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Wu-Tang: An American Saga: Dirty Dancin' (2023)

Season 3, Episode 3

10/10

16 February 2023

I think we need an entire Dirt McGirt movie cause this was a super cool episode. Van Peebles directed this episode in the style of all the rad 70s classics like Truck Turner, Dolemite, Black Belt Jones, Superfly and Shaft.

So far Season 3 has been great and this Hulu drop of three episodes has been nothing short of amazing. I'm going to be bummed when the season comes to an end because I am glued to this. Everyone involved is great.

ODB was such a unique artist and it's really cool to see how they pay tribute to him in the series. I love it.

There's never going to be a group of guys like the Wu Tang Clan and this show is top notch. Especially this out of character episode!

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The Martyr Maker (2018)

10/10

Keeps you in the edge of your seat!

18 September 2019

I really liked this movie. It reminded me of a modern day American History X at times with a story that will keep you at the edge of your seat. Highly recommended film with a great story and an awesome twist!

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3 from Hell (2019)

10/10

This was exactly what I was waiting for!

18 September 2019

Rob Zombie really outdid himself with 3 From Hell! I saw a few reviews with people complaining which was kind of shocking because this was no doubt a great follow up to The Devils Rejects. The music was great and the story was a lot of fun. I recommend checking this out 100%!

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Laugh Killer Laugh (2015)

10/10

A Unique Must See Revenge Film!

26 April 2015

Laugh Killer Laugh stars William Forsythe as a jewel thief with absolutely no sense of humor or personality. Forsythe's character, Frank Stone, grew up an orphan and was abused as a child. With no family or friends, he just pulls jobs, kills anyone that gets in his way, and is a good earner for the Mob guys that keep him busy.

Eventually, his interest in a girl and opening up about himself for the first time gets him into trouble with his employer, who decides they no longer need his services.

After spending some time in a coma, Stone awakens with not just a sense of humor, but as a guy with no sense at all. He goes after his ex-employer's crew, but now with a different outlook on life and death.

The cast is brilliant and one of the best roles in the film is the Orphanage Headmaster played by Tom Sizemore. I also really liked Jackie, the love interest played by Bianca Hunter, and the Mafia enforcer who is played by Larry Romano from King of Queens. There are tons of small roles as well, played by actors like Kevin Corrigan, Artie Lange, James Lorenz and even Angel Salazar of Scarface (1983) and Carlito's Way (1993).

Laugh Killer Laugh is an instant revenge classic that leaves you cheering for the anti-hero. It's a disturbing yet endearing film loaded with violence, vengeance and a bunch of laughs along the way.

From The Mega Book of Revenge Films Vol. 1: The Big Payback

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Polyester (1981)

Sooo good!

1 September 2012

Residing in the suburbs of Baltimore might sound to some people as the easy life but for Francine Fishpaw (Divine) it's a constant hell storm of disappointment. Her husband Elmer (Samson) is screwing his secretary and is making the evening news in the neighborhood with his x-rated theater. Francine's children are no prize package either. You have Lu-Lu (Garlington), her floozy pregnant daughter, whose aspirations are to quit school, become a go-go dancer, and drink beer with her hoodlum boyfriend Bo-Bo (Bators). And Francine's son Dexter is hooked on sniffing cleaning solvents.

Oh yea, he has a major foot fetish too, causing him to creep up on random ladies in shopping centers and smashing their feet. The police have been searching for him and have named him The Baltimore Foot Stomper.

Just when her life has finally come crashing down, she meets her Mr. Wonderful in Todd Tomorrow (Hunter). Todd is a high class gentleman who wines and dines Francine and sweeps this lonely housewife off her feet. Longing for affection, Francine may have met the man of her dreams. But will Todd be the real solution for her downward spiral or will her loving family's warmth and support save the day?

This is by far one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. Yes, it's a bold statement to make, but its true. I have seen Polyester probably over ten times by now and still laugh at things I know are going to happen. It's a raunchier Hairspray, an improved Pink Flamingos, and in all honesty one of the best exploitation type films to come out of the eighties. I feel that most of John Waters's films carry an acquired taste; he has an unorthodox style and sense of humor. He introduces you to some of the lowest forms of human beings possible and in this film, convinces you to care about them.

Devine is amazing in this too. There is no way I could ever imagine any other woman (or man for that matter!) as Francine Fishpaw. He was simply awesome as an abused "Good Christian Woman" who is stuck in a living hell. Tab Hunter's Todd is definitely the most ridiculous character he has ever played and gives cheese ball a whole new meaning. I especially liked Lu-Lu with her constant dancing and wild attitude. Honestly, each actor's character is so unique it's hard not to mention them all.

If you're looking for a really good laugh and a strange movie Polyester is the ticket. John Waters hit pay dirt with this movie. Hairspray or Cry Baby may be his bigger films that carry more notoriety, but Polyester is a gem more valuable than any other.

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1,000 Times More Brutal (II) (2012)

10/10

Awesome mob movie!

1 September 2012

I am a huge Mob movie buff and I gotta say this movie is one of the best mob flicks I have seen it years.

It revolves around a group of friends that get beat up by a low level bookie. They decided to rob the bookie (Played by Peter Greene from Pulp Fiction and The Black Donnellys) and wind up with much more money than they ever thought from the heist.

Peter Greene comes back for his revenge alright, in the most Brutal way imaginable. The film carries a much more believable theme than the typical glitz and glamor you see in every day mob movie. It's much more realistic and a great portrayal of a few kids making one big mistake. All the way to even the main character Antonio's chubby in the kitchen about to cook a rabbit mom!

While watching the film, the group of friends reminded me of a more serious set of friends than the fellas from Entourage, but the camaraderie had a similar theme. The acting of the lead guy Antonio was a real good surprise.

The film has some cool people too. I mentioned Peter Greene who absolutely rules, and after this I have been on a Peter Greene movie kick. But it also stars Kevin Corrigan who I think is hilarious. He is the guy from Superbad who flips out about the period stain. You got Furio and Carlo from The Sopranos - both great characters from the show and both great in this movie.

Plus a few new guys that ruled like Angelo Bonsignore Jeremy Luke (Who I just saw in that Jersey Shore Shark Attack and has these videos on You Tube with a buddy called Turbo and Joey).

All in all this is a superb movie - It's gonna be one of those flicks that in a few years your friends are gonna say, "I saw that in the theater!"

Artie Lange was bragging about it on his new radio show and the guy is right, it rules.

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Deadbeat at Dawn (1988)

10/10

Such a cool movie!!

1 September 2012

I have seen a lot of movies, there is no question there. But once in a while a movie jumps out at me so bad ass, so cool, and so different than anything I've seen in a while, that I need to tell the world. This film my friends is Deadbeat at Dawn.

Imagine the revenge elements of Death Wish, the slum scenery of Street Trash, and the gang battles of The Warriors all pent up in one angry themed film. That's the best way I can describe this film's feel in a nutshell.

Goose, who is played by the films director Jim Van Bebber, is a relatively nice guy caught up as a leader in a street gang called The Ravens. They do not get along with their rivals The Spiders and the bloodshed between the two is constant.

After realizing that he may end up getting killed and leaving his girl high and dry, Goose decides to quit The Ravens and join the working world to start building a better life. But now that he is not connected, The Spiders seize the day and get revenge on Goose starting a hell storm of revenge that ends up becoming one of the coolest paybacks you will ever see in cinematic history.

When I first saw a clip of this movie, I was reading reviews on IMDb before I purchased Deadbeat at Dawn. A review stated, "If you liked playing Double Dragon on your Nintendo, you will love this movie!" I saw some clips online and understood what the reviewer was saying. The last twenty minutes of this movie will make you feel like your playing a kick ass video game from the eighties.

Van Bebber actually has some fighting skills and is pretty awesome with the nun chucks. He beats a ton of gang members up.

The worst thing about Deadbeat at Dawn is that not enough people are aware of this low budget masterpiece. This is a grind house film; not some over produced multimillion dollar budgeted film with a filter over it. This is the real deal Holyfield.

The film is all around dirty and gritty, it carries a no holds barred "I'm making a brutal movie" approach throughout, and leaves the viewer in awe.

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Thunder (1983)

Rambo from Italy set in AZ!

1 September 2012

When Thunder (played by Mark Gregory of 1990:Bronx Warriors) returns home to see his girlfriend, he finds the local bank has financed the construction of a new building directly on top a sacred family Indian burial ground still owned by his tribe. An elder, who is the grandfather of his girlfriend, explained to him how the city roughed him up when he went and asked them to stop and honor a hundred year treaty signed that his people own the land.

Thunder, gets angry, and starts trouble with the construction crew that starts this wave of destruction that sets the pace for the rest of the film. The local police department doesn't want the aggravation so they handcuff Thunder and drive him to the city limits warning him not to come back. Thunder obviously returns only to get slapped around and threatened by a group of officers that take the law into their own hands. He escapes the beating, not without turning the entire town upside down in a wild police chase. Hiding in the mountains, the police assemble a posse to go in after Thunder.

Sound familiar? I hope while you were reading this you caught on that this is an Italian rip off of the original First Blood. It's been released under a few names. You can find it on Netflix as Drug "Traffikers" (I didn't spell that wrong, that's how it's spelled!) which makes no sense because the film has absolutely nothing to do with drugs. The difference is this was filmed in the desert, as said in the film Page Arizona. Coincidentally, John Rambo was part Indian and from Yuma Arizona.

Now, Thunder is not a guy to mess with. The Elder stated that Thunder is the son of the son of Night Eagle. Not sure if that actually means anything, but it's got to mean some serious business. There are tons of similarities to First Blood such as the deputy Barry Henson acting just like First Bloods Galt, and Sheriff Bill Cook (Played by Bo Svenson of Kill Bill, The Inglorious Bastards, and Delta Force) is manner exactly like Sheriff Teasle. Thunder jumps off a cliff to escape in a scene, minus the tree, and is pretty amazing with a bow and arrow. He destroys a police station and a bank, and though he doesn't blow up a gas station, one does get blown to smithereens. He even tells a cop that was inches from death to let it go, in other words.

A great warning is said in the film that states, "Thunder hasn't dug up his war hatchet yet." Not that he ever does, because he steals a bulldozer armed with a bazooka and starts blowing everything in his way up. There is a scene where he is being hunted by two guys on horseback and he shoots the bazooka at them. Priceless. For Arizona residents, you do briefly get to see the Glen Canyon Dam (Not to be confused with The Hoover Dam), a few Arizona chains still in business in the background of the city, and a college football game talking about The Sun Devils Stadium which is minutes from my house.

Thunder is a lot of fun and perfect for any dude night. It has some corny voice-overs that will make you laugh, great explosions, and come on, it's a rip off of one of the greatest action films ever made. Look out for the little kid at the end in war face paint when he says, "Thunder will never die." It deserves the cheesiest voice-over of a kid ever to end a film award!

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God Has a Rap Sheet (2003)

10/10

This movie deserves a lot of props!

21 May 2008

Warning: Spoilers

Taken from i can smell your brains .com I Can Smell Your Brains Cinema returned last weekend with a movie that will blow your mind: God Has A Rap Sheet. Generally we feature horror or Sci-Fi films at our film showings, but in the case of God Has A Rap Sheet the movie is so good we decided to bend the rules.

God - a hell of a guy! Imagine taking eight totally different guys and locking them all up in a holding cell in a New York City jail over night. When I say different I am referring to each of them coming from completely opposite ethnic backgrounds. Combine a working class Muslin, a Hasidic Jew, your typical Italian Mob related underling, an insane Irish Skinhead, a Black aspiring hip hop wannabe, a Puerto Rican hustler, a cheery fella from Great Britain, and an Asian record industry executive together in the slammer and your bound to have some schism. Well, this recipe gets even more out of hand when a bum who was already incarcerated and inhabiting the cell claims to be God.

The nights about to change! John Ford Noonan, the most degenerate looking guy on the planet, totally steals the show when he breaks the news to everyone that he is God. Noonan hasn't had a big career as an actor which is a shame; because when you see him in this you will be thoroughly impressed. I instantly recognized him from his role as "Handsome John Pruitt" the truck driver from Adventures in Babysitting. He is also the brother of actor Tom Noonan (You might remember him best as Ripper from The Last Action Hero), does an amazing job as a crazy old man that just might be God. Sure he stinks, his pajama pants are soiled, and he is missing a few of his front teeth, but who is to say what sort of human God finds interesting enough to inhabit. The guys in the cell begin to bump heads with their opinions on sex, religion, race, and creed. Of course fancy to meet you here!when things begin to heat up God tries to lend some advice and kind heartfelt solutions to their problems, which are obviously laughed off right away.

Similar to the style of Reservoir Dogs and Clerks, where the majority of the film is based on clever dialogs, the film also has that similar feel being generally filmed all in one location. But God has a Rap Sheet is an underground and much overlooked classic. Written and directed Kamal Ahmed of The Jerky Boys, the film is innovative and a fresh outlook on racial profiling as well as your average American's unfortunate typical stereotyping. But don't let Kamal's resume of the Jerky Boys fool you; though this is just Nice gun!as creative as any of his spontaneous phone calls, God has a Rap Sheet is not a slapstick comedy. Sure it has it's elements of humor, but it's the sort of film that may leave you questioning some of your own beliefs.

The end has an awesome surprise guest show up who is none other than the legendary William Smith. He is one of America's last tough guy actors with his past roles in classics such as Any Which Way But Loose, Red Dawn, and Conan's father in Conan The Barbarian.

I really enjoyed this movie and that's why we decided to show God Has A Rap Sheet this month instead of our typical horror themed film. This is my way of saying, "Wow,you all need to see this!" But instead of showing it to everyone that comes over the house, I wanted to do it on the big screen.

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Hatchet (2006)

10/10

Best horror movie since Slither!

10 September 2007

Taken from I Can Smell Your Brains .Com

Ladies and Gentleman, I am proud to have seen one of the absolute best horror flicks I have seen in years! The tag line for Hatchet said it all: Old School American Horror. There is no beating around the bush; Hatchet is the classic formula for old school horror. Director and writer Adam Green delivered a movie that made me appreciate once again my love for monsters and things that go bump in the night.

Basically a late night haunted swamp tour in New Orleans goes sour and a bunch of tourists are left to travel by foot back into civilization. Faced with the typical dangers the bayou carries such as man eating alligators, these poor souls really have no idea who or what they are just about to encounter. The swamp is plagued with a legend that all of the locals know well enough to pay attention too. The legend is of Victor Crowley; a deformed boy that was accidentally killed by his father, only to come back and seek revenge on anyone who enters his swamp. Right away within the films first few minutes we see red, and a lot of it. The pace is set and throughout the rest of the movie you will jump, get startled, laugh, and totally cringe at the level of blood and ways people are killed. These are the common things a horror movie is supposed to present to an audience. It seems Green knew what we as the audience have been missing for a long time.

The movie had a similar feel to the original Friday the 13th and believe me, that's not a complaint! And who helped bring that statement to life but non other than Mr. Jason Voorhees himself: Kane Hodder. Kane plays a bit part as Victor's father as well as the killing machine Victor Crowley. As for the rest of the cast, they did a superb job too. How could you not want to see Joel Moore who also played JP in Grandma's Boy shitting his pants in fear? Though Robert Englund and Tony Todd are credited for being in the flick, their parts seemed more like quick cameo's rather than actual roles. (Remember Drew Barrymore in Scream??) Honestly, that's not a big deal because the movie shined with or without them. To add to the mix, the story's location is during Mardi Gras. So the first few minutes is like watching a Girls Gone Wild video! I applaud everyone involved in Hatchet. The movie was gory and a lot of fun. Seriously, how many times can you say you saw a horror movie lately that was a lot of fun? There was no crazy twist, no big surprises, and no complex events that required any sort of extra thinking. The film just was a bloodbath from start to finish. It was just as the film promised and just what I hoped for.

Hatchet came out Friday the 7th in select theaters across the country. Please check www.hatchet movie.com for your local listings. Don't let this film fall through the cracks because Rob Zombie's Halloween came out the week before and had ten times the budget for promotion. I will go on record by saying Hatchet is one of the best horror movies I have seen in years. Check it out and spread the word! You will not be disappointed.

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2001 Maniacs (2005)

10/10

Sure to be a classic!!

30 April 2006

I gotta say - I expected this to be pretty good - but it was way above my expectations!!! The acting was superb and the story line was great. The pace was perfect - it gets right down to business.

I don't need to repeat the story line that everyone else posted... But I can say that this will go down as an all time classic. Englund is amazing as usual - he gives off such an evil aura even when he is being nice. There are a ton of laughs, blood, boobs, and its great to see a movie that's not all CGI but real deal special effects. Very few movies lately have kept my interest such as this.

Go buy this ASAP. You will not be disappointed I promise you.

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