Category: Reviews

Movie Review: Hit Team

IMDB, Hit Team“Hit Team” on IMDB

Action/Comedy, 96 Minutes, 2014

[Disclosure: This was screened at the request of the filmmakers. No additional considerations were made.]

This low-budget comedy, currently available for rent or purchase at FilmCanal.com, follows two bumbling hit men, Max (Myles McLane [IMDB]) and Ruthie (Emerald Robinson [IMDB]). They’ve been sent to L.A. to take out a half-dozen targets in a day-long murder spree.

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Movie Review: The Book of Life

IMDB, The Book of Life“The Book of Life” on IMDB

Family, 95 Minutes, 2014

Never (yet) having been Hispanic I must admit that my understanding of Día de Muertos (“Day of the Dead”) relies mostly on faded memories of “Grim Fandango”. That said I’ve always had a firm impression that it would be right up my alley. Skeletons, food, cemeteries, food, family, food – that’s the kind of thing that I could really get behind.

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