Independence Day Saster 2013 5 out of 10

Independence Day-Saster 2013  5 out of 10

Tom Everett Scott and Ryan Merriman star in this Independence Day rip off.   I guess putting that weird title on the movie was supposed to get people to want to watch it near July 4th....   In this Alien Invasion a bunch of Alien ships start digging their way out of the Earth and then send a bunch of drones around to take out world leaders and start terraforming the Earth for the big spaceship that is currently out in space.   The low budget feature spends most of its time following the President of the United States that was downed in a helicopter and his brother both trying to come up with a way to stop the Alien invaders with the help of some random tech geeks and a scientist from SETI.   We don't actual ever get to see any aliens in this alien invasion movie,  just  a bunch of CGI flying balls.  It was okay for a low budget rip off of Independence Day,  but nothing special.

RIPD= Good vs Evil the TV show

Here is trailer for the TV show

I hope this new movie is half as good as the cool low budget show it must have been influenced by.   I was shocked when I saw the trailer for this new movie because it was something so familiar that I figured it had to be a reboot of the cool TV show called Good vs Evil.      They are too much alike not to be related somehow.   G vs E was a great show with humor and funny guest stars.   Itself basically being a Men in Black type show focusing on demons instead of aliens.   RIPD looks interesting as well, but seeing this trailer made me just long for the old TV show.

Here is trailer for new movie.

The Beast from Hollow Mountain 1956 5 out of 10

The Beast from Hollow Mountain  1956  5 out of 10

I felt like Jeff Goldblum at the beginning of Jurassic Park wondering if there was going to be any beast in this beast from Hollow Mountain story.   We don't see any signs of a beast at all until at least an hour into the movie.   Instead what we get for the first hour is a story about two competing cattleman in a Mexican town.  The one gets jealous about the other guy talking to his girl in they get in pretty good brawl in the streets of the town.  Then an hour into the movie the old town drunk disappears and we finally meet the beast and get some distant for the time  (but Land of the Lost level)  dinosaur action.   The Beast look just as bad in the movie as he does in the poster.... The last 15 minutes of the movie just throws away the plot that had nothing to do with the dinosaur and we get a bunch of action pieces featuring the beast.  The beast tries to attack the lead female of the story through the roof of a building, then it chases the hero and finally the bad guy that was chasing the hero.   The movie ends with a silly climax of the hero swinging on a rope over some quicksand in order to trick the beast into the mire.    You have to love the over the top trailer for the movie  "Unforgetable Excitement  Exploding on the Screen"    Well I don't know about that.

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Termination Point 2007 3 out of 10

Termination Point  2007   3 out of 10

The plane that his wife got on today crashed yesterday???  and it is all Lou Diamond Phillips fault.   Jason Priestly runs around in a Hawaiian shirt trying to retrieve a remote controller that will help bring the plane that his wife in on that is stuck in a time vortex and save planet Earth from certain destruction from a wormhole.

Lou Diamond Phillips is a scientist that stole his own teleporter to keep it out of the hands of the government that wants to use it as a weapon.  The film is just plain cheesy --from the special effects to the acting making for one of the most boring time travel movies I've ever seen.  Even the trailer is cheesy.

The Girl in Black Stocking 1957 6 out of 10

The Girl in Black Stockings   1957   6 out of 10

The description for this movie on IMDB reads " A Party girl is murdered, and everyone at a Utah motel is a suspect."   This murder mystery is plodding in its pacing, but has a good pay off at the end that makes the journey worthwhile.  The suspects include  a weird guy in a wheelchair that owns the motel that can't move his arms or legs,  a creepy dim wit drunk, a man that just arrived in town and several other mysterious characters.  As the mystery unravels several more people die including the always gorgeous Mamie Van Doren.  The story slowly unravels with several red herrings leading you down possible paths.   The problem with many old mystery stories is that you can get stories just as good if not better in many of the detective or crime TV shows that have come since.

Vice Raid 1959 4 out of 10

Vice Raid 1959     4 out of 10

This B Crime movie plays like a boring episode of a TV cop drama.  A police sergeant is framed while trying to clean up the city as a part from prostitution.  He then turns the tables on the gangsters after the main models sister is attacked by one of the gangsters.   The movie was very average with the exception of Mamie Van Doren's  Marilyn like presence on the screen.  

Sex Kittens Go to College 1960 4 out of 10

Sex Kittens Go to College  1960  4 out of 10

There isn't really much a plot to this movie at all.  It is madcap for no reason and the whole theme seems to be that Mamie Van Doren   is too blond to be a genius?    (Spoiler alert)  The paper thin plot line has several gangsters after something while hottie Mamie Van Doren causes trouble by being too good looking.   It turns out in the end that a sleep walking football lunk is getting Thinko the Robot to figure to make gambling bets that are making the silly gangsters lose money.    Again a very thin plot to a wacky movie that seems to have no focus or direction other than having Mamie Van Doren on the screen  (which is enough to get this silly movie a 4 out of 10).