By Lisa Fary – I love late night cable and On Demand. The best stuff shows up there. Not “best” like Academy Award Winners; “best” like bizarre, bad, and often poorly acted. The stuff that never quite made cult status, but is campy as hell. (See: Mindwarp, Zombie Lake, Swamp Thing). There are also some diamonds out there, too; movies I’d never seen or heard of, but are amazing. (See: Videodrome, Near Dark, Night Breed).
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By Rhea Dee – Um, No. Sam Raimi has always been a hit or miss director for me. Evil Dead series? Total hit. Spider-Man series? First one was a hit, second one was a miss and third one was a complete miss. The Gift? Let’s never talk about that movie again.
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By Lisa Fary – For the first time ever, Dr. Leonard McCoy ruined a movie theater seat. Specifically, the one I was sitting in.
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By Wolfen Moondaughter – I’ve had plenty of reservations since I first started hearing about this production, about the casting and about the screenplay writers, but I’m here to assure you that all of them have been laid to rest, now that I have actually seen the film. Sure, there was a lot of hype leading up to the release, but as far as I’m concerned, it lived up to it. Hell, exceeded it! This “Trek 2.0″, as much as I love the original, is so much better than the source material.
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by Sylvia Bond – Back in 1991, TV Guide ran a poll where they asked the question: If the world needed saving from “forces threatening to wipe out Earth,” which captain would you rather have come to the rescue, Kirk or Picard? Guess who won? Kirk did, hands down.
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By Wolfen Moondaughter – James Holwett, aka Logan, and Victor Creed: these two very-possibly immortal brothers have been through countless wars together until the government finally learned their secret. Convincing them to join “Team X”, a special ops team comprised of mutants, the man accomplishes what the many decades and battles they’d been through could not: he breaks the brothers up. And Victor will do anything to make his brother pay for abandoning him.
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By JR Pepper – I’ll admit it, the entertainment world has screwed with me for the last few years. Somehow they manage to get my fan girl hopes up, (X-Files sequel anyone?) only to see the shows and characters I love get destroyed like that damn pagoda in every Godzilla flick, (damn you X-Files film, you broke my heart!). So when rumors of new Red Dwarf episodes surfaced on the internet, I was not excited. Frankly, I was absolutely terrified.
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Monsters vs. Aliens By Teresa Jusino – I never thought there’d be a day when I’d think a movie had “too much” of a Girl Power message. Usually, I’m bemoaning the dearth of interesting, complex female roles in films, and am a huge fan of the films that get it right, either by having strong female protagonists, or ensuring that their secondary female characters are more than just set dressing.
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By Sylvia Bond
Movie Review: Watchmen
Here’s my two cents, for what it’s worth. For all of everything going on in this movie, that might or might not have made you feel like you’d been betrayed by your own kind, especially if you were a Watchmen fan since the beginning, the movie made the comic book accessible to the millions it might not otherwise have reached. Okay. That’s a little more than two cents, but we’re in a recession here, and we must allow for fluctuations in the market.
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A review of Watchmen By Sonia Aurora Because I like to keep my nerd-geek street cred, it was imperative that I read the Watchmen tome before the film, to be able to revile or revel in what Zack Snyder and Co. translated cinematically. Related Stuff:
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by Sylvia Bond – Even horror movies should have some basis in reality, shouldn’t they? Something that the audience can connect with so that they get a sense that the horror on the screen could actually happen to them, even if the odds are highly against it?
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By Sonia Aurora
I’ve always secretly wanted to be Wonder Woman. It makes sense, seeing as I have flowing (when not tangled) naturally black hair; pretty much the same reason I’m more drawn to Snow White than Cinderella – we brunettes have to stick together.
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By JR Pepper
I’ve been devouring various aspects of Japanese pop-culture for years, ranging from anime to J-pop, to the visceral world of Japanese horror to brilliant pop-culture nuclear color explosions that are the works of Takashi Murakami. And throughout all these things I’ve noticed one major concept.
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By Wolfen Moondaughter
So I saw a two-disc set comprised of the Director’s cut of Underworld and the regular cut of the second film Underworld: Evolution last week, for only $15. Then I noticed that the package had a sticker on it that said it came with a pass worth up to $10 for seeing the third film, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, in theatres.
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By Lisa Fary
Before he was Leland Palmer or Satan, Ray Wise was Dr. Alec Holland. Only for like twenty minutes, then he becomes Swamp Thing and Dick Durock in a mud covered bee keeper suit takes over.
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by Sylvia Bond – I think the scariest part of this movie, besides the way movie ticket prices keep rising, was the fact that I watched it entirely alone. After I’d bought my ticket, had taken my seat in the middle in the front row (not the front front, but the main front row with the railing for my feet), and the previews started, I realized I was the only patron in the theater. When it got fully dark, and knowing what the movie was about, visions of pick axes started dancing in my head. That’s the power of previews, you see, you know what will be coming for you. I had to sit through one hour and forty-one minutes of anxiety produced by the empty theater with the surround sound that kept me thinking someone was behind me. So I started out being tense from the get go.
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By Lisa Fary
The Hancock you saw advertised? That’s not really Hancock. The actual Hancock is far better than that feel-good, misunderstood hero crap you saw in the commercials.
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