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A thoroughly generic action/thriller that borrows its familiar elements from many sources, The Baker features a likable cast, which, through collective charm and charisma, keeps things on track. Peter (Joel David Moore) is a single father, working as a limo driver to raise his non-speaking daughter Delphi (Emma Ho). While awaiting a pickup, he witnesses a drug buy gone wrong that leaves all participants dead. He retrieves a bag of drugs from the scene and hatches a plan. He drops Delphi with his estranged f
Making incredible use of the found footage subgenre, the near-great horror movie Late Night with the Devil feels so authentic it tickles, and David Dastmalchian's performance is a mesmerizing piece of showmanship mastery. Jack Delroy (Dastmalchian, The Suicide Squad , The Last Voyage of the Demeter ) is a late night talk show host. Although he has had a measure of success, all throughout the 1970s, he has never once been able to beat Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show in the ratings. But, on Halloween, 1977,