Brown Bunny

The Brown Bunny
$14.94
I liked the film...esp the soundtrack choices....a little oral sex never hurt anyone.....an enjoyable experience.

Buffalo '66
$14.98
Buffalo '66 is a visually beautiful movie. We're treated to wondeful shot, after shot, after shot...after shot...after shot. Unfortunately Buffalo '66 capitalizes on indie film stereotypes by taking something tragic, throwing "glitter" on it, and leaning on pretension. I honestly feel this film falls due to vanity, where the editing is overdone to the point of empty flattery, and scenes have emphasis put on everything -- even when it digresses.

The characters themselves are absolutely pathetic, self-indulgent, and whiney.
We're supposed to accept that the character of Bobby (Vallo) is so ridiculous because he had (what the movie implies as) a "bad childhood." As someone who has dealt with real childhood tragedies in myself and others, I was completely insulted. Just because Bobby got the sore end of his parents' empty marriage in the suburbs is no excuse for his behavior. I didn't find his attempts to impress his parents "sad" or "touching," but rather pathetic. I'd shudder to think how his character would be if his childhood had actually been horrible. Don't even get me started on Ricci's character. We're offered no insight into her other than nobody wants anything to do with her. It's easy to see why considering how desperate and worthless she is.

And there lies the connection between these two failures. Perhaps I lack human compassion, but it's the emotional instability and neediness of weak people like the ones depicted in this movie that make intimacy seem deplorable.

Buffalo '66 is beautiful, but exceptionally ostentatious. It tries "desperately" (like it's characters) to be an independent art film, that it's focus on character development is disjointed and frail. I really wish there were more positive things I could say about this movie, but beyond it's great -- though narcissistic -- directing, there is nothing.

Lie With Me
$7.99
There is just not much going on here. It's not strong at anything. Perhaps a candidate for a drive-in classic but where is the real tragedy ?

Shortbus (Unrated Edition)
$27.98
Sofia (Sook-Yin Lee) is a relationship's expert. Her husband Rob (Raphael Barker) open this film with a very graphic sexual encounter. Whilst Sofia finds the sex satisfying, ironically, given her profession, she is yet to have an orgasm. This quest becomes one of the themes of the film.

She meets clients James (Paul Dawson - who looks a lot like Mark Whalberg) and Jamie (PJ DeBoy), a gay couple having their own relationship problems. They recommend to her to attend a club called "Shortbus" which is an anything goes sex club.

Sofia protests to all that she is in a very happy relationship with her husband, whom she loves. Her relationship with him seems to be happy. She stumbles upon a group of lesbians including Severin (aka Jennifer) (Lindsay Beamish) who we see earlier in the film as a dominatrix. Severin can't form a relationship with anyone. Sofia breaches professional guidelines by both acting as counsellor for Severin, and having sex with her.

That's the problem with this film. Whilst it is trying to promote a 'guilt-free' sex enviornment ultimately several of the lead characters continue to have relationship problems. All they end up doing is realigning their sex partners. This then becomes the social engineering message of the film. That: relationships don't matter, sex does. I found this annoying given that the film argues against itself in that several of the characters still desire to have relationships. Sure James and Jamie become a foursome (with the addition of Caleb, their stalker (Peter Stickles) and Ceth (Jay Brannan)), but the others do not progress to their own desired outcome. A celebratory sing-along at Shortbus at the end of the film does nothing to hide this point.