THE LATE RETURNS FILM REVIEW

The WesWes Networks Eric and Cam discuss the 1990 Sci-Fi Action movie TOTAL RECALL starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and directed by Paul Verhoeven. Arnie plays Douglas Quaid who is haunted by a recurring dream about a journey to Mars. He hopes to find out more about this dream and buys a holiday at Rekall Inc. where they sell implanted memories. But something goes wrong with the memory implantation and he remembers being a secret agent fighting against the evil Mars administrator Cohaagen.

The WesWes Networks Cam and Leti host Playwright and Actor Suli Moa as they break down the 2006 New Zealand movie written by Oscar Kightley and Directed by Chris Graham SIONE'S WEDDING about 4 raucous Samoans who are banned from their best friend's wedding. To get in, they have to prove themselves as mature individuals by getting and keeping girlfriends.

The WesWes Networks Cam Schuster and Jan Zabawski discuss the Francis Ford Coppola 1974 movie The Godfather Part 2 starring Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro. It's the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood, and Cuba.

The WesWes Networks Cam Schuster and Joey Nanai review the 1985 family adventure film THE GOONIES, written by Steven Spielberg and Directed by Richard Donner. A group of young misfits called The Goonies discover an ancient map and set out on an adventure to find a legendary pirate's long-lost treasure.

We review the 1987 movie LA BAMBA Directed by Luis Valdez and starring Lou Diamond Phillips and Esai Morales. This is the true story of Ritchie Valens, a young rock and roll singer who tragically died in a plane crash at age 17. The film follows Ritchie from his days in Pacoima, California where he and his family make a meager living working on farms to his rise as a star. The film also focuses on Ritchie's friendship and rivalry with his older brother Bob Morales and his relationship with Donna Ludwig, his girlfriend.

We review the 1985 martial arts/comedy movie Berry Gordy's THE LAST DRAGON directed by Michael Schultz. Set In New York City, it's the story of a young man who searches for the "Master" to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow. Along the way, he must fight a martial arts expert corrupted with power, and rescue a beautiful singer from an obsessed music promoter.

Big Trouble in Little China is a 1986 American fantasy martial arts comedy film directed by John Carpenter and starring Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, and James Hong The film tells the story of Jack Burton, who helps his friend Wang Chi rescue Wang's green-eyed fiancée from bandits in San Francisco Chinatown.  They go into the mysterious underworld beneath Chinatown, where they face an ancient sorcerer named David Lo Pan, who requires a woman with green eyes to marry him in order to release him from a centuries-old curse

The film that has one of the most iconic scenes in movie pop culture history and a classic with Polynesian kids of its time, the 1979 Walter Hill Directed classic "The Warriors".   In the near future, a charismatic leader summons the street gangs of New York City in a bid to take it over. When he is killed, The Warriors are falsely blamed and now must fight their way home while every other gang is hunting them down.

We review an absolute classic and giant pop culture influence, the 1973 Martial Arts movie "Enter The Dragon" starring Bruce Lee, John Saxon and Jim Kelly.  It would be Bruce Lee's final completed film appearance before his death on 20 July 1973 at age 32. An American and Hong Kong co-production, it premiered in L.A. on 19 August 1973, one month after Bruce Lee's death.  The film went on to gross an estimated US$350 million worldwide (equivalent to more than $1 billion adjusted for inflation), against a budget of $850,000. Having earned over 400 times its budget, it is one of the most profitable films of all time.