Riff Raff: Dito Montiel’s family crime drama thriller, ‘Riff Raff’ is a family crime comedy that runs for only 103 minutes. Sounds a bit short lived. And one would be justified to feel as such considering most, if not all, of the film’s cast were reasonably good but the entire film lacked momentum. Although the […]
There is no cause for confusion in the rather strange matters of film financing; a movie say, “5lbs of Pressure” takes place in Manhattan while it is produced in Manchester, England for some reasons. While the reasoning seems to hold well on the face of it, perhaps the industrial city in the UK is less
The Clean Up Crew: Let’s say you’re on a murder scene clean up and you apprehensively check a suitcase stuffed with cash. What would an average person do in these circumstances? Probably, one has watched several action movies and thinks there are implicit consequences of fleeing with the money. That, however, has not deterred Siobhan
The Thundermans Return was directed by Trevor Kirschner who co-wrote the film with Jed Spingarn. The film was produced with the intent of bringing back the actors and the sense of affection that the audience used to associate with the original series that aired between 2013 and 2018; The Thundermans. Despite managing to get back
Phil Volken’s Dead Sea tries to combine the crime horror aspect but unfortunately becomes lost in a thick murky storyline that is unsupported. It had the right potential but it’s ruined by cliché plot twists, flat characters, and a dull setting which never manages to create the horror it aims for. Although it has a
The 2010 animated film ‘Megamind vs. The Doom Syndicate’ is remembered for its fantastic stories of heroism filled with humor and drama and voiced by stars like Will Farrell, Tina Fey, Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, and David Cross. Cut to fourteen years, and this ‘original’ film is as boring as anything one can expect, with
It is clear that Tyler Perry’s new self-narrated project “Mea Culpa” aspires also to be many other genres including legal, erotic, and psychological thrillers. What is hard to buy is the presence of any kind of thrill in this astonishingly poor and empty attempt at a straight-to-streaming genre. As a matter of fact, it is
It’s not a first for old action heroes to make appearance in these even modestly funded projects. For many veteran action stars, the geezer teaser has repeatedly been a splendid opportunity to grab some fast bucks. However, these are often nothing more than the icing on a cake as the younger actor does all the
Film industry has always been popular in Indonesia and now it is expanding its borders due to streaming and conquest of The Raid film by Gareth Evans. After that, for the last few years, we saw many remarkable action and horror movies from Southeast Asia, mostly directed by Timo Tjahjanto. It is these attributes of
In his short assemblage, Jaron Lockridge provides a summary of “The Stix,” which deals with a little known region of West Tennessee and examines the intersection of drugs and crimes and the law. This independent film depicts the efforts by a drugs investigation room to apprehend Martell Jenkins, played by Darnail Lanton, who is head
