Tales of Halloween is a horror anthology that mostly sits on the shitty side of the scale, but it has it's bright spots. Its certainly not as awful as Deadtime Stories or Watch if you Dare, but certainly not great like Creepshow either. This one is more on par with mid level anthologies like Body Bags and that is a shame when considering the solid cast featuring names like Adrienne Barbeau, Lin Shaye, Adam Green, and Barbara Crampton as well…

I just finished watching an interview with Sammy "The Bull" Gravano this morning and it put me in the mood to see a mob film. Then I saw this was on Amazon Prime Video and I figured, what the hell, I'll give it a shot. Everyone else seems to pan it but I tend to like even terrible mob films. Just as I do with horror. Sometimes I like the films others consider piles.

Well....in this case everyone was 100%…

Brooklyn Rules is the tale of three childhood friends and their relationships as they navigate life from crime to love and loss in Brooklyn during the 1970s and 1980s.

It didn't take long for me to be surprised that this film flew under my radar for so long. While it’s no Scorsese-esque masterpiece, it doesn’t need to be. Brooklyn Rules is a solid mob film with shades of A Bronx Tale and just a dash of that Scorsese touch.

The…

"In the year 2022, the international prison system is operated by private corporations. Criminals from all over the world are exploited at a profit. Prisons have become big business."

In the distant future of 2022, Captain J.T. Robbins is sent to prison for murdering one of his commanding officers in the military. He is condemned to a maximum-security complex reserved for inmates deemed too dangerous for the standard international prison system. The sentence? Life. Here, prisoners live under the thumb…

Nikki is a homeless drug addict with a five year old daughter. They squat illegally in a massive space beneath a New York City subway tunnel, sharing it with others in similar predicaments. When the city forces them out of the only place they've called home, they emerge topside into the chaos of the city streets. This is the harrowing story of a woman battling her demons and addiction while desperately trying to keep her little girl safe. A little…

Years ago the film Candyman turned me on to an interest in public housing projects. I scoured YouTube for videos on Chicago's Cabrini Green. While watching everything I could find, my search led me to stumble upon The Pruitt-Igoe Myth. A documentary about one of St. Louis' most notorious former housing projects. Through a collection of interviews with former residents and some stock footage we are given both a history lesson and first hand accounts of life in the projects…

"From the sky will come the Black Fortress. From the Fortress will come the Slayers to devour the planet of Krull. Then shall a girl of ancient name become queen...she shall choose a king...and together they shall rule the planet, and their son shall rule the galaxy."

The world of Krull is invaded by an alien menace known as The Beast with his army "The Slayers," who quickly spread destruction on a quest to take over the world. With impending…

"I don't consider myself homeless because a homeless man ain't got a home" -Tommy

Dark Days is a gripping documentary about the homeless population who used to live in the Amtrak tunnels under Manhattan before they were eventually chased out in the early 2000s. They managed to build a sort of village for those who had nothing but problems in life. Some of the dwellings they built were two levels tall with multiple rooms and were highly creative, even housing…

"Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had it's price. That is why the bounty hunters appeared."

Colonel turned legendary bounty hunter Douglas Mortimer arrives in town seeking his next target and as usual he succeeds in epic fashion. Manco, a mysterious fellow bounty hunter, enters another small town and achieves a similar feat. Meanwhile, El Indio, an infamous outlaw, is broken out of prison by his gang, once again free to roam the West and terrorize everyone in his…

"Get three coffins ready."

One day, a stranger named Joe arrives in the small Mexican town of San Miguel on a mule. Two rival families, the Baxters and the Rojos, control their respective parts of the town, leaving bodies strewn along the road between them. When the Rojos orchestrate the massacre of a Mexican military caravan, Joe sees an opportunity. He positions himself in the middle of the brewing chaos, where the bodies pile up, and profits stack just as…

"You aren't ever gonna sell this house, and you aren't ever gonna leave it either!"

"Baby Jane Hudson" is a former child star who sold out auditoriums with her song and dance routines in the late 1910s and early 1920s. Fast forward fifteen years, and Jane's sister Blanche is leaps and bounds more successful than her in film. Blanche knows that Baby Jane's early success gave her the platform to shine, and so she makes sure that her contract insists…

When a well respected local named Larry Kincaid is found murdered while the sheriff is out of town, his hot headed deputy and a group of angry townsfolk form a posse to find those responsible. Their hunt leads them to three men and a situation in which they must argue among themselves and decide to bring the men back to town for a fair trial or lynch him on the spot.

American Westerns of the 1930s, 40s, 50s, and even…