member. This second installment ups the ante with more death and more threats than Charlie took in his first adventure. There’s also much more character development as Charlie has to deal with Sean and their partial estrangement after Charlie’s wife died.
A good followup that paints some nice dysfunctional family get-togethers. You can practically see the old relatives half-drunk and sniping at each other, and their wailing disappointment when they’re screwed out of the will. Diesel is his usual self, except even larger, continually chirping and the center of attention from passerbys gawking at his size. Enough side and new characters are introduce that we probably have sideplots for the next dozen or so entries. Of course, if Charlie keeps finding dead bodies, he’s going to soon be known as a bad luck book guy! That’s just what he needs…
I look forward to more books in the series, and as there are plenty of other mystery books with various premises, I have plenty of options until it does.
Books I Done Been Reading! name shamelessly stolen from Vault of Buncheness
2 Headed Shark Attack test footage
Some test footage from the upcoming Asylum picture 2 Headed Shark Attack has popped up on YouTube. You will believe two jaws are better than one!
via writer H. Perry Horton on Twitter
Mr. Ed is back in film form
We all love Mr. Ed, the talking horse who taught us that horses can be more than horses, as long as they are Mr. Ed. And as Mr. Ed is Mr. Ed, it is very convenient for him and us. But enough of that, as Mr. Ed is coming back in film form! Fox 2000 decided that now was the time for a Mr. Ed film, to capitalize on that sweet Hot to Trot money. Remember, the original series aired from 1961 to 1966, and lived on in reruns forever. There was an attempt to redo the series on TV with Sherman Hemsley, but that was so good the writer/producer killed himself before the pilot was finished. So far the only name attached to Mr. Ed is Carla Hackan, who better be refilling her antidepressant prescriptions. I hope this also means a Francis the Talking Mule reboot is around the corner.
Best comic ever!
Yes, he had one too!
Dirty Girl (Review)
Dirty Girl
2010
Written and Directed by Abe Sylvia
“No one likes a dirty girl” is a refrain heard periodically through the film, but I confess that I like Dirty Girl.
Dirty Girl is a road movie. And like most road movies, the journey is just as important as the destination. Dirty Girl’s nostalgia is present, but isn’t so over-encompassing it becomes the plot itself. The main point of Dirty Girl could have easily taken place last week or 100 years ago. Some of the societal differences would cause different wacky adventures along the way, but the same basic story would ring true.
Dirty Girl is about growing up, and about the joys and heartbreak associated with growing up. How life doesn’t always work out the way you want, but that doesn’t mean life is terrible.
The writing is great, Abe Sylvia put a lot of himself and his life in the film. The characters have believable motivations, many are probably amalgamations of people he knew growing up. As someone who grew up in the Midwest myself, I know people like a lot of the characters.
Before I continue, I must confess that TarsTarkas.NET has sold out once again as this is another free showing. The free showing was in the famed Castro theater, which is one of the best theaters in the country. In fact, of all the free showings I’ve been to so far (please see the tag Tars sells out! for more free showings), I liked Dirty Girl the best. So take that, Warrior!
But let’s get started
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