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In Electric Button (Moon & Cherry), the star of the erotica writing club Mayama (Noriko Eguchi) realizes she has developed writers block so she is desperate for some sort of inspiration to get her back to her writing. Kenichi Tadokoro (Tasuko Nagaoka) is a young college student and he decides to join the group that […]
What could possibly go wrong when you are out on the town with a couple of buddies from work? Well one wouldn’t expect what happens here. The last thing this man (played by Axel Wedekind) can remember is being out drinking with his friends but then everything is a blank to him. He wakes up […]
This DVD set, Partners In Crime – The Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries is packed with good atmosphere and playful banter. It follows the now married couple, Tommy and Tuppence and they run the Blunt’s Detective Agency together.. They investigate cases that range from a purloined pearl to the disappearance of an Arctic explorer’s fiancée. Frabcesca […]
Tom Chance played by Simon Callow, seems to be cursed by fate. He faces a barrage of absurd coincidences that fuel this uproarious Britcom. Alison Little, played by Brenda Blethyn, is a sheltered, earnest librarian. When she and Tom meet they embark on an unconventional courtship. Tom’s peculiar speech patterns and bumbling comportment sweetly complement […]
What makes the world operate the way it does? Are there patterns to what happens or do we live in a universe of random events that cannot be predicted or explained? Author and Oxford University professor Marcus du Sautoy sets out to answer these and other questions in this engaging and entertaining three part documentary […]
Sam Harris, says in his book The End of Faith that faith and religion are “the most prolific source of violence in our history.” The three-volume Encyclopedia of Wars, which chronicles some 1,763 wars that have been waged over the course of human history, begs to differ. For those wars, the authors note the causes […]
Recently, Bob Farnsworth, President of Nashville, Tenn. based Humingbird Productions, told Hollywood trade publication Variety that he had a sequel in the works for Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life”, the uber Holiday classic made in 1946. Those of you who are not familiar with this movie should all be taken to Area 51 and […]
Marshall Police were called out Sunday morning about 11:15 am to the Baymont Inn and Suites in Marshall. When they arrived there was 2 small children in the hotel lobby crying and saying that they thought their dad had killed their mother. According to a witness at the hotel who said he heard the screaming […]
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