Kill Chain with Nicolas Cage.
It’s one of those low budget action thingies with an intentionally misleading/confusing plot and more than one “reveal” moments. It’s a lot of fun though.
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More like a movie I only just watched again, because I’d seen it long ago, but I recently saw The Star Chamber. This 1983 film staring a noticeably younger Michael Douglas is a pretty decent, low-tier movie for fans of Hitman and Law & Order. The movie itself is bland and unremarkable in most aspects, but it’s premise, and a few things it does well, are really interesting.
Douglass plays a judge who loses faith in the justice system when he’s forced to let two killers walk free in a child murder case on a technicality due to a mistake made by the cops. Afterward, one of his mentors introduces him to the titular (but never named in-story) Star Chamber. To anyone interested so far, spoiler warning here.
The Star Chamber in this film is a group of judges in the district Douglas works in, who are also fed up with how the justice system lets killers go free, and so they gather together secretly every week where one of them presents a case of a killer who avoided jail or was set free early or got too light a sentence, where they present the evidence against them that shows that they are factually guilty and are only free due to legal loopholes. The Chamber then casts a verdict based on this evidence, and if the unanimous verdict is guilty, they contact a local hitman and send him after the killer, and we are treated to the cooler parts of the movie when this happens. It is unknown if the hired assassin knows who the group is, knows why he’s been hired or why his targets are set to die. He may have simply been an average hitman who they just called up one day. It’s hinted near the end that he might be a cop during his day job, which would aid him in finding his targets and not leaving traceable evidence, and that further implies that he might know why he’s doing these jobs, but still maybe not. In the end, as cool as this setup is, Douglas brings the two killers he set free before the Chamber and they declare them guilty and send the hitman out after them, only for new evidence to show that they are not the ones who killed the child. The Chamber can’t call the hitman off because that would risk exposing the operation, and since the two targets are still guilty of other crimes, they decide to let it go. So Douglas must try to warn the two targets without them killing him for knowing their other crimes, without the hitman killing him after the Chamber warned him not to interfere, and figure out how to expose and bring down the Chamber, as these events show that they’re just as guilty as their targets.
The parts with the actual Star Chamber and their creepy, ominous council/shadow government vibes and the scenes with the hitman are really the only enjoyable parts, for me anyway, but there are some decent performances by some 80s actors you’ve probably seen in some crime/thriller movies, so it’s worth at least one watch for those reasons.
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The River Murders.
The single most fucked up movie I have ever seen. Ray Liotta plays a cop. An old girlfriend of his ends up dead. Then another, and another. Obviously he is a suspect. I won’t spoil it. Christian Slater plays a jerk of an FBI agent who’s assigned to the case and Ving Rymes plays Ray Liotta’s boss.
It’s on Amazon prime right now, and it’s worth your time.
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I have been catching up while!!!
Red Notice on Netflix. Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot. Super fun, really silly, action packed and kinda funny. It’s like Indians Jones or Tomb Raider meets Oceans 11.
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Huh, that basic premise is awfully similar to that Bruce Willis flick from the 90s… Striking Distance was it? Though I imagine the overall plot here is completely different. Will give it a go at some point.
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I was curious and googled it, can’t say I’m disappointed
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Seen this a few days ago. Didn’t like it at all. After about 10 minutes I knew the ending already – it was so predictable. Real waste of time for me. But I’m glad you enjoyed it!
After watching this I felt like I need a good scripted and directed movie and re-watched «Get Shorty». Always fun!
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I meant Indiana Jones 
@djsojus it was pretty silly. I usually like more serious stuff but I have been on the couch recovering from my 3rd Covid shot so I went with the family fun.
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This was suggested to my cousin from one of his friends on FB… ‘Murder in Coweta County’ (1983) “It has Andy Griffith like you’ve never seen him.” And yeah. Then again, I can’t say I’ve seen much with him in it. There’s his show, then Matlock. Maybe a couple other things, but that’s been so long ago… Pretty interesting movie. It’s supposed to be based on actual events. If I were to rate it I might give 3.5 out of 5. It’s dated, maybe a little corny given where it was filmed (sourcing locals for bit parts?). Riffing it by impersonating Don Knotts/Deputy Barney Fife makes for some funny moments.
I seen it on TubiTV(dot) com. It was free… Then I noticed they had Columbo. So (although not a movie) I’m watching episodes of that now. I don’t know off hand how many seasons they have. Maybe after I’m done with that I can find a site that has free episodes of Monk.
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I have one more for the list and then tomorrow I’m headed back to work.
The Guest. It’s on Netflix. It’s about a soldier who comes home and goes to visit the family of his deceased soldier buddy. The movie is ALL KINDS OF SCREWED UP!!! It’s kinda like Jason Bourne meets Stranger Things only if stranger things didn’t have any monsters.
The movie is pretty good but the soundtrack is just incredible. I must have Shazammed 12 songs during the movie. Give this one a watch before it falls off Netflix (Dec 4 in the US).
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I really like the Guest. Reminds me a lot of classic John Carpenter movies. Of course the synthy soundtrack helps.
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I’m allowed to post upcoming movie stuff right? I don’t think there’s another movie thread…
New trailer for Pixar’s next film came out today.
It looks freaking adorable, and I love all the Toronto references Domee Shi is including, as well as the early 2000’s stuff like Tamagotchi and NSYNC. Seems like a cute little film for March.
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This looks great 
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A few movies I watched recently.
The Irishman
It’s on Netflix, first Scorsese film I have watched in a long time. It’s about a truck driver turned mob hitman who retired and reflects back on his life. I want to admit that I honestly got confused by a lot of the dialogue in this movie, but maybe I just have to be more familiar with mob movies.
The best part of the film for me is definitely the last hour after you-know-who was turned to paint by you-know-who and the movie completely changes to show how damaging living that life can be towards family. This part resonated with me a lot and even if I don’t like the other stuff before it as much I still enjoyed my experience with the film. Definitely worth a watch though I think the film has to be split up into sessions to watch it though, to not get burnt out from the 3 hour 30 minute run time.
Samuel Ramuel’s Human Spider second sequel
Why did I watch this? Why did I like this? Why did I think this was better than the first (and the second) ? Why did I feel engaged most of the film? Was it because of the memes? Was this movie even good without the memes? All of these questions may never get answered.
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spiderman 2 is just a really good movie with a whole load of charm and camp that stays with you long after
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Spider man 2 wasn’t on Netflix in my country for some reason 
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It’s on Amazon Prime here in Canada.
The rights seem to be all over the place. We’ve got Spider-Man 1 on Netflix, the sequel on Amazon Prime, and the third one isn’t available for free anywhere.
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Yarr harr fiddle dee dee, free movies as far as the eye can see
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Shhh! Do you want to get sent to Davy Jones’ locker?!
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