The Creep starts with a man (Cory Espie) putting a shovel back in a truck. It looks like something has gone wrong.

Then, we find two people in bed together talking about how they’re both in other relationships and have to choose what they want to do. She claims that she needs more time and he walks out. He’s passed by the black man we saw at the beginning who punches her in the face.

Fade out. We come back to a barber shop where we see the man who walked out, Terry, getting his hair done. He asks out Olivia (Kris D’Sha), the woman who did his fade and gossip follows. He makes it to his job as a teacher just in time to break up a fight between two girls.

Terry and Olivia have a date at his house where she cooks. As you can figure, they make out on the couch despite her worrying that they’re moving too quickly. The next morning, one of Olivia’s customers by the name of Francesca (Tekia Gee) is trying to get details and it turns out that she’s a detective. She goes to a crime scene where she finds a body in a field.

Cut to that big guy from the beginning, who has a woman tied up and covered in blood. He’s filming her while he screams at her about how women use men. He sings the song we heard when we first saw him, “Ain’t No Sunshine” and hits her with a weapon.

Back to the detectives — the partner is Adrian (Fabian) — who are investigating the case. And Terry and Olivia are still dating, as he makes a red pepper pineapple weenie rotini, which she doesn’t seem to like. She makes him order a pizza.

When he goes to a teaching conference, he lets his cousin stay there. Olivia visits and hears the young man having vigorous bed olympics and thinks that it’s Terry. Meanwhile, the hair stylists take out the detective to celebrate that she graduated. The killer is also drinking at the bar and watches as Olivia arrives in tears. He introduces himself and starts talking to her. It takes seconds before they’re kissing on the dance floor and then making love in his apartment.

Speaking as a larger man, thank you The Creep for having a big man be sexual.

Olivia and the Creep end up getting into it pretty quick, dating as fast as it gets, as we see them out and about on multiple dates. He also starts looking through her phone and learns all about her life, including Terry, who gets to explain that it wasn’t him that she heard. Now she’s trapped inside the Creep’s apartment with him having an emotional talk with her, telling her that he doesn’t take heartbreak well.

That’s when she breaks up with him.

The detective meets the sister of the woman we saw killed earlier and learns that her sister’s boyfriend was named Cory and she has a photo of him. Yes, it’s The Creep.

I have to call out that Olivia has some of the silliest outfits ever.

We then cut from a romantic dinner to Terry and Olivia making love as the Creep watches and does a five knuckle shuffle on the piss pump.

Also I want to remark how much I love the Greek chorus that is the other hair stylists, Quasha (Dee Hill) and Cortez (Corta Ishman).

The Creep ends up stalking everyone, even at the gym. He’s sending valentine hearts, calling the stylists, even watching people work out. Everyone gets together to play Uno and yes, this movie has a long and involved discussion of double Uno rules and then Terry and Olivia get engaged and the Creep leaves a dead bird on the porch.

At their engagement party, Terry’s cousin Tony gets jumped by the Creep and shot in the bathroom while the band Chemistry plays. His worried girlfriend says, “Tony must be taking a shit.”

This gets even better, because the Creep goes all in on stalking after Olivia reveals that she was cheating and Terry leaves her. He also kidnaps the sister of the woman he killed and goes wild, yelling about Bennigan’s.

The ending of this is just as goofy as you would have hoped that it would be, with a comedy baby scene, some dispute over the child’s baby daddy and, of course, one more twist. After all, the first person that the Creep took was also sleeping with Terry. The plan was there all along.

Directed by A.D. Scott and written by DeMarcus Bailey and Derek Massey, this was shot for $33,000 in Dallas and is more than 2 hours long for reasons I can only wonder about. Of course I loved it.

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Joseph James DeAngelo is the man who has been charged with 13 murders, 51 rapes and 120 burglaries over 12 years while he worked as a cop, often investigating the crimes that he had caused. He was also known as the Visalia Ransacker from 1974 to 1976, the East Area Rapist from 1976 to 1979 and the Original Night Stalker.

He also sent letters and made phone calls to past victims and the police after.

For a long time, people thought that each of those killers were different people. They were all the same man.

If you watch as much true crime as gets watched in this house, you already know this story. But that’s how it is — I may have seen the same story on other networks, 48 Hours, 20/20, Dateline and more. I still watched this and despite everyone’s complaints about the podcasters in it, it’s not bad.

You just might know all of it. Every horrible detail.

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In 2007, Jeffrey Epstein was featured in a VH1 show The Fabulous Life of Billion Dollar Wall Street Ballers.

That is shown in this, bragging of his rich life as if it’s something everyone wanted.

“Jeff was a high school math teacher who traded his blackboard for the big board. He just couldn’t keep out of the classroom. When he bought himself a house, he bought himself a school house.”

There’s even his Lolita Express in the show, although it isn’t called that, but there is mention of his close personal friendship with Bill Clinton.

“Jet setting with Bill? All in a day’s work for the Wall Street mogul,”

The media reported that Jeffrey Epstein died on August 10, 2019 by suicide while inside one of the most secure prisons in the world. This Tubi Original attempts to turn the memes and theories into as truthful a story as they can get.

I mean, the Naked Cowboy singing a song at the beginning doesn’t help, but did you think a Tubi Original was going to be the way you get all of the answers to one of the biggest mysteries ever?

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Gui Yu has been searching for Tian Guinong and the evil martial artists who killed his father and his father’s greatest rival to steal a treasure. They have been looking for the iron box that holds it for a decade, long enough for Gui Yu to get old enough to start tracking them all down.

Also known as The Hidden Fox, this was directed by Lei Qiao and he has a real eye for some amazing fight scenes.

The only negative I can say about this movie is that there are so many flashbacks that it gets kind of hard to figure out things, but when the action is this ferocious, you can forgive that. I mean, it’s almost a superhero movie with some of the battles. It’s yet another release by WELL GO USA that brings a movie I’ve never heard of to me and ends up being way better than I thought when I started it.

You can get this blu ray from WELL GO USA. To learn more, here’s the official site.

Clément (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is the rich son of an industrialist who has come to join a far right terrorist group. Despite being married to a former actress named Anne (Romy Schneider) and having anything he wants, he blows up the home of a socialist politician, killing the man and having to hide in a windmill owned by his old friend Paul, who is a socialist.

Once Clément learns that he was railroaded by his friends, he goes for revenge while his wife and Paul fall in love. He’s gone to South America where he works with what’s left of the Third Reich before coming back and challenging his one-time friend to a duel.

Directed by Alain Cavalier and written along with Jean-Paul Rappeneau, this looks gorgeous and presents a woman torn between two men who both love her but are on the opposite sides of outlook.

The Radiance Films blu ray of Le Combat Dans L’ile has a 2K Restoration from the original camera negative, a 1962 interview with Cavalier, a 1983 interview with Jean-Louis Trintignant, an analysis of the movie by critic Philippe Roger, short films by the firector, behind the scenes photos, a trailer, a reversible sleeve, a limited edition booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic Ben Sachs and scholar and author of Late-Colonial French Cinema, Mani Sharpe. This is limited to 3000 copies and comes in Radiance’s trademark packaging,  presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of logos and markings. You can get it from MVD.

Murphy (Peter O’Toole) is the only survivor of the merchant ship Mount Kyle, which was sunk by a German U-boat and the survivors all shot. He gets to the shore of Venezuela, where he is nursed by Dr. Hayden (Siân Phillips), a pacifist who may not be interested in his plans to kill everyone who put him here.

Based on the book by Max Catto, this was directed by Peter Yates and written by Stirling Silliphant, this was originally going to have Frank Sinatra as Murphy.

Robert Evans brought the director and producer Michael Deeley to the project before losing interest. However, they had a pay or play contract and Evans wanted them to make The Godfather instead. They chose this.

It’s definitely not a movie that makes war look romantic or in any way filled with honor. Instead, it’s just people losing and dying and failing. No wonder critics were so rough on it.

The Arrow Video blu ray of this movie comes with a new visual essay by film critic David Cairns, archive interviews with assistant director John Glen, focus puller Robin Vidgeon and film critic Sheldon Hall, a trailer, an image gallery, a reversible sleeve and an illustrated collector’s book. You can get it from MVD.

Ke Tong (Aarif Rahman) is a physician who has just joined a private mercenary team who is trying to find out what happened to his father. Well, he’s basically kidnapped into it and he may disagree throughout with the team’s leader Lao Guan (Max Zhang) before he learns that they give their money to charity and that their cause is pure.

That said, if you don’t worry about the story and just go into it to appreciate the action, you’ll be doing so much better. There are some great gun battles, martial arts, vehicle stunts and all sorts of weaponry. Maybe leave politics out of it too. Maybe just watch it and try and have fun.

By the end, it got me cheering and made me excited that at least somewhere in the world, people are still making action movies like this.

You can learn more about this WELL GO USA release at the official site.

There are 400 million guns in America.

Each year, more than 40,000 people are shot and killed.

Twice as many survive.

There have already been 46 mass shootings just in January 2024.

This Vice documentary attempts to figure out how we got here, even showing the history in Austin of mass shootings which dates back to August 1, 1966 when Charles Whitman opened fire at the University of Texas. Nearly everyone is connected to someone that has been involved in gun violence by now.

So what do we do? Is there any way to stop this? Is America based on the gun as it is?

This documentary doesn’t have many answers but it does show you where things are. It’s such a strange thing for me to navigate as I like shooting guns, but I also understand that there are some guns that no one should own. I don’t know the line and you know, I have no clue if we can ever solve it. Yet every mass shooting they say that no one knew it was coming and we know. We know every single day.

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This starts in a cemetery, where Joanna (Cassidey Fralin) visits the grave of her mother and looks at an article about her father Michael Lawrence (Blue Kimble), a real estate millionaire, marrying Whitney (Annie Ilonzeh), a self-made cosmetics company owner. It also appears that she may have an old woman knocked out in the back seat of a car.

Cassandra’s friends Cass and Tawanda are worried that they got married too quickly. She reminds them that she made him sign a pre-nup. That’s when Joanna arrives in the middle of a party. She tells her father that she has nowhere to stay and that her Granny Linda died. That would be the dead or knocked out woman seen in the cemetery. But now, she gets to meet her stepbrothers Eric, Brian and their friend Dante and start to bond with her new family.

Yet all is not well literally from the first morning that they are all together. Whitney explained how important her mother’s urn was to her and it’s broken moments later, leaving ash all over the floor.

That’s when Michael explains that when his wife died in a drunk driving accident, he abandoned his daughter to start drinking. He lost Joanna to Granny Linda and thinks that this is a chance to be the father he wasn’t then.

While all this family change is happening, Whitney is at Walmart, selling her line to get national distribution. She brings models to test her makeup on. However, in the iddle of her successful presentation, the girls faces start to burn, ruining her presentation.

After that. Whitney and Joanna go on a girl’s day and Whitney ends up having a strange dizzy spell. Maybe that’s because we just saw Joanna look at her prescriptions and then a gloved hand — I do believe that these movies that Chris Stokes and Marques Houston make are urban giallo — switch out the pills.

As this picks up speed, Joanna lets Whitney know that she’s the one who put lye into the makeup, she tries to pill up Eric and throw him off the roof and kills Dante after he finds her diary. But then one of Whitney’s sister Cass’ husband Terrence does a background check and finds out that Joanna Lawrence is really Maggie Dillon. This causes Whitney to call Michael and ask him what’s happening. He claims that her grandparents changed her name. It turns out that Michael dated a woman named Heather who he thought would fix things but it only made it worse, as she began to abuse his daughter. When Heather got out of jail, her name was changed to protect her. But now Michael is out of the house on vacation and everyone is alone with Joanna. Michael kind of blames everyone and takes his daughter’s side.

Of course, it’s time for more drugging, as Joanna reacts badly to Whitney calling her Maggie. She also comes into Brian’s room and kisses him. Moments later, he tells his mother that she needs to be nicer to Whitney, but when he’s in her room, it seems like she’s almost dead. They take her to the hospital and doctors think that she tried to kill herself.

Cassandra takes the boys as Whitney tells her that she thinks that Joanna is trying to kill them. They find Dante’s body in the same park that she once took the boys to and everyone is convinced that she killed him. Cassandra tries to prove that and gets killed herself after a brutal battle.

There’s a great twist though and that’s all you’ll get out of me. I really loved this one and have been waiting for these guys to bring it like they did here.

I was excited as soon as I saw that this was directed by Chris Stokes, who wrote the story with Marques Houston. I’ve called Chris the king of Tubi, because he’s made The Stepmother, Vicious Affair, Picture Me Dead, The Assistant and I Hate You to Death for the channel and every one of them has some amazing moments of lunacy. This is yet another installment in their near monthly movie releases. I hope they keep on making these for decades.

I wonder: Is this movie sponsored by Walmart? There’s a camo Yellowstone hat in Brian’s bedroom, a Misfits shirt that Whitney wears and a mention of the company. What a marketing strategy seemingly to reach me, someone who watches every Tubi Original.

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Jonquel Jones, Nneka Ogwumike, Breanna Stewart and Sheryl Swoopes are four of the biggest stars of the WNBA and honestly, I’ve never watched a game or knew anything about them. This Tubi Original, however, surprised me with how good it is, telling their stories and getting you invested not just in the game but in their lives.

Directed by Andrea Buccilla, a former college athlete, this film was produced by MALKA in partnership with the WNBPA, PUMA and Crown Royal Regal Apple.

What surprised me was that most of the players in the WNBA play year-round, often in Europe and Asia, just so they have enough money to live and then have to find jobs for their lives when they can’t play. For many in the film, they are newly married and dealing with leaving behind partners while heading to uncertain places to play somewhere, anywhere and then back to hopefully remain healthy for another season, hoping this is the one where they win the finals, which seems to be the only way to make money.

That said, things seem to be changing for the league and it’s amazing how much they allowed to be shown in this film. For someone with no real interest in basketball, this made me really care and perhaps I’ll even watch a game.

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