Following his father’s suicide, a man goes back to the lake house from his childhood where more than meets the eye await him and his loved ones.
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An Taibhse (The Ghost) (2024) [FrightFest 2024]
A father and daughter move into a mansion for the winter months to maintain and keep it ready for its owners. Soon after their arrival, something odd starts to happen and each of them is affected differently.
Jackpot! (2024)
Now Available for Streaming on Amazon Prime.
Paul Feig’s “Jackpot!” is that horrible, malt-o-meal garbage movie meant mainly to be as edgy as possible without ever really intending to offend anyone. It disguises itself as social satire when really in the end it has zero to say. It’s just a flaccid hundred minutes drag through nonsense and emptiness. No one at any point in this movie seems to be mentally present, including John Cena who often looks a lot more like a walking action figure than anything else. With Feig’s premise you just assume you’d be in the market for a blood soaked science fiction film. At the very least, you’d expect a darkly comic if mean movie about greed and the way the economy has driven in to rabid dogs.
It’s actually a vanilla coming of age story with a premise that’s gradually pushed in to the background over the course of the narrative.
The Crow (2024)
I’ve heard of this certain technique Hollywood usually uses as a means of pulling a fast sequel; it’s by taking a script with a similar concept to an already established IP and turning it in to a sequel. “The Crow” feels a lot like that. It feels like a simultaneous cash grab, exploitation of the art of James O’Barr, and downright lazy attempt to maintain the license for “The Crow.” At thirty minutes in, I wondered if at any point anyone on this movie were even trying. At all. This is a non-move. It’s a movie without a presence, or any kind of a soul, or any kind of self awareness. “The Crow’s” only purpose is to gentrify what should have and could have been a touching, eerie, and heartbreaking movie.
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) [Arrow Video 4K + Blu-ray Limited Edition]
Part of The Mexico Trilogy box set from Arrow Video out 8/27/2024.
Following a tragic loss, El Mariachi gets involved in higher stakes issues than ever before when an odd CIA agent shows up in Mexico.
Desperado (1995) [Arrow Video 4K + Blu-ray Limited Edition]
Part of The Mexico Trilogy box set from Arrow Video out 8/27/2024.
A man who had been long gone for the area returns with his guitar case to a small border town where he soon faces enemies and love.
Last Man Standing: The Chronicles of Myron Sugerman (2023)
Director Jonny Caplan’s documentary is probably one of the most outstanding and entertaining crime documentaries of the year. Despite its short run time, he manages to unfold the story of a real underdog hero and anti-establishment mobster whose entire life was spent virtually kicking societal status quos in the ass. “Last Man Standing” is a True Crime Feature Documentary on the life of Myron Sugerman, son of Barney Sugerman, a partner of leading US mobster Meyer Lansky.