![]() Transplanting the action to South Africa, Bloodline finds Gummer and his loudmouthed new sidekick (a shockingly tolerable Jamie Kennedy) hunting down graboids, bipedal shriekers and airborne “ass-blasters” to protect a threatened animal refuge. But we fully endorse the series’ fifth installment, which again stars Michael Gross as the Southern-fried, Clint Eastwood-esque hunter Burt Gummer. That’s a lot of worm-blasting madness, and very little of it recommendable. ![]() Since the original Tremors entered cult status in 1990, its slithering “graboid” monsters have appeared in four direct-to-video sequels, a direct-to-video prequel, a short-lived TV series and another attempt at a series that revived Kevin Bacon’s Valentine. Universal Studios Home Entertainment Tremors 5: Bloodline (2015) Only the visionaries behind The Matrix could convince deep-pocketed businessfolk to fund something this grand and experimental, and “fail” with such spectacle. A thrill on a performance level - each actor picks up a role in the various stories - Cloud Atlas gets under your skin if you commit the time. The film was an atomic dud at the box office in 2012, and watching the movie, it’s easy to see why: At first disparate, jumping from a high-seas slave drama to loony British comedy to futuristic Korea (complete with questionable, near-yellowface special effects) to what’s essentially ’70s detective television, the elements only begin to add up when the Wachowskis and co-director Tom Tykwer ( Run Lola Run) thread a needle through space-time by connecting the actions and emotions of the key characters. Adapted from David Mitchell’s novel, the movie intertwines six stories set in six different time periods, ranging from the 1840s to the present day and into the 2300s, a post-apocalyptic future where society has reverted back to near-prehistoric life. And while the living, breathing anime deserves all the glory, Cloud Atlas, their mostly overlooked masterwork, needs even more of an endorsement. Lana and Lilly Wachowski’s phantasmagoric Speed Racer is back in the spotlight, celebrating its 10th anniversary with a home on Netflix. Clever and rousing, They Call Me Jeeg is a welcome alternative to the bombast of the year’s “epic” comic-book movies. He stoops - his sexual frustration turns an allyship with Alessia, a young woman suffering from apparent mental developmental disorder, into a problematic relationship in need of mending - but with a slimy gangster wreaking havoc on Rome, and some agile acting doing the actual heavy lifting, Enzo eventually prevails. A moral tale with actual grit in its teeth, They Call Me Jeeg finds inventive ways to tie feats of strength to Enzo’s turn toward goodness. The sludge imbues him with super strength and rapid healing, the perfect combination to … commit more theft. An ode to the 1970s anime Steel Jeeg by way of Unbreakable, this Italian drama stars Claudio Santamaria (who filled in for Christian Bale in the Italian dub of Batman Begins!) as Enzo, a deadbeat thief who accidentally dives into radioactive sewage while fleeing the police. Uncork’d Entertainment They Call Me Jeeg (2015)Īmerica’s not the only country fascinated by superhero stories. Violent and brazen with full-bodied alien action (whatever the opposite of Alien’s hide-the-creatures-in-the-shadows scariness is, this is it), Beyond Skyline orchestrates mayhem like the best direct-to-DVD schlockfests, hands Grillo the conductor baton, then gives The Raid’s Iko Uwais just enough extraterrestrial-smashing solos to qualify as a romp. ![]() B-movie bruiser Frank Grillo ( Captain America: The Winter Soldier) stars in the playfully vicious continuation Beyond Skyline, which finds his his LAPD detective rescuing his son from abduction, then rescuing his son from inside the hull of a brain-extracting vessel, then rescuing a hybrid alien-human baby from a battalion of slobbering aliens, then helping a band of Laotian freedom fighters rescue humanity from the final wave of the invasion. ![]() and yet, here we are ecstatically recommending it. So no one would fault you for overlooking the unsolicited sequel. Vertical Entertainment Beyond Skyline (2017)Ģ010’s Skyline was nothing to phone home about, an alien-invasion epic with the heart of a DIY special effects reel. ![]()
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