Empty the Movie

Empty is a sort of post apocalyptic story, if you can call going one week without gas a post apocalyptic event.  Yes, this movie tells the tale of a world without gasoline-thus all gas tanks are Empty and anarchy reins. Empty is an ultra low budget independent film with a cast of about ten people-with two of them grabbing the bulk of the screen time.  Much like Monsters our heroes are a rich girl and a poor working class schmuck.  The rich girl is mostly reasonable and sane, her working class, tough guy boyfriend is mostly a total asshole.  We…

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Kill The Irishman

Good old fashioned gangster movie about the glory days of the Mob in Cleveland and one Danny Greene who remains in thorn in their side for several years.   The cast has a lot of regulars from other mobster movies, with the noticeable exception of the lead, Ray Stevenson, who seems to have been in a lot of things I am unfamiliar with. Kill The Irishman is the story of tough guy and mob boss Danny Greene who had a knack for being around cars when they blew up and liked nothing better than beating people to death to while…

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Eureka-The Statue is Made of Bronze!

The Syfy Channel has a handful of first run series, the best of which at the moment is Eureka.  This is the story of a small town of super geniuses who didn’t want to live in Area 51 and the poor sap who ends up being the town’s Sheriff.   The punchline of almost every episode of Eureka is that the idiot Sheriff is the only one to see the obvious solution to whatever earth ending problem the super geniuses have created that week. The new season opens up with a collection of Previously on Eureka clips, the most interesting…

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