Yet another "inner city natives take matters into their own hands when street crime overtakes their neighborhood" movie. Unlike some of the more tactless, over-the-top films in this genre however, Fighting Back is more about politics than blasting away bad guys (though there is a bit of that, too). Community leader (and delicatessen proprietor) Tom Skerritt gets a bunch of Italian dudes (and one black guy) together to form a semi-official neighborhood do-gooders group complete with matching outfits, a big…
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Spaceman 2024
It took me four sittings to make it through Spaceman because I kept falling asleep. I'm sure some viewers will get a lot out of the quiet, (supposedly) introspective conversations between Adam Sandler and his is-he-real-or-just-a-figment-of-a-lonely-guy's-imagination giant CG spider pal as they float uneventfully through space, but I thought this movie was a woefully boring, self-important slog.
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Harbinger Down 2015
I’m a big fan of horror films, but I’m a HUGE fan of monster movies. The more disgusting, unusual and bizarre the monster, the better. Among my favorite films of all time are the likes of Alien, Aliens, Predator, John Carpenter’s The Thing, Tremors, The Fly, etc. So naturally, when I discovered the Kickstarter campaign for Harbinger Down (a practical effects driven monster movie made by some of the special effects guys who helped bring several of the aforementioned classics…
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Who Am I? 1998
Some Jackie Chan films are better than others. Some have good plots but lack the mind-boggling fights that others provide in droves. Then there are those that have stories which are so bad that they make your head hurt, but have enough balls-to-the-wall action to make up for their less than perfect plots. Who Am I? is one of the latter.
The story involves some sort of rock which can act as a devastating explosive, so of course there are…