Love on the Run, Reno 911!: Miami, For Y'ur Height Only, Challenge of the Tiger, Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess, & Factory Girl

Love on the Run is the last of the Antoine Doinel films, and as such it spends most of its time looking back at earlier ones through flashbacks. Not too many to Bed and Board, and there are a couple references to Day for Night (still my favorite Truffaut film), but I thought overall it was only of use to people who really liked the earlier Doinel films. It was a nice little bit of a nostalgia trip for me, but nowhere near as good as others. Oh, and the Netflix description is not really right, as it's about his divorce from Christine, they're not really struggling with his infidelity, they've come to grips with it and decided to divorce.

Reno 911!: Miami has convinced me that I just don't like Reno 911!. I have tried many times, but I just don't like it very much. Fitfully funny (as is the show), but overall not enough to keep my interest riveted. I'm not going to object if it's on TV and I'm there (unless I've already seen the episode), but it's not nearly as good as other State alumni work.

For Y'ur Height Only is the Filipino film that starts a little person named Weng Weng as the suavest spy since James Bond. And he beds normal sized women throughout the film, sometimes bizarrely. I mean, the entire movie is one long bizarre spy riff. And stupid. Basically, it's a terrible terrible film that is only of interest now because the star is a little person. As such, it's watchable. Especially if you like watching people get hit and kicked in the nards. Because this film is full of it.

Challenge of the Tiger is the second movie on the same DVD, so I watched it. I'm glad I did. It stars one of the many Bruce Lee knockoffs (named Bruce Le) and he's a member of the CIA (maybe, it wasn't really clear, but I think he was) along with Richard Harrison (who starred in a bunch of movies with Ninja in the title, along with one of Joe D'Amato's porn-ish movies I haven't seen, Orgasmo Nero). Oh, and Richard Harrison's name is Richard Cannon (see, it can be shortened as Dick Cannon! FUNNY!). Anyway, the movie starts out by introducing Richard by having him drive into a palatial estate and be greeted by two topless women who proceed to play topless tennis with the woman in the car with him. And then there's a scene where one of the girls drinks water from one of those pissing boy statues and is then called a dirty girl. Yeah. The plot is about a formula that can sterilize all men. This is clearly a problem for Richard who seems to have sex with all women in the film, while Bruce is a typical eunuch that most Asian men are in Western films. Unless they're there to threaten the white women.

Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess interestingly also has a scene where someone drinks out of a pissing boy statue. In this case it's supposed to be funny, though. Anyway, this is another pinky violence film, and it's actually not full of gratuitous nudity (apparently, the director tried to limit that, and I salute him), and is the last in a series of four films, none of which are supposed to be worth watching besides this one. Five delinquent girls eventually band together to fight the yakuza who are trying to kill the father of one of them. Typical revenge film, but the final scene is of them in red trenchcoats with black armbands. Visually striking and awesome. They strip down to black hotpants and white bandages over their breasts to slaughter the yakuza. There's also a scene where a guy is stabbed in the stomach over a glass floor and bleeds out over it. Very nice. Definitely the strongest of the pinky violence films I've seen recently.

Factory Girl is crap. Many better films about Andy Warhol, and the factual inaccuracies (according to wikipedia and the people involved who are still alive) just grated on me. Along with the very shallowness of it all. If you're going to be making a film about someone who's potentially as interesting as Edie Sedgwick (I assume she is, since you really don't get it from this film), make the film interesting. Woo, Siena Miller's naked. That's the only thing this has going for it. I mean, you can't even use Bob Dylan as a character because he'd sue due to it being made up? What a surprise the film sort of sucked. Just avoid.