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Elektra Luxx: Directed by Sebastian Gutierrez. With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Carla Gugino, Ermahn Ospina, Jake Hames. Life for porn actress Elektra Luxx gets turned upside down when she finds out she’s pregnant. Picks right up where the previous film ended and continues to be an engaging and entertaining cast of interesting people doing interesting things. Buy On Amazon!
Women in Trouble: Directed by Sebastian Gutierrez. With Carla Gugino, Adrianne Palicki, Dan Mailley, Connie Britton. A serpentine day in the life of ten seemingly desperate women: a porn star, a flight attendant, a psychiatrist, a masseuse, a bartender, a pair of call girls, an actress, a masseuse. All of them with one crucial thing in common. Trouble. I knew what I was in for, but I wasn’t expecting Adrianne Palicki to openly say “I really want to eat your pussy.” while playing a porn star who has issues with cars backing into her and some PTSD from a self...
The Final Countdown: Directed by Don Taylor. With Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross, James Farentino. A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. This has been on my watch list since it came out in 1980, but I never got around to watching it for various reasons (or maybe I did and I’ve just forgotten?), but watching it now, I realize that it’s just a tease of a better film, but set to some exceptionally patriotic backdrops of a 1980’s aircraft carrier and some pretty...
Rat Race: Directed by Jerry Zucker. With Breckin Meyer, Jenica Bergere, Cuba Gooding Jr., Carrie Diamond. A Las Vegas casino magnate, determined to find a new avenue for wagering, sets up a race for money. This was free on one of the 70 streaming services I have on my roku and I just can’t remember which one it was. I only put it on because I had fond memories of how wacky it was, and truly, it’s a wacky movie about people in a race to get some dollars, all while the obscenely rich bet on various aspects of their...
Dear Dead Delilah: Directed by John Farris. With Agnes Moorehead, Will Geer, Michael Ansara, Dennis Patrick. A sickly matriarch of a dysfunctional family living in an old Southern mansion teases her siblings about finding a long lost treasure hidden in the premises, little did she know that there is someone ready to kill to get their hands on it. It’s a low budget slasher with a nice story element to it, I appreciated the minor twist towards the end, which really subverted my expectations from the genre. Buy On Amazon!
Tulsa King: Created by Taylor Sheridan. With Sylvester Stallone, Andrea Savage, Martin Starr, Jay Will. Following his release from prison, Mafia capo Dwight “The General” Manfredi is exiled to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he builds a new criminal empire with a group of unlikely characters. All the big movie stars are moving from the silver screen to the boob tube and Sly’s move has been one of the better ones. It’s essentially a wise guy fish out of water type of story, just that this wise guy isn’t really all that fishy at all and is actually pretty smart about the...
Delve deeper into the world of Star Trek with special one-shot stories focusing on the memorable alien species! At no point in any of the solicitations for this book did they mention it was a reprint of three books: Star Trek: Klingons Star Trek: Trill Star Trek: Ferengi All three of these are great stories that I haven’t read before, but I think I would have preferred reading them in floppy form instead of a omnibus collection. None of the stories are related to each other in any way, with different writers, story styles, art styles, or even story purpose....
Night Train: Directed by Shane Stanley. With Danielle C. Ryan, Reggie Austin, Brent Bailey, Diora Baird. A single mom struggling to make ends meet as a Hollywood teamster evades capture by a ruthless FBI Agent while running black market medical supplies in her legendary souped-up pickup truck. You’d think this was a pure action film from the poster alone, but it’s actually about a mother’s struggle to find enough money and medicines to help her sick kid not die. Sure there’s action here with some decently framed racing, but there’s an emotional core to the film that you don’t see...
Trees Lounge: Directed by Steve Buscemi. With Carol Kane, Mark Boone Junior, Steve Buscemi, Bronson Dudley. Tommy is an unemployed mechanic who spends most of his time in a bar (Trees Lounge) in a small blue collar town. He seems to always be thinking, “If only X then I could stop drinking”. Written and directed by Buscemi, this movie has no plot or moral at the end of the story, but it does join other films that let the lens linger slightly longer than usual after the final scene, ala ‘The Graduate’. There’s a ton of big names in this...
John Wick: Chapter 4: Directed by Chad Stahelski. With Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, George Georgiou, Lance Reddick. John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes. The fourth film in a series about a hit-man returned from the dead to seek his vengenance against all that wronged him (and his puppy). It’s a great movie, it’s too long, all the stunts are fantastic, it’s about 4 hours long, they left...
