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Ok, this movie, Dirty Movie, or National Lampoon’s Dirty Movie is a movie about a guy who wants to make a movie that the whole premise of that is it will be telling a single sordid joke. So he goes on a quest to find the most outrageous joke possible. They try to convince the “board” (a bunch of old geezers) that the movie is a good idea. They find people to tell the jokes. Of course the females look better telling jokes topless or better, so why not. The director balks. The budget disappears. Etc. Generally sillyness. The doctor jokes are the best. I don’t know why there aren’t more lawyer jokes! Anyway. Totally mindless. If no one else is watching you’ll laugh at some of it. But remember there are far better ways to spend your evening!
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Rated R. 90 minutes (1 hours 31 minutes). Swearing. Nudity. Very profane. Makes fun of everyone!

I reluctantly categorize tonight’s showing as “crime” because, yeah, it does deal with crime, but its hard to decide! The Killing Jar, a Michael Madsen driven film about a guy who stops off at a diner late one night after they have heard about a murder across town. The murderer is known to be driving a black pickup truck, which the law officer (Lew Temple) eating dinner there is sure will be easy to spot. What follows is a confrontation, a shooting. A second shooting. A stop by a guy delivering money to Mr. “Smith”, an execution. A questioning, a shooting. A beat-up job, a double murder. Followed by two more killings. All this takes place inside (with a few supporting shots outside) this little diner in the middle of nowhere.

All in graphic detail. For instance, the second killing is of Danny Trejo (of Machete fame – which I sadly never got around to reviewing that fun romp. It started off with a bang, literally when they blow away this really hot nude girl at the beginning. And when you see a girl willing to go naked on screen get killed off so soon.. well… rather sad!). Anyway, I digress, Danny Trejo is the fry cook and gets his head blown off, literally, with a shotgun. You don’t see but a superfast glimpse, but still…

The movie was ok, I guess. I mean I was entertained enough for an already brain dead Saturday night. But, it could of been sooo much better. It is what it is, but you kind of expect to see a better Madsen on the screen. He disappointed slightly. The lead actress, Noreen, was rather cute and a joy to watch (Post-Buffy the Vampire Slayer). But all in all, what do you do if you are faced with a situation like this? Someone goes bonkers in the tiny diner you are at. Are you just royally screwed because you were in the wrong place at the wrong time, or do you do something about it? And how do you decide what you do, or if you just call the police or what? Makes you think a little about what you’ll do if you ever (god-forbid!) get faced with such a situation!

Things learned from this movie:

1. Diners late at night aren’t the safest of places.
2. If you go somewhere and they don’t run air conditioning, go find somewhere else to eat.
3. Serated steak knives are handy in a pinch.
4. Keep count of gunshots.
5. You can shoot an entire movie in one location.
6. Beware of traveling salesmen. Are they really who they seem?
7. Why do you wear a wedding ring if your wife has been dead two years?
8. Take the money and run.

Rated R. 90 minutes (1 hours 30 minutes). Swearing. Violence. As for sex, well the most is the law officer verbalizing that he’d like to run away with the married waitress – who is at another point called “hot” as an old broad, and retorts that she’s 32. But yes, she’s hot.

The age old question! How do you find movies to watch instantly on netflix tonight, or if you want NetFlix to ship it to you, how do you find the top netflix movies to rent for tomorrow night? Is there a way to find the most rented movies this week? Well, with the beauty of RSS Feeds, your in luck! I’m going to give a handful of RSS feeds that you can bookmark, and at anytime, just click on them and see the top movies on NetFlix or the new NetFlix streaming titles. So, where to begin.

First, you’ll get an RSS Feed that will look like this:

http://rss.netflix.com/Top100RSS

This RSS feed is the top 100 movies on NetFlix. So what do you do with that? If you click on that or if you paste the text into your web browser’s address bar, you’ll be taken to an RSS feed. This will show you the Top 100 movies on NetFlix and it will be updated for you every two weeks! What do you get,? You get to see the picture of the DVD cover, you get a quick synopsis of the movie, and you get to know where it is in the Top 100. Convenient, isn’t it?

You also can get the New Releases:

http://rss.netflix.com/NewReleasesRSS

Same deal – but this is going to be the newest releases on NetFlix this week, so that hot new movie you were waiting on, this is where you can see it become available as a new release!

But it doesn’t stop there! Not only can you use this to quickly see the movies streaming from NetFlix, you can also find good movies on NetFlix, and you can even see your own Queue from Netflix! How cool is that?

So the beauty of RSS feeds is that you don’t have to actually go to NetFlix’s site to see the results. You can bookmark these in your web browser and from any page you can hit the link and see a pop-up or a full page of a customized view of what you want from NetFlix!

What follows below is a shorthand listing of the links to the various RSS Feeds from NetFlix. See one you like? Then click on it and you should have the option from your browser to bookmark it. Do that and future visits to those pages will be a breeze! I don’t mind you coming back here every time you want to find their RSS feeds, it’ll be ok as I’d love the visitors and comments on my reviews, but you can also just go to NetFlix itself and get these feeds as well. Thanks!

Go to the NetFlix page I’ve linked above from a PC you are logged into NetFlix from and you’ll get a grouping of Personalized feeds for your own Queue and Rental Activity, as well as recommendations, if you like or trust NetFlix recommendations. These are super great RSS Feeds to have bookmarked! You can also share your feeds with others.

These feeds are public, anyone can use.

Netflix Top 100: http://rss.netflix.com/Top100RSS
New Releases: http://rss.netflix.com/NewReleasesRSS
New choices to watch instantly: http://www.netflix.com/NewWatchInstantlyRSS

Action & Adventure Top 25: http://rss.netflix.com/Top25RSS?gid=296
Anime & Animation Top 25: http://rss.netflix.com/Top25RSS?gid=623
Blu-ray Top 25: http://rss.netflix.com/Top25RSS?gid=2444
Children & Family Top 25: http://rss.netflix.com/Top25RSS?gid=302
Classics Top 25: http://rss.netflix.com/Top25RSS?gid=306
Comedy Top 25: http://rss.netflix.com/Top25RSS?gid=307
Documentary Top 25: http://rss.netflix.com/Top25RSS?gid=864
Drama Top 25: http://rss.netflix.com/Top25RSS?gid=315
Faith & Spirituality Top 25: http://rss.netflix.com/Top25RSS?gid=2108
Foreign Top 25: http://rss.netflix.com/Top25RSS?gid=2514
Gay & Lesbian Top 25: http://rss.netflix.com/Top25RSS?gid=330
Horror Top 25: http://rss.netflix.com/Top25RSS?gid=338
Independent Top 25: http://rss.netflix.com/Top25RSS?gid=343
Music & Musicals Top 25: http://rss.netflix.com/Top25RSS?gid=2310
Romance Top 25: http://rss.netflix.com/Top25RSS?gid=371
Sci-Fi & Fantasy Top 25: http://rss.netflix.com/Top25RSS?gid=373
Special Interest Top 25: http://rss.netflix.com/Top25RSS?gid=2223
Sports & Fitness Top 25: http://rss.netflix.com/Top25RSS?gid=2190
Television Top 25: http://rss.netflix.com/Top25RSS?gid=2197
Thrillers Top 25: http://rss.netflix.com/Top25RSS?gid=387

Enjoy!

Casino Jack is a comedy about true-life events surrounding Jack Abramoff and Michael Scanlon and the scandal he was involved in in the 2000s. How he swindled the Choctaw, Coushatta, and other tribes and other illegal dealings. The movie’s outcome shouldn’t be a shock to anyone who followed the story well. It is interesting to see the inner workings in high places.

Kevin Spacey plays Jack Abramoff and Barry Pepper Michael Scanlon. The movie is well paced, doesn’t overly explain things.

Seeing the things that influential people get to play around with, celebrities, private jets around the world, golfing in exclusive places, fine food, etc, does have its enticements, but at the heart of us all we have to decide what it the price for our ethics.

Things learned from this movie:

1. Kevin Spacey and his film impersonations.
2. Jon Lovitz is on a trip in this one! His pen-stabbed face does make an appearance later on.
3. Barry Pepper’s impersonations don’t go over as well.
4. Casino Cruise Ships rake in boatloads of cash!
5. Don’t send hooker’s panties off with your clothes to be cleaned.
6. Lovitz’s mattress commercial is fun!

Rated R. 108 minutes (1 hours 48 minutes). Swearing. Violence. Nudity, two well-endowed girls lounge about topless for Jon Lovitz. Skimpy outfits on a casino cruise ship.