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Smoke Black Bronzer 10.5 oz Tanning lotion Top Seller!
$55.00
This lotion wasn't good at all. It leaves an orange color! It looks unatural, smells gross and stains your body. If you don't apply evenly it will leave streaks! It's the worst lotion I have ever used!

It's Smoke Time
$16.98
The Smoke in my mind are the most talented and best sounding groups of the Psych. world. I love EVERY track they made in the 60's (however they fell off big time in the 70's). I have no idea why no one doesn't like "If The Weather's Sunny" It was one of the tracks that made me a big fan of The Smoke. They definatly had alot more talent than they were givin credit for, and have alot more good tracks along with "My Friend Jack"

Holy Smoke!
$9.99
Kate Winslet is a fantastic actress. The DVDs of "Enigma," "Sense and Sensibility," "The Holiday," "the Reader," and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" are on my shelves, and I know that I will be watching them all again and again for years to come. And I know she'll gift us with many great performances in the future. (and I loved Harvey Keitel's performance in "Pulp Fiction" and while "Bad Lieutenant" was grim, it was at least interesting).

But "Holy Smoke!" totally misses the mark. The idea of Kate Winslet being brainwashed by a cult and then getting locked in a house for three days with a deprogrammer with issues of his own could have been such a great story...if only they had played it straight as the utterly serious and tragic subject that something like that happening would be in real life. Instead the movie descends rapidly into weirdness and improbability. I lost patience with the film the night that Keitel's character shows Winslet's a cheesy movie about cults. We're asked to believe that on viewing just a few minutes of this single film, Winslet's entire faith in her religious leader is shattered. Somehow, I think it takes a lot more to break the faith of someone caught up in the clutches of a cult.

But it got even worse after that. How worse? Well, right after Keitel destroys her faith with a single film, she's apparently so distraught that she burns her clothing and he finds her naked outside of the remote house they're staying in. She kisses him and tells him she doesn't feel loved. That's not so hard to believe if we accept she'd really have a crisis of faith at that point. Keitel's character resists her and walks away...so far so good. But what apparently changes his mind is when --I'm not making this up-- she pisses herself. I don't have a clue as to what that was supposed to mean since the movie was a "serious" project and not some piece of twisted fetish erotica (maybe it emphasized how completely vulnerable she was but blech!) And that apparently does the trick, she and Keitel make the two-backed beast and let me say, it ain't dreamily erotic like Winslet's seduction of David Cross is in "the Reader"...just coarse and unpleasant. After that, it descends into even more weirdness until the deal is sealed with a wildly improbable happy ending.

The only thing I can think of when I consider this movie is "Wow, Kate Winslet really, really, REALLY wanted to avoid being typecast as a standard Hollywood star after her role in the monster-hit "Titanic" (a movie that I hated because of the terrible script)...and there's no movie too strange for Harvey Keitel.

The movie's only redeeming features is that Kate Winslet looks lovely then as she doesn now (and curvy unlike so many anorexic "super models") and does a convincing Australian accent. Oh, and the scenery in Australia where the film was shot is beautiful, but that's hardly worth subjecting yourself to this film.

I can only hope that when Kate Winslet, who I adore, recalls this film, she winces and her next project will either be a worthy "serious film" like "the Reader," a joyful romp like "the Holiday," or even better something like the gem "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind."

Smoke
$14.99
This is a movie with an emphasis on dialogue, ambiance, and characterization. The acting is superb, and the script is top-drawer. SMOKE is a funny, sometimes poignant, slice-of-life film with a whole lot of heart.