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The Old Way

Director Brett Donowho Starring Nicolas Cage, Shiloh Fernandez, Noah Le Gros, Ryan Kiera Armstrong Rated MA Score 4/6 An old gunslinger and his daughter must face the consequences of his past, when the son of a man he murdered years ago arrives to take his revenge. For those of you who might be interested, from…

Wargames

Director John Badham Starring Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy & John Wood Rated PG Score 6/6 A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III. First things first, when i sat down to watch WarGames, Ally Sheedy’s line about 41 being…

In Pursuit of Honor

Director Ken Olin Starring Don Johnson, Craig Sheffer, Gabrielle Anwar Rated M Score 3.5/6 In 1932, a modernizing U.S. Army orders the Cavalry to destroy its horses but some  sympathetic cavalrymen, defying orders, steal the horses in order to save them from destruction, to the dismay of the top Army-brass. The movie is not actually…

Steel Sharks

Director Rodney McDonald Starring Gary Busey & Billy Dee Williams Rated M Score 2/6 A United States chemist is captured by terrorists. But a rescue attempt by an elite group of Navy Seals goes wrong when they are captured. Now they must wage a silent war beneath the waves. If memory serves I still have…

American Sicario

Director RJ Collins Starring Philippe A. Haddad, Maurice Compte, Maya Stojan Rated MA Score 1.5/6 American gangster Erik Vasquez is scheming to become the top dog in the Mexican underworld, only to find himself making enemies out of both the powerful cartels and his own allies. I stumbled across American Sicario because I stumbled across…

Termination Point

Director Jason Bourque Starring Jason Priestley, Lou Diamond Phillips & Garwin Sanford Rated M Score 0/6 The scientist behind the government’s secret time travel/teleportation project leaves with it on a passenger airplane when the government decides to militarize it. Okay, I have been procrastinating a lot through the month of January so I suppose I…

Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre

Director Guy Ritchie Stars Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza & Cary Elwes Rated M Score 4/6 Special agent Orson Fortune and his team of operatives recruit one of Hollywood’s biggest movie stars to help them on an undercover mission when the sale of a deadly new weapons technology threatens to disrupt the world order. It’s been…

Alone in the Dark – Revisited

Directed by Uwe Boll Staring Christian Slater, Stephen Dorff & Tara Reid Rated M Score 1/6 Editor’s Note I last reviewed Alone in The Dark in May of 2012 Based on the video game series surrounding a paranormal detective who is investigating an ancient culture known as the Abkani who mysteriously vanished from the earth,…

Plan 9 From Outer Space

Director Ed Wood Starring Gregory Walcott, Bela Lugosi, Maila Nurmi, Tor Johnson & Lyle Talbot Rated PG Score 1/6 Evil aliens attack Earth and set their terrible “Plan 9” into action. As the aliens resurrect the dead of the Earth, the lives of the living are in danger. For those of you who might be…

Convoy

Director Sam Peckinpah Stars Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw & Ernest Borgnine Rated M Score 5/6 Truckers form a mile-long “convoy” in support of a trucker’s vendetta with an abusive sheriff – Based on the country song of the same title by C.W. McCall. For those of you playing along at home, the song the movie…