Honestly, I’m more excited that there’s a sequel to A Good Man than any other movie this year.

Remember last time, when Ethan Carter (Joel Smith) barely got over his ex-wife when he got engaged to Arianna (Ebony Tates) and she ended up getting done from behind by her Kaos (King Wesley) which led to him, well, killing everyone, including Kaos’ wife and teenage son because Ethan had been a good man way too long.

Fast forward a few months for the next episode. Ethan and his partner Matt (Robert Q. Jackson) are trying to go beyond real estate and into development with the whitest Irish guy ever, Miles (William Swift) and get rich. Well, Ethan already had $4 million of his own money, so for me, he’s already rich. Richer. The problem? He hasn’t gotten past Arianna and keeps dreaming about her, which causes him to have flashbacks when he’s shaking sheets with Shalice (Fancy Jones), his new girlfriend. Maybe she didn’t think he was hard enough. Maybe she didn’t think he was a violent man. The dude has cut dudes chest’s open while their whole family watched, so when he starts choking her, he really starts choking her and not in a loving “This is kinky like Spencer’s Gifts so not really” way. So she runs out and he’s a crying naked mess on the floor.

Also: Arianna’s mom Sheila (Tonja Brown) is the only person who doesn’t think that she just ran off with Kaos. She thinks Ethan is a killer. Even the cops won’t believe her.

Ethan confesses the entire crime spree to his brother James (Johnathan C. Williams), who helped him dispose of the bodies. But as soon as they finish talking, Detective Evans (Bianca Williams) and Parnell (James Abernathy) show up from missing persons, as Arianna’s mother finally got through to the police.

Meanwhile, Detective Evans’ husband Aaron (Steven Weed) accidentally shot a kid which has led to the two of them battling. If you don’t see it coming when she falls for Ethan, you haven’t been watching Tubi Originals with the intensity of mainlining heroin like your author does.

Someone is following Evans and Ethan. It’s Parnell, who used to date her before she got back with her husband. He threatens to tell his boss and get her taken off the case. That night, as Ethan prepares for his big date with Evans, Sheila shows up drink and with a gun. He surprises her with a punch to the face and a rear naked choke with her dying moments before his new girl shows up.

After a fancy dinner, Ethan proposes to Evans, but she tells him that she hasn’t been honest and that she’s already married. Meanwhile, outside his home, Parnell is sneaking around as her husband keeps calling over and over again. Ethan goes nuts finding this out and just as Evans tries to leave, Parnell calls out that he’s found a body. Ethan knocks her out and when Parnell goes to look for her, he knocks him out as well, dumping their bodies in his car.

By the end, Ethan has the cops tied up, then obliterates his mother-in-law with a baseball bat, then brings in Aaron to learn that his wife has been cheating with both Ethan and Parnell. Ethan goes full on crazy here, even more than in the first movie. This goes full on drama, with police officers pissing their pants, knives to the legs, axes to the faces, the look out behind you trick working, gasoline and so much more. That’s an understatement.

Director and writer Joe Smith, you did it again.

Bring on A Good Man 3.

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If you saw The Assistant, you know that Dr. Raven Fields (Erica Mena) hired an assistant named Annie Dotson (Parker McKenna Posey) who ended up nearly taking away everything she held dear. But hey — did Annie get killed at the end of that movie? Well, when Dr. Raven delivered Annie as a baby, it turns out that her sister Heather actually survived, as a nurse stole her body and brought it back to life. She’s been raised without ever knowing she had a sister.

Now, Heather — who is now known as Raven (also Parker McKenna Posey) — is coming after the killer of her sister, Tiyana (Erica Hubbard), who has twins of her own with Mark. Seeing as how they need a nanny, our antagonist decides to become a childcare expert and I guess she’s an assistant, because that’s what this movie is called.

This is the kind of movie where adopted kids yell at biological children while only caring about shopping with their adopted father’s Amex card. The last movie is also referred to as “The Assistant Massacre” and we get to see a flashback of Raven being saved before her mother tries to explain how she stole her from the hospital. Oh man, she even says, “Your mom was diagnosed with multiple personality disorder. She was schizophrenic. She was also bipolar.” Mom gives Raven a file with all the info as I wonder, how did they ever get a social security number for this dead baby?

Now, just like the last movie, Raven wishes she had Annie for a twin sister. So Raven stops taking her pills and starts seeing her twin sister as a ghost. And of course, she puts together a plot where she puts Tiyana at odds with everyone, from her husband to his ex-girlfriend and now best friend Savanna, all to get the babies and have the life she’s always wanted. Now Raven is the nerdy Donna, here to make everyone’s life easier but, of course, also here to have spectacular fistfights through the mansion. Seriously, these are the best fisticuffs that director Chris Stokes has captured and really make the end of this movie off the charts.

This is also the most meta movie he’s made so far, as Mark works as a film executive for Tubi.  Raven responds by saying, “What? I love Tubi. I cannot get enough of those Stepmothers.”

The way this ends, this needs one more movie. The only bad thing about that moment of mentioning that Tubi exists in this universe is that we now feel further away from Stokes bringing his cinematic universe for an Avengers: Endgame on Tubi crossover.

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Chris Stokes changes up his normal relationship drama in this, a film where Robbin (Serayah) has succeeded in getting out of her old neighborhood, going to a good school and moving on up to the kind of job she can be proud of at a bank. Yet when she’s accused of stealing money, she learns that the people who had her back when she was young — and who she left behind — were more trustworthy than the businesspeople she worked for.

She assembles a team that includes the pregnant Camilla (Leli Hernandez), Trina (Gavin Turek), Q (Jadah Blue) and Shawna (Erica Pinkett), who took over as the leader of the gang after Robbin went legit. They all have their own problems, too. Shawna is about to be evicted and if she gets busted one more time, even their friend on the police force Kelli (Robinne Lee) won’t be able to keep her out of prison.

For as smart as Robbin is supposed to be, she plans a maskless and gloveless heist, which seems to be a recipe for going back to jail. That said, she doesn’t, so maybe she really is as smart as this movie claims that she is.

This is very much like a less depressing — and well-made — Set It Off. But hey, Stokes will be back next month with something new and I will — as always — give him another chance.

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The funniest part of this video is watching Melvin Townsend III act like a maniac to fellow passengers while drunk on a JetBlue trip from San Francisco to Florida. He followed this by harassing Mike Tyson, who responded as he should, by repeatedly punching the man in the face. Look — if you’re on a JetBlue flight and want to act like a loser, don’t do it when one of the most dangerous fighters ever is within striking distance.

This special would have been better if several people with boxing abilities were let loose to repeatedly smack, punch and smack the TMZ crew as they loudly speak and laugh. It would have added some meta content to the whole thing instead of watching iPhone videos of rap celebrities slap boxing in the streets.

I call BS on this whole thing, because where is the best celebrity beatdown ever, when Bjork realizes that reporter Julie Kaufman has followed her to Bangkok and responds to “Welcome to Bangkok!” by delivering the kind of critical beat down that you would never expect from her singing voice.

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Famous people are no longer suing Celebrity Skin or upset about sex tapes leaking. Now, thanks to OnlyFans, they’re doing it themselves. But is this a good thing for them or bad? Is the money worth it?

Of course and yes.

This TMZ documentary features some folks you may know — Sopranos star Drea de Matteo, Danity Kane singer Aubrey O’Day and Bella Thorne — with other you may not, like former UFC fighter Paige VanZant, creator of INSANITY Shaun T, Wizards of Waverly Place actor Dan Benson, Ultimate Queer Love reality star Lexi Goldberg, model Carlotta Champagne, former national champion amateur wrestler Georgio Poullas, tall woman Marie Temara, “Cash me outside” Bhad Bhabie and model Belle Delphine.

You’ll discover their reasons for doing this, the good and bad, and why they keep doing it. It’s refreshing that this doc is so sex positive and doesn’t shame anyone involved.

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What makes a man? Is it physical strength? Success? Money? This VICE special tries to get to the bottom of that, from seminars that are meant to help men harness their true nature to infamous cases where masculinity goes too far.

One of them is Andrew Tate, former professional kickboxer and social media personality. The king of toxic masculinity has nearly 10 million followers on Twitter and is well-known for his misogynistic views. He’s made his money with webcam models and online courses. Things fell to pieces at the end of 2022, as Tate and his brother were arrested in Romania as part of an investigation that started with rape, human trafficking and sexually exploiting women and has expanded to charges of trafficking minors, sex with a minor, money laundering and attempting to influence witnesses.

This is a strange trip into the manosphere, a place of alpha masculinity, misogyny and anti-feminism. From incels and Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW) to pick-up artists (PUA) and fathers’ rights groups, these groups are all about pushing back against what they see as feminists and their hatred of men.

According to journalist Caitlin Dewey, you can reduce the complexities of the manosphere to these two simple truths: They believe that “the corruption of modern society by feminism, in violation of inherent sex differences between men and women and the ability of men to save society or achieve sexual prowess by adopting a hyper-masculine role and forcing women to submit to them.”

This is, at times, a rough watch. To me, there is no strength in this type of mindset. Watch it and make up your mind yourself.

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Joseph (Adam David Thompson) and Sidney (Riley Dandy, Christmas Bloody Christmas) are brother and sister who have barely escaped a robbery. To escape arrest, they head to an abandoned farm that just so happens to be a place where multiple timelines all intersect and end up being part of an experiment. They are told that unless they follow a set of instructions, they can never leave.

Directed and written by Michael Felker, who edited Synchronic and Something In the Dirt, Joseph thinks that he has it all figured out, as they can hide in another dimension for a few weeks, unable to be found until the cops forget all about the robbery. This was produced by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, who made the aforementioned Something In the Dirt, and like many of their movies, this has many twists and turns, becoming almost unpredictable.

Joseph and Sidney are told that to escape, they have to kill someone who is also in this time. They have no idea who it is, when they are coming and what they have to do. Sidney has a daughter that she never wants to abandon and Joseph has already cost her two weeks.

This is not a simple movie to understand at points but it all comes together. It feels like the leads could have been in several films as these characters, as they are so well lived.

I watched Things Will Be Different at Pigeon Share FrightFest. It’s the UK’s best, brightest, and largest independent international thriller, fantasy, and horror film festival and has three major events each year in London and Glasgow. Learn more at the official site.