Civil War Saint (2022)

Civil War Saint is the brain(less)child of Wright Family Films, and a pretty damn good argument against inbreeding. The movie is co-written, directed by, and stars Ashley Hays Wright, and co-stars her husband David Owen Wright and their (presumably children) Cadence Wright, Jaina Wright, and Scout Wright. Ironically, this many Wrights go terribly wrong. Here's...

Ambush (2023)

George Santayana said, “Only the dead have seen the end of war” — or, I might add, the end of retarded Vietnam war movies like Ambush (or last year’s The Greatest Beer Run Ever). This film is so clueless that it has a character called “Mora” and another one called “Mera;” then again, even the...

The Beast of War (1988)

In retrospect, The Beast of War plays like a spiritual ancestor of Centurion; the main difference is that while the latter is overtly fascist, the former appears to be merely confused. “A Soviet tank and its warring crew become separated from their patrol and lost in an Afghan valley with a group of vengeance-seeking rebels...

Condor’s Nest (2023)

Condor's Nest stars Michael Ironside, Arnold Vosloo, Bruce Davison, and the fat fuck from Lost. Once upon a time I would have said ‘one of these things is not like the others;’ nowadays, though, I have to clarify that I use the word ‘stars’ only because these people are the closest to movie stars we’ll...

Resistance

Resistance makes the same mistake as Life is Beautiful; i.e., believing that laughter is the best medicine against fascism. This is the story of an aspiring mime who joins La Résistance to save the lives of thousands of children orphaned by the Nazis.  When we first meet young Marcel (Jesse Eisenberg) he is described by...