Veron The Reviewer

12 Hour Shift  is a comedy-horror/thriller directed by Brea Grant and starring Angela Bettis as drug-addicted nurse Mandy, who is prone to stealing medication from her patients to get high... and also has a side gig of being a murderer who kills some of her patients to steal their organs and sell them to a trafficker. However, when a bag of organs go missing and the problems at the hospital begin to pile up, Mandy and Regina are both forced to go to extreme, bloody, and plain hilarious lengths to save their necks amid the chaos at the hospital. The film is uproariously funny despite the blood and the brutality on display, with all manner of unexpected twists all based on the fact that Mandy and Regina are generally unscrupulous and willing to resort to very illegal and unethical means to obtain a kidney for the trafficker, with Regina also being quite  ditzy, and causing all kinds of mayhem as she desperately tries to get a kidney from a patient without being noticed, with the...

War Drama double-feature!!! "Beasts of No Nation": 2015 war drama film directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and starring Abraham Attah and Idris Elba. Set in an unnamed African country, a young boy named Agu, played by Attah, is separated from his family and conscripted into a battalion of rebels that are part of the Native Defense Forces (NDF). The battalion is led by the charismatic Commandant, played by an absolutely menacing Idris Elba. Attah plays Agu with a wide-eyed innocence that swiftly gives way to both terror during his horrific initiation into the NDF, as well as a gradual descent into brutality and blind obedience driven by his experiences as a child soldier under the Commandant, who is not only adept at swaying and manipulating the young troops under his command, but gradually shows himself to be a ruthless and ambitious commander who actually only cares about himself. The horrors of war and the life of a child soldier is on full display here, and even as Agu kills, h...