A love-letter to Terry Pratchett and Discworld Cohen the Barbarian was angry. Angry that he never died in battle, angry that the world had forgotten him, and angry that his knees were starting to play up in the cold. He was also angry that his faithful mount had been gifted the ability of magical speech….
A show that will have you rooting for a meth dealer like he’s your lovable next-door neighbor! The show follows the hilarious misadventures of Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher turned drug kingpin. With his trusty sidekick Jesse Pinkman, they cook up a storm in their RV, all while avoiding the pesky DEA agents…
Expendables with chicks! The President’s daughter is captured and imprisoned while touring a war zone, so a team of elite female commandos is assembled to infiltrate a women’s prison for a daring rescue. Mediocre and cheesy, but somehow enjoyable and fun! Best Asylum movie! This movie is call Mercenaries, but the version i have is…
J-pop star Ai Kago enhances lightweight HK cooking film! KUNG FU CHEFS (2009) brings to mind such Hong Kong cooking movies as Tsui Hark‘s Chinese FEAST (1995) and Stephen Chow’s GOD OF COOKERY (1996), but is considerably lower-budgeted. This one incorporates kung fu fight scenes, thanks to a contrived subplot involving decades-old sibling rivalry and…
Hunt for lost treasure with a golden retriever! When a new shopping center threatens a small town’s economy, a 12-year-old boy tries to save his family’s home by hunting for lost treasure with his mischievous golden retriever. Despite its many flaws and its predictability, this movie is harmless but goofy fun. Billy Zane versus Steve…
Solid and Bold indie thriller A husband and wife tangle with an investigator over her dead brother’s million-dollar insurance policy. Visually, it’s so beautiful… and yet stark and haunting (apparently it was filmed in Iceland). But what I really found engaging was that it was a noir-esquire mystery but with a very realistic feel. When…
A cinematic tour de force, Wonderful Experimental Documentary! Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi (1983) is a film with no actors, no storyline, and no dialogue. The only things we see during the experimental documentary’s 87 minutes are natural landscapes, images of cities, and real people going about their regular lives. Yet from the very beginning, when we…
“Hungry Joe” is a British horror short film! This Brittish short horror movie tells the contemporary story (loosely based on the true story of Tarrare) of a single mother who struggles to bond with her apathetic child. At its core, “Hungry Joe” explores themes of addiction, isolation, and the horrors of the human condition. Tarrare,…