Maddy is on the run from a Mexican mob boss, but her quick way with a gun and sheer confidence intrigue the desperate mechanic. Maddy agrees to help Lupe get to Alta Valley and meet her dad. Once there, the two uncover a plot to sell the valley out from under the natives. Now, Lupe must contend with the fact that her father, Carl (Micah Fitzgerald), is a backstabbing, murderous psycho....

The Hangover Okay, The Hangover isn’t exactly a film solely about gambling and casinos, but the movie is set in Las Vegas. Upon its release, The Hangover was considered one of the funniest films of all-time. Unfortunately, the movie’s creators made two sequels that were panned by fans and critics. If you have never seen The Hangover, prepare to laugh non-stop. In all, this is one of the funniest films of the 21st century....

No, the premature demise of this hugely influential rock band is something else that Nixon is to blame for. Seems that Blood, Sweat and Tears was already on his watch list for speaking out against the war in Vietnam, a war Nixon had promised to stop and instead escalated. Many bands were against the war, but Blood, Sweat and Tears was quickly becoming the biggest act in the land. Their album beat out The Beatles Abbey Road at the Grammys....

But what a treat it is when a film like Moore’s “Bowling for Columbine” comes along to entertain as much as it informs. The best nonfiction films move at the pace of a brisk narrative and make us forget that we are expanding our knowledge. And what a pleasant surprise it is to learn that Daniel Karslake’s “For the Bible Tells Me So,” a documentary featuring religious parents of gay children and now available on DVD, moves at such a pace, which makes its take on the subject all the more compelling....

Sadly, I finished watching this film wondering if Sadoff or co-writers Kenneth Harbaugh and Sebastian Junger would err on the side of locking up the Canadian truckers and Dutch and French farmers. In fact, this whole production feels like a plea to criminalize a great many people quickly. In that sense, it exhibits the kneejerk dynamics of the racists it is desperate to condemn. The topic is ill-defined. On the one hand, this is about January 6th....

When we first meet the brothers Sterling Tom is acting like the king of the hill, doling out ideas and ways to keep looking cool to the outside world. Yet all is not well in the touchy internet boon and when we flash forward 5 months, Landshark is on the verge of bankruptcy. Tom, ever the strong silent type continues fiddling as his world burns around him but through it all it just becomes more and more difficult to give a s**t....

As Rita keeps exploring, the buzzing of a screwdriver is heard. She is horrified to witness a person wearing roller skates being tortured by a mysterious hooded figure with a screwdriver. When a goon in a bug-eyed mask and medical gloves notices her, Rita bolts away. Now at home, she turns on the TV and finds Berman on screen, ready to kill her. Suddenly, the goon with gloves lurks behind Rita as she cautiously checks her window....

Of course, this isn’t just any chicken dinner. Linda, the precocious child at the heart of the picture (voiced by Mélinée Leclerc), wants a chicken dinner like the one her recently deceased father used to make. Her exhausted mom Paulette (Clotilde Hesme) is struggling to meet Linda’s expectations after her husband’s death. Still, after a series of arguments about a missing ring, she figures this will be the key to improving their relationship....

Through interviews with biblical scholars, religious officials, and other historical experts, they seek out clues as to whether Jesus was an advocate of eating meat and if he himself ever killed an animal for consumption. They have further interviews with those from religions aside from Christianity, like Islam and Buddhism, to gain a wider understanding of the topic. There are many documentaries that discuss the horrors of poor food practices....

Which brings us to Deadbeat TV, Vol. 2, a collection of sketches by the Deadbeat Club. The idea behind the various sketches is that some deadbeat, more than likely hungover, has turned on their TV and is flipping through the channels. Whatever shows up, whether it’s a show already in progress or a commercial, is where the sketches live. Not an entirely new idea (for a more recent example, Robot Chicken uses the remote flipping technique), but it is done extremely well....

Family-run movie theaters, like the Moxie in Missouri, were also trying to find funding. If you aren’t selling tickets and don’t have the protection of being part of a large chain operation, you’re in an especially precarious position. Independent theaters like the Moxie live on donations and grant funding. Ticket sales were always a bit low, as of the Pandemic, ticket sales virtually dried up for them. In Essential Exhibition, we learn of Moxie’s struggle to acquire funding both from the PPP fund and from their pool of donors....

The good news for zombie fans is that there is a new walking dead movie on the market, and it’s trying to do something different with the horror sub-genre. In “Zombie Planet”, the Earth is a ruined husk, a “kill-or-be-eaten” wasteland of dangerous clans and walking, talking dead. But into this realm walks a hero, a man named Kane. Unfortunately, there’s a guy named Adam who is more than eager to take him out....

Understanding High-Frequency Transactions Before delving into the potential collaboration between high-frequency transactions and quantum AI, let’s first establish a clear understanding of what high-frequency transactions entail. High-frequency trading (HFT) relies on advanced algorithms and powerful computational systems to execute trades within fractions of a second. These trades are typically carried out in large volumes, enabling traders to capitalize on even the smallest price discrepancies. Market participants engaging in these transactions often employ sophisticated strategies, such as statistical arbitrage, market making, and momentum trading....

The directors follow these two and those helping and supporting them in an unobtrusive manner. Watching this film isn’t quite like being a fly on the wall, but it is the next best thing. Seeing how desperate Jeanette is not to break up her family and how she knows she can’t go back to her country of origin is heartbreaking. Ingrid, a new mom while hurdling through obstacle after obstacle, is nothing if not inspiring....

After her sister dies, Lida (Sanna-Kaisa Palo) returns to her childhood home with her niece Sanna (Seidi Haarla). As part of the sister’s estate sale, they begin to clear out the house. Sanna yearns to learn of her mother’s past, but Lida coldly ignores her as she is visibly shaken by being there. As Lida begins burning photographs and mementos, the audience is taken into her memories as a child growing up in an isolated cabin with her mother, sister, and grandparents in post-Russo-Finnish war Finland....

Before Mark can get an answer, he’s called in to audition for the casting director…but for which role? I love a comedy sketch that keeps me guessing, especially regarding the punchline, and Main Character Energy does that. The film quickly sets us Mark as an actor who has a shot at winning the lottery with that one good performance and must overcome challenge after challenge without appearing annoying to the always empathetic and sympathetic casting director (note sarcasm)....

Narrated by Jordan Mullins, Methuselah opens with a story he was told about the lynching of J. Thomas Ship and Abraham Smith on a tree that the speaker and their cousin stood beneath. The speaker then begins to explore the relationship between trees and various acts of violence, supported by powerful stills animated by shifts in color and moving images along the way. The powerful prose in Methuselah transitions from depicting the life flowing through the trees to showcasing the violence, torture, and death that humans have inflicted using trees throughout history....

The opening scene frames the entire experience with an appropriate sense of schadenfreude; 20 young men are running naked through the streets of night-time Hong Kong. Most are wearing state-sanctioned masks. The ones who aren’t run afoul of the MCU (Mask Compliance Unit) of the Hong Kong police. To say the restrictions placed on people residing in all of China were strict would be an understatement. Early in Naked Nations – Tribe Hong Kong, Scud chooses to recreate an all too frequent occurrence....

Written and directed by Rodrigo Garcia (“Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her”), “Nine Lives” is no stunt. The camera work by Javier Perez Grobet never calls attention to itself – in fact, I actually had no clue the movie was composed of unedited takes until I began looking through the press notes. Unfortunately, the first third of the film is marred by a tendency to be morbidly serious and overly dramatic....

Pat went to the secret dungeon where dollar signs are attributed to every description in the script, even those stupid passages where you’re just trying to break up the dialogue so you throw in “…Bobby smiled as he parachuted out of the helicopter and onto the top of the Sears Tower, where he repels down the side of the 110 story building into rush hour traffic.” Now, it was time to find the $500 grand....