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.

You can watch this on Tubi.

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.

You can watch this on Tubi.

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.

You can watch this on Tubi.

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Remember when there were a whole bunch of Brendan Fraser mummy movies? What if Bruno Mattei made his own version of those movies — using the name David Hunt — and filled it with all of the wonderful things that his movies are known for? Well, he did. He sure did.

Over the last few years of his career, Mattei began working with Giovanni “Gianni” Paolucci, who wrote and produced his films Dangerous Attraction, Snuff Killer, Mondo Cannibal, In the Land of the Cannibals, The Jail: The Women’s Hell, Island of the Living Dead, Zombies: The Beginning, Capriccio Veneziano, Privé, Belle da Morire and the sequel to that film. Before working with Mattei, he also wrote and produced Antonio Margheriti’s The Ark of the Sun God and was the producer of Argento’s Dracula 3D (as well as the upcoming Antropophagus II, which will be directed by Dario Germani).

The amazing thing is that now that Bruno has moved on to digital video, he’s able to completely not just rip off movies — this is The Mummy right down to the bad guy who looks kinda sorta like Arnold Vosloo — he’s now able to even more easily copy and paste footage from other films directly into his own. Now, when a major Hollywood film takes a plot point, I get apoplectic. Yet when Matti outright takes entire scenes from other movies, I get overjoyed. Such are the weird ways of how I enjoy film.

That means that while Bruno takes the Titty Twister scenes that were a major part of From Dusk Till Dawn and films his own version, he is just as comfortable with directly taking footage from Army of Darkness and The Mummy and inserting them into The Tomb.

Somehow, the guide that a group of students is using to get through the Aztec pyramids is the reincarnation of an evil priestess and one of those students is the reincarnation of the girl who her lover never got to sacrifice because movie logic demands these things occur. Again, in any other movie, I’d roll my eyes, but I kind of demand these kinds of things from the Italian masters of beyond basement value movies.

Then, to show us all that Mattei does not care at all about the world of Hollywood, he outright takes footage from Raiders of the Lost Ark. I doubt Spielberg had any idea who Bruno Mattei was, but just the sheer “Che palle!” of Mattei brings a tear to my eye. Then, to top that, he also ripped off footage from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom!

This isn’t the best movie Bruno ever made — I cannot and will not answer that impossible inquiry — but damn if it isn’t a million times better than any mummy movie Hollywood has made said the black and white Universal days.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Did you know that Visual Vengeance has a ton of movies on Tubi? It’s true. Check out this Letterboxd list and look for reviews as new movies get added. You can find this movie on Tubi.

Land of Death is Bruno Mattei’s Island of the Living Dead.

Mattei uses the name Martin Miller here, but come on. The moment we see that this movie is pretty much Cannibal Holocaust with soldiers, we know who is behind this movie. To make sure that we’re completely certain that Bruno is in directing, the fact that footage from Predator is completely stolen and placed within this film is a neon sign saying, “Sam watch this.”

You have to give Bruno credit for naming one soldier Romero and another Vasquez. It’s as if he’s saying, “Guys, I can’t help it. I just like to see how much stealing I can get away with.”

So yeah. These commandos go into the jungle to rescue a senator’s daughter, but she’s gone native and is now part of the tribe. This would be why this movie is also known as Cannibal Holocaust 3: Cannibals vs Commandos.

Shot at the same time as Mondo Cannibal, this may not be as good as that film, but it has refreshingly little real animal violence. Yes, I can watch all manner of people be masticated upon, but cut one turtles head off and I get squeamish.

In the third film in the trilogy, Peter Mountain (Fred Vogel, who directed, wrote and shot this) and his girlfriend Crusty (Cristie Whiles) keep on killing on video, but now the footage is more high definition and you can see more of it.

Made in Pittsburgh, Penance has fireworks in it, so you know that it’s definitely made by yinzers. It also has numerous gut wrenching murders that are not made to look pretty but to look as real as possible. You may not be into that. You also may and well, I guess this is the extreme movie that you’re looking for.

It has everything from racing ATVs and seeing bands to killing an entire family, feeding a deer to a lion, beating people with hammers and cutting babies out of pregnant women. It also has its two leads basically having nervous breakdowns as they commit these horrific acts.

There’s an audience for this. It’s not me.

The Unearthed blu ray of this film has new audio commentary with Jerami Cruise, Shelby Vogel, Fred Vogel, and Ultra Violent Magazine‘s Art Ettinger, several new interview with Fred Vogels and others, older audio commentary by Toetag and Vogel, Disemboweled: Behind the Bile Documentary, extended and deleted scenes, music videos, trailers and more. You can get it from MVD.