A couple of quick hit reviews...

If you like wrestling, particularly of the ECW variety, then you need to go out and get yourself a copy of the new Rise and Fall of ECW DVD from WWE Home Video. Unlike the revisionist history of The Monday Night War, this DVD is told from the perspective of the workers and Paul Heyman(though, truth be told, nobody in ECW that wasn't employed by WWE gets interviewed. But I digress.) and it is warts and all. We get the whole story, from the early days of Eastern Championship Wrestling, through Heyman's fights with WWE and WCW over talent, the battle to get ECW on Pay-Per-View, and the death struggle between Heyman and TNN over content and promotions. The best part of the show is all the great ECW footage, as well as 6 complete matches from the ECW days, though there could have been more matches, and maybe a slightly different selection. (I want WWE 24/7, by the way. Just thought I'd get that out there.)

Highly recommended, even without the voices of Raven and Sandman to contribute(though one wonders what Jim Fullington might even contribute, as his brain is surely addled from all the beer he drank and all the cans he crushed on his head as well.)

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Georges Bataille's Story Of The Eye(2004) is a very strange and very hardcore underground film based (extremely loosely, I'm informed) on a famous French book of the late 20's. Hell if I could tell you what this movie was about, aside from hardcore sex of all varieties(boy/boy, girl/girl, three-way). It also raised quite a stir at DV, as several of my compatriots were apparently expecting something altogether different from what it turned out to be. Andrew McElhenny's film is well shot and well put together, but ultimately, it's a lot of sound and hardcore fury signifying nothing.

Avoid unless you want to see weird, almost Cafe Flesh-like surrealistic hardcore without the money shots.

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Later today, if I get to it, Top 10 Movies I Saw This Year.