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[Rev. Powell]

SINGAPORE SLING (1990): Wounded, and following the trail of a murdered woman (who he believes is alive and is in love with), a detective ends up kidnapped by a crazy mother and daughter who use him for sex and torture him. Imagine a classic Hollywood film noir, in black and white and with lavish costumes and a Henry Mancini-type score, but with graphic NC-17 S&M, campy acting and an incredibly confusing plot that ultimately doesn't make much sense. As Lester would say, it's a "Rev. Powell-type movie." The main girl is quite pretty, but it would have been a better movie without some of the grosser sex scenes. One of the cast members speaks only Greek, another speaks French and English, and a third speaks only English. Hard to find; I had to buy a Blu-ray from Germany. 3.5/5.

[FatFreddysCat]

 "Becoming Bond" (2017)
A mix of vintage clips, interviews and tongue-in-cheek re-enactments tell the odd story of George Lazenby, the Australian male model and used-car salesman with no acting experience, who still somehow managed to bulls**t his way into taking over the role of James Bond from Sean Connery in 1968. George soon realized that stardom didn't agree with him, so he walked away after only making one 007 film, and has been little more than a footnote in Bond history ever since.

[Svengoolie 3]

SINGAPORE SLING (1990): Wounded, and following the trail of a murdered woman (who he believes is alive and is in love with), a detective ends up kidnapped by a crazy mother and daughter who use him for sex and torture him. Imagine a classic Hollywood film noir, in black and white and with lavish costumes and a Henry Mancini-type score, but with graphic NC-17 S&M, campy acting and an incredibly confusing plot that ultimately doesn't make much sense. As Lester would say, it's a "Rev. Powell-type movie." The main girl is quite pretty, but it would have been a better movie without some of the grosser sex scenes. One of the cast members speaks only Greek, another speaks French and English, and a third speaks only English. Hard to find; I had to buy a Blu-ray from Germany. 3.5/5.

Singapore sling? I think that was Al Bundy's mothers favorite drink...

[FatFreddysCat]

"Professor Marston and the Wonder Women" (2017)
A well acted period drama based on the story of William Moulton Marston, a 1930s Harvard psychology prof whose unconventional, polyamorous (three-way) relationship with his wife and a female grad student helped inspire him to create Wonder Woman. It may not exactly be a "comic book movie," but it's well worth a watch.

[FatFreddysCat]

"Monty Python's The Meaning of Life" (1983)
The British comedy troupe presents a series of sketches, each based on a different "stage" of life ("Birth," "Education," etc.) to try and determine the meaning of it all. Highlights include Mr. Creosote, the obese vomit machine;  the Grim Reaper's visit to a dinner party; and the big "Every Sperm Is Sacred" musical number.
This one's hit-and-miss compared to the earlier Python features but MP fans will still get a fair share of laughs from it and you'll be humming the songs for days.

[Svengoolie 3]

"Monty Python's The Meaning of Life" (1983)
The British comedy troupe presents a series of sketches, each based on a different "stage" of life ("Birth," "Education," etc.) to try and determine the meaning of it all. Highlights include Mr. Creosote, the obese vomit machine;  the Grim Reaper's visit to a dinner party; and the big "Every Sperm Is Sacred" musical number.
This one's hit-and-miss compared to the earlier Python features but MP fans will still get a fair share of laughs from it and you'll be humming the songs for days.

Loved this movie!

[FatFreddysCat]

"Stripped To Kill" (1987)
A police woman (Kay Lenz, foxy!) goes undercover as an exotic dancer to catch a maniac who's murdering strippers. You can probably figure out the rest.
A totally '80s time capsule from the glory days of late-night Cinemax, with plenty of skin, sleaze and violence and a great supporting cast, including. Norman "Mr. Roper" Fell as the strip club owner and Greg "B.J. and the Bear" Evigan as Lenz's partner/love interest. Fun fact: in spite of its totally exploitative soft-porn premise, this flick was co-written and directed by a woman!

[FatFreddysCat]

"Crash and Burn" (1990)
It's the year 2030, and the staff of a remote pirate-TV broadcasting outpost in the Southwestern desert has been infiltrated by a killer cyborg, sent by the evil corporation that now controls the government. Yeah, I hate when that happens.
 
...this cheap post-apocalypse nonsense from Full Moon Studios was released as "Robot Jox 2" in some parts of the world, even though it has no connection to that film aside from the presence of one giant robot, which only comes into play during the last ten minutes of the movie.

Even if you have a weakness for Full Moon style schlock, this is just barely watchable. Everyone else can safely skip it.

[Svengoolie 3]

"Crash and Burn" (1990)
It's the year 2030, and the staff of a remote pirate-TV broadcasting outpost in the Southwestern desert has been infiltrated by a killer cyborg, sent by the evil corporation that now controls the government. Yeah, I hate when that happens.
 
...this cheap post-apocalypse nonsense from Full Moon Studios was released as "Robot Jox 2" in some parts of the world, even though it has no connection to that film aside from the presence of one giant robot, which only comes into play during the last ten minutes of the movie.

Even if you have a weakness for Full Moon style schlock, this is just barely watchable. Everyone else can safely skip it.

Yeeeeeeaaahhhhh, when a movie is such a stinkbomb the owners feel linking it to a movie as little known as robot jox was would help it,  that's a pretty big bright red flag....

[Rev. Powell]

KOKO-DI KOKO-DA (2019): Camping in the woods four years after the tragic death of their daughter, a squabbling couple finds themselves repeatedly killed by three fairy-tale psychopaths. As a horror metaphor for the treadmill of grief, it's cruel and obvious, but it still retains a significant degree of mystery, and even a ray of hope. 3.5/5.

[FatFreddysCat]

"Robot Wars" (1993)
In the future, giant robots that were once used as weapons of war are now ferrying sightseers and tourists through the desert wastelands. When one of the mechs is stolen by a rogue general planning a takeover, a hotshot robo-pilot has to get back in the saddle to stop him.

.. yeah, this is more cheesy stop-motion robot junk from Full Moon Studios, ala the cult classic "Robot Jox" and the godawful "Crash and Burn." This one falls somewhere in between those two; it's fairly slow moving for most of its short run time but the climactic robot battle scenes are fun to watch and the cast (including Barbara "Re-Animator" Crampton and Lisa "Melrose Place" Rinna) gives better performances than the movie probably deserves.

Best gag: when a tour group visits an abandoned "1990s Southwestern small town," they pass a movie theater with "Puppet Master 54" on the marquee!!

[FatFreddysCat]

"Arcade" (1993)
High schoolers volunteer to beta-test an new, super advanced "virtual reality" video game... whose "big bad" turns out to be a malevolent entity who wants to trap the losers' souls inside the game forever.

This Full Moon Studios cheapie has a decent concept (it's sort of like "Tron" with a horror twist) and a cast full of familiar faces (incl. Peter "A Christmas Story" Billingsley, Seth "Robot Chicken" Green, and John De Lancie of "Star Trek: TNG"), but  the "V.R." computer effects, which were supposed to be this flick's big selling point, are utterly, laughably crap-tacular, even by early 90s standards. If you can get past that, "Arcade" is a silly but entertaining time capsule.

[Dr. Whom]

Idiocracy

An average Joe and a prostitute are cryogenically frozen as an experiment. Something goes wrong and when they wake, the world is so dumbed down, they are the smartest people on earth. Something could have been done with this premise, but the execution is too broad and lazy for the satire to really bite. Still, it has its moments.

Shoutout to Terry Crews for channeling Rick James as the president of the US.

[lester1/2jr]

Unsane (2018) - this is the one Steven Soderbergh shot with an Iphone. not exactly Dave Fincher material in terms of attention to detail, logical consistency etc but it was suspenseful and I liked it. 4/5

[Rev. Powell]

DIVORCED DAD (2018): A divorced dad starts a public access show, covering topics like fitness and cooking with in-studio and on-location guests; episodes are done with corny, amateurish video effects from the early 90s, and a couple of times the storyline turns into one of DD's surreal nightmares. Originally a webseries from the comedy troupe Astron-6 that got banned from YouTube for an ISIS joke (which you'll realize was a ridiculous overreaction once you see the episode). Somewhat amusing, but awful slim at about 50 minutes total running time over 7 episodes; the series never really got the recipe quite right, but you sense it might have if it had continued. DVD extras include some longer footage and "Chowboys," a short film about cowboys hallucinating from starvation around a campfire on Christmas Eve, which is the best thing on the disc. 2.5/5 overall.