It’s still January and whoa doggy has it been a month. Luckily we’re still here and have a set of movies. One of which contains the very month we rerecorded it. We should almost seek out a full calendar set of movies and review them in the month they share a name with. Anywho, we have The January Man(1989). Kevin Kline is a disgraced police officer or maybe detective. This means he’s now a firefighter. Until a serial killer murders a socialite. His brother, played by Harvey Keitel, brings him back onto the force to investigate. Also he starts banging the mayor’s daughter. But at least Alan Rickman got a … Continue reading "Popcorn Pulse 235: I Saw January"
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