WATCH NOW The Vice Academy series is quite different from other works by Sloane. After Sloane’s half a dozen bizarre and cringe movies in the eighties nearing their peak with Hobgoblins in 1988, Vice Academy marks a major shift in the filmmaker’s career. The Vice Academy series is much more toned down than Sloane’s other […]
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WATCH NOW The cinematic motion picture begins with a narrative panorama of the city skyline. Streets are abound with people as J. J. (Rod Perry) and his friend stroll down it. They stop and one of the men points towards a house. The man lifts his finger in the direction of the house, proceeding to
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WATCH NOW Even with a title that depicts a horror flick, Shadows, sometimes confused with Michael Matteo Rossi’s movie with the same title, is a blend of post-apocalyptic, thriller-and coming-of-age drama centered around three characters. Mother (Saskia Reeves, Dune, Our Kind of Traitor) together with her two daughters Alex (Lola Petticrew, Dating Amber, My Left
WATCH NOW Most movie lovers would link Roger Corman with low-budget sci-fi, horror and teen exploitation films. Not surprisingly, throughout his long career as a producer and director, he has a number of gangster and crime films featured on his resume. Among them, there are I Mobster, Machine Gun Kelly, The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre,
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WATCH NOW With the help of the unique Russian enclave in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, these two unlikely detectives breathe new life into the construction of the film, “Taxman.” It has grown into a charmingly odd mystery movie that has the viewer wishing for more. Alongside Roger Berger, who has a background in tax investigation, Avi
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WATCH NOW Remember Buford Pusser? He is the sheriff from Tennessee that fused the traits of John Wayne, Lester Maddox’s ax handle, and Estes Kefauver’s populism within the film ‘Walking Tall’. This film was viewed in the end by over 35 million people. I was not in town at the time so I did not
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WATCH NOW While it may be a lowbudget film with an off puting name, it’s oddly charming in some aspects. The problem is that, it does not seem to gather any real focus. The plot kicks off with Pasha and Frank DeKova (the actor who appears in F Troop) having a conversation with Big Tony
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WATCH NOW What Doesn’t Kill You is a gritty crime thriller that was remarkably able to make its way past so many in 2008, and credit must be given to character actor and novice film-maker Brian Goodman for making pop genre films. He indeed did a commendable job in this movie. You would at least
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WATCH NOW John Ma and Boomer, voiced by Jackie Chan, are twins who were separated at birth and neither one of them has ever met the other. John Ma is a qualified pianist with a name that has resounded in every corner of the globe while Boomer is a mechanic and martial artist living in
WATCH NOW Maverick: Manhunt Brazil, an action-crime movie, tells a story about a lone mercenary named Jack Maverick. He heads to Brazil on the mission of investigating a few recent suicide cases and later finds himself involved in a deeper drug cults case. Span of loyalty is redefined while the bullets cherish shredding the truth.
