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02.22.09 by Bob the Zombie @ 7:43 pm  Every once and again all you really need is a hot chick with a tank. Cole Porter's "Let's do it, Let's Fall in Love," has never been the same since Tank Girl. No matter how many times I watch or hear mention of Wake Up and Dream (Porter's musical revue) I can't help but think of Lori Petty forcing Ann Magnuson to sing it. Let's face it: you will fall in love with this film...that is, if you haven't already. Let's bite the bullet: the classics always stay classic. Let's stop hiding from the fact that they never let you down, or cheat on you with another genre. They stay the same as they were in your childhood: unbelievably awesome! Fundamentally, on those never-ending days of a never-ending week filled with too much paperwork and not enough funny, I, like you, find myself needing silliness. It is in moments like these, that the weekend of what I like to call "screw the world-pull-and-play" begins. Really, it is a simple formula to solve any monotone week.
X ((Popcorn + chocolate)/ a strong drink) + (inserting into DVD player + pushing play)) = A good day. Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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02.12.09 by Widge @ 11:28 am   Film: Written & Performed by: Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff, Joel Hodgson, Mary Jo Pehl, J. Elvis Weinstein Released by: Cinematic Titanic My Advice: Fans must own. The children of Mars have something wrong with them. Besides being in this movie, I mean. They don't feel like eating their food pills. They don't feel like sleeping. They're moping about and just watching television. Are they going emo? No. They're in a funk because they're treated like shrunken adults rather than being allowed to have kid fun. The solution? Kidnap Santa Claus and bring him to Mars. Naturally. If you have a movie this bad, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can watch... Cinematic Titanic. I am not a rabid disciple of MST3K but that's more because I just don't watch television rather than a lack of respect. Indeed, we appreciate the show enough around here to have "Wait for MST3K" as a staple of our advice ratings. Which took on more weight after the end of MST3K, so "Wait for MST3K" for a while there was shorthand for "To hell with it." But I do understand that with their assault on this film, the MST3K crew provided a delightfully sick perennial holiday favorite that's for some the whacko equivalent of It's a Wonderful Life. Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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02.09.09 by ScottC @ 7:29 pm  Film: Written and Directed by: Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato Features:
Released by: Universal Studios Home Entertainment My Advice: Rent It A single event can change the world, creating ripples that affect the progress of history. The nailing of Martin Luther's 95 theses, the blasting of Oppenheimer's atomic bomb, and the release of Jerry Damiano's Deep Throat. “Huh?”, I can hear you say. But this is the main premise behind the documentary Inside Deep Throat. As the 95 theses and the Bomb struck a resonant chord with the discontent with the Catholic Church and the paranoia and fear of the Cold War, Deep Throat manages to bring to a head America's conflict with sexual freedom and moral authority. Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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01.20.09 by ScottC @ 1:17 pm  Film: Written by: Shinya Tsukamoto Features:
Released by: Weinstein Company My Advice: Rent It if you like J-Horror Tokyo Detective Keiko Kirishima's (Hitomi) first case is a rough one. Two people that seemingly killed themselves while they slept. They also have cell phones in their hands, their last call to someone called "0" (Tsukamoto). Since this case is more unusual than your standard whodunit, Kirishima and her partner Wakamiya (Ando) are sent to find a consultant. They track down a so-called nightmare detective (Harada), but this psychic sees his abilities more as a curse than a gift. He picks up all the crap people think and he's scared of the dream realm he can enter but may not be able to leave. Even with his help, Wakamiya becomes 0's next bloody victim. Kirishima is now bound and determined to stop 0, with or without the nightmare detective's help. Even if it kills her. Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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01.06.09 by ScottC @ 5:32 pm  Film: Directed by: Roger Nygard Features:
Released by: Paramount My Advice: Rent It. Since Star Trek has had so many sequels, it makes sense that a documentary about Star Trek would have one too. In Trekkies 2, host Denise Crosby shows us the show's worldwide reach by visiting with Trek fans in Brazil, Australia, and all over Europe. We also check in on some previous fans featured in the original Trekkies like Barbara Adams, who dressed in full Starfleet uniform as the alternate juror during the Whitewater trail and Gabriel Köerner, a rather intense young man who used his skill in computer animation to model Star Trek starships. Denise and crew also check out some of the more interesting facets of Trek fandom like filk conventions and Trek themed bands. The documentary also explores the concept of "extreme" vs. "normal" fans or even if there is such a thing. Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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