TUBI ORIGINAL: The Marriage Pass (2024)
This movie begins with Dorian (Shane Marriott) and Shantae Graham (Sagine Sémajuste) reading their marriage vows to each other. The thing is, we aren’t watching their wedding, but instead a bloody bathroom and signs of a murder. Maybe this marriage hasn’t worked out so well. A year into their marriage, all the Grahams do is […]
La ragazza del vagone letto (1980)
La ragazza del vagone letto (The Girl In the Sleeping Car) also goes by Terror Express and Horror-Sex im Nachtexpress. It’s directed by Fernando Bali, who also made Nine Guests for a Crime and Treasure of the Four Crowns. It’s writer? Luigi Montefiori, the lunatic best known as George Eastman. It’s as if someone said, “Can we make Last Stop […]
Murderous Vision (1991)
I was watching Visioni Senz Volto on YouTube and I thought, “Is that Bruce Boxleitner?” And that’s how I learned that this was an American TV movie and not an Italian giallo. The man who was Scarecrow and Tron is Detective Kyle Robeshaw, a cop stuck on the missing persons cases, when he discovers that […]
TUBI ORIGINAL: Guess Who (2024)
A holiday movie in January? Sure. But this one has a strange tradition I’ve never heard at the center of it. Mummering is a Christmas-time house-visiting tradition that is mainly done in Newfoundland and Labrador, Ireland, parts of the United Kingdom and in Philadelphia. People dress in disguise and go from home to home. If […]
TUBI ORIGINAL: Tell Me No Lies (2024)
Tell Me No Lies feels inspired by Denise Huskins, who was accused of faking her own kidnapping. That’s the subject of American Nightmare, a Netflix series, but this is a Tubi Original. Sofia Rose (Keturah Chambers) and her boyfriend Ben (Aaron Fontaine) are getting together for dinner. He tries to make it seem like they’re still […]
TUBI ORIGINAL: Chapel (2024)
Directed by Courtney Paige, who wrote the script with J.R. Reher, Chapel starts with Cohen Black (Jeremy Sumpter) waking up in a hospital, unsure of who he is, where he’s been and why a fisherman found him nearly drowned five months ago. He’s helped by a nurse named Sofia Bloome (Pardis Saremi) to learn who he […]
L’intrigo (1964)
John Houseman called director George Marshall, “one of the old maestros of Hollywood … he had never become one of the giants but he held a solid and honorable position in the industry.” He started as an extra and made his first short in 1915 with And the Best Man Won. His career was nearly […]
Sensi (1986)
Evil Senses is all about Manuel (Gabriele Lavia, who directed and co-wrote this with Gianfranco Clerici, Vincenzo Mannino and Dardano Sacchetti) is a hitman who has found a list of names that means nothing to him, but that marks him for death by his bosses. He hides out in a brothel that’s run by an […]
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