All Articles by Julie Schwarzentraub

FINDING BLISS DVD Review

Posted: September 1st, 2010 at 7:08 am

Just when you think you’ve seen it all….I mean, how many twists could there be to the formulaic romcom?  We can all usually tell what’s coming next even if it is sinfully fun to be sucked into.  But this one slaps on a new frontier.  Good girl meets bad boy…wait for it…in a porn studio.  OK, juicy enough to work with and possibly be a fresh twist.

Award winning NYU film student, Jody (Lee Lee Sobieski), moves to LA where the only job she can get near a studio is directing cars into the parking lot.  She’s hardworking, smart, morally sound….and desperate.  So, when a position opens as an editor at adult entertainment company, ‘Grind Productions’, she hesitantly accepts.  She is soon working with a clan of outwardly beautiful, yet cranially challenged, young talent and an inappropriately honest co-worker.  Enter the charming, yet scummy, director/boss, Jeff, (Matt Davis) who takes extra special care of Jody by bringing her coffee and sending her a gift basket full of sex toys.  Hmmm…he’s a head-scratcher.  Where could this go?  More after the jump:

ENDGAME DVD Review

Posted: February 6th, 2010 at 11:57 pm

The year is 1985.  The place: a fervently eroding South America plagued by the mistrust of race due to apartheid.  Nelson Mandela is imprisoned.  The end of this political game is approaching, but how will it go down?  Secret meetings are held by opposing sides of this warring country.  Sounds like a great movie plot, huh?  The most intriguing part of the story is rooted it’s reality which took place long before such a film could be made.  More after the jump:

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