Created by Dave Sheridan & Mark Perez "Until you've witnessed your husband explode in front of 5,000 people you don't know shit!" — Ma McClusky gets sentimental .There's dumb. And dumber. And dumberer. Frank McKlusky, C.I., a painful-to-watch, straight-to-video flick from 2002, has to be the dumberest. It's a painful straight-to-video flick from 2002, that … Continue reading Frank McClusky (Frank McClusky, C.I.)
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Andre Shame (A Low Down Dirty Shame)
Created by Keenen Ivory Wayans "Oh boy!" I thought, when I first heard about A Low Down Dirty Shame. A hilarious, sharp-eyed spoof on Shaft and all those enjoyably cheesy but vital Blaxploitation B-flicks back in the seventies that followed? A tongue-in-cheek action flick look back written, directed and starring Keenan Ivory Wayans, a man who … Continue reading Andre Shame (A Low Down Dirty Shame)
Tom Welles (8MM)
Created by Andrew Kevin Walker Everyone take a shower. Happily-married, and boasting a new-born daughter, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania surveillance expert and private eye TOM WELLES is hired by a wealthy widow to track down the origins of a reel of 8mm film that seems to depict the murder of a young girl. Tom's soon in way … Continue reading Tom Welles (8MM)
Malcolm (The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery)
Created by Dean Hargrove (1938--) Why does The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery even exist? The 1975 film "comedy," co-written and directed by Dean Hargrove, has no real stars, few real laughs and little plot. And then the penny dropped. Two of the "stars" of this 1975 gobbler, Gabriel Dell and Huntz Hall, were previously … Continue reading Malcolm (The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery)
Nick Carpenter (Living to Die)
Created by Stephen Smoke (1949--) "I'm not here to borrow trouble, but I can afford it" Why? It's probably a bad sign for a film when there's more entertainment coming from the audience than from the screen. Call it the MST3K effect. But Living to Die is just that kind of film. It wasa 1991 vehicle … Continue reading Nick Carpenter (Living to Die)
Jack Haynes & Raymond Savage (From Hollywood to Deadwood)
Created by Rex Pickett Struggling actor JACK HAYNES (played by Jim Haynie) and failed mystery novelist RAYMOND SAVAGE (Scott Paulin ) have both seen better days, and their new career as private investigators isn't exactly setting the world on fire either. But when a sleazy Hollywood studio offers them $25,000 to track down Lana Dark, … Continue reading Jack Haynes & Raymond Savage (From Hollywood to Deadwood)