Victor/Victoria (1982)

 

VICTOR/VICTORIA  (1982)  ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢

    D: Blake Edwards

    Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston,

    Leslie Ann Warren, Alex Karras, John Rhys-Davies

A musical gender-blender set in 1934, with Julie Andrews as a starving singer who becomes the toast of Paris by pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman. James Garner plays a Chicago gangster who falls for him/her while trying to make sense of the ambiguity. Robert Preston plays a gay nightclub performer and Julie's partner/mentor/pal. Andrews makes a cute girl-boy, and the gay humor holds up better than you might expect. One of Blake Edwards' best movies.

Spring Break Massacre (2008)

 

SPRING BREAK MASSACRE  (2008)  ¢

    D: Rex Kramer

    Reggie Bannister, Sarah Minnic, John Shumski,

    Linnea Quigley, Renee Darmiento, Erin Meyers,

    Aly Hartman, Bob Farster, Toni Buena, Sue Willett

Horny, empty-headed twenty-somethings spend spring break hanging out in Illinois (?!?) in a movie called "Spring Break Massacre". See if you can guess what happens to them. 

Vanishing Point (1997)

 

VANISHING POINT  (1997)  ¢ ¢

    D: Charles Robert Carner

    Viggo Mortensen, Christine Elise, Steve Railsback, 

    Jason Priestley, Keith David, Rodney A. Grant,

    Paul Benjamin, John Doe, Peta Wilson

A television remake of the 1971 car-chase classic, with Viggo Mortensen in the old Barry Newman role as Kowalski, a hero of the highway driving a souped-up Dodge Challenger from New Mexico to Idaho at decidedly unsafe speeds, while an army of cops try to take him in or bring him down. The original movie was primal and existential. This one has backstories and religion. The tire-squealing, gravel-spewing stuntwork is all right, but by the time the asshole lawman played by Steve Railsback throws his badge in the dirt, you know the filmmakers are running out of gas.