When the FBI discovers the US is being flooded with counterfeit hundred dollar bills, their best analysts trace the funny money to Hong Kong. It’s time to call in a specialist agent to crack the case. As it turns out, Cindy (Cynthia Rothrock) went to school in HK, has plenty of contacts there, and can […]
Read more "Blonde Fury: Lady Reporter (1989)"John and Rae Ingram decided to get away from it all, taking to the sea in their luxury yacht Saracen. Unfortunately for them, they ran afoul of a lack of wind and were becalmed, pretty much stopped at sea. Neither of them was a stranger to such things, and neither of them was terribly put […]
Read more "Poseidon’s On a Mission/About to Turn It Up to Eleven: Charles Williams’ Dead Calm"After Aliens (1986) and Alien 3 (1992), there is a big old gap before the next film (1997’s Alien: Resurrection) takes place. It’s an area rife with possibilities for storytelling, akin to the gap between the events of A New Hope (1977) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980) in Star Wars Continuity. Author T. R. […]
Read more "I Prefer the Term “Artificial Person,” Myself: T. R. Napper’s Aliens: Bishop"Gabe and his best friends are tight as brothers. They came up together through school, banded together under a simple macho credo: Anyone who messes with one of them messes with all of them. So, if Tavo gets flack for being gay, his brothers have his back. If Xavier inadvertently winds up on the wrong […]
Read more "All Stories Are Ghost Stories: Gabino Iglesias’ House of Bone and Rain"Roy Bain (Larry Lamb) would rather spend his days painting than getting involved with old, bad influences like gangster-turned-industrialist Motherskille (Steven Berkoff). However, when Bain’s old flame Nicole (Nicola Cowper) is kidnapped by persons unknown, Motherskille hires the former gumshoe to take one last case. The investigation leads Bain to Pepperdine (Ingrid PItt) an exclusive […]
Read more "You Are What You Dream: Underworld (1985)"Remember that time when Lando Calrissian owned the Millenium Falcon and wound up trying to get his neck out of the noose from two sets of bounty hunters, a lethal Queen, and her precocious daughter, Princess Rinetta? You don’t? Well, not many people do … You see, it all starts with a game of Sabacc […]
Read more "There’s Nothing Common About Lando Calrissian: Justina Ireland’s Lando’s Luck"When the Kid (Dev Patel) came to town, he was looking for some specific information. A woman named Queenie (Ashwini Kalsekar) is in charge of a very special set of clientele at a very special hotel catering to the wealthy, the privileged, and the corrupt. She has an in with money; the Kid comes from […]
Read more "Devotion and Destruction: Monkey Man (2024)"Cassandra Webb (Dakota Johnson) never knew her Mom. The woman went to the Amazon in the last month of pregnancy on a passion project, chasing a mythical spider, and died during childbirth. Cass pretty well hates her, unable to understand why her Mom would rather hunt mythical spiders than rest up and prepare for a […]
Read more "Plucking the Threads of Fate: Madame Web (2024)"On a dead moon, the Kree’s new accuser Dar-Benn (Zawe Ashton) finds an ancient relic, a bangle of power. There are supposed to be two, but her soldiers have only found this lone specimen. Half the power is better than none, but this is nevertheless a setback for her plan to save the Kree home […]
Read more "Three to Topple an Empire: The Marvels (2023)"After encountering some bad men who took something that don’t belong to them, Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) makes his escape into the Italian countryside. However, a moment of overconfidence leads him to catch a bullet in the back. Pushing on as far as he can, Robert eventually surrenders to the pain and blood loss. Luckily, […]
Read more "I Understand Weakness. I Understand Pain. I Understand Death. I Understand Suffering. And I’m Starting to Understand Peace: The Equalizer 3 (2023)"
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