We’ve been covering the films of Luciano and Nicolas Onetti, two brothers who are seemingly obsessed with Italian giallo circa 1973, despite coming from Argentina. Otherwise known as Los Olvidados (The Forgotten), which is also a title of a Bunuel film, this movie finds them moving away from Argento worship and creating their own version of The Hills Have Eyes and, more to the point, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

The real star of this movie is Epecuen, which was once a thermal water spa that drew thousands of tourists. In 1985. the city was submerged underwater. Those that didn’t want to leave were taken by force and it took nearly thirty years for the flooding to subside, which left a desert behind.

The plot itself is rather threadbare, with a documentary crew getting stranded and killed one after the other by the residents of the town that have gone nowhere. There’s also a father looking for his daughter and some of the worst leading characters ever, but then again, if you are going to emulate Chainsaw, you should go all the way. After all, they rode into town in that van.

I like the Onetti brothers and look forward to the day where they push past the movies they love and make something brand new that can inspire someone else.

You can watch this on Amazon Prime and Tubi.

A gay disabled teenage boy changes into the body of a beautiful woman all so that he — she? — can be loved. The film starts like a dramatic story, but at some point, you realize that it has taken a turn into the world of the fantastic, which surpised me greatly.

This is the first movie for director, cinematographer and producer Stevie Cruz-Martin. Made in Australia, it uses science fiction to try to break through some of the ways that we see gender, identity and love in our modern world.

It’s not like any movie I’ve seen this year.

The Pulse is available June 2 On Demand from Dark Star Pictures.

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This documentary features comedians Nikki Glaser, Jim Norton, Bonnie McFarlane, Andrew Shultz, Yamaneika Saunders, Krystyna Hutchinson, Rich Vos and Mehran Khaghani, as they discuss what it takes to become — and stay — funny.

That said, the movie mainly follows the journey of Wendi Starling as she becomes part of the toughest jobs within entertainment, balancing her need to be accepted with feminism, the #MeToo movement and the struggle between being funny and politically correct.

Funny Pains is now available on demand and streaming. You can learn more at the official site.

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This remake of the 1970s Japanese TV series Shiruba Kamen (Silver Mask) and Supa Robotto Reddo Baron (Super Robot Red Baron) takes the heroes from both — an armored bionic superhero and a red giant robot — and has them fight aliens to save Earth and prevent the extinction of mankind.

In the year 2050, life as we know it is gone on Earth. No, not just the COVID-19 we’re dealing with now, but the Killgis have used their giant robot Black Baron to terraform our planet and make it just like their planet. The Kasuga family travel back in time with the plans to make their own robot, a device that shows them who is an alien, psychic powers and the Silver Mask suit, which is soon given to a scientist’s pit fighting brother.

If you’re a fan of the Senkosha heroes like The Samurai, Moonlight Mask, Kousoku Esper and Yusei Oji, you’ll be happy when Goro Kirishima, the hero of Iron King, shows up at the end to warn that the Shiranui are coming to Earth. Here’s to more crossover films like this, as I had a blast watching it.

I like that the aliens chose Earth because we were going to destroy ourselves anyway. This is the kind of mindless — I say that in a good way — giant robot punching magic that Japan does so well.

Want to learn more about BraveStorm? Check out the official site. Its available on DirecTV, Dish, Charter, Cox, iTunes, Amazon, GooglePlay and FandangoNow, and on DVD at Amazon and Walmart stores nationwide.

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Back in March, we covered Jurassic Thunder, another film that was directed by Milko Davis and Thomas Martwick. They also made Tsunambee, which we covered earlier this week. Obviously, we’re going to watch every movie that these guys put out.

Dr. Wojick Borge has had enough of being made fun of. So he signs up with the Axis of Evil to destroy America with a series of mad scientist weapons like a gas that turns people into zombies and EMP blasts. But that’s not enough. No, he has to live up to the title of this movie by unleashing an undead T-Rex called…the Z-Rex.

There are plenty of bullets fired, bodies devoured and zombies walking about. Imagine a sub-Shocking Dark and you have a good idea of this movie. (Yeah, we did an exploring feature on the works of Bruno Mattei. You know it! So, yeah, we dig Milko just like ‘ol Bruno.)

The VOD stream on Amazon is gone, but it’s still available as a free-with-ads stream on Tubi.

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Update: Do you want to be a part of a Milko flick? In November 2021, Team Milko launched a Kickstarter campaign for the production and release of his next film, Phantom Patrol.

A year after defeating Valentine in the first film, Gary “Eggsy” Unwin (Taron Egerton) has officially joined the Kingsman, having taken his late mentor Harry Hart’s title of Galahad and is dating Tilde, Crown Princess of Sweden (Hanna Alstrom). He’s soon attacked by Charlie, the rejected Kingsman who turned on the world in the wake of Valentine’s plot. During their battle, he hacks into the Kingsman’s database, allowing Poppy Adams (Julianna Moore) and her drug cartel the Golden Circle to murder every single Kingsman agent save Eggsy and handler Merlin (Mark Strong).

How can Eggsy save the world from a deadly virus spread by doing recreational drugs? Simple. Head to America and meet the Statesmen, the American side of the secret spy world.

While the Kingsman are based around fine clothes, the Statesman are based around hard alcohol. They’re led by Champagne (Jeff Bridges) and have Ginger Ale (Halle Berry), Whiskey (Pedro Pascal) and Tequila (Channing Tatum) in their organization. And oh yeah — they’ve saved Harry’s life, but he remembers nothing of being a spy.

This movie is completely ridiculous, taking the farce of the first movie even further to the point that Elton John battles a robotic guard dog.

I love the scene in the Italian Alps, as it feel as if it were taken directly from On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Again, despite how outlandish this gets, it’s so much better than the recent spate of Bond films.

At the wedding scene at the end of this movie, Harry claims that one of their founding agents once said. “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” That person would be British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.

I’m excited to see where the Kingsmen go next, both in a proposed third film and a prequel that has been moved to September of this year.

Medicine is obviously big on our minds right now, as we confront an epidemic that currently has no cure.

This documentary is pretty interesting to watch while keeping where we are now in mind.

Filmmaker and homeopath Ananda More, Hom, DHMHS has traveled the world to meet with scientists, practitioners and patients to more about homeopathy. While she initially was a skeptic, now she wants to know if its science-based or is an elaborate placebo that impacts millions and endangers lives.

Science believes that homeopathy can’t work because we can’t prove how it works. How did we figure out gravity and electricity back before we could prove it? That’s the problem that Anada presents as she shows how homeopathy is being used to treat cancer in India, support the use of antiretroviral medication for HIV/AIDS in Africa and prevent common epidemics in Cuba.

Can science explain how nature works? How does homeopathy work as well as medicine? Is it better, as often medicine focuses on toxic treatments that can have irreversible or life-threatening side effects? Should the profits of healthcare be people or the company making the cure?

Magic Pills is available on demand.

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Directed by Josh Greenbaum, who also made Behind the Mask for Hulu, this documentary is all about the left and times of the man who played Bond just one time, George Lazenby.

I love the set-up that they wrote for the film: “The stranger-than-fiction true story of George Lazenby, a poor Australian car mechanic who, through an unbelievable set of circumstances, landed the role of James Bond in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, despite having never acted a day in his life. Then after being offered the next seven Bond films and a $1 million signing bonus, he turned it all down.”

An interview with Lazenby is intercut with Drunk History-style recreations, as the movie star recalls being a failure in high school who finally used what he learned in a “How To Win Friends and Influence People” class to improve his car selling job, got his heart broken by a girl and ended up becoming James Bond despite having no real acting experience outside of some commercials.

Lazenby discussed that becoming James Bond meant giving up too much and how walked away from fame and fortune. He went back to Australia, became a realtor and then married and raised a family. He neglects to mention all the movies that he appeared in after that, but when someone is so good at telling their story, why get in the way of it?

The actor also appears in another documentary, This Never Happened to the Other Fella, which is in post-production.

You can watch this on Hulu.

Made in the dairy state of Wisconsin, this tale of a struggling family-run meat shop — which learns how to cook up human flesh to become a success — is blessed by a vocal cameo from the Godfather of Gore, Herschell Gordon Lewis.

It’s the first feature from writer, producer and director Jeff Lyon.

The Lewis cameo makes sense. This movie feels like something he would do, as it’s as much concerned with being humorous as it is with being gross. It also looks way better than most streaming features, which is another bonus. I look forward to seeing what the filmmakers do next.

Wild Eye Releasing was kind enough to send us this movie on DVD, but you can also watch this right now on Amazon Prime and Tubi.

Despite 12 years between movies, Xander Cage being supposedly killed off and mixed reviews, this movie film grossed over $346 million worldwide on an $85 million budget, making it the highest-grossing film of the entire franchise.

One of the reasons why this movie did so well is because it has an international cast, like Donnie Yen (Ip-Man) as Xiang, a rival xXx agent; Indian actress Deepika Padukone; Kris Wu, who was in the Chinese/South Korean boy band EXO, Australian actress Ruby Rose; Tony Jaa (Ong Bak), Canadian actress Nina Dobrev; British actor Rory McCann; British actress Hermione Corfield; American football player Tony Gonzales and British MMA star Michael Bisping. Ice Cube also shows in at the end in a cameo as Darius Stone from the second film.

This one starts off with Augustus Gibbons (Samuel Jackson) and a Jason Bourne-like character being killed by a falling satellite and doesn’t ever let up, with such insanity as fighting a government base to give the people cable and racing motorcycles across giant waves. Yes, this is a movie that has absolutely no interest in reality and exists only to entertain you.

Jaa and Yen are two of the best martial arts-based actors in the world, so this movie features plenty of fights, as you’d hope. Sadly, Jet Li dropped out of the picture, but that may have been too much.

Of course they’re planning another xXx movie and I have no issue at all with this development.