EDDIE MURPHY RETURNS FOR NETFLIX'S 'BEVERLY HILLS COP: AXEL F'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMvnJqRG52UbPmbO2aHYbcUJWaq6u_y_4vuZPpvbJ7msbgm0EV8WeddCzVq0_DgMsVWOTaX2hlY1otJcmUOYZLahXn_c2kQ_NR77MWhIzUdhTU_nFYRnF3bEfAjr255_NW0TGhTRiqAR4puRlX11gNmW5IBnA0pKM3iscdaDkmghqNlrkhtQ3Qar_uWB_Z/s2144/Screen%20Shot%202024-07-03%20at%203.57.28%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1192" data-original-width="2144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMvnJqRG52UbPmbO2aHYbcUJWaq6u_y_4vuZPpvbJ7msbgm0EV8WeddCzVq0_DgMsVWOTaX2hlY1otJcmUOYZLahXn_c2kQ_NR77MWhIzUdhTU_nFYRnF3bEfAjr255_NW0TGhTRiqAR4puRlX11gNmW5IBnA0pKM3iscdaDkmghqNlrkhtQ3Qar_uWB_Z/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-07-03%20at%203.57.28%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: Beverly Hills Cop: Axl F from 2024 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Between a fan-service opening where Axel Foley winds up in a truck chase through Detroit, like the original... only orchestrated with the second movie's song and with <i>him</i> behind the wheel this time... and vignettes with Eddie Murphy doing various imitations to trick people within the comparably soft and gullible Beverly Hills... he's hanging around his idealistic lawyer daughter (Taylour Page), so severely uptight and painfully miscast it's never quite clear if BEVERLY HILLS COP: AXEL F is the pilot for a Netflix series or a stand-alone feature...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Because there's no real character or story-arc to fit within an effective 2-hour mainframe while Murphy, no matter how hard he tries to be funny with those cute little voices, simply cannot play off this new smug sidekick the way he did Judge Reinhold and John Ashton... both seeming thrown in here at the last minute... who were his polar opposites, dead set against before inevitably joining into the original classic's infectiously entertaining revenge-plot misadventure — that should have been left alone in the first place.</p><span></span>

2024, action, comedy, eddie murphy, franchise, john ashton, joseph gordon-levitt, judge reinhold, kevin bacon, netflix, new, sequel

EDDIE MURPHY RETURNS FOR NETFLIX'S 'BEVERLY HILLS COP: AXEL F'

Title: Beverly Hills Cop: Axl F from 2024 Rating: ** Between a fan-service opening where Axel Foley winds up in a truck chase through Detroi...

KICKING FRONT THROUGH THE FOURTH SEASON OF 'COBRA KAI'

<p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiiAPxg4QPwWQuQmpdjiwEftlBpkNpuvW_Ivc3UEeoqBtY9czSZn5CsPQqJN-NDFHdi7Egg1XXiuGLaP1zXsdCNO9FHw1lR5cVxCX3vj3WeindoycBts5I35NYHVKLAXXz5xkbFIA4HHMGEcNw7F7nGeKL_ZA-C-mLXcgVGDA0sURB4GvZ055bRCH5u4g=s907" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="907" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiiAPxg4QPwWQuQmpdjiwEftlBpkNpuvW_Ivc3UEeoqBtY9czSZn5CsPQqJN-NDFHdi7Egg1XXiuGLaP1zXsdCNO9FHw1lR5cVxCX3vj3WeindoycBts5I35NYHVKLAXXz5xkbFIA4HHMGEcNw7F7nGeKL_ZA-C-mLXcgVGDA0sURB4GvZ055bRCH5u4g=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Zabka and a Coors Banquet in COBRA KAI Season Four DATE: December 31 2021 Overall Season SCORE: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Right before 2022, Netflix's Season Four of COBRA KAI has dropped, and for a show with mostly great seasons it's by far the worst... which is like the weakest album of a band that's had only exceptional ones... The main problem being the main antagonist in Martin Kove's John Creese having to share the titular dojo with the USA-Channel-style co-sensei-villain from the horrendously awful and infamous third <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2014/01/waxing-on-karate-kid-franchise.html">KARATE KID</a>... </p><p></p><p></p><p>Ironically, whenever Ralph Macchio's Daniel LaRusso mentions that particular timeline (usually the failed Banzai Tree store as compared to his successful car lot) he shakes his head in sheer disbelief (almost as if, say, THE GODFATHER III were remade with Robert Duvall alongside George Hamilton)... </p><span></span>

2021, action, binging, cobra kai, franchise, karate, martin kove, netflix, new, ralph macchio, thomas ian griffith, william zabka

KICKING FRONT THROUGH THE FOURTH SEASON OF 'COBRA KAI'

William Zabka and a Coors Banquet in COBRA KAI Season Four DATE: December 31 2021 Overall Season SCORE: *** Right before 2022, Netflix's...

LEONARDO DICAPRIO & JENNFER LAWRENCE IN 'DON'T LOOK UP'

<p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKBUqVcHUrtxZIJSoXj2eo3JIA2FVB1tytNFO6wvbh9nZ4c6YZP6y37W1Po3T6lwFHBcx00jUWIM3AcsiDO2cZrQe4Do2Ms0oatx4BY2qJNRy5LxGW8X8mVVWHYyDW_UJSqA31x3a8Pj8oPIuvZf9btX0h9XBVXTDbHqOUaKzQ7d42fxiWKePC-IKwSA=s1692" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="687" data-original-width="1692" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKBUqVcHUrtxZIJSoXj2eo3JIA2FVB1tytNFO6wvbh9nZ4c6YZP6y37W1Po3T6lwFHBcx00jUWIM3AcsiDO2cZrQe4Do2Ms0oatx4BY2qJNRy5LxGW8X8mVVWHYyDW_UJSqA31x3a8Pj8oPIuvZf9btX0h9XBVXTDbHqOUaKzQ7d42fxiWKePC-IKwSA=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: DON'T LOOK UP Year: 2021 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Adam McKay's DON'T LOOK UP is as much a satire of <span aria-level="1" class="yKMVIe" role="heading">the gigantic-falling-space-rock-about-to-destroy-Earth DEEP IMPACT and ARMAGEDDON as MARS ATTACKS was to INDEPENDENCE DAY, and the anticipated political bias by the unapologetic liberal director isn't completely one-sided since capitalistic big-tech Mark Rylance channels mousy Covid guru Dr. Anthony Fauci </span><span aria-level="1" class="yKMVIe" role="heading">— while Meryl Streep's intentionally-vapid female American President suffers a nude-text scandal liken to New York's once-beloved Democrat Anthony Weiner... </span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span aria-level="1" class="yKMVIe" role="heading">But the two genuine main-characters are both intensely camera-shy, awkwardly idealistic, science-minded astronomers, one a student the other academically-legit in Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio respectively (the latter falling into what aging sex symbols rely on when the movie itself has to continuously mention how handsome they are)...</span></p><p><span aria-level="1" class="yKMVIe" role="heading"><span></span></span></p>

2021, ada mckay, disaster, jennifer lawrence, leonardo dicaprio, mark rylance, meryl streep, netflix, new, political, satire

LEONARDO DICAPRIO & JENNFER LAWRENCE IN 'DON'T LOOK UP'

Title: DON'T LOOK UP Year: 2021 Rating: **1/2 Adam McKay's DON'T LOOK UP is as much a satire of the gigantic-falling-space-rock-...

ZACK SNYDER'S ZOMBIES IN VEGAS FLICK 'ARMY OF THE DEAD'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNFRm5jZxv90VaptbotR0DZxfpOowqyKjI5VaJofU6TaocZkp7WXV2_44GGjx66khTxUYU3OquLTTnhyphenhyphen7TvEMArEP_P19d2BRk5x42NkjXt3x0xzJlRq99Ms2PlYBxXdvVnAO3338TmAYS/s1031/Screen+Shot+2021-05-26+at+1.07.22+AM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="758" data-original-width="1031" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNFRm5jZxv90VaptbotR0DZxfpOowqyKjI5VaJofU6TaocZkp7WXV2_44GGjx66khTxUYU3OquLTTnhyphenhyphen7TvEMArEP_P19d2BRk5x42NkjXt3x0xzJlRq99Ms2PlYBxXdvVnAO3338TmAYS/w400-h294/Screen+Shot+2021-05-26+at+1.07.22+AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Army of the Dead Year: 2021 Rates: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's no secret Zack Snyder's ARMY OF THE DEAD has a Zombie Tiger. But the funny part is that, during what's supposed to be an action-packed third act, the Zombie Tiger actually yawns, watching passively as a horde of intelligent "Alpha Zombies" rush towards a building where a ragtag group of heroes, anti-heroes and just plain terrible <i>men</i> are stealing loads of cash from a casino in Las Vegas, an enclosed city much like Manhattan in ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, and the only place in America still harboring zombies from a zombie war we see via montage during the opening credits...<br><br>Long review short... The good guy, led by a stiff, monotone Dave Bautista, is, along with his daughter, so painfully idealistic they're boring, and annoying. Then there's a lesbian chopper pilot trying for the smart allecky Han Solo mixed with Ripley from ALIENS; the deliberate weak-link nerd who's technically important nonetheless; an honorably tough second-in-command; a rogue female tougher and deadlier than any male; and of course, those dirty rotten macho characters who, in today's age of preachy political correctness, you can no longer "love to hate" since their own hatred of everything the filmmaker loves makes them deserving of not only extra-horrible deaths, but they're not even supposed to be guiltily-entertaining in the process...<br><br></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr6bgWXSrSH-1HHnm7onjuACoqpkKH_9XUxUnIFTsPnVaqBMpZqPhAzw0OEs3i24j_xKAvHaeK9a1hrOXNh5R-4KikMWM9eATqjT2K0EA2LvvR73x1cZLf28kUFM4LPqLKwPCYcrQ-Jqh1/s2048/Screen+Shot+2021-05-25+at+8.35.50+PM+2.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1166" data-original-width="2048" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr6bgWXSrSH-1HHnm7onjuACoqpkKH_9XUxUnIFTsPnVaqBMpZqPhAzw0OEs3i24j_xKAvHaeK9a1hrOXNh5R-4KikMWM9eATqjT2K0EA2LvvR73x1cZLf28kUFM4LPqLKwPCYcrQ-Jqh1/w400-h228/Screen+Shot+2021-05-25+at+8.35.50+PM+2.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The Yawning Zombie Tiger of Army of the Dead</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>So ARMY OF THE DEAD <i>is</i> a pretty bad movie, although not as bad as some are saying because you MIGHT want to stay till the end, to see how things pan out...</p><p>At which point the ultimate let-down finale and post-finale finale could leave you hating yourself for having wanted to stick around in the first place, but... Either way, movies, as well as their characters (far too many here to remain interesting), are just not as fun as they used to be...<br><br>The reason that spitfire-dialog comedies and pure-action action flicks were once only 90-minutes long is there's just so much we can either laugh along with or immensely marvel at... 2 1/2 hours is fine for an epic, say, like GOODFELLAS, detailing the entire life of a character in peril. But for a basic Heist Movie with a zombie twist... or a basic Zombie movie with a heist twist... it's an hour too long, and just not worth the wait. </p><p><span></span></p>

2021, action, body count, heist, horror, netflix, new, zack snyder, zombie

ZACK SNYDER'S ZOMBIES IN VEGAS FLICK 'ARMY OF THE DEAD'

Army of the Dead Year: 2021 Rates: ** It's no secret Zack Snyder's ARMY OF THE DEAD has a Zombie Tiger. But the funny part is that, ...

KEVIN COSTNER & WOODY HARRELSON PLAY 'THE HIGHWAYMEN'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR-BqesIcqPVGxPM5D9_IZerMd6_8EsmEPWfwEdhX3n4zrfM1W4TaOJR_psFOmctWJ9W83F9GHmjdPMt51AvH0N0SJA_VHmNCWA0Iw7JTENJ2uSac6JMpcpLKChGi4-9TZ1nJtuGbIQrRN/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-12-07+at+6.23.07+PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="725" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR-BqesIcqPVGxPM5D9_IZerMd6_8EsmEPWfwEdhX3n4zrfM1W4TaOJR_psFOmctWJ9W83F9GHmjdPMt51AvH0N0SJA_VHmNCWA0Iw7JTENJ2uSac6JMpcpLKChGi4-9TZ1nJtuGbIQrRN/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-12-07+at+6.23.07+PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Kevin Costner as a straight-shooter in THE HIGHWAYMEN Year: 2019</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Arthur Penn's BONNIE AND CLYDE hasn't really aged all that well. Still entertaining, and reinstating Depression-set gangster films during the counter-culture, it's said to have borrowed the style of French New Wave... But all the phony-looking back-projected driving scenes resemble b-pictures from the time of the couple's reign...<br> <br> Well this isn't a review of <i>that</i> movie but a much better and more realistic one: THE HIGHWAYAMEN centers on <i>the guy</i> who took down that famous Depression-era bank-robbing couple, and Kevin Costner's Frank Hamer, unlike Denver Pyle in 1967, isn't an inept, vengeful dolt. How the former UNTOUCHABLES star portrays Hamer, you couldn't imagine him captured and humiliated by Warren Beatty's beanpole Barrow. Herein even the couple look more like they actually did...<br>

2019, action, adventure, depression-era, gangster, kevin costner, netflix, new, road movie, thriller, william sadler, woody harrelson

KEVIN COSTNER & WOODY HARRELSON PLAY 'THE HIGHWAYMEN'

Kevin Costner as a straight-shooter in THE HIGHWAYMEN Year: 2019 Arthur Penn's BONNIE AND CLYDE hasn't really aged all that well...

AARON PAUL'S JESSE DRIVES 'EL CAMINO: A BREAKING BAD MOVIE'

<p> </p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgihZQSI1FsDdbVY8AiYm38keckdkJm-tRv1QMW09-W7L6hxKawmBbiOSOGQ3J6iW8D1XfpLctFbaW0PlRRaNwZ8lSToaJsdC5JKV5X_At1F34iAuhV0ZZPI6flwcnCHZgtOUOay49MdihNZ5fEP7FFIqVZjm5_Me4nfBp-_WRays9CBBKk4e-jSFHKcA/s1354/Screen%20Shot%202019-10-13%20at%206.35.07%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="677" data-original-width="1354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgihZQSI1FsDdbVY8AiYm38keckdkJm-tRv1QMW09-W7L6hxKawmBbiOSOGQ3J6iW8D1XfpLctFbaW0PlRRaNwZ8lSToaJsdC5JKV5X_At1F34iAuhV0ZZPI6flwcnCHZgtOUOay49MdihNZ5fEP7FFIqVZjm5_Me4nfBp-_WRays9CBBKk4e-jSFHKcA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202019-10-13%20at%206.35.07%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Aaron Paul and Jesse Plemons in El Camino YEAR: 2019 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Aaron Paul's Jesse Pinkman suffered so much in BREAKING BAD... just working with Bryan Cranston's Walter White alone... that it's easy to forget the particular hell he went through in the 11th hour of the last season <i>without</i> his mentor...<br> <br> Spending half of this sequel-movie decompressing mentally, physically and emotionally from having been locked up by the Neo-Nazi uncle of mellow yet sociopathic Todd (like a grownup kid enjoying his first "friend" that he can't differentiate from a favorite stolen toy), with far more screentime here than Pinkman's two living tweeker buddies, Skinny Pete and Badger... </p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

2019, aaron paul, body count, bryan cranston, crime, jesse plemons, netflix, robert forster, sequel, thriller, tv movie

AARON PAUL'S JESSE DRIVES 'EL CAMINO: A BREAKING BAD MOVIE'

Aaron Paul and Jesse Plemons in El Camino YEAR: 2019 Rating: *** Aaron Paul's Jesse Pinkman suffered so much in BREAKING BAD... just wo...

NETFLIX 'CONVERSATIONS WITH A KILLER: THE TED BUNDY TAPES'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhArPwHwnvKC9X8zS0LFL489is8EuQzVhsWO4v4tahmQDyE6xK1UYeYMxQHO17kcOlaO0Km34i-XREA-FgJFJKeIqedjxuiIpf02HeGzD6tD8OqPSR8n057522W4iL58V-LqzKZqIkemyhr/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-10-15+at+3.14.20+AM+2.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1347" data-original-width="1264" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhArPwHwnvKC9X8zS0LFL489is8EuQzVhsWO4v4tahmQDyE6xK1UYeYMxQHO17kcOlaO0Km34i-XREA-FgJFJKeIqedjxuiIpf02HeGzD6tD8OqPSR8n057522W4iL58V-LqzKZqIkemyhr/s400/Screen+Shot+2019-10-15+at+3.14.20+AM+2.jpeg" width="375"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>This is the guy the media SO wants to be gorgeous! YEAR: 2019</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <i>"Ted was never as handsome, brilliant, or charismatic as crime folklore has deemed him." Ann Rule</i><br> <br> Dude with no lips, a unibrow, a scruffy pubic perm, a ski-slope nose and a misshapen head has been described as a handsome guy throughout the years. Maybe because he's better looking than most serial killers, or what people think they would/should look like, or those depicted in movies like, you know, Leatherface, Ted Levine, Joe Spinell... But Ted Bundy is no <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2017/12/bundy.html">Mark Harmon</a> or Zac Efron...<br> <br> This documentary, where the "in his own words" device is basically Ted denying he had anything to do with any of the murders... conducted five years before he'd strategically confess to possibly extend his death date... all while the interviewer tells us that Ted is lying to us, and him... Well let's just say it would have been a much more complete and relevant documentary had they added some of these latter, more honest recordings and yet, on the outside, Netlix's TED BUNDY TAPES is a pretty decent four-part timeline about the murders with the CONVERSATIONS added to grab the viewer, and ultimately mislead them...<br>

2019, biopic, documentary, exploitation, netflix, serial killer

NETFLIX 'CONVERSATIONS WITH A KILLER: THE TED BUNDY TAPES'

This is the guy the media SO wants to be gorgeous! YEAR: 2019 "Ted was never as handsome, brilliant, or charismatic as crime folklo...

COENS' WESTERN ANTHOLOGY 'THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV8tUxyJmHuCO7JZcL3E0rQy04wlRGtgIIR34QNs1YmRa08bW1uFJHrG1BAh1tvTYcYOvu782W_uGKpfFo2Ki-DczUrRn-qhRcZB8qcGBoDCiVaAvTamBF1Gb4v4hdazFG7zLblxf4dY0z/s1600/Screen+Shot+2018-11-16+at+9.29.17+AM+2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="886" data-original-width="1185" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV8tUxyJmHuCO7JZcL3E0rQy04wlRGtgIIR34QNs1YmRa08bW1uFJHrG1BAh1tvTYcYOvu782W_uGKpfFo2Ki-DczUrRn-qhRcZB8qcGBoDCiVaAvTamBF1Gb4v4hdazFG7zLblxf4dY0z/s400/Screen+Shot+2018-11-16+at+9.29.17+AM+2.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year of Release: 2018</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> A more fitting title for The Coen Brothers' Western Anthology <u>THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS</u> would be <i>Six Ways to Die in the West</i>. Not only is each vignette about death, but the misleading title refers to the first story and that's it. Maybe if Tim Blake Nelson's singing cowboy was the blanket narrator it would make more sense...<br> <br> Then again, he's so annoying, maybe not. In fact, SCRUGGS is one of several of the main characters that doesn't only die but deserves death: The hybrid of a THREE AMIGOS style gussied-up Amigo, Pinhead from FREAKS, Jim Varney's Ernest and Kermit the Frog, the entire point of a surprisingly lethal crooner <i>who only looks nerdy</i> steps upon the second story featuring James Franco as a scruffy bank robber, titled <u>NEAR ALGODONES</u>. In this case, Franco's outlaw loner only <i>seems</i> more resilient than a timid and chubby bank teller played by nerd's nerd Stephen Root. There's some potential in the sparse-shot, Spaghetti Western tableau, but like the first story, it ends before it really begins (and concludes with an absolutely gorgeous actress, Grace LeSueur, in a quick but very important cameo)... <br>

2018, action, anthology, coen brothers, grace lesueur, james franco, liam neeson, netflix, new, stephen root, tom waits, western

COENS' WESTERN ANTHOLOGY 'THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS'

Year of Release: 2018 A more fitting title for The Coen Brothers' Western Anthology THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS would be Six Ways ...

BACK TO THE RADICAL EIGHTIES WITH STRANGER THINGS

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4lKmRSH_wGsr8RF7sNfAS5C206GL0ZxJqsx4YCohWTFReKuNyBeI37ENwg0DxgVF14emYmPtpoZdbyFydKUtw_7sDfB9IwLzBAOIR6phDngmiQArZ6FwlM08xAKCvJ1qWWlEe3-QlllI/s1600/stranger-things.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4lKmRSH_wGsr8RF7sNfAS5C206GL0ZxJqsx4YCohWTFReKuNyBeI37ENwg0DxgVF14emYmPtpoZdbyFydKUtw_7sDfB9IwLzBAOIR6phDngmiQArZ6FwlM08xAKCvJ1qWWlEe3-QlllI/s400/stranger-things.jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The Magical 80's Aura Owns STRANGER THINGS Year: 2016</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> It's been since LOST that a show used a particularly jolting, ominous sound – like the wisp of a train roaring through a tunnel – each and every time yet another piece of an endless jigsaw puzzle are <i>suddenly</i> revealed...<br> <br> Will be careful with this teaser/review since STRANGER THINGS (made by and shown on Netflix) is one of those shows where spoilers can occur even when hinting at the mere possibility of one: The time is the 1980's with a techno score reminiscent of Tangerine Dream's treatment for RISKY BUSINESS (mentioned in one scene not long before a theater marquee promotes Tom Cruise's followup vehicle ALL THE RIGHT MOVES) – plus there's an assortment of iconic songs, from Corey Hart to The Clash, providing captivating nostalgia to "The Regan Era," which is now what the 50's and 60's were back then: a platform for limitless adventure...<br>

2016, matthew modine, netflix, science-fiction, supernatural, thriller, winona ryder

BACK TO THE RADICAL EIGHTIES WITH STRANGER THINGS

The Magical 80's Aura Owns STRANGER THINGS Year: 2016 It's been since LOST that a show used a particularly jolting, ominous soun...

ADAM SANDLER IN THE RIDICULOUS 6

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgszVNKS1AqON-uDng06NELDa-GhBM8qVbkQ7lfA7kvnUXtiKJhd9gB4tKIfsXjiFJJr5IfRLHD3VA4vYMEs8-LCacvqAJG7rXPfqvW4R2ECVsXPboiGg5jcTQ_24Om9Ka8GtjJbs83I2s/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgszVNKS1AqON-uDng06NELDa-GhBM8qVbkQ7lfA7kvnUXtiKJhd9gB4tKIfsXjiFJJr5IfRLHD3VA4vYMEs8-LCacvqAJG7rXPfqvW4R2ECVsXPboiGg5jcTQ_24Om9Ka8GtjJbs83I2s/s640/1.jpg" width="640"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>year: 2015 cast: Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Nick Nolte, Harvey Keitel, Taylor Lautner, Jorge Garcia</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> After a kink in the machinery of Quentin Tarantino's Western THE HATEFUL 8 involving a lawsuit and other such headlined roadblocks last year, the crime genre drama queen finally got a wide national release date for Christmas Day, 2015, now altered to the beginning of January no thanks to the monopolizing power of STAR WARS, and THE RIDICULOUS 6 might very well be the first time a parody of a film is released (a Netflix Original) before the vehicle it's satirizing, although obviously in-name-only, having nothing to do with the HATEFUL plot: yet there<i> are </i>a few Tarantino inside-connections including the words "FILMED IN 4K" (to the right of the opening title) as opposed to "CINEMASCOPE 70MM", the Spaghetti Western music of his previous DJANGO UNCHAINED as well as former stock actors Steve Buscemi and Harvey Keitel (also regular Happy Madison players) appearing in memorable cameos...<br>

adam sander, cable, comedy, ensemble, harvey keitel, jorge garcia, netflix, road movie, steve buscemi, terry crews, western

ADAM SANDLER IN THE RIDICULOUS 6

year: 2015 cast: Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Nick Nolte, Harvey Keitel, Taylor Lautner, Jorge Garcia After a kink in the machinery of Q...