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4.2/10 IMDb 29% Rotten Tomatoes 2.7/5 Letterboxd 75% liked this movie Google users Five years after being sentenced to holographic stasis, Norman is given parole hearing. After an orchestrated technical glitch by his cronies, his soul escapes from computer prison and stalks the streets as an electromagnetic hologram Initial release: 1995 Director: Richard Pepin

7.5/10IMDb 100%Rotten Tomatoes 92% liked this movie Google users Three Hong Kong gang fighters (Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Jacky Cheung, Waise Lee) try crime in Vietnam and land in a prison camp with U.S. soldiers.Description Release date: August 17, 1990 (Hong Kong) Director: John Woo Box office: 8.545 million HKD Awards: Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film Editing Budget: 3.5 million USD

7.5/10IMDb 95%Rotten Tomatoes 81%JustWatch 84% liked this movie Google users In this remake of a 1963 film based on historical events, Shinzaemon Shimada leads a team of assassins in 19th-century Japan to eliminate the ruthless Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira, who is wreaking havoc against his own people. Hired secretly by a government official hoping to end Matsudaira's reign of terror, Shimada recruits the best samurai in Japan and then sets a trap for the lord's large contingent of faithful bodyguards.Description Release date: September 25, 2010 (Japan) Director: Takashi Miike Language: Japanese Adapted from: The Thirteen Assassins Budget: 6 million USD Box office: 17.5 million USD

6.1/10IMDb 91%Rotten Tomatoes 4.9/10FilmAffinity 92% liked this movie Google users Four retired assassins spring back into action when they cross paths with a straight-arrow cop who is determined to track down an elusive murderer that has something to do with their shared past.Description Initial release: December 15, 2022 Director: Timo Tjahjanto Production companies: Netflix, Frontier Pictures Screenplay: Timo Tjahjanto, Johanna Wattimena Distributed by: Netflix Language: Indonesian

7.2/10 IMDb 82% Rotten Tomatoes 2/5 Common Sense Media 91% liked this movie Google users South African smugglers find themselves being hounded and harassed by Riggs and Murtaugh, two mismatched Los Angeles police officers. However, the South Africans are protected by diplomatic immunity, and so the two are assigned to witness-protection duty in an attempt by their captain to keep his job. It is only when this witness reveals to them that he has already dealt with the smugglers that the trouble really starts.Description Release date: July 7, 1989 (USA) Director: Richard Donner Music composed by: Eric Clapton, Michael Kamen, David Sanborn Distributed by: Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Pictures Box office: $227.9 million Screenplay by: Jeffrey Boam   Mel Gibson Danny Glover Joe Pesci Joss Ackland Derrick O'Connor Patsy Kensit

6.4/10 IMDb 20% Rotten Tomatoes 3.5/5 Letterboxd 68% liked this movie Google users Los Angeles vice cops Michael Keneely (Elliott Gould), tall and hunched, and Patrick Farrell (Robert Blake), short and resentful, tidy up the streets from the drug dealers, prostitutes and petty thugs without fuss -- or much real interest. Goaded by the brash conceit of mobster chief Carl Rizzo (Allen Garfield), the eclectic partners go after him, earning not only his wrath but that of the their department superiors, who would rather that Keneely and Farrell stick to going after petty criminals.Description Release date: January 25, 1974 (USA) Director: Peter Hyams Screenplay: Peter Hyams Distributed by: United Artists Elliott Gould...Vice Detective Michael KeneelyRobert Blake...Vice Detective Patrick FarrelAllen Garfield...Carl RizzoAntonio Fargas...StephenMichael Lerner...Marvin

5.6/10 IMDb 20% Rotten Tomatoes 2/5 Radio Times 77% liked this movie Google users Buck Matthews (Gary Busey) is a former convict trying to live a peaceful life with his wife and daughter in his hometown. When it becomes clear that a vicious motorcycle gang, led by the sadistic Blade (William Smith), now rules the area, Buck fights back, but his defiance makes his family a target. After things take a violent turn for the worse, Buck recruits his old Vietnam-vet buddy J.B. Deveraux (Yaphet Kotto) to do what the local cops won't do, and stop Blade's reign of terror.Description Initial release: November 28, 1986 Director: Richard C. Sarafian

John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) Trailer 8.3/10 IMDb 94% Rotten Tomatoes 78% Metacritic 96% liked this movie Google users With the price on his head ever increasing, legendary hit man John Wick takes his fight against the High Table global as he seeks out the most powerful players in the underworld, from New York to Paris to Japan to Berlin.Description Release date: March 24, 2023 (Canada) Director: Chad Stahelski Cinematography: Dan Laustsen Film series: John Wick Distributed by: Lionsgate Films   Keanu Reeves...John Wick Laurence Fishburne...Bowery King George Georgiou...The Elder Lance Reddick...Charon Clancy Brown...Harbinger Ian McShane...Winston Marko Zaror...Chidi Bill Skarsgård...Marquis Donnie Yen...Caine Aimée Kwan...Mia Hiroyuki Sanada...Shimazu Shamier Anderson...Tracker Rina Sawayama...Akira

6.5/10 IMDb 77% Rotten Tomatoes 4.8/5 Facebook 90% liked this movie Google users Pilot Brodie Torrance saves passengers from a lightning strike by making a risky landing on a war-torn island -- only to find that surviving the landing was just the beginning. When dangerous rebels take most of the passengers hostage, the only person Torrance can count on for help is Louis Gaspare, an accused murderer who was being transported by the FBI.Description Release date: January 13, 2023 (Canada) Director: Jean-François Richet Budget: 25 million USD Distributed by: Lionsgate Films Box office: $51.8 million Cinematography: Brendan Galvin

7.9/10 IMDb 95% Rotten Tomatoes 81% Metacritic 82% liked this movie Google users When an interdimensional rupture unravels reality, an unlikely hero must channel her newfound powers to fight bizarre and bewildering dangers from the multiverse as the fate of the world hangs in the balance. Release date: April 1, 2022 (Canada) Directors: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert Awards: Academy Award for Best Picture Screenplay: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert Distributed by: A24

7/10 IMDb 75% Rotten Tomatoes 3.6/5Letterboxd 84% liked this movie Google users A homicide detective and an FBI agent team up to find the human host of an alien life-form responsible for turning citizens into homicidal maniacs.Description Release date: October 30, 1987 (USA) Director: Jack Sholder Music composed by: Michael Convertino Film series: The Hidden Distributed by: New Line Cinema

7.3/10IMDb 86%Rotten Tomatoes 5/5Common Sense Media 83% liked this movie Google users A gadget salesman is looking for a special gift for his son and finds one at a store in Chinatown. The shopkeeper is reluctant to sell him the `mogwai' but sells it to him with the warning to never expose him to bright light, water, or to feed him after midnight. All of this happens and the result is a gang of gremlins that decide to tear up the town on Christmas Eve. Release date: June 8, 1984 (Canada) Director: Joe Dante Awards: Saturn Award for Best Director Box office: 212.9 million USD Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures Cinematography: John Hora

We had audio problems, so instead of putting up the annual Trapped In Paradise episode, enjoy our friends at Podcasting After Dark.    We had audio problems, so instead of putting up the annual Trapped In Paradise episode, enjoy our friends at Podcasting After Dark. Podcasting After Dark  Podcasting After Dark is a deep-dive into the world of cult horror and action movies from the 70's, 80's, and early 90's. Each episode, Corey Stevenson and Zak Shaffer breakdown and review a different late-night flick from their youth. These are the movies your parents didn’t want you to watch growing up!

6/10IMDb 77%Rotten Tomatoes 3.8/5Shudder Anna and the Apocalypse got a 3.829 stars review on Shudder. 79% liked this movie Google users A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven - at Christmas - forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash and sing their way to survival, facing the undead in a desperate race to reach their loved ones. But they soon discover that no one is safe in this new world, and with civilization falling apart around them, the only people they can truly rely on are each other. Release date: November 30, 2018 (UK) Director: John McPhail Music by: Roddy Hart; Tommy Reilly Box office: $670,430 Distributed by: Orion Pictures, Vertigo Films Based on: "Zombie Musical" (short film); by Ryan McHenry

7.6/10IMDb 94%Rotten Tomatoes 4.6/5Amazon.ca 81% liked this movie Google users Description After avenging the death of his wife and young son at the hands of a vicious gang leader, Max (Mel Gibson) drives the post-apocalyptic highways of the Australian outback, fending off attacks from nomadic tribes that prey on outsiders. Falling into an encampment led by the relatively peaceful Pappagallo (Mike Preston), Max at first schemes to steal their oil, but soon becomes the group's reluctant defender against the hulking Humungus (Kjell Nilsson) and his ruthless marauders. Release date: December 24, 1981 (Canada) Director: George Miller Box office: 36 million USD (theatrical rentals) Narrator: Harold Baigent Awards: AACTA Award for Best Direction in Film, MORE Budget: 4 million AUD, 4.5 million AUD

3.7/10IMDb 2.4/5Letterboxd A small-town doctor (Adam West) and a former blackjack dealer (Tina Louise) stand up to a motorcycle gang.Description

7.2/10IMDb 69%Rotten Tomatoes 67%Metacritic 83% liked this movie Google users Deirdre (Natascha McElhone) puts together a team of experts that she tasks with stealing a valuable briefcase, the contents of which are a mystery. The international team includes Sam (Robert De Niro), an ex-intelligence officer, along with Vincent (Jean Reno), Gregor (Stellan Skarsgard) and others. As their operation gets underway, several team members are found to be untrustworthy, and everyone must complete the mission with a watchful eye on everyone else. Release date: September 25, 1998 (USA) Director: John Frankenheimer Screenplay: David Mamet, J.D. Zeik Budget: 55 million USD Box office: 70.7 million USD

7.7 - IMDB 100% - Rotten Tomatoes   92% liked this film Google users Former secret agent Tae-shik's only contact is with a girl named So-mi, who's mother smuggles drugs for a gang. When the gang realise who Tae-shik is they kidnap So-mi and her mother, demanding that Tae-shik make a drug delivery.Description Release date: August 4, 2010 (South Korea) Director: Lee Jeong-beom Languages: Korean, English Box office: 43 million USD Awards: Grand Bell Award for Best Actor, MORE Cinematography: Lee Tae-yoon

5.5/10IMDb 96%Rotten Tomatoes 3.4/5Letterboxd 69% liked this film Google users A sound technician in New York City turns to vigilantism after his pregnant wife is murdered.Description Initial release: October 2021 Distributed by: Vinegar Syndrome