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Hard (1998)
Good storyline, weak cast
This film had a late night screening at the InsideOut Fest in Toronto and had the audience laughing... in all the wrong places- just where does all the hate come from? n]
Interesting story, good (but uneven) script, decent photography, but the main problem was that other than "Jack", the rest of the cast were stiff and uninteresting. Maybe someone can get the funding together for a remake as there is lots of potential here...
Beefcake (1998)
Dorothy we ain't in the hanging garden anymore...
This film is a huge departure from Thom Fitzgerald's first film The Hanging Garden. Beefcake is a loosely woven docu-drama of photgrapher Bob Mizer's Athletic Model Guild. The style of the film will look very familiar to anyone who's seen the NFB's "Forbidden Love" where interviews with those who knew Bob are blended with a storyline about a court case involving an alleged prostitution ring. Good use is also made of archival footage from AMG and others. The interviews are quite well done- Joe D'Allesandro and Jack LaLanne in particular but the new footage seemed a little 2 dimensional and predictable.