MILL CREEK BLU RAY RELEASE: Heart and Souls (1993)
Back in 1959, Penny (Alfre Woodard) a hardworking single mother, a singer with stage fright named Harrison (Charles Grodin), the lovelorn Julia (Kyra Sedgwick) and a small-time con named Milo (Tom Sizemore) all die when their driver Hal (David Paymer) drives off an overpass. Meanwhile, Thomas Reilly (Robert Downey Jr.) is born at the same time […]
Santo en la venganza de la momia (1971)
Only in a Santo movie can you find a masked wrestler go from a match in Arena Mexico to being part of Professor Romero’s journey to explore some ancient ruins. Yes, imagine you are a famous learned man and you say, “My mummy expedition needs a chef, a doddering professor, a manly hunter, his grandson […]
Double Duty (2009)
A decade after her action film efforts, former pro wrestler Mimi Lesseos co-wrote another film, a movie in which she plays MJ, a career Marine who suddenly is no longer on active duty and must become part of the civilian world. This could be a quiet study of PTSD and how the military doesn’t prepare […]
Beyond Fear (1993)
As we all know. “Magnificent” Mimi Lesseos went from wrestling fame to her own self-made movies. She’s Tipper Taylor this time, a former martial arts champion who quit fighting after accidentally paralyzing her best friend. Now, she works with Sammy (Verrel Reed, who was in Pushed to the Limit with Mimi) and tries to keep her father’s […]
Chattanooga Film Festival recap
The 9th annual Chattanooga Film Festival wrapped last week, and celebrated genre films, up and coming filmmakers, and a third successful virtual run. The 9th edition consisted of 40 feature films, 72 short films, and plenty of filmmaker Q&A’s along with unique virtual events. Awards were handed out among the features and events, with Eric […]
Chattanooga Film Festival: Something In the Dirt (2022)
Directors and stars Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (Benson also wrote the script) also made Spring, The Endless, Synchronic and Resolution — as well as episodes of Marvel’s Moon Knight and Loki as well as Archive 81 and The Twilight Zone together. This time, they play Levi and John, two neighbors in a Los Angeles apartment building who discover a paranormal event and decide to […]
Chattanooga Film Festival: Gateway (2021)
In an abandoned house on an ordinary street, a gang of criminals hide out from a big boss who wants them to either pay up or die. Perhaps this hidden space is the place where they can grow marijuana and pay off their debt. The only problem is that the house may be using them […]
Chattanooga Film Festival: Split Ends (2022)
Isa worries that her abuela is forgetting her thanks to dementia. Meanwhile, on a whim she decides to chop off her hair, which upsets her mother and then worries her — what if this makes her aunt forget her even more? All of the grief and worry powers her hair as it crawls back from […]
Chattanooga FIlm Festival: Skeletons (2022)
Skeletons, directed by Steven Hedrick, has a father taking his son through a haunted house. It’s only three minutes long, so it doesn’t have much time to build much of a story other than the mood and attitude shift of the father. That said, it looks pretty nice and I’d like to see what could […]
Chattanooga Film Festival: Why Is It So Warm on Christmas? (2022)
A movie star named Eugene gains superpowers and sets out to become a superhero. He may not have a tragic origin or a team to help him, so he has to reach out to others online to learn how to best use his powers. This allows everyone he meets to form a community that helps […]
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