Ella (Patricia Allison) is the punk daughter of the sheriff who just so happens to be the fastest gun in her island town. When her father (Bashir Salahuddin) is killed just after being warned that the people who killed his wife and son are back in town, she hopes that someone will get her justice. No one does and it feels like her father’s murder is being forgotten. Well, this may be set in the present, but it’s definitely a Western and it has a heroine who equals any man with a gun.

The state police, led by Sam Mayo (Adam Lustick) aren’t getting anything done. The new cop Hobbes (Arjun Gupta) is clueless and the mayor Calvin Whitney (Tate Donovan) may be behind it all. All Ella has is her weapon and her friend Townes (Myles Evans).

Directed by Max Isaacson and written by Tony Borden, this was filmed in Hawaii, where Paradise is located. It’s gritty at times yet covered in bright colors; Tia Carrere shows up as the boss of the bad guys, complete with an eye patch. I read one review that said that it can’t figure out what kind of movie it is. I disagree; it’s one that has so many influences yet emerges as a unique and exciting action film all its own.

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Directed and written by Henry Darrow McComas (the writer of Wolfman’s Got Nards), this is the story of Sadie (Rachel Colwell) and Ed (Dillon Casey), a young couple who are barely getting along as they live the van life and travel across the U.S. Their travels take them to a camp run by the title character (Brooke Johnson) who is very much Mrs. Vorhees without the need for a son to rise from the lake two movies later. Then again, this ends with the hint of a sequel and gets supernatural.

I never wanted to go camping before this and certainly don’t want to now. The camp host has a series of rules — her life was ruined by those horrible kids that didn’t follow them, also it must be this place, this horrible place — and there’s one kill, in which a man climbs up out of one of those camp toilets covered in human excrement and looking like some kind of demon that would have made this an ironic film if it came out in 1980.

That said, I would never leave my dog at a killer camp and drive away. Obviously, Ed is a complete moron but he seems to get it together before the end. I really enjoyed this because it definitely leans into what you’re expecting before becoming what you’re not expecting. That’s a big swing and seeing that this is a Tubi Original, an even bigger one. Bring on The Camp Host 2.

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The bachelorette party has become dangerous in the horror films of the 2020s. It seems that every time ladies get together, people die. I was excited about watching this because it was directed by Dave Parker, who made The Dead Hate the Living!

Kelsey (Diana Gardner), Rochelle (Isabella Egizi), Blake (Nathaniel Ansbach) and Jenny (Anastasiya Bogach) are in Italy to celebrate Rochelle’s wedding to Richard (Davide Nurra). One of their friends, Brianna (Giulia Nunnari), has already been killed by a vampire but they don’t know that. No, they’re here to party, even if Kelsey and Rochelle aren’t really all that good of friends these days — which seems like a bit taken from Bridesmaids, but taken even darker because Rochelle stole Kelsey’s man, who is Richard. We also find out later that she may like Kelsey even more than Richard, however.

Everyone goes out and ends up a club owned by Victor (Fabián Castro). He asks to be invited back to where the party is happening and brings his vampire clan to start killing everyone, as well as try and win over Kelsey, who of course looks like his long dead love.

Written by Michael Lucid and Mary O’Neil (who is in Malum), this has some fine gore, gay representation — even Blake gets a love interest in vampire killer Dario (Riccardo Angelini) and some great production values. Is it the best vampire movie you’ve ever seen? Of course not. Is it a great movie for a rainy afternoon or late night with some drinks and pizza? Totally.

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Maddie (Alexa Barajas) is driving when she gets distracted and hits someone. Instead of staying to check on them, she runs. Her mother is a politician and decides to hide her, more for her career than for Maddie’s safety. Her friend Hertig (Pavel Kríz) has created a state-of-the-art AI-powered house that has a system called ROMI (Jocelyn Chugg) that was created by Barkley (Juan Riedinger).

While hiding out, Maddie smokes weed, drinks and pops pills, showing no remorse at all for nearly killing someone. She does, however, learn that Hertig once had another woman living in the house named Irina (Jamie Shelnitz). That’s when the movie throws you a curve while otherwise it had been setting itself up to be an AI versus human beings film. It now is about a lost soul trapped in the house as well as a woman-hating serial killer coming after Maddie.

Director Robert Cuffley and writer Susie Moloney made a short of this film in 2019. There are some interesting shots in this as well as a really cool red color palette for some scenes, but there isn’t much that will surprise you. Cuffley also made Bright Hill Road, which has a similar story of a female protagonist confronting her past through the supernatural.

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A Cleveland woman named Uloma Curry-Walker may have hired people to kill her firefighter husband William just to get the insurance money. She was in debt when she asked her teenage daughter and the girl’s boyfriend to find someone to kill the heroic man.

She then gave the boyfriend, Chad Padgett a $1,000 down payment and he hired Chris Hein, who didn’t get the job done, and then a man named Ryan Dorty to kill William.

The problem? Walker’s ex-wife was still the person who got the insurance, not his new wife.

Director Victoria Duley and writer Ben Greguoli have put together a Tubi documentary that will tell you the story including video and reenactment to make it feel like you get it all. You may have seen this on other true crime shows — I’ve lost track of murders now — but it’s still pretty well done.

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I’ve been watching all of these Tubi documentaries because I have the goal of watching every Tubi Original.

As such, I know nothing about Miley Cyrus other than she was Hannah Montana and that Dolly Parton is her godmother.

I also dislike everyone from TMZ, so seeing that the description for this is “Harvey Levin and his team of TMZ experts discuss Miley Cyrus’ meteoric rise to fame and debate her biggest scandals and successes” well, I was planing on not liking this. 

Other than the seemingly fake fighting between TMZ writers, it wasn’t that bad. I agreed with most of the people on the show that Miley may have had some bad press early but she’s the kind of talent that will be around for a long time.

I really appreciated her charity work and for something I was not looking forward to watching, I ended up walking away from this feeling really good about what I sat through.

I promise — weirder movies are coming back to the site. Allow me my Tubi obsession.

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My brother and I don’t have a lot in common. He loves basketball and I’ve never watched it. However, I did watch this Tubi Original and I was pretty amazed by the story in it. I never realize that Kobe Bryant’s father played, that he grew up in Italy or that he had a lifelong friendship with WNBA player Tamika Jennings, that he supported women in basketball so much or that he was so devoted of a father.

Directed by Victoria Duley and Sia Savvy, this Tubi documentary would probably be elementary for someone who knew basketball better than I do, but it held me for an hour and a half and it took me through the entire story of Kobe’s life — the good and bad — and I grew to admire what he did in his life, even when he failed.

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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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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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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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