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Week of October 24, 2014
You should only make sex tapes on BETA. First up…
Sex Tape
The good thing about a sex tape is no one will ever see it
because all the VCRs are buried in the desert.
Unfortunately for the couple in this comedy the term refers
to all amateur porn.
Annie (Cameron Diaz) decides to stop complaining about
post-pregnancy sex on her blog and instead tries to reignite her husband’s
(Jason Segel) wick by sending the kids away for the night.
To spice things up, they record their session with an iPad.
But when the footage gets leaked to their friends, they are
blackmailed by an unlikely source asking for $25,000.
An Apple commercial masquerading as a bawdy comedy, Sex Tape
crams the company’s product line into every painfully unfunny and unrealistic
scene.
While the duo is relatable, their improbable situations are
not.
Besides, when you experiment with sex tapes you could end up
getting something completely disgusting, like, a show on E! Red Light
The Purge: Anarchy
The sad thing about hunting Americans for sport is that
they’re so obese they’re tired after running 10 paces.
Luckily, the prey in this horror-thriller has a vehicle.
To lower crime, LA holds an annual cull - legalized murder
for one night.
Trying to get home before it begins, Shane (Zach Gilford)
and Liz (Kiele Sanchez) align themselves with a vengeful cop (Frank Grillo) and
two women he rescued from Purgers.
Unfortunately, those women are being stalked by a gang of
masked murderers collecting the poor for the rich in exchange for money.
With the action happening outside as opposed to inside, like
its predecessor, Anarchy offers a blue-collar perspective on the yearly
bloodletting.
While the ideology continues to fascinate and the killings
carry on the brutality, the characters and the plot still don’t reach their
full potential.
Incidentally, without the poor, city streets would be
littered with unreturned beer bottles.
Yellow Light
***Televiolence***
Series 7: The Contenders
The best part of watching people kill each other on TV is
betting on who the winner will be.
By the way, the returning champ in this dark comedy is not a
sure bet.
If Dawn (Brooke Smith) survives the next round of the
kill-or-be-killed reality show The Contenders, her and her unborn baby will go
free.
However, included in the other 5 random contestants is
Dawn’s ailing ex-boyfriend (Glenn Fitzgerald) who wants her to be the one who
terminates him.
Meanwhile, the other contestants accumulate weapons and
begin stalking the title-holder.
Things get worse when Dawn goes into labor.
Narrated by Will Arnett, this 2001 satire of the-then
fledgling genre is told entirely through reality camera lens - a method that
can be comical and constrictive on the narrative.
Fortunately, the violence and soundtrack help round the
edges.
Incidentally, if contestants sang while killing, this show
would be even bigger.
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