With “Cocaine Bear” you’re either in for the ride, or you aren’t. Going in to Elizabeth Banks’ horror comedy, I knew exactly what I was getting, so I had a blast with it, suffice it to say. Everyone in the film seems to know what kind of movie they’re in as it wears everything about itself on its sleeve. It’s a movie about a rampaging black bear on a coke trip. What more are you expecting?
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Training Day (2001) [4K UHD/Blu-Ray/Digital]
No matter how many times I watch “Training Day,” it remains one of my favorite crime thrillers of all time. It’s not only a stunning and mesmerizing crime film, but one of Denzel Washington’s most brilliant performances. In a career filled with roles where he portrayed mostly nice guys, his performance as Alonzo Harris is a departure that he fits in to beautifully. Alonzo Harris has to be one of the conniving and vindictive movie villains of all time. He’s a cop that’s not only been corrupted by the system but has unapologetically embraced his role as a slimy bastard who twists the system for his benefit.
You Have to See This! Dead Man’s Shoes (2004)
“When they get to heaven they’ll be forgiven. God will forgive them and let them in. And I can’t live with that.”
I’ve been a fan of Paddy Considine’s since I saw him in his utterly frightening performance as a mentally imbalanced recluse in “A Room for Romeo Brass.” I also loved him in the schmaltzy albeit well-intentioned family drama in “In America,” and he flexes his keen ability to be both menacing and vulnerable with Shane Meadows’ “Dead Man’s Shoes”. Meadows’ revenge thriller is a very visceral revenge film that delves in the fall out from the breaking of a cardinal rule: Don’t ever fuck with a man’s family.
Mercenaries from Hong Kong (1982) [Fantasia 2022]
A mysterious and powerful woman hires a man and his band of mercenaries to go into Cambodia, find her father’s killer, and bring him back to her.
Punisher: War Zone (2008) [Female Filmmaker Friday] [SDCC 2022]
Frank Castle, already known as The Punisher, kills a few bad guys, gets the police riled up, and organized criminals on his trail as he eliminates those he deems needing punishment.
There Are No Saints (2022)
Following his release from prison for a crime he wasn’t guilty of, The Jesuit goes back home and discovers that things have changed, but not for the better. He decides to takes things in his own hands once his son is at risk.
Spiritwalker (2020)
A man keeps waking up in new bodies, bodies he only resides in for 12 hours before leaving them to be themselves again. As he searches for what is happening to him and why, he finds himself being chased by various people.