Friends & Crocodiles
Friends & Crocodiles : short review
Paul Reynolds is a Gatsby-like figure: owner of a magnificent house, a host of great parties, and a collector of interesting people. He persuades Lizzie Thomas, a secretary in a local estate agent, to come and work for him as his assistant, to bring some order to his chaos. He inspires her with his enthusiasm and imagination, and frustrates her with his apparent carelessness and destructiveness, which culminates in her calling the police as a great party is turned over by local troublemakers, seemingly with Paul's tacit approval. But their paths are destined to cross again and again as Lizzie, with the help of some of those she met at Paul's house, rises through the changing landscape of corporate Britain. This is a story of a meaningful and powerful relationship that isn't a love story it's about those rare people who profoundly influence and shape our lives.
Live performance from the Horace Silver Quintet, 20th July 1976. Tracklist: Opening, Adjustment, Barbara, In Pursuit of the 27th Man and Song For My Father.
A mystery suspense tale about the inventor of a machine that disintegrates atoms and then reassembles them. In experimenting on himself, however, a fly gets into the chamber and the scientist's body develops the head and arms of the insect, as well as it's predatory instincts. A compelling, poignant and surprisingly believable horror film which touches as well as terrifies.
Mother and daughter, Ellen and Annabel, believe that they have it hard. One Friday they wish for the 'easy life' of the other. Strangely, they seem to get their wish and they find that they have switched bodies.
Officer And A Gentleman/ American Gigolo
Two films. An Officer And A Gentleman - Seeking escape from a dead-end job, Richard Gere enlists in the Naval Officer training school where he is licked into shape by tough drill sergeant Lou Gossett and seduced by a bored girl looking for a husband. Steamy sex, an Oscar for Gossett and the song 'Up Where We Belong' make this an all-time best-seller. American Gigolo - Julian Kay is a special kind of man - charming, educated, sensual - in fact, the perfect gigolo. But when he makes the mistake of falling for one of his 'escorts' - a politician's wife - the game of love soon takes a frightening turn when he is framed for murder.
From the wondrously fertile mind of writer/director John Waters, this is a story about what happens when a horny horde of 'sex addicts' invade a blue-collar neighbourhood, to the shock and dismay of the neighbours. Sylvia Stickles (Tracey Ullman), grumpy, repressed and middle-aged, doesn't like sex. Her handsome husband Vaughan (Chris Isaak) still has marital urges, but Sylvia couldn't be less interested. She is in complete contrast to her exhibitionist daughter, Caprice (Selma Blair), a go-go dancer with stupendously enlarged breasts! Everything changes when Sylvia is involved in a freak accident and receives a head injury. Sexy tow-truck driver Ray-Ray Perkins (Johnny Knoxville) rushes to her aid and Sylvia realises he's no ordinary service man no, he's a sexual healer who knows how to bring out her flaming cauldron of hidden lust. A prude no longer, Sylvia suddenly views the world through hypersexual eyes. She seeks out Ray-Ray at his garage, and discovers that she is not alone. Other head injuries have brought forth a flock of sex addicts who have infiltrated every corner into a whole new dawn of sexual awakening...
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