Dark Meat White Treat 6 (2009)

Ever since the mid-’90s, the Mortal Kombat game franchise has seen multiple attempts to make it on the big screen, or at least adapted into other media.

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Billy Eichner provides a hearty dose of good old fashioned romance with a lot of laughs

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