Shameless Self Expression

In the aftermath of the catastrophic events of “Avengers: Infinity War” , the remaining Avengers go after Thanos (Josh Brolin) but the encounter brings no restoration of things. A few years later, they are given a glimmer of hope from Scott Lang/Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) who suggests that the quantum realm has time travel capabilities that might allow them to travel back in time before the almighty ‘Thanos Snap’ occurred and collect all of the infinity stones before Thanos. It’s crazy, but it might just work.   As you probably already know I’m not a big fan of the modern day comic book/superhero film. There are exceptions including the previous “Avengers: Infinity War” . This 2019 film from co-directors Joe and Anthony Russo (who helmed the best of these films “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” as well as “Infinity War” ) is for me one of the more middling ones. Scripted by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely (see the above films), It’s clunky, unwieldy and clearly only made...

Tony Stone (Robert Z’Dar) is busted out of a prison van by his cronies after having been convicted and sentenced for the crime, which included killing a few cops. One of said cronies gets shot in the ensuing mayhem, so after fleeing the scene they end up busting into – and holing up in – the home of long-haired Californian kickboxer Harold Diamond and his family. They terrorise everybody inside (including a kid, who doesn’t seem to belong in this household dynamic at all ) whilst cop Jim Brown slowly works his way around to happening upon the scene. Joselito Rescober plays the family doctor, John Lynch is the resident creepy rapist of the gang.   I guess I saw the wrong film from writer-director Amir Shervan, whose “Samurai Cop” is an apparently beloved bad movie classic. This 1988 low-rent “The Desperate Hours” has a few bad movie moments, but is mostly my least favourite kind of bad movie: Forgettable. Even the Mickey Rourke/Anthony Hopkins remake of “Desperate Hours” is ...