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A Karate Christmas Miracle (2019) IMDb TMDB
A Karate Christmas Miracle
director: Julie Kimmel actor: Mario Del Vecchio / Julie McCullough
After his father disappeared during a mass shooting on Christmas Day one year earlier, 10-year-old, precocious Jesse Genesis creates a "12 Days of Christmas List" of tasks. If he completes them all, including teaching himself to become a karate black belt, he believes his father will return on Christmas. Jesse's sophisticated, workaholic mother, Abby, believes her husband was lost in the shooting, but has a glimmer of hope through visions that Jesse reports to her. After Abby enlists the aid of an eccentric psychic-turned-law professor, a roller coaster thriller ensues, where the trio unravel a mystery that no one expected - and maybe, just maybe witness the delivery of a miracle that can only happen on Christmas.
Dec. 14, 2025 watched
It's a miracle the people responsible for this film haven't been hunted down and beaten with feeble, mall-dojo karate!

A truly terrible film that made for a truly awesome #KungFuSat watch party on Mastodon
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Bad Santa (2003) IMDb WikiData
Bad Santa
director: Terry Zwigoff actor: Billy Bob Thornton / Tony Cox
other title: Babbo bastardo / Bad Santa - O Anti-Pai Natal
You'd better watch out - Santa Claus Willie T. Soke is coming to town, and he doesn't care if you've been naughty or nice. Wille's favorite holiday tradition is to fill his sacks with loot lifted from shopping malls across the country. But this year his plot gets derailed by a wisecracking store detective, a sexy bartender, and a kid who's convinced Willie is the real Santa Claus.
They Call Her Cleopatra Wong (1978) IMDb WikiData
Cleopatra Wong
director: Bobby A. Suarez actor: Marrie Lee / George Estregan
other title: Cleopatra Wong - Die Unüberwindliche / Cléopatre, La panthére du kung-fu
An Interpol top cop teams up with Filipino police to take down a counterfeit money operation threatening multiple Asian countries.
Volunteers (1985) IMDb WikiData
Volunteers
director: Nicholas Meyer actor: Tom Hanks / John Candy
other title: Un ponte di guai / Broen, der kvajede sig
After his rich father refuses to pay his debt, compulsive gambler Lawrence Bourne III joins the Peace Corps to evade angry creditors. In Thailand, he is assigned to build a bridge for the local villagers with the help of American-As-Apple-Pie WSU Grad Tom Tuttle and the beautiful and down-to earth Beth Wexler. What they don't realize is that the bridge is coveted by the U.S. Army, a local Communist force, and a powerful drug lord. Together with the help of At Toon, the only English speaking native, they must fight off the three opposing forces and find out what is right for the villagers, as well as themselves.
Jingle All the Way (1996) TMDB IMDb
Jingle All the Way
director: Brian Levant actor: Arnold Schwarzenegger / Sinbad
other title: Una promessa è una promessa / Mission: Julegave
Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company, is constantly kept busy at his job, disappointing his son. After he misses his son's karate exposition, Howard vows to make it up to him by buying an action figure of his son's favorite television hero for Christmas. Unfortunately for Howard, it is Christmas Eve, and every store is sold out of Turbo Man. Now, Howard must travel all over town and compete with everybody else to find a Turbo Man action figure.
Riot (1996) TMDB WikiData IMDb
Riot
director: Joseph Merhi actor: Gary Daniels / Sugar Ray Leonard
other title: Nacht des Terrors / Night of Terror
An heiress is kidnapped during the chaos of a riot on Christmas Eve.
The Vampire Doll (1970) TMDB IMDb WikiData
幽霊屋敷の恐怖 血を吸う人形
director: Michio Yamamoto actor: Kayo Matsuo / Akira Nakao
other title: A Noite do Vampiro / Legacy of Dracula
A young man goes missing after visiting his girlfriend's isolated country home. His sister and her boyfriend trace him to the creepy mansion, but their search becomes perilous when they uncover a gruesome family history.
Dec. 8, 2025 watched
Spookier than what preceded it (Attack of the Puppet People) in #Monsterdon.

Watched on #MonsterMiru #WatchParty after #Monsterdon on Mastodon
1970s Horror Japan Monster MonsterMiru
Gremlins (1984) NeoDB TMDB KevGa-NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Gremlins
8.0 (7 ratings) director: Joe Dante actor: Zach Galligan / Phoebe Cates
other title: Gremlins - O Pequeno Monstro / Gremlins - Kleine Monster
After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous creatures on a small town.
Recoil (1998) IMDb WikiData
Recoil
director: Art Camacho actor: Gary Daniels / Gregory McKinney
other title: Recoil - Tödliche Vergeltung / À chacun sa vengeance
Detective Ray Morgan accidentally kills the son of a mob boss. The mob boss orders to have Morgan killed unknowing that the assassin killed Morgan's wife and kids. Now Morgan's out for revenge..and he'll do it his own way
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban WikiData
Kubo and the Two Strings
7.4 (5 ratings) director: Travis Knight actor: Art Parkinson / Charlize Theron
other title: Kubo e la spada magica / Kubo - Den Modige Samurai
Kubo mesmerizes the people in his village with his magical gift for spinning wild tales with origami. When he accidentally summons an evil spirit seeking vengeance, Kubo is forced to go on a quest to solve the mystery of his fallen samurai father and his mystical weaponry, as well as discover his own magical powers.
Black Cobra (2012) IMDb TMDB
When the Cobra Strikes
director: Scott Donovan / Lilly Melgar actor: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa / Jeff Wolfe
other title: Black Cobra - Schwarze Diamanten / When the Cobra Strikes
One man travels across country, smuggling illegal black diamonds to sell in order to pay for his father's pardon in South Africa. When he arrives to the United States to finalize what appeared to be a simple transaction he is soon double-crossed and becomes caught up in a contraband forcing him to overcome an opponent far more lethal and deadlier than he has ever met.
Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991) Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Showdown in Little Tokyo
director: Mark L. Lester actor: Dolph Lundgren / Brandon Lee
other title: Resa dei conti a Little Tokyo / Fúria no Bairro Japonês
An American with a Japanese upbringing, Chris Kenner is a police officer assigned to the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles. Kenner is partnered with Johnny Murata, a Japanese-American who isn't in touch with his roots. Despite their differences, both men excel at martial arts, and utilize their formidable skills when they go up against Yoshida, a vicious yakuza drug dealer with ties to Kenner's past.
Reindeer Games (2000) IMDb WikiData
Reindeer Games
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Ben Affleck / Charlize Theron
other title: Trappola criminale / Dobbeltspil
After assuming his dead cellmate's identity to get with his girlfriend, an ex-con finds himself the reluctant participant in a casino heist.
White Tiger (1996) TMDB IMDb WikiData
White Tiger
director: Richard Martin actor: Gary Daniels / Kelly Benson
other title: Operazione Tigre / Tigre blanco
When D.E.A. agent Mike Ryan undertakes the huge task of avenging the brutal murder of the partner John Grogan, he find he must fight both sides; the murderer and his double crossing police buddies. Now with the unexpected help of the lovely Jade, he must confront the new generation Chinese underworld want-to-be kingpin and fight like and out-of-place "White Tiger"
Dec. 6, 2025 watched
Definitely a cut above other 90s low-budget action, in every way (plot, acting, cinematography etc). Well, except for Gary's accent.

RIP Cary-Hiroyuki
1990s Action Canada CaryHiroyukiTagawa Crime
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
8.3 (6 ratings) director: Robert Zemeckis actor: Bob Hoskins / Christopher Lloyd
other title: Chi ha incastrato Roger Rabbit / Hvem Snørede Roger Rabbit?
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.
The Yank (1960) IMDb
The Yank
actor: James Drury
Matthew Dorn (James Drury) wandered through the wrecked Southern states, trying to use his medical skills as a means of penance for the carnage he committed as a Union officer during the Civil War.
Dec. 4, 2025 watched Pilot for a spinoff of The Rebel, starring James Drury as civil war veteran doctor in the post-war south.

Watched in the WestWed watch party on Mastodon
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