White Chicks - 2004 - 3 stars out of 5 stars

OK this 2004 film is highly UN-PC and couldn’t be made today.Still it WAS made in 2004 and runs 109 and the unevenness is the acting and makeup.The scene and movie stealer was a turn by the now successful ex football player turned actor Terry Crews as Latrell Spencer,a pro BB player and he alone was enough for me !!!Now as a comedy the schtick is old school,guys in drag.This is a bit different and thats good and sadly bad.Two black FBI guys,Shawn and Marlon Wayans, pose as two blond FEMALE society spoiled brats at the Hamptons on LI to foil a kidnapping plot.That works,even the posing to a degree,but their in is the failure as well.Facial make up didn’t quite sell it.Still a few good laughs and a few that made me cringe.However you won’t see a film quite like it again I believe. I enjoyed Busy Phillips as Karen but the rest of the cast was just so,so.So there’s a trailer URL after the picture and a IMDB summary below.You could do a lot worse and a little better.

After an unsuccessful mission, FBI agents Kevin Copeland and Marcus Copeland fall in disgrace in the agency. They decide to swap their bad position with his superior Section Chief Elliott Gordon working undercover in an abduction case, disguised in the two spoiled white daughters of a tycoon, Brittany and Tiffany Wilson, getting in hilarious situations. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1608646937?ref_=ttvi_vi_imdb_1

TV Series - Public Morals 2014 (TNT) 4 stars out of 5 stars

Although only 1 episode has aired on TNT so far 3 more are “on demand”on my cable system so I’ve seen 4, and while I love the 60’s setting of the series I’m not sure where the plot is going.I’ve seen enough series  to know a first season can often be that way so as long as the surroundings hold and the acting is good,stay with it for awhile.I’m hoping eventually for a Serpico meets Goodfellas or something along those lines down the road.The show seems to stand on Edward Burns as a actor and creator of the show with a push from Steven Spielbergs production company.So theres not much to say other than I feel good about its chances and recommend as a gritty NYC cops and criminals set pieace.Trailer URL foods the picture and a IMDB summary is below.

Set in the early 1960's in New York City's Public Morals Division, where cops walk the line between morality and criminality as the temptations that come from dealing with all kinds of vice can get the better of them.

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi449688345?ref_=ttvi_vi_imdb_2

Field of Lost Shoes - 2014 - 4 stars out of 5 stars

The American Civil War is by far the war that lasts forever in this countries collective memory and was decreed in absentia by the flawed original signing of the Declaration of Independence leaving slavery intact.
You would think that makes for great films and in many cases it did,however rarely do they have mass appeal. This 2014 release that sometimes seems longer then its 96 minutes,a flaw in pacing,is not preachy yet stark in some of its depiction that may seem uneven at times.Its based on a historic battle fought by cadets from VMI (Virginia Military Institute) that still exists today.However its also a coming of age film and in that sense some might find it corny,I didn’t.The young actors were good but unknown to me.The “b”level adult actors were also good and you’ll recognize a few,yet less screen time than the youngins.So if you like a somewhat different twist to a Civil War film yet keeping it “real”you might enjoy it.I certainly was pleasantly surprised.One of my lesser known gems.The films trailer URL follows the picture and a IMDB summary is below.


In the midst of a prolonged and deadly American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln appoints a very different kind of general, Ulysses S. Grant, Chief of Union Forces. Grant acts decisively. He brings total war to the pristine Shenandoah Valley, breadbasket of the South. The superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute volunteers to send the Corps of Cadets to protect the valley. 274 young cadets march northward toward the strategic valley choke-point of New Market. On the day of battle, Confederate General John C. Breckenridge, former Vice President of the United States, and commander of southern forces in Valley, is faced with a horrible decision. When Southern forces are jeopardized, he orders the young cadets into battle.
- Written by Anonymous

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi90811417?ref_=ttvi_vi_imdb_1

Flight World War II (2015) - 3 1/2 stars out of 5 stars

This 2015 release from”Asylum(never heard of them)is kinda weird but is also fairly short at 85 minutes so you have little to loose if your board.Now the cast is mostly unknown and very uneven ability wise.The story is full of factual flaws BUT I’m old school and I see sci-fi has changed DRAMATICALLY so perhaps this factual error stuff is “a alternate timeline”whatever.All you need to know is a commercial airliner travels through a storm back into World War 11 and perhaps saves it for the allies.Sounds a little like the “Nimitz”traveling back in”The Final Countdown”a film also reviewed on this blog,however the tone is far different but you sort of get a feeling the writer was  influenced.So if you like time travel flicks I give it a tepid recommendation.Trailer and full film URL’s follow the pix and a IMDB summary is below.


Flight 42 was on its way, when it comes across an unidentifiable storm. Realizing they must go through, find themselves in France, 1940, World war II. A young soldier (Robbie Kay) tells them they are in the middle of a war zone. Dodging bullets and bombs the flight will attempt to make it back to modern day, without changing history too much. Written by emilyh9817

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgRBVDzITNE 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzGUwkPhc2g