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Death Race 2000 mixes 70s fashion with fast cars, cult heroes, and hit & runs. Who knew it could be so much fun? The friction between Carradine & Stallone never really gets interesting, but the supporting cast supplies more than enough compensation. Personally, I would have loved to see Mary Woronov (as Calamity Jane) a lot more. It carries a message against the public's thirst for violence, but along the way, the movie also makes a lot of great jokes (like euthanasia day). A great movie to show at a party.

A jolly good time fer sure. Cat Ballou is a great diversion with a nice plot (revenge) and a nice cast, too--check out Lee Marvin. It even has all the essentials of a western from the town dance ending with a madcap fistfight to outlaw gunslingers and horses. Cat Ballou pokes fun at practically all of them while still keeping in mind that the real deal is Ballou's desire to avenge her father. Great fun.

The Virgin Suicides certainly leaves its mark. Filled with great imagery (the Lisbon house and the sisters themselves among them), wonderfully shot, and surprisingly playful, the movie also contains several nicely captured awkward moments, mostly whenever someone from outside the family attempts to talk to the sisters. Even though the film centers around Lux mostly (who gives off an angelic aura greater than any TV "angel"), the other sisters never fall into a simple group category. They're never completely anonymous, only distant. For me, two big marks that it left were of Lux picking up her coat and tiara in an empty football field and of a drunken adult yelling "I'm a teenager; I've got problems" while being pulled out a swimming pool.