Shameless Self Expression

An FBI agent (Megan Fox) teams up with a Florida cop (Emile Hirsch) in tracking down a serial killer (Lukas Haas). Bruce Willis plays Fox’s veteran partner, Fox’s real-life partner Colson Baker (AKA Machine Gun Kelly) plays a pimp, and Michael Beach plays another cop at the start of the film.   Given the involvement of divisive personalities such as Megan Fox, Emile Hirsch and director/producer Randall Emmett (who next up roped in Robert De Niro and John Malkovich for “Savage Salvation” ), as well as featuring the notably unwell Bruce Willis, it’s little surprise that this 2021 film copped a pasting. Rumour has it that Willis struggled to make this film and that Emmett may have even pushed him into making the film. However, like Willis’ “Out of Death” , the film isn’t a total wash as a film at least. In fact, it’s slightly better than that outing. Hopefully you will note that I’m still not saying this is a good film, nor am I recommending it nor excusing any possible mistreatm...

AKA “Stop Me Before I Kill!” A car accident and concussion leave racing driver Ronald Lewis emotionally and mentally disturbed and seemingly develops the urge to strangle his wife (Diane Cilento, who very briefly gives us Hammer Films’ first nude scene). Claude Dauphin is the shrink they meet in the French Riviera who becomes involved in their lives.   Although not very well-known, this 1960 Hammer film is by far one of their most ambitious and interesting films. In my view, it’s also one of their best. Director Val Guest ( “Hell is a City” , “The Day the Earth Caught Fire” ) and co-writer/author Ronald Scott Thorn ( “Doctor in Distress” ) give us a bit of Hitchcock here in this unusual psychological drama with a “Hands of Orlac” twist. Ronald Lewis was apparently not a terribly nice man and certainly a very troubled one. An actor with a limited range he was probably born for this role, of a man who seemingly has violent impulses that he is unable to comprehend or control. I...