The Banana Splits Movie (2019)
Danishka Esterhazy’s films are often female-centric, like Level 16, a dystopian story where girls are trained to be perfect young women. How that prepared her for a movie that reimagines the 1960’s Sid and Marty Krofft creation for Hanna-Barbera is a good question. Here’s some trivia — the original show was directed by Richard Donner. If […]
Escape Plan (2013)
Despite the teaming of Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Escape Plan underperformed at the U.S. box office. So how have there been three of these films? Simple. International box-office success, as this movie debuted in first place in several foreign markets, with the total international gross more than doubling its $50 million budget, leading to a […]
Zookeeper (2011)
Frank Coraci has made a living doing films with Adam Sandler (The Wedding Singer, The Waterboy, Click) and Kevin James (Here Comes the Boom and this movie). Sandler and James helped write this take on the “only one man can hear animals” trope and here we are — with me being a completist that needs to see […]
White Line Fever (1975)
Ironically, this is the first movie where Jan-Michael Vincent discovered coke. Bad joke. It’s directed by Jonathan Kaplan, who was behind Night Call Nurses and The Student Teachers for Roger Corman, as well as the much more socially acceptable film The Accused. Carrol Jo Hummer (Vincent) is an independent truck driver who just got out of the Air […]
Lock Up (1989)
How many times can you lock up Sylvester Stallone? Well, I can count three Escape Plan films, Tango & Cash, him getting placed into frozen jail in Demolition Man, getting sent to the Cursed Earth in Judge Dredd and being locked up in First Blood and in prison at the start of Rambo: First Blood Part II. Oh yeah — he […]
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