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“You’re young, you’re black, and you’re on trial. What else do they need to know?” Those are the discouraging words offered by a public defender to a young black man who has been implicated in a robbery-gone-awry as he faces a jury and criminal justice system he knows is ...

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Just when you thought anthology horror couldn’t get any braver or better!  Here comes 100 Candles and its solid collection of tricks and treats because, well, isn’t every day Halloween?! ...

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Great views often come with great BIG consequences.   Don’t believe me?  Just ask professional photographer L. B. "Jeff" Jefferies, famously portrayed by Jimmy Stewart, from Hitchcock’s Rear Window, which seems to be an influence on The Penthouse.  He might not have ...

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The RETRO feel BAD vibes begins here! What do you do when an EVIL once halted resumes in your small town?  Smash your face onto the keys of a typewriter until the flesh peels?  Fall asleep in an empty movie theater?  Enter Belleview Manor and rage against its ...

Read more: Evil Everywhere - Movie Review

It is indeed a MAD world we are spiraling in. With the pulsating synths from composer Wojciech Golczewski crystalizing the haunting blue atmosphere, Undergods ROARS to life as human bodies - dead and swarming with flies - are picked up off the deserted ...

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 . . in which veteran character actor Bill Oberst Jr. takes the war on drugs to a whole NEW level as he, after the loss of his daughter to an opioid overdose, turns VIOLENT vigilante and hits the streets, hunting all those responsible for her death.  Suddenly, the ...

Read more: Painkiller - Movie Review

“It looks dirty, but it’s natural.” Those are the words uttered with a sense of relief by the central character in the closing scene of West Michigan. Hannah (Chloe Ray Warmoth, TV’s Fuller House) is not only speaking of the copper-tinged water of the Tahquamenon River that snakes its way ...

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It turns out, you can’t double-cross the devil! Check out the title.  Frankly, it tells you pretty much what you need to know about this plan to steal billions of dollars in laundered money.  That’s right!  It ALL goes to shit.  You might make the mistake of thinking that this elite ...

Read more: Wrong Place, Wrong Time - Movie Review

Thanks to an outrageous opening in which two cult members - mere minutes after the rest of their tribe has gulped down some poison - decide NOT to drink the “kool aid” and take a road trip instead, The Slayers BEGINS and ENDS with a tongue wagging BANG.  I kid you not, this is a side-splitting  ...

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“It won’t turn on and everything is plugged in!”  You know that helpless feeling when you are staring at an expensive machine full of complicated tubes and knobs and whirly things and expecting it to, ya know, do its JOB?!?!?  Hell, I know it well, but in this thriller, when things don’t behave ...

Read more: Pipeline - Movie Review