Wayback Wednesday takes us back to 1994 and a bus that couldn’t drop below 50 MPH or everyone onboard would die. There are action films that are so big they spawn imitators of every stripe for the next several years. An immediate critical and box office success, like Die Hard before it, where every pitch became “Die Hard on a ____,” so too was the case for Speed as countless studios attempted to recreate the formula.
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This Skinmax Double Feature collects two 1997 low-budget erotic thrillers starring Tané McClure each offering barebones storylines structured more around opportunities for characters to get naked and have sex at the drop of the hat rather than coherent plot or anything resembling good acting.
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To be successful, at minimum, an erotic thriller needs to be both erotic and thrilling. The Tubi original Safe Word is neither. The film from director Sara Seligman and screenwriter Dana Verde is boring, often unbearably so. Moriah Brown and Gavin Houston star as a couple who quickly marry only for her to discover a more controlling and sadistic side to her husband as they begin their married life together and as they begin some rather tame sexual exploration.
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Adapted from Dan Brown’s 2009 novel, The Lost Symbol provided a single season with Ashley Zukerman taking over the role of Professor Robert Langdon and getting involved in a convoluted mystery involving riddles, historical mysteries, conspiracy, secret crypts, and a cult seeking God-like power they believe was hidden from the world by the Freemasons. Over 10 (mediocre to downright bad) episodes, Langdon will attempt to solve a mystery that involves his former mentor (Eddie Izzard), a tattooed man, and the woman who got away (Valorie Curry).
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Flashback Friday takes us back to 2004’s George and the Dragon (quite loosely based on the medieval legend) starring James Purefoy as a crusading knight on his way home who gets caught up on the search for a missing princess (Piper Perabo) who it turns out wasn’t so much kidnapped by a dragon but saved from a marriage to a local lord (Patrick Swayze) her father had chosen for her. Refusing to abandon the dragon’s egg, Princess Lunna gets George into all kinds of trouble and hijinks in this likeable family-friendly film.
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