Convicted drug smuggler and villain Charlie Baskin (Harlow Marks) has managed to bust out of jail. Working with some of his ex-military buddies, he’s looking to extract a little payback on the people who set him up for the fall and put him away before getting back into business. So, the judge (Joe Railton) and […]
Read more "Breaking Jaws to Serve the Laws: China O’Brien II (1990)"Martin (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) is a student with a terrific girlfriend, Kalinka (Sofie Gråbøl), and a future who finds himself in need of steady employment that will allow time for his studies. Well, just in time for his twenty-fourth birthday, he nets a nightwatchman job for the local morgue. Though his best friend Jens (Kim Bodnia) […]
Read more "Welcome to Mars: Nightwatch (1994)"When Mary (Parker Posey) throws a party, everyone shows up. Even the police, as we see at the opening of the picture. She’s hit up for quite a few infractions, but has her godmother Judy Lindendorf (Sasha von Scherler) to call on to bail her out. And maybe borrow money from. Or if not borrow […]
Read more "Something About Mary: Party Girl (1995)"It all begins ten millennia ago, with the disappearance of a very special creature from the face of the earth … but we won’t find out about in importance in this narrative for some time. The picture itself begins in the 1970s, with a big old family of hippies living, loving, and trying to eke […]
Read more "A Warning For the Curious: The Sect (1991)"Dark’s (James Duvall) life is one perched on the verge of apocalypse. He is ostensibly in high school, but he never actually goes during daylight hours. Ostensibly working on a video project documenting something he loves, he is really just using it to capture his girlfriend Mel (Rachel True) on camera doing her thing. That […]
Read more "Everyone Who Lives There Is Lost: Nowhere (1997)"Thomas Hoshino (Don “The Dragon” Wilson) was eking out a living as a cop in Kyoto, Japan, facing prejudices on the force for his half-American heritage but getting the job done. He and his partner/best friend, Yuji (Yuji Okumoto), is put into danger during a stakeout, when ruthless boss Yamata (Soon-Tek Oh) and blue-eyed assassin […]
Read more "When Day Meets Night, Only One Can Survive: Red Sun Rising (1994)"As the daughter of conservative television general manager Darryl Cooper (Tom Skerritt) and sickly, suicidal mom Georgie Cooper (Cheryl Ladd), it was not a surprising matter for teen daughter Sylvie Cooper (Sara Gilbert) to rebel. The shape of that rebellion, wearing black, sketching/writing, claiming to be feminist/adopted/lesbian, and smoking aren’t terribly shocking. But when she […]
Read more "Family Values: Poison Ivy (1992)"It’s the start of a new year at Columbus University, and a host of freshman are coming to campus with some heady expectations about figuring this place out, making a mark, coasting on the reps they accrued at high school, and maybe learning something. The rah-rah-rah welcome they get on moving in day is certainly […]
Read more "Run Faster: Higher Learning (1995)"After having barely survived his encounters with the evils that plagued his girlfriend’s uncle’s haunted summer house in Vacation of Terror (1989), Julio (Pedro Fernández) opens up a junk shop in time to encounter evil all over again. This time around evil begins not with an unexpected inheritance but with a chance encounter. Famous (and […]
Read more "Devil Doll’s Revenge: Vacation of Terror 2"Kris (Ashley Laurence) is an art major at university, spending as much time in a cinderblock dorm with her boyfriend Michael (Paul Francis) as with her studies. Next door to Michael’s room is their guitar strumming friend Jerry (Jan Schweiterman), who is experiencing an unrequited love for Kris and writes all his songs about her. […]
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