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A shameless Samuel L. Jackson monopolizes the fight-to-the-death fun of Arena

by Nathan Rabin

A direct-to-video action film pits Kellan Lutz against Jackson, who plays the mastermind of an online empire in which modern-day gladiators fight to the death.

  • Soon to be rebooted, the original Left Behind film series ended with the story of a badass, detective-like president battling the Antichrist.

    The dinky apocalypse of Left Behind: World At War

    by Nathan Rabin
  • The Sham-Wow Guy’s inAPPropriate Comedy is like Movie 43, minus the class and laughs. Also, it’s crazy racist. 

    inAPPropriate Comedy is where laughs go to die

    by Nathan Rabin
  • In this late-career feature, Seagal tries to find his son’s murderer, matches wits with Eddie Griffin, engages in an epic curse-off, and kills a lot of black people.

    In Urban Justice, Steven Seagal is out for vaguely racist vengeance

    by Nathan Rabin
  • Before he was a superhero and super-agent, the man who would be Hawkeye made a winning little movie about the invention of the Homer Simpson talking bottle opener.

    Ingenious captures Jeremy Renner’s pre-stardom everyman appeal

    by Nathan Rabin
  • Thanks to legal finagling, the rights to make Easy Rider sequels landed in the lap of Ohio lawyer Phil Pitzer, who decided there was no one better to write and star in the film than—Phil Pitzer.

    Yes, there’s an Easy Rider sequel, and yes, it’s awful

    by Nathan Rabin
  • Welcome Home Brother Charles is a giant-killer-penis movie with a social conscience.

    You Might Also Like?: Welcome Home Brother Charles

    by Nathan Rabin
  • After a string of action roles, 2008’s The Other Man could have been a chance for star Liam Neeson to get back to his dramatic roots. Instead, it seems intent on boring him and his audience to death.

    In The Other Man, man of action Liam Neeson stares at computer screens

    by Nathan Rabin
  • For those interested in A Madea Christmas, Netflix recommends A Day In The Life, a hip-hopera written, directed by, and starring hip-hop veteran Sticky Fingaz. Anyone taking that recommendation will find a surprisingly innovative and unusual movie.

    2009’s A Day In The Life attempted an all-rapping spin on melodrama

    by Nathan Rabin
  • A 2008 supernatural comedy-romance-something-or-other provides a glimpse into the surreal lifestyle that may have provoked James Franco’s evolution into Hollywood’s pre-eminent weirdo.

    Homefront fans will supposedly love James Franco romancing a rotting corpse

    by Nathan Rabin
  • A Netflix recommendation path leads from Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer’s dire-looking genre spoof The Starving Games to a 1970s-style film starring Jay Baruchel and Randy Quaid.

    Real Time offers an unusual alternative to the dire-looking Starving Games

    by Nathan Rabin
  • According to Netflix’s recommendation engine, only a few small steps separate Last Vegas from a bleak documentary on Hollywood’s sins, from the screenwriter of Cool As Ice.

    Netflix suggests a depressing alternative for fans of Last Vegas

    by Nathan Rabin
  • Using the Jim Caviezel connection, Netflix’s recommendation engine takes users from Escape Plan’s musclebound action heroics to Hollywood On Fire, a hilariously earnest tribute to evangelical Hollywood Christians.

    Netflix suggests a curious Christian Escape Plan alternative

    by Nathan Rabin
  • The Dissolve punched “Machete Kills” into Netflix and followed its recommendations to the Snoop Dogg-starring The L.A. Riot Spectacular. The results weren’t that amusing.

    A recommendation trail leads to the curdled satire of The L.A. Riot Spectacular

    by Nathan Rabin
  • Comedy troupe Broken Lizard lent its name to the little-noticed comedy Freeloaders. For reasons known only to its recommendation engine, Netflix thinks it would be perfect for fans of Don Jon.

    From Don Jon to an unnoticed Broken Lizard movie in two steps

    by Nathan Rabin
  • Following a recommendation trail from the forthcoming The Family, we land on a would-be cult classic inspired by Quentin Tarantino, samurai films, Westerns, and, oddly enough, Batman & Robin.

    The Tarantino knockoff Bunraku mashes up all the wrong elements

    by Nathan Rabin
  • The low-key workplace dramedy Price Check lacks the scope of Edgar Wright’s new film, but it offers a similarly complex character study in the form of Parker Posey’s tour-de-force performance.

    A strange recommendation for fans of The World’s End

    by Nathan Rabin
  • Lee Daniels’ The Butler has little in common with 2002’s Paper Soldiers, but the low-budget comedy offers a telling assessment of the man who links the two films: fallen hip-hop impresario Damon Dash.

    Paper Soldiers recalls a time when quick-and-easy “rapsploitation” clogged video stores

    by Nathan Rabin
  • Netflix thinks fans of the tiny blue utopian collective will enjoy a semi-obscure Jay Baruchel vehicle about a teenager who thinks he’s Trotsky reincarnated. What’s it trying to tell us?

    A cuddly view of Marxism links The Smurfs 2 and the Canadian comedy The Trotsky

    by Nathan Rabin
  • The ever-undiscriminating Idris Elba is the connective tissue between Guillermo Del Toro’s monsters-vs.-robots epic and the dreadful would-be erotic thriller The Human Contract.

    Will Pacific Rim fans enjoy Jada Pinkett Smith’s 2008 directorial debut? Netflix thinks so.

    by Nathan Rabin
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