Director Colin Minihan‘s Coyotes is a lame thriller about inconsistently-designed bloodthirsty CGI coyotes terrorizing a family in the Hollywood Hills. Clocking in with a 92-minute run-time, it’s still far too long for a threadbare premise and a complete lack of style or thrills.
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I love of a good heist movie. The Pickup is not a good heist movie. It’s generous to call The Pickup a film at all. The braindead comedy features Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson as armored car guards who get targeted in convoluted scheme by a beautiful young woman (Keke Palmer) with a sob story and a pair of goons (Jack Kesy and Ismael Cruz Cordova). There’s almost nothing believable about the script by Kevin Burrows and Matt Mider and less likable about the movie.
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to the year 2000. The 90s and early 2000s saw a glut of erotic thrillers including Wild Things, Poison Ivy, and Embrace of the Vampire. Susan Ward starred in a handful of these: Poison Ivy: The New Seduction, Wild Things 2, and The In Crowd (which did get a theatrical release after a bit of trimming got its R-rating slashed down to PG-13). Although none of these would be classified as good movies, it’s the last of these for which I remember the actress far more than her later roles Sunset Beach or Make It or Break It. And she’s really the only reason to check back in with the film 25 years later.
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Adapted from the Robert Ludlum novel, 1985’s The Holcroft Covenant is a convoluted affair starring Michael Caine as the American son of one of Adolf Hitler’s top aides. Noel Holcroft’s birthday triggers a plan his father, and two other Nazi officers, created in the wanning days of World War II. Money put aside in 1945, along with four decades of interest, is to be turned over to Noel and the sons of the other two officers (Anthony Andrews and Michael Lonsdale) to disperse as they please as reparations for WWII.
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To absolutely no one’s surprise, except apparently the makers of the film, centering the film around corporate assholes wasn’t the magic ingredient in fixing the devolving franchise. Final Destination 5 isn’t much of an improvement over the false advertising that already delivered us The Final Destination. Following the same set up as the rest of the franchise, Final Destination 5 starts with a bridge collapse which is survived by a handful of people thanks to the premonition of one member (Nicholas D’Agosto) of a group heading to a company retreat who manages to save some friends and strangers before his vision comes true. However, as we all know, Death isn’t about to be cheated.
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