Month: November 2008

Mystery Science Theater 3000: 20th Anniversary Edition (review)

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Quibbles? Do I have quibbles? You bet. Why did Joel Hodgson torment us so with the brilliance that was *Mystery Science Theater 3000* if it couldn’t go on forever? How can we take revenge on those who cancelled the show, not once but twice, first on Comedy Central and then on the Sci Fi Channel? Why isn’t the whole damn series available right now on DVD? And how can a robot made of a small plastic toy bubble gum machine be so darn sexy?

trailer break: ‘Repo! The Genetic Opera’

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Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… It’s Blade Runner meets The Matrix times comic books plus Tim Burton divided by Terry Gilliam with the cosine of that scary plastic surgeon Bruce Campbell played in Escape From L.A. And it’s a musical! Heh: Anthony Head here makes me think of Neil Patrick Harris … more…

Primeval: Volume One (review)

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Dinosaurs rampaging in supermarket parking lots! Wormholes swallowing up little kids and their dogs! Creatures from the past — and the future — hunting down poor puny humans in modern-day Great Britain while cute brainy scientists try to stop them! Good times, good times.

trailer break: ‘JCVD’

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Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… Van Damme us all to hell! JCVD opens limited in the U.S. on November 7; no U.K. release date has been announced yet.