Recent viewings

[lester1/2jr]

the Clovehich Killer - yeaah buddy. great stuff. It's a lot like that Stephan King story where the Dad is a serial killer. There's even the same scene where his box of evidence is discovered in a secret place. It's less Stephan king-y and more ID channel though.

A BTK type killer has for years been loose in a small very Christian town. After awkwardly discovering (while on a date) some bondage themed pornography in his Dad's truck, a kid starts to think this man he calls his father might be the guy.

very cool. I mean, its not cool that there's a serial killer on the loose in a small town for years but the movie is cool. The kids girlfriend is cute and a good counterpoint to all the holier than thou ness and there's plenty of tension and more or less decent explanations for all of it.

The time sequence juxtaposition at the end was   5/5

[Rev. Powell]

VHYES (2019): We see the results when 12-year-old Ralph tapes late night 1987 cable television shows, and his own adolescent antics, over his parent's old wedding tape. In super-limited release, I assume it will show up on DVD/VOD later this year. It's a "little" film, but in the best sense: short, punchy, homemade, thoughtful in its unassuming way, and---despite sketches like the ongoing saga of 'Hot Winter,' an ecologically-aware 80s porno with the alien lesbian orgies edited out---innocent at its heart. Remember the name: this is worth tracking down. 4/5.

[WingedSerpent]

Underwater (2020)

The Kristen Stewart at the bottom o the ocean movie.  Actually, not bad.  Would watch it again someday.  Really doesn't do anything new with the formula if you've seen any other the water themed  Alien knock-offs like Leviathan or Deep Star Six, you've seen this movie.  However the first act is nicely done and the final act goes into some pretty interesting directions.

I would recommend this one if you have a chance to see it.

[FatFreddysCat]

"Iron Sky: The Coming Race" (2019)
Three decades after Earth was devastated by the war against the Moon Nazis, a small group of survivors find their way to its hollow center, where shape-shifting lizard people and dinosaurs co-exist, in order to steal a power source that can save humanity...or something like that.
This sequel to the Finnish cult sci-fi comedy hit may be even crazier than the first movie. It's totally ridiculous from beginning to end but it's mostly a fun ride. C'mon, how can you not love a movie where Hitler rides in on a T-rex and says, "Sieg Heil, motherf***ers?"

[Rev. Powell]

THE WAVE (2019): A corporate lawyer decides to cut loose one night, but regrets it when a strange drug dealer convinces him to try an exotic hallucinogen whose effects last several days and involve him randomly skipping forward in time. A curious but quite watchable little movie preaching about the epiphanic powers of psychedelics. 2.5/5.

[Rev. Powell]

REVOLVER (2005): A man is released from prison and swears revenge on the gangster who killed his wife; he is helped by two mysterious loan sharks who know the future, but senses he's being conned. Guy Ritchie's fourth feature was a ridiculously overstylized gangster epic/mindbender that ends with a mystical twist that's both confusing and unsatisfying; it's watchable in a train wreck sense, but it could have been much better if it took itself less seriously. 2.5/5.

[lester1/2jr]

fat freddy - I liked Iron Sky but I think I liked Nazis under the ground or whatever it was better. the rip off version

Revenge (2018) - in some places the date is given as 2017 so who knows.

I recently was let down by the I Spit on Your Grave remake. this was DEFINITELY more what I was hoping for. Yeah it lacked depth, didn't really have any surprises and didn't coalesce into something bigger than itself...but it was still awesome.

An extremely hot chick gets involved with a married man who is more dangerous than she thought. We're used to suspension of disbelief in these things, but theres on particularly insane one here and I'm sure you will know exactly what it is if you see it.

If this had come out on vhs I would have rented it 400,000 times 5/5

[FatFreddysCat]

"The Assignment" (2016)

A hit man (Michelle "Lost" Rodriguez) undergoes forced sex change surgery by a deranged plastic surgeon (Sigourney Weaver), and is turned into a hit woman. Naturally, he/she doesn't take to this new situation very well and he (she?) quickly sets out to get revenge.

...so maybe a more accurate title for this movie would have been "The RE-Assignment?"

This twisty action flick from Walter "48 HRS" Hill takes a little while to get into gear, but once the bodies start piling up it's pretty much a gender-bent "John Wick." Bizarre premise aside, it's not a must see but it's a decent time waster.

[Trevor]

REVOLVER (2005): A man is released from prison and swears revenge on the gangster who killed his wife; he is helped by two mysterious loan sharks who know the future, but senses he's being conned. Guy Ritchie's fourth feature was a ridiculously overstylized gangster epic/mindbender that ends with a mystical twist that's both confusing and unsatisfying; it's watchable in a train wreck sense, but it could have been much better if it took itself less seriously. 2.5/5.

I made it through about 30 minutes of this and was saying WTF most of the time. 

[Rev. Powell]

SHE (1984): A wanderer of the wasteland teams up with a self-appointed goddess to rescue his kidnapped sister from a post-apocalyptic warlord. You couldn't call this combination of MAD MAX, CONAN THE BARBARIAN and really bad anything-goes comedy sophisticated filmmaking, but when the giant in a tutu appears, you may not care. I could see you going as high as 4/5 on this one.

[FatFreddysCat]

fat freddy - I liked Iron Sky but I think I liked Nazis under the ground or whatever it was better. the rip off version

I believe you mean "Nazis at the Center of the Earth," and yeah, that one was a ton of sicko fun!

[Rev. Powell]

THE MACHINE GIRL (2008): Yakuza kill a schoolgirl's brother and lop off her arm, but she gets a mechanic to affix a Gatling gun to her stump and goes on a bloodbath of revenge. More influenced by H.G. Lewis' late comic gore movies than by TETSUO and its ilk, it contains some creative and perverse slaughter scenes (especially at the finale), but its juvenile attitude is a turn-off overall. 2/5.

[FatFreddysCat]

"Bad Boys" (1995)
A pair of wise cracking Miami cops (Martin Lawrence and Will Smith) protect a lovely murder witness from hired killers while trying to recover a stash of heroin stolen from police evidence. Bullets fly, stuff blows up, things crash into each other, and F-Bombs are dropped on a regular basis.
Michael Bay's feature film debut turned Smith into a bankable action hero and captured Tea Leoni at her absolute peak of mid '90s hotness. "Bad Boys" is dumb as a box of rocks but it's also a big, loud, splashy,  shoot'em up guilty pleasure.

[Trevor]

Avengers Endgame and yes, I cried when those people died.

[FatFreddysCat]

Snowy Saturday Action Film Fest continues:

"6 Underground" (2019)
In this Netflix original (directed by Michael Bay), mysterious billionaire Ryan Reynolds uses his fortune to bankroll a super-secret team of globe-hopping, ass kicking agents to take care of the world's dirty jobs. In the first of what is obviously meant to be many adventures, they travel to the Middle East to take down a particularly brutal dictator and his regime.
...so in other words, Netflix gave Michael Bay a blank check and said, "We want our very own action franchise!"  Entertainingly silly, non stop shoot-em-up, car crashin', blow-em-up fun from the guy who does mindless destruction better than anybody else.

"Overdrive" (2017)
A pair of professional car thieves steal a particularly rare model from a European crime lord, which of course turns out to be a spectacularly bad idea.
A dull, low budget "Fast & Furious" knock-off that features some lovely French scenery, a couple of cute girls, and some decent stunt driving, but everything else (script, cast, acting, pacing) is below par.
Fun fact: leading man Scott Eastwood is Clint Eastwood's kid. Scotty may have his Dad's looks but unfortunately, he got none of his charisma.