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Mandragora (1997)
Not a movie to watch anytime you feel like watching a movie.
This isn't one of those movies you can pop in your DVD player or VCR anytime of the day and enjoy it. This isn't a movie you rent with your girlfriend to make out too. It's not a movie you would recommend to your friends, and it's not a movie you get a bag of popcorn and sit down with your family and enjoy. This movie will disturb you. This movie will make your stomach feel awful, hours and possibly days after you watch it.
Marek is a troubled teenager who is having trouble at home and at school and he realizes he's much different than they are. His father finds out Marek has stopped going to school and tries to talk some sense into him. Talking turns into yelling and this pushes Marek further and further away and decides to runaway from home, which takes him into the dark underworld and streets of Prague. In Prague, Marek is drugged, raped and forced into a life of hustling for money, where AIDS is always a threat.
It twists and turns down dark roads without a light and by the time the movie ends, you feel a little sick to your stomach. It's a side of life we're not used to seeing, we know it's there, but either we don't care or we realize we can't do anything to help make matters worse. Wiktor Grodecki makes you care. He shoves it right in your face in plain view. You have no choice but to look. Wiktor Grodecki pulls at your heartstrings and breaks your heart over and over throughout the movie.
XXXL: The John Holmes Story (2000)
A brief look into the life of John Holmes
XXXL: The John Holmes Story If you ask your parents who John Holmes is, I imagine they'll blush a little bit and they'll tell you, he was an actor from the 70's and 80's. Well, what kind of an actor you might ask? John Holmes was a male porn star with a 14 inch cock, that's who John Holmes is.
This movie is basically a documentary, with interviews from porn stars, ex wives, old girlfriends and friends of the late John Holmes who tell the story of his life and what it was like knowing him. Most of the time it's people talking about his huge dick,his compulsive lying and how charming he was.
I found the documentary was very interesting, but it was too short and I feel they could have gone into greater detail about his life and how he got started in the porn business, but I'm not the film maker, am I? We do get a good look into the life of John Holmes, his rise to fame, how he slept with over 14,000 women, then finally his drug addiction, a life of murder and his passing, as he died of AIDS in 1988.
If you're interested in John Holmes, I would recommend picking this up, as it's about the only movie I found about his life, but if you're just looking to pass the time, I'd try Boogie Nights which has a character based on John Holmes.
Overall: 6.3/10 By: Tyler Bigney