Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Hugo Dugay (ALYSSA MILANO) runs the titular pool cleaning service, but on this particular day, she needs help taking care of 44 clients, one of whom is a mobster demanding a truckload of water to fill his empty pool during a drought.
After being shown lying in bed in her underwear plus a gratuitous shower scene, she is shown taking her insulin shot, all while goofy music has played in the background. The sequence begs a lot of questions: Will…
Awful.
That’s all I want to write, but I’ll try to write more.
Dumb.
Sharon Stone plays a “Movie-Star Nerd” that moves into a high rise that’s called a “sliver” building due to its dimensions. Billy “Second-Best” Baldwin owns the building (spoilers!) and makes a lot (all) of sense as the killer, but they reshot the ending to make it be Tom “The Substitute” Berenger. Look, the original ending was horrible too. Argh!
Pointless.
OK, so Second-Best is obsessed with…
This is a film that’s piqued my curiosity since I was a kid perusing the aisles at the video store, and it’s taken me 35 years to finally watch it. If you’ve seen the poster or the VHS cover, you can understand why it captured my ten year old eye.
I was always afraid it was going to lean more toward exploitive, à la THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT or I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE. But surprise! Despite the…