We Doing Filmographies

A former cop lives in a fancy ocean side house we're supposed to think is a dump. He hangs out at the diner five feet from his door and jokes around with Maris Tomei. One day, David Caruso, an old friend, shows up and is promptly murdered in front of everyone. What's a Parker Kane to do? Well, the answer is investigate and uncover some wild toxic waste dumping. This was a TV movie that was...

For the 5th and final film in our first Tomei run, we present to you...OscarPeople sure did hate this when it came out. It's part of the one-two punch of this and "Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot" comedic failure of Sylvester Stallone. Is this pure garbage? It sure does have a great cast (Tim Curry, Peter Riegert, Chazz Palminteri, Don Ameche, Harry Shearer, etc.), so it couldn't poss...

Danny, Spikes, and Silk graduate high school like big boys and have no idea what to do next Then, Danny receives the title to a big house in a rural community and gets the idea to turn it into a rock 'n' roll hotel. When they get there, it's a dump and the townies hate them city boys and want 'em out. Also, Marisa Tomei is part of the crew. Is it time for some shenanigans and some...

Matt Dillon is a working-class Brooklyn teen who gets a summer job at a Long Island beach club, where he meets a gorgeous lady and ends up being seduced by a glamorous lifestyle and a smooth-talking car salesman (Richard Crenna). Héctor Elizondo, Jessica Walter, and Bronson Pinchot round out the cast of what turns out to be a slow summer comedy with laughs AND heart. Also, Marisa Tomei makes her f...

Before Tommy Lee Jones became a household name in the 90's, he was Mitch, a vietnam vet who takes over Central Park in New York City in order to bring attention to the issues the veterans are facing. Based off a novel of the same name by Stephen Peters, this was in heavy rotation on HBO back in the mid 80's, who also financed it. Yaphet Kotto plays the police chief trying to end the parks...

A Craigslist Sammy Davis Jr., a slimy, dying man-boy and an old mommy are all here for the... Rat Pack Rat Eddie Rouse gets hired by a mom to do his Sammy Davis Jr. act for her dying son. He turns out to be Steve Little and things get weird, but Rouse does do some singing to this poor, sweet, disgusting son. I love the late Eddie Rouse. I love the still alive Todd Rohal. So, for a birthday gift to...

The power supply goes nuts in a small town as Donald disappears into the world. His father, friend and girlfriend are befuddled about his disappearance, while at the same time, things get weird in town. This is the feature debut for Todd Rohal, whose second movie "The Catechism Cataclysm" (2011) we absolutely adored. Can it possibly live up to that film? Will it lay the ground work for h...

When his longtime partner on the force is killed, reckless U.S. Secret Service agent Richard Chance (William L. Petersen) vows revenge, setting out to nab dangerous counterfeit artist Eric Masters (Willem Dafoe). Along with his new, straitlaced partner, John Vukovich (John Pankow), Chance sets up a scheme to entrap Masters, resulting in the accidental death of an undercover officer. As Chance'...

A divorced Australian (Dennis Coard) leaves the city and comes home to his brother's (Frankie J. Holden) gas station. Gary (Ben Mendehlsohn), picks him up for the airport as he...Return Home. That's an incredibly boring synopsis for a movie that is a real gem. If you read that, you'd never watch it. And you couldn't anyways, unless you're in Australia. But? This movie is really...

Sometimes you spend a whole movie wondering if you're on Nirvana street and if it's time for..."Nirvana Street Murder"Ben Mendelsohn works at a meat packing plant that his lover brother also works at. They're both fired because the brother is a pile of garbage. There's poorly planned robberies, blackmailing from children, angry brothers, a wonderful old lady and a sense of dread. It's an Australia...

16 year old Mick (Noah Taylor) gets forced to clean up the yard of his moms friend Sally (Gillian Jones). He'd rather be skateboarding in puddles or getting drunk with his buddies, but Sally's place is coated with weeds. After a sweaty day of yard work, Sally offers Mick some wine, they spend hours together doing kinda nothing (like teens!) and pretty soon they can't stop humping. Geoffrey Wright...

It was almost a TV movie, but then director John Duigan said "nah mate" and fancied it up. This episode covers the 1987 Australian coming of age drama "The Year My Voice Broke".Prepubescent Danny Embling (Noah Taylor) has fallen in love with his best friend Freya (Loene Carmen), but she's already had the change and become a woman. He keeps pulling creep moves on her, but th...

We've got our debut Ben Mendelsohn film. After a few years of being in TV shows, he graduates to this film, "The Still Point" from 1986.An Australian teenager (Nadine Garner) with limited hearing spends some time at her grandfather's home and slowly falls in with a group of kids who hang out at the beach nearby. She navigates a series of firsts in this made for TV Australian film...

When a local musician stoner picks up another local musician stoner, the two set out on a mission to find some grass and maybe jam a little. The two end up passengers on the Universe’s wild ride, ultimately culminating in a battle of the bands. But when When life begins to be one long and dangerous road you can always take a toke and have all your cares go Up In Smoke. We take closer look at the k...

C. Thomas Howell is a very young detective who owns a janky house in the middle of the city. Renee Humphrey is an out of towner trying to visit her sister. What could possibly bring these two together? Murder. Obviously. She's on the run, he's trying to save her. Is this a lost classic?? Would you believe this was directed by Rafal Zielinski, who also ends up doing "Fun" with Hum...

This week is a Jason pick. We are covering the 1994 film "Fun".Hillary and Bonnie meet one morning by the side of the road. They become fast friends, share their secrets, and on a rising wave of frenzy later that afternoon, murder an old woman. They did it, they say later, for fun. Is this a great time? Well, it does have an extremely young Alicia Witt and Renee Humphrey acting their but...

We needed more spookies because the spookies we had made us feel spooked. So we did a roundup, but nobody wanted to try and edit this in a week to get it out with the others, so here we are, hanging out in April and wishing it was October. Buckle up for reviews on:The under-seen John Carpenter banger starring Sam Neil, "In the Mouth of Madness (1994)" in which a Stephen King type is unle...

Sometimes you’re part of a dirty cop team that beats up suspects, sometimes you’re part of a squad of robbers that USUALLY doesn’t kill people, and sometimes you’re the unlikely nerd who is the secret leader of this…DEN OF THIEVESJules finally picked a Gerard Butler movie for us to watch. He’s been threatening for years. Instead of Greenland or Geostorm, he went with this. Butler is part of these...

Sometimes, you gotta take a break from the blow and booze and just enjoy… Ivan’s xtc. Danny Huston (who I had no idea was absolutely amazing) stars as Ivan Beckman, a top level Hollywood agent who’s been trying to get Peter Weller to direct a script by one of his writers. But? He dies in the beginning of the movie and the rest is a flashback.  This is based on a Tolstoy novel, directed by Bernard...

Jason and Jules finish off the "Toxic Aveneger" run they started in the summer of 2025 with Macon Blair's "The Toxic Avenger". It's not a remake, it's a re-imagining, this time with Peter Dinklage wearing the tutu and avenging his town and life with a mop. Along for the ride is Jacob Tremblay, Elijah Wood as the Pengiun and Kevin Bacon as the big bad. Is it good? Co...

Sometimes, you just have to scare people to earn a living? The Frighteners! Michael J. Fox used to be a fancy guy who had it all. Then his wife died in a car accident when he was drinking. Or did she??? Since his near death, he can see ghosts and uses them to spook people for money. What happens when an evil ghost starts squishing people's hearts? Find out in this very special viewer pick epis...

Sugar, how you get so fly? Sugar HillWesley Snipes is a drug dealer at the top of the heap. His brother rolls with him, and they run the neighborhood. But then those dirty Italians try to cause problems and it's all in jeopardy. Sounds like it's time to move and start over, but maybe that's not the path. What do I know, I clean toilets and wait for my kids to fall asleep so I can feel...

Hey, look, it's one of those high concept movies! Demolition ManSylvester Stallone gets framed by villain Wesley Snipes and gets frozen in ice jail for his crime. Wesley gets frozen, also! But? In that nice future where everyone he knows is dead, Stallone gets unfrozen, doesn't want to build a snowman, and has to fight and capture also unfrozen Snipes. Is this movie good? It does have Deni...

It's dark out at night, baby, but hold on cause...Rising SunWesley Snipes and Sean Connery are investigating this super hot lady who got murdered at a Japanese corporation. Sean Connery is the expert in Japanese culture and whatever, it's based on a Michael Crichton novel, blah blah blah. We had both seen this movie before and we both remembered ONE KEY SCENE, a scene that blew our minds a...

Once upon a time, Hollywood was like "white people are scared of big cities because they're full of OTHERS" and then made lots of movies where those OTHERS are after white folks who dared enter the big city. We thought we'd try to watch some of those, but Jason did zero research other than "I saw this as a kid"."Enemy Territory" is insane. A nerdy, white insur...