Riding the Bullet (2004)

I'd just like to say, this film has a VERY strong opening. Very, very strong. Basically the first five or ten seconds after the opening credits and montage, immediately after the Zombies classic song Time of the Season for Loving finishes playing. It's just one hell of a solid scene. That's all I'm saying.

Stephen King stuck his father in The Stand!

Some of us here must know this already, but if I ever knew it I had completely forgotten about it. In chapter 50, on page 650 of my copy of the expanded edition of The Stand, there is a scene where Mother Abagail (that's how she spells it) reminisces about a vacuum cleaner salesman named Donald King! It says she met him back in the 1930s. That is definitely a reference to SKs dad, Donald King, who sold vacuum cleaners. So cool. Had to share.

Love Lies Bleeding (2024)

A weird thing happened in the world lately. And by the world, I mean what goes on in my head. Kristen Stewart, the chick from Twilight, who I've never found attractive previously, suddenly became hot. And not in the usual way. She became hot when she became... dykey. She used to be awkwardly gawky and lean in a bad way; the kind of lame faux-punk chick that losers who listen to Green Day go for. Now she's pooning women all over the place, got a hardass "men are scum" look in her eye and is really leaning into the lesbo look, and it works wonders for her. Ironically, the more she looks like she wouldn't fuck me, the more keen I am on fucking her.

Love Lies Bleeding is her at peak-dyke aesthetic and it's hot as fuck. She plays a singlet-wearing, mullet-sporting rugmuncher, who meets a beefcake muscle mommy. They smash clams and - lesbians being lesbians - decide to live together the next day. Which is all good, except Kristen's dad is a douchey gun smuggler, her brother-in-law is a wifebashing piece of shit and her new GF starts getting serious bouts of roid-rage.

Admittedly, there's some dumb shit in this movie. But it works because there's a welcome streak of exploitation throughout. Maybe not a Trash Epic per se, but it ticks some trash boxes. Nasty gore, dirty sex, sweaty neo-noir aesthetics and both of our leading femme-fatales get their tits out. Plus there's Ed Harris rocking a skullet. And Kristen Stewart. And her tits.

I was hesitant about checking this out, because modern 'female empowerment' flicks tend to have a bombardment of social commentary in place of a plot (looking at you Promising Young Woman). Not so here. Just a bunch of good (although sparsely drawn) characters played well by committed actors in a powder-keg scenario that's destined to damage all involved, with some pleasing dykesploitation thrown in. Good times.

Trap (2024)

Here's an instance where a movie has a perfect trailer. It sets up the plot that the FBI set up a sting at a pop concert to catch a serial killer. That's all you get out the trailer, and that's perfect. We don't want to ruin the suspense and the M. Night twist by yabbering on about the details, but the end result is this: This movie is crispy! Extra fried!

M. Night delivers what may be my favorite of his films thus far. That's not saying much since he's so hit or miss, but this one is a home run. Josh Hartnett kills it. Seriously, the dude plays it cool. I've always liked him since H20 and The Faculty, and he rocks in this movie.

This movie is all about staying one step ahead, and as a viewer, you'll try to do that too. I kept wondering what the twist would be, if this was the twist, if that was the twist, and I have my own interpretation of what the actual twist is, but regardless... all the twists or not-twists are great.

Solid movie, I definitely enjoyed it.

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Posthumous Lance Reddick movie

You guys, I just saw a clip from a movie called Shirley, about Shirley Chisholm. It looks like Lance Reddick had a pretty substantial role in it! I'm not 100% sure that that is true, but it sure looked like he had a really important role, from what I saw.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_(2024_film)

That isn't necessarily a movie that all of us would immediately rush out to see, but I am going to try to watch it just for the pleasure of seeing Lance R. He was so awesome. This is one of the last things he did, soooo... well, it's one of the last chances we'll have to see him in anything new.

Had to share.

Red (2008)

Good flick. Great cast. Brian Cox is out fishing when three teens hassle him and do something quite wicked. The rest is him trying to get justice while the parents of the evil boys try to sweep it under the rug.

Jack Kechum movies are always pretty twisted. This one isn't as disturbing as his later ones, but it's still very good. A cruel movie, and Brian Cox plays it real cool. I love that guy, one of those forever-old types.

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A-Z Challenge 2024

Our host Zombie has gone AWOL so here are the rules from last time:

1. One point for each letter of the alphabet plus a # (so up to 27 entries in total).

2. Alphabetize the entry by the first significant word of the title (no "a", "an", or "the".)

3. For the # to count, it must be digitalised in the titles, e.g. 28 Days Later (2002)

4. Can be any genre.

5. Feature length movies only. Documentaries can count.

6. Begins August 1st at 12:01AM local time and you must start your final movie by 11:59PM local time on August 31st.

7. You can alphabetize the subtitle of a movie too. e.g. Spider-Man: No Way Home can be "S" or "N".

8. In the event of a tie, then the "winner" will be determined by most minutes watched.

Grab your spot below!

Trashepics Human Centipede




Zed's empire 60.8 million square km
Nickos Empire 43.6 million square km
British Empire 35.5 million square km
Mongol Empire 24 million square km
Ballz Empire 23.56 million square km
Russian Empire 22.8 million square km
Markuz Empire 21.31 million square km
Zombies Empire 19.77 million square km
Qing dynasty 14.7 million square km
Ashanti Empire 0.25 million square km
Box of Hairs Island full of cuntz 0.244 million square km
and bringing up the rear of the centipede
Vinnies Empire - aka his mom's basement in Queens 0.00000000005 million square km

Deadpool & Wolverine

This movie is inappropriate. It's a Disney movie, but there's all this blood and murder and carnage. What gives?

When I go to the movies, I expect certain things. My shoes need to stick to the floor with every step I take. A single hotdog will come with 8 packets of sauce. And of course, all the blood and violence and cool stuff will be reserved for horror and crime flicks. Certainly not Disney flicks.

When I go to see a Disney movie, I expect something family-friendly and cringey and boring that I can't bear to watch and will probably walk out of. That wasn't the case with Deadpool, though. It was all entertaining and funny and stuff. Entertainment is not what I want when I go to see a movie. 😠

And you call this an R-rated movie just because it's a bloodbath filled with foul language? Not a single titty in sight. Just a bald lady fingering a bunch of dude's mindholes while Deadpool uses Logan's corpse to stab a bunch of henchmen up their assholes. No drug-use either. For shame, Disney.

I can't believe I wasted money on this wonderful movie. 4/5 stars 😞

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White Water Summer (1987)

Alan (Sean Astin) is an introverted youth who is coerced into going on a long nature hike in the mountains, led by a nice looking survival expert named Vic (Kevin Bacon). Alan is a total pussy, too fixated on his radio and his stuff and taking shortcuts in his camping endeavors. This pisses Vic off, since he believes this whole camping trip is about the great outdoors, survival, self-discovery, et cetera. Soon, Alan begins to feel like Vic has it out for him, since Alan is always slowing the group down by being a scaredypants wimp.

It's a clash of two stubborn individuals, and it's more engaging than you might expect. I can relate to Alan as I'd probably wimp out as a kid in those situations too, but I think Vic was mostly in his right mind, even though they can depict him as an asshole. But with that said, Alan is basically the villain for ruining the trip. Sure, he has his moments, but Kevin Bacon will always be better, even if he is a villain. Especially if he is a villain.


Fun FACT: This movie is (not) a prequel to Friday the 13th. After endangering the children, Vic changed his name to Jack and moved to New Jersey where he would be almost become a camp counselor.

Another fun FACT: Kevin Bacon was also in The River Wild (1994), which is a (not) a sequel to White Water Summer, which is (not) a sequel to Friday the 13th.

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