TUBI ORIGINAL: Vice News Presents – City Under Fire: Inside the War in Ukraine (2023)
This Vice documentary, directed by Adam Desiderio and Ben C. Solomon, has “exclusive access to Ukrainian officials, soldiers and civilians, explore the human cost and strategic decisions made to save their most key city in an endless war with Russia.” For ten months in the city of Bakhmut, Ukrainian forces used everything they had to […]
TUBI ORIGINAL: Behind the Crime: The Nipsey Hussle Murder (2023)
In yet another example of Tubi teaching me about culture, this is a documentary about Nipsey Hussle, a rapper who went from making mixtapes to becoming a major celebrity in the genre and the owner of the Marathon Clothing store and All Money In label. Unlike many rappers, Hussle wanted to invest in and provide […]
TUBI ORIGINAL: Mystery Unsolved: The Adnan Syed Story (2023)
If you listened to the first season of Serial, you already know everything there is to know about this case, but Tubi is counting on you to watch this anyway. And if you haven’t, it’s the tale of Adnan Syed, who spent 22 years in prison for a murder he claims he didn’t commit and how […]
TUBI ORIGINAL: VICE News Presents: Cult of Elon (2023)
I use movies to escape reality, and here I am, watching something that I don’t want to because my OCD demands that I watch every Tubi Original and fuck me; if I don’t cross this one off my list, I won’t sleep well and feel like something terrible is about to happen. “From Tesla to […]
Last Voyage of the Dementer (2023)
If anyone other than André Øvredal directed this, I wouldn’t give it the time of day and wonder, “Why do we need a Dracula movie about things we already know about?” Yet the director of Trollhunter, The Autopsy of Jane Doe and Umma generally gets a pass from me. This was an adaptation of “The Captain’s Log,” […]
TUBI ORIGINAL: TMZ Presents: Tragically Viral (2023)
When I was a kid, my dad told me, “If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you?” It’s always stuck with me, and no, I wouldn’t jump, too. However, viral challenges often come close to that idea, asking people to eat a spoonful of cinnamon or have ice water dumped on them. Those […]
TUBI ORIGINAL: The Thicket (2023)
Elliot Lester directed the Arnold movie Aftermath, which was good, and now he’s adapting this Joe R. Lansdale Western horror story with writer Chris Kelley. It’s been a passion project of Peter Dinklage, who has been trying to make it for ten years. He plays bounty hunter Reginald Jones, a bounty hunter who hunts criminals with […]
FULL MOON DVD RELEASE: The Primevals (2023)
A passion project of stop-motion master David Allen, it was unfinished due to his cancer death. In 2023, Full Moon and former Allen associate Chris Endicott finished the movie, which is filled with “100% hand-rendered, stop-motion special effects.” This started as Raiders of the Stone Ring, a movie developed more than sixty years ago by […]
We Kill for Love (2023)
In the pre-internet, non-binging world of cable and video stores, the erotic thriller — more than even adult videos — was the acceptable dirty secret, whether consumed via Cinemax After Dark, the Playboy Channel or by renting videos out in the open with a piece of tape and a marker written message saying, “Must be […]
25 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE: Santa Isn’t Real (2023)
Directed and written by Zac Locke, this starts with Nikki (Kaya Coleman) almost falling asleep when Santa comes down the chimney and nearly murders her. She’s in a coma for almost a year and all of her friends believe that she’s actually tried to kill herself. Now, as the seasons come close to the holidays, […]
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