TUBI ORIGINAL: Tales of a Fifth Grade Robin Hood (2021)
Chase Brown plays a kid named Robin Hoode, so you know that he has to live up to that and be the one that steals from the head of the school board (Jon Lovitz) when he finds out that that fatcat is stealing money from the fundraisers he and his friends worked so hard to […]
TUBI ORIGINAL: Howard High (2021)
Howard High School become the lowest-ranked school in the state and there’s nothing that former honor role graduate Frank King (Brian White) can figure out to save it. Then he learns that the Performing Arts Music program has truly talented kids. So that means it’s time to put on a show and save the school. Chris […]
TUBI ORIGINAL: Girls Getaway Gone Wrong (2021)
Directed by Stacia Crawford from a script by Joyful Drake and Scotty Mullen, this movie has a familiar face or maybe I’m watching too many Tubi originals. Simone is played by Crystal Lee Naomi, who was Alicia in Twisted House Sitter. She and her friends Parker (Brittany S. Hall) and Bailey (Tanisha Long) have decided […]
TUBI ORIGINAL: Harland Manor (2021)
Steven R. Monroe has several movies up as Tubi Originals — First Person Shooter, Unborn and Teardrop — and he’s best known for the remake of I Spit on Your Grave and the sequel. Along with co-writer John Thaddeus, he’s telling the story of The Spirit Chasers, a reality show team of ghost hunters made up of Jeanie […]
CANNON MONTH 2: Prison Heat (1993)
Colleen (Rebecca Chambers), Bonnie (Lori Jo Hendrix), Audrey (Kena Land) and Michelle (Gilya Stern)were happy just riding their van through Europe scream singing “Oh Susanna” and hanging out in Greece when they decide to go to Turkey and never saw Midnight Express. Before you can say Ilsa, they’ve had cocaine planted on them and end up […]
CANNON MONTH 2: Roots of Evil (1992)
A remake of director Gary Graver’s 1984 adult film Trinity Brown, which starred John Leslie and Sharon Kelly — and had Jamie Gillis and Robert Kerman in the cast — Roots of Evil starts with Brenda (Jillian Kesner, who is in one of my favorite movies, Firecracker) and Jake (Alex Cord, Chosen Survivors) looking for Johnny Malone (Randall […]
NORTH BEND FILM FEST: Black Dragon (2018)
Starring Matthew Del Negro (Scandal, The Sopranos) and with make-up/VFX from the teams behind Pirates of the Caribbean, Tron Legacy and Super 8, Black Dragon looks and feels way stronger than you’d expect from a festival short. Colonel Palmer (Del Negro) is simultaneously suffering from the fact that his platoon has just wiped out a village of probably […]
NORTH BEND FILM FEST: Kafkas (2021)
Fran (Patsy Ferran, a force of nature in this) has the idea that if she looks through the phone book and cold calls men all across the country with the last name Kafka that she can find her soul mate. She has no job, a Ph.D. and a $700 phone bill from all those calls […]
NORTH BEND FILM FEST: Baby Fever (2022)
Imagine an unholy union between Night of the Creeps and Carrie and you’re getting close to Baby Fever, a short that begins with a young couple making love in a lab amongst the pickled punks and not getting any less gross from that point; a girl gets a full face of vomited blood before the opening title card. […]
NORTH BEND FILM FEST: Break Any Spell (2021)
Break Any Spell impacted me more than nearly any other short that I’ve seen in some time, as it made me think about the deteriorating mental condition of my father and how lost we become thanks to dementia and Alzheimer’s and just plain age. Directed by Anton Jøsef, who co-wrote the film with Lisi Purr, […]
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