TOP 7 FAVORITE MOVIE DISCOVERIES OF 2024 w/ trailers, rating, where to stream - also> B-MOVIE GAZETTE TO GET SERIOUS MAKEOVER FOR 2025

 

Greetings All - My second year doing this, might make it a regular thing, these are the seven films I was exposed to this year that I liked a lot and recommend. w/trailers, rating and where to stream. 

THE FANATIC (2019) - Ok, so it's a like it or lump it...and I happen to like it. Sure, it's not Civil Action but Travolta gives an earnest and I think even at points, admirable, performance as the seriously autistic "Moose" who is obsessed with an actor named Hunter Dunbar (Devon Sawa.) Fred Durst's third go behind the camera in my opinion deserves more than it got.  3.0 stars/5   Tubi, Roku, Pluto, Plex

NIGHT OF THE RUNNING MAN (1995) - 1995 was a great year for movies, B-flicks included. In master Mark L Lester's world, I place this mob-type thriller second behind Class Of '84. Andrew McCarthy stars as a Las Vegas cabbie who foolishly decides to keep a suitcase full of the mob's money.  The chase is on. Like Class Of '84, this one runs on a fuel of action and creative kills. 2.75 stars/2.75 Tubi, Freevee. 

SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL (2023) - Nicolas Cage has been on one hell of a role the last decade or so. At his insane best, he plays a mysterious passenger who hijacks an expectant father at gunpoint. As the journey moves along, things are not as they seem. A great psychological cat-n-mouse, Cage is phenomenal, the nighttime photography in Las Vegas exquisite. Overlooked, for sure. 3.0 stars/5 VOD

7500 (2020) - The incredible and versatile Joseph Godron-Levitt as a co-pilot whose cockpit is taken over by terrorists. He forced to call in a 7500, the standard code for a hijacking. Another cat-n-mouse one here, not a bad entry to the airline disaster genre, at all.  2.75 stars/5

AUNTIE LEE'S MEAT PIES (1992) - Great one to throw on late at night. Karen Black, still looking fine for her age then plays a sort of madam with three gorgeous nieces that go out and lure men back to Auntie's house. Then, they're baked into the pies, ya dig? Love the originality of this one, also harkens back to Ted V Mikel's The Corpse Grinders  2.75 stars/2.75 Tubi, Plex

AFTERMATH (2017) - Who says Arnold Schwarzenegger can't act? Boy, my appreciation for the man went way up after watching this. He plays a grieving father after his child is killed in a plane crash. Oh, and he's hellbent on getting revenge on the air traffic controller who caused it. Brilliant performance, Arnie.  3.5 stars/5  Tubi, Roku, Freevee

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDYS (2023) - Gotta plug this one again. It's good fortune that I knew nothing about the video game prior to watching this. Although I feel it could use a trimming, especially the last half hour, Five Nights At Freddy's is a fun and engaging horror flick. The set design of the place itself is freaking awesome, the animatronics way better than Willy's Wonderland, let's not forget Matt Lillard, also on a roll last few years.  3.25 stars/5  Amazon Prime subscription and VOD

FOLKS - I'm going to be giving the blog a makeover over the holidays, hope you dig whatever I come up with and Happy rest of the holidays to you and yours. 

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