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Month: July 2016

“Deadly Daughters” (*1/2 out of four) was a deadly dull melodrama about two two beautiful sisters (Yvonne Zima and Claire Rankin), one of whom may be plotting to murder their mother. Silly and bland thriller is about as scary and exciting as a family therapy session. Originally titled “Killing Monmy” but all the movie does is kill your time.

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“Dope King” (*1/2 out of four) was an interminable urban melodrama made for dopes about a street hustler (Pha’rez Lass) who is shot in the head and left for dead and then tries to leave behind his life in the streets and as a drug dealer but the kidnapping of his fiancee (Jennifer Figuereo) and his colossal debt to the Russian mob (led by Catherine Curtin) leave him few choices and seal his doom. A few scattered and effective moments throughout but film’s self-indulgent unpleasantness and overlength will likely numb you and wear you out. Yet another film derived from (i.e. ripped off) from “King Of New York” and also “New Jack City” but is a far cry from either.
“Sugarcane” (*1/2 out of four) was a sour suspense psychodrama about a sex-trafficking survivor (Josie Juliette Wert) who tries to race against time to track down a teenage girl (Lacey Katena) to protect her from a sadistic serial killer (Kellan Jackson) who is moving in and attempting to abduct her. Recommended only for those who thought “The Silence Of The Lambs” (or even “Red Dragon”) were overrated as film exploitatively rehashes elements of both but without any of their style or conviction. Watch “Sugarland Express” again instead.
“It’ll Cost You” (* out of four) was a leaden psychodrama that’ll cost you nearly an hour-and-a-half of your life about a millionaire businesswoman (I.O. Brown) who learns that her boyfriend (Xavier Mikal) has been having an affair and she is willing to let his side-girlfriend (Reeko King) have him if she settles his debts but when she doesn’t want to do this- things get really bloody and ugly in the streets. Potentially juicy material is undone by inept filmmaking and amateurish acting that turn this (at times) into an unintentional comedy.
“When A Woman’s Fed Up” (*1/2 out of four) was a slapdash suspense psychodrama about a woman (Roxanne Neil) who stays loyal to her man (Lashaun Todman) but her loyalty is put to the test when she finds out he is still involved in the streets and with other women and she has to risk her own life to get him out. Opens up fairly well but soon sputters due to unlikable characters that will make viewers “fed up” even more than she is. Final showdown is especially a letdown.
“Wages Of Sin” (**1/2 out of four) was an uneven but watchable pulp-underworld melodrama about a businessman (Paul Sloan) who is plunged into the brutal L.A. underworld of fetanyl and he has to stay one step ahead of lethal enforcers (Danny Trejo, Stephen Cyrus Sepher, and others) and corrupt cops (Anthony Sinopoli, Nazo Bravo, and others) to clear his name and stay alive. Flavorful mix of the slick and the sordid actually turns out to be anti-drug moralistic melodrama about the genuine fatal dangers of fetanyl and its deadly impact on our country. Imperfect but better-than-average for its type. Sepher also wrote the script.

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