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An unnamed figure descends into a subterranean dystopia filled with tortured souls, twisted monstrosities, decrepit buildings, sinister machinery and other bizarre horrors on an undisclosed mission of sabotage.

Written, directed and produced as a labor of love by animator Phil Tippett, famous for his work in the "Star Wars" trilogy, "Robocop", and "Jurassic Park".

A visually stunning and experimental stop-motion film that's surreal, disturbing, bleak and darkly atmospheric.

There's no dialog and not even a true storyline. Tippett has said that the film is more of a collage than a narrative.

Definitely not for everyone, but worth watching if you're a fan of stop-motion.

Available on Tubi USA.

Watch Mystic River on Tubi: https://link.tubi.tv/bWJjsmD8P6b

Between Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2, Raimi directed and co-wrote a slapstick caper with the Coen Brothers. Wacky, surreal, manic, narratively somewhat incoherent but the visuals and gags make it worth watching.

I cannot believe how good this movie is. At first I just thought it would be hokey but fun. Camp.

No. This is legit a great film. Like a hidden gem.

Elizabeth Taylor plays a woman going through some stuff and that’s all I’m going to say because it’s more fun not knowing much.

I love how much she kicks ass in this film. The writing is good, the acting is good, the mood and scenery is so perfect. Great October watch!

It's the 1980s in Hollywood. Adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break, starring in the horror film "Puritan II". However, a mysterious killer is taking out Hollywood starlets and others in her circle, and also threatens to reveal her sordid past.

The third movie in Ti West's "X" trilogy. It shows a strong influence of Italian giallo, as it's as much a crime thriller as well as horror. Another strong performance by Mia Goth as Maxine and Kevin Bacon plays a fine role as private investigator John Labat. Fans of 80s music will recognize the songs featured in the soundtrack. A strong finish to a solid trilogy.

Available on Tubi USA.

When I say that a movie is a melodrama, I don’t always mean that as a bad thing. Nerdwriter in his video about “Titanic” (Nerdwriter Melodrama ) said that a melodrama need not be a synonym for bad and over the top drama, but instead a story of good and evil where bundled up emotions are allowed to pour out. One of my favorites he mentions is Douglas Sirk’s iconic film “All that Heaven Allows”, a timeless romance film which was at first dismissed by critics before finding reappraisal by directors like Rainer Werner Fassbinder (who also directed his own melodrama “Ali Fear Eats the Souls”). Another one of my favorite films is “Night of the Hunter”, a melodramatic masterpiece by Charles Laughton about good and evil and innocence. If there’s a film I would include as a classic modern melodrama, it would be “The Green Mile”, and I think you know why. 

The story of death row inmates, their guards, and a christ-like man, the film was a huge success when it came out and is still referenced and cried at to this day. The movie also lays bare some of the worst aspects of King trying to write black characters but we’ll get to that. 

I really struggle to talk about this film because it’s already so iconic it defies summarization, just like “Titanic”. It has over 1,500,000 ratings on IMDb. And how wild is it that Frank Darabount directed two films with over a million ratings (the other being “The Shawshank Redemption”). 

I don’t know if this is sacrilege to say, but as well made as the movie is, it’s too long. The film has a major pacing problem and it feels like half an hour could have been cut out. Also am I the only one who thinks this would make for a great stage play? With the movie’s limited locations and focus on dialogue I think it would be incredible to see it on stage. 

I think that Tom Hanks is pretty good in the film, not his best but he does well. I somehow didn’t know Sam Rockwell was in this and he is a compelling devil to Coffey’s Jesus. I loved Michael Jeter as Del so much and his little mouse Mr. Jingles. Overall the cast did a great job. I especially liked James Cromwell, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, Graham Greene, Doug Hutchinson, Harry Dean Stanton, and that cameo by Gary Sinise. 

Talking about Michael Clark Duncan’s role is difficult. It may be a Tom Hanks movie but Duncan’s the real star. King has often been criticized for perpetuating the magical negro trope, and Coffey embodies it completely. A simple black man with magic abilities who mainly helps out the white characters, though it’s clear that King was trying to make him a Christ-like character. And yet Duncan is giving the performance of a lifetime for it. By the end I had gone from “oh great another magical negro character” to “crying god dammit don’t put him in the dark! He’s afraid of the dark!” Is his character a stereotype, absolutely. Spike Lee was absolutely right to criticize this film for perpetuating that cliche. But Duncan is so brilliant in the role that it feels cheap to throw everything out. With that said if you can’t get behind the character of Coffey you won’t like the film. 

King liked “The Green Mile”, but also joked that it was the first “R-rated Hallmark Film” for how sentimental it was. Personally I would recommend the film, but in the oddly specific genre of “Stephen King prison films directed by Darabount”, I think I prefer “The Shawshank Redemption”. The movie feels a lot more focused and it has better pacing, and the main black character is better written. Also how ironic is it that arguably the most iconic black character from a Stephen King film (Red) was originally not black in the source material. I don’t know what to do with that information. 

At the end of the day it’s a good film to get engrossed into and cry. And I was crying by the end. 

Having watched Suspiria (1977), I went into this with some interest. I like the 3 mothers storyline and feel Suspiria was better but I liked the cats in this one. Cats can be assholes and ones working for witches more so but enjoyed them here. I guess Lamberto Bava was fed up working with them on set. Overall, I enjoyed it and the the Mater Tenebarum scene at the end. I'm planning on checking out Mother of Tears (2007) later this month.

Me BS-ing on this: https://youtu.be/yG0LLc01np4?si=CJCQrsfrBCfFT04O

One of last year's best surprises on Tubi just got a sequel - and Cassandra Peterson (Elvira) is in it!

You never know how sequels are going to turn out, but I think R.L. Stine's Pumpkinhead 2 is a worthy successor to the first film.

You can watch it here: https://tubitv.com/movies/100065059/r-l-stine-s-pumpkinhead-2

And if you haven't seen the original, which I highly recommend, watch that first!

https://tubitv.com/movies/100046939/r-l-stine-s-pumpkinhead

Needless to say (or maybe it does need to be said?), this has nothing to do with the other Pumpkinhead series that began in the '80s.

If I had a nickel for every time Sam Rockwell played a rural Southerner character in a '90s indie film, I'd have two nickels, with this film and 1996's Box of Moonlight by Jim Jarmusch cinematographer turned writer/director Tom DiCillo.

For a British produced and directed film, it does a great job at capturing the zeitgeist of the contemporary American South, largely due to the screenplay by playwright and Kentucky native Naomi Wallace, and it actually being shot entirely on-location in Kentucky.

The film follows Devon (Mischa Barton), a young girl living in a affluent/middle-class gated suburban neighborhood in Kentucky whose parents (Christopher McDonald and Kathleen Quinlan), obsessed with their public image, want their "lonely" daughter to make friends with other kids in the neighborhood.

She instead befriends Trent, a poverty-stricken redneck landscaper living illegally in a trailer in public woodlands, who mows lawns in the neighborhood. Trent gets exploited and discriminated by the neighborhood's residents such as Pam, a young woman who he has a secret affair with, Nash, an ex-cop security guard who belittles him as white trash, and Sean, a closeted gay man who discriminates him but also flirts with him and racially discriminates as public service workers in the neighborhood with his friend Brett, who is arguably the worst character in this film for reasons not worth explaining in further depth.

The film touches on really tough issues that may not be comfortable for everyone to watch, but I found the film to be a very engaging character study, and one of the few films I've seen that deals on class discrimination.

There are some light-hearted moments of course, such as Sam diving off a bridge to Dwight Yoakam and dancing on his pickup truck with Mischa to Bruce Springsteen, and there is a "happy ending" with some fantasy whimsical up to interpretation, lol.

I remember seeing this in theatres when I was sixteen and being…disappointed. I think the main problem was, I was a huge fan of the novel when I was a smaller child. Now, as a fully-fledged adult, my opinion has flipped. Some odd number of years ago, I tried reading the book again. Well, I did read it, I just didn’t care for it as an adult. But the movie? Oh yeah! It’s a campy, delightful, cozy romp. So much of it is wonderfully cheesy (wait until you see the CGI).

This movie is definitely not gonna be for everyone, but if you like fairytales and you like cheese (figuratively — and hey, why not, literally as well), you’ll like this. There are some musical numbers in this (which I personally adore), but also, Cary Elwes is a complete ham in this, so there is that.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/NkfKechADow?si=ZLozJE0dm1hTuHhh

Maybe it's just me but there's something that feels wrong about Dolph Lundgren being surrounded by children.

When a USB flash drive containg the FBI's witness protection database is hidden inside a kindergarten classroom, no nonsense FBI Agent Reed is sent undercover as a teacher to retrieve it. Reed has to deal with a class of screaming children while searching for the flash drive and prevent other dangerous criminals from finding the drive.

Filmed in 2016 the movie was released straight-to-DVD/streaming and never recieved a theatrical release.

When Dolph was first offered the role he turned it down because he felt uncomfortable stepping into Arnold Schwarzenegger's role. He only accepted the role because Arnold Schwarzenegger was supportive and gave his blessing. Unfortunately Schwarzenegger was "too busy" to film a cameo.

British person review: https://youtu.be/CHkj7Gs0Vfw?si=LMpJI0awoXC1\_j7o

Interview the children: https://youtu.be/eRt16Hw2gzE?si=gn1IXaEdU82jYbSD

PB&J sandwich: https://youtu.be/fhdWfzXCP9E?si=4TY0HlZKUQ4Yxer8

Getting tazed in the nuts: https://youtu.be/v4zYlEgvdHU?si=C8AGRIzlJy9r1qTV

"Based on Tim Burton's 1988 film of the same name, the show was developed by Nelvana in association with Warner Bros. and executive produced by Burton himself.

Unlike the movie where he is an antagonist, Beetlejuice is recast as the wacky, mischievous best friend of 12-year-old goth girl Lydia Deetz.

The episodes follow their surreal adventures between the "mortal world" (Peaceful Pines) and the bizarre afterlife realm known as the Neitherworld."

Watch Beetlejuice on Tubi: https://link.tubi.tv/HCI8iq31s6b

Don't google anything about this movie. Just watch.

Intro: https://youtu.be/mVAePIyC4kQ?si=jf\_mQ8er5Em1Bbzb

In an alternate timeline Agent K never retired, Agent J is still a rookie, and Agent L was never neuralyzed. In their secret headquarters filled with sarcastic aliens the MiB tackle rogue aliens, black market space weapons, and intergalactic politics. All without the public knowing. Sometimes with the help of Frank the Pug and the coffee-obsessed Worm Guys.

Episode 1: https://youtu.be/7DrLvKAqjKw?si=WDMGVbWrWoQKGjKe

Stanley Kramer was a really good director. But for all the accolades and success he got he also got a bit of derision, mostly by the “auteur critics”. I think it makes sense that he was a big inspiration to Spielberg, as his movies are well-made but also very sentimental. They were often criticized as being little more than “heavy-handed liberal message Oscar schlock”. I’ll say this, Kramer deserves all the attention and praise he got, even if he got a little too much. His movies may be simplistic, cheesy, and moralizing, but the dialogue often had musicality, and they often had fantastic performances. 

This film, the story of two convicts on the run while chained up, one black one white, is a real entry into the genre of “two people of different backgrounds have no choice but to survive”. I am not sure where this genre started, so usually I just say a movie is “like the Defiant Ones but…” 

The two convicts in this case are the late great Sidney Poitier (fantastic trailblazing actor, and an underrated director barring “Ghost Dad”) and Tony Curtis (also a fantastic actor, but someone who says >!the secret to long life is “the saliva of young women”!< I…I don’t have any words). 

I really enjoyed the film. While it is preachy as expected, all the qualities I mentioned above apply to this film. And I think it’s cool that as early as the 50s, the film wasn’t afraid to have the discussion of “oh you can use the n-word but I can’t”. Poitier and Curtis’ performances are nothing short of fantastic, and the plot moves at a mile a minute. You feel the anxiety they feel. 

Overall, I recommend it.