Kurt Hansen's Reviews
An odd little forgotten gem from the 70's
Mother, Jugs & Speed is an odd black comedy from the 70's with Bill Cosby and Raquel Welch. And Larry Hagman. There's a handful of quite cringe scenes, including one where Hagman tries to have sex with an unconscious women in the back of their ambulance, and there's 70's style sexism and racism with a bit of resolution to that at the end.
I'm rating this because it's kind of a forgotten film that's held up pretty well over the years despite the 70's era not giving Raquel Welch her woman's rights and over-the-top craziness from Hagman's part. There's also more than enough darker moments to surprise the viewer. If you look just a little deeper, you get a ton of one-liners out of this one too.
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Created: 12-17-2025
Holy Hell Running Man is in-your-face
Spoiler alert. I can't give The Running Man more than half a chance. I gave up on this movie. If I missed anything good, maybe the ultra-pro commie rhetoric that other reviews speak of, let me know.
Completely unknown Alyssa Benn plays Ben's wife. She's kind of a looker, but the couple is absolutely so mixed that it's kind of not even realistic. She even kind of speaks jive.
Jesus. The first half hour, we're bombed with the aforementioned mixed race couple, a rant on the rich ("those rich people are more full of shit than me" to paraphrase), yet another black-n-white lesbian couple and, naturally, the oppressive hand of those capitalist swine leaning heavily on the backs of those little people.
I was skeptical this film could be as terrible as this. Like, I'd go in and see it's got Glen Powell who I think is cool, maybe it has some action and all of this propaganda could be discounted for that. I always think like that and I'm always wrong. This film is absolutely nothing but a vehicle for the liberal message. These commies should have dropped leaflets from a helicopter. That's how transparent all of this is. I suspect most involved have more cash than myself, so campaigning on being a commie is disingenuous anyhow.
Created: 12-16-2025
Very Unlike Melissa Joan Hart. Couldn't watch.
I admit I had a crush on Melissa Joan Hart in the very early 90's when she played Clarissa on Nickelodeon and again as Sabrina. I've kind of followed her on and off throughout the years. She just seems nice, like a good person, and that's why this film stinks. After she comes on to the Warlock apartment manager in order to stay and a few other grotesque displays, it was time for Rent Control to end.
There's no woke elements, but there's something wrong with her boyfriend. He leaves the apartment in the 2nd act for one reason or another, but they get back together. I think Melissa keeps teasing him with the prospect of sex and never gets around to it, so maybe he's just frustrated. I have to say, skip this movie.
Created: 12-12-2025
C'mon already and get back together.
At an hour and 45 minutes, give or take, it's taking an extraordinarily long time for Zooey and Charlie to get back together and by the end, even the dimmest of all watchers know what's about to happen. Typical romance comedy stuff with just one thing that makes the film stand out: pups.
There's a ton of doggies and pup-related stuff in this film. Maybe a little over the top on the dogs, but I must say if you don't like this movie because of the doggies, or just don't like animals in general, that's just wrong... to say the least. Is it woke for telling the viewers to flat-out adopt a pet from the shelter? If so, that makes me a woke liberal.
Fun movie. About 30 minutes too long.
Created: 12-10-2025
Important: Claire background noise for most of this film.
Not sure what happened in Acts 1 and 2. The movie was quite unfunny, at least for me and I was expecting kind of a fun movie. Lucky for us, that all changes about a half hour before the film ends. Go ahead and use this as background noise for any time before that. The characters are translucent, of course one is a lesbian. Get to know them for a minute or so in preparation for the last half hour.
It's a bit Leave it to Beaver around moms, and it gets more life lesson preachy and especially sappy towards the very end, but yeah, from about a half hour towards the end of the film, for 15 minutes, Oh What Fun is fun. And I dig Michelle Pfeiffer. She's cool.
For a Rom-Com mom Christmas movie, I say give it a whirl. I even bumped the overall rating up a little as I made it though the movie. It's a little too mom focused to be in my Christmas rotation, but good for a watch.
Created: 12-09-2025
All you need is a terrible cast and crappy plot
To disinfect a film from any wokeness, just write yourself a terrible script and get your crap cast to run 15 minute monologs about who the hell knows what. Gemma (Alexandra Bard) is his assistant / secretary / lover / confidant, an actress who only sucks just a little less than Doctor Henry (Robert Brettenaugh).
The film starts out with Gemma's terrible acting as they fart around doing stuff from the movie The Fly, then it morphs into kind of nothing in the middle, followed by what could be a rock star heroin withdrawal as Gemma sticks patiently by the Doctor's side while he says he will rip her apart and drink her blood.
I hated this film.
Created: 12-08-2025
Traveling in a London circus bumper car isn't too funny
Time Travel is Dangerous! bills itself as a comedy and makes no excuses for it: the jokes are kind of in-your-face. I didn't find the movie funny and I don't even know why. The jokes are there and it's a quirky film, just no humor in it for me.
I was going to discount this movie as watchable, not too serious and not worth any type of re-watch, but as it went on, the film grew on me. Everything about it is pedestrian in a way, but it kept on keeping on and I kept watching. Soon, I started to like the two girl characters and even their misfit science buddies. By the end, I think it's a fun little "indie" type of film and I might want to see it again. Worth checking out. No political correctness or woke subtexts at all.
Created: 12-04-2025
It's the new deal right in the middle
This is the second film I've watched where we get bombed from the side with a gay couple injected in the middle of the film for absolutely no reason. His husband is possessed. Who's writing these scripts? Do they have to actually tick individual boxes to get the green light? I'd be offended if I were gay. The film takes like a potshot at them and includes the gays just because, for no reason aside from thinking they're such snowflakes that they can't even make it through a movie without at least ONE gay couple in it.
Anyhow, Baby Blue did not turn out as bad as I thought. Once I saw that the cast was YouTube influencer video log types, I immediately hoped they all got killed in the worst way by Baby Blue but as the movie goes on they settle down a bit and it turns mostly into a watchable horror movie. The kids still are obnoxious, brain dead goons created by social media, but they're digestible. Watch this movie if only to see for yourself the gay couple wedged right in the middle. It's kind of crazy.
Created: 12-02-2025
A kind-of Rom Com Christmas Jingle Bell Heist Movie
As far as Christmas films go, Jingle Bell Heist lives up to that. I like Olivia Holt as Sophia- she's kind of sexy in a Christmas sort of way and plays the part well. The plot is kind of cringe mainly, I think, to the outlandish plot in the second act. It's hard to explain. By the resolution in the third act, things come together well enough for Jingle Bell Heist to qualify as a watchable film and not one that belongs on The Hallmark Channel.
It's certainly not one of my top Rom Coms that I like to watch for the pure sappiness and predictability of the story, but I can recommend it on a Sunday afternoon if you're down for a campy, somewhat love and capers story.
Created: 12-02-2025
We are nowhere near the 1980's and will never be again
I was trying to find out if there was a gay-man plot in Killer Rental and since I wasn't paying attention too well, I missed the secret clues. The first clue was one of the kids says, "you're so gay" and I immediately thought this was kind of derogative statement from the 80's. It was not. It was, "how cool it is that you are gay". Odd how it gets worse and worse towards the end of the film until we see two bros kissing in their modern experiment of trying to be gay. Seems modern liberal kids can't come up with better things to do than experiment with their sexuality with your bros. What a load of shit.
And I bumped the overall rating down for this movies being a found footage film, although it kind of isn't, but bills itself as such. The acting, the plot, and bits of gore aren't too bad. It's hard to get invested in these kids, so when they die we kind of cheer. I find it hard to recommend this film. Maybe if you fast forward the bro gay scene, it's worth a watch. God, I miss the 70's and 80's.
Created: 12-01-2025
