You Must See This Movie

All posts in this blog are intended to highlight movies (either really good or really bad) that run the risk of being overlooked by the public. Great movies that are well known to the general public need not apply. The following movie is in the Bad category: The Last Heist follows a group of bank robbers led by Paul (Torrance Coombs) who decide to rob a bank that is closing down and thus has a skeleton staff working. Unbeknownst to them a serial killer (Bernard aka the Window Killer, played by Henry Rollins) has intimidated his way into butting in line for the safety deposit box room, something that the bank manager and sole employee seem willing to allow. A hostage situation arises even before they learn this, partly because the employee, Danny (Michael Aaron Milligan) is Paul’s brother who was supposed to be off duty. This gradually leads to all the crooks removing their hoods. Detective Pascal (Victoria Pratt) secures the outside, but her authority is eventually usurped ...

All posts in this blog are intended to highlight movies (either really good or really bad) that run the risk of being overlooked by the public. Great movies that are well known to the general public need not apply. The following movie is in the Bad category: Alley Cat follows a martial artist named Billie (Karin Mani) who takes on a street gang. This street gang has the worst luck, only encountering Billie or her grandparents whenever they attempt a mugging. All this turns Billie into a vigilante. Before her final showdown Billie ends up teaming with a cop named Johnny (Robert Tortl) and runs afoul of a Judge Taylor (Jay Walker, yes, Jay Walker) who seems to have written his own courtroom rules that you won’t find anywhere else. Night and day in the movie seems to follow shooting schedules and not any real world sense of time. One can easily believe that Johnny is an undercover cop: he is so laid back that absolutely nothing about him even remotely hints of cop; the onl...