Battlefield Earth kicked my ass. It showed up on cable and I thought there was no real harm in watching. Now, I’m a connoisseur of bad movies, and can power through just about any of them, but this one had me down for the count a mere twenty minutes in. I pressed on just past [...]
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Kind of a weak week in DVD releases…the only discs that looks like they might make it’s way into the Pink Raygun offices are the new releases of Hellboy, Sword of Storms, and The Amazing Screw-On Head (another Mike Mignola property). I loved Sword of Stones when it aired on Cartoon Network last Hallowe’en, and [...]
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Werewolves aren’t sexy. In standard fare, they go through a hideously painful transformation against their will on a monthly basis and go on a killing rampage. What’s happening to a werewolf isn’t her fault and we have compassion for that. Taking that aspect away and turning werewolves into European club kids doesn’t increase their sex [...]
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Frankenstein Unbound was on Encore Action at 3 AM the other morning, and for good reason. Frankenstein Unbound is not fit for prime time, mainstream cable consumption. I watched this with my boyfriend recently, and when it was over, he spent the next half hour wandering aimlessly around the house mumbling the following speech: Why [...]
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In the family of science fiction film, David Lynch’s Dune is the misunderstood, bastard cousin that no one talks about, but everyone knows is kept in cupboard in a dark corner in the basement. It’s not necessarily the smart kid in a family of dummies; Dune is more like the artsy weirdo in a family [...]
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Pan’s Labyrinth is the sort of thing I fantasized about when I was a little girl: that my life wasn’t my life and I was really from some alternate fantasy world which would reveal itself only when the other kids at school had been particularly cruel to me. Or if I were lost in the [...]
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