the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘The Sinful Dwarf’

In case that cover art hasn’t already sold you, you should know that The Daily Grindhouse has endorsed this cinematic masterpiece as: The mother of all ‘Dwarfspolitation’ films! Over The Top With Nudity, Sex And Disturbing Images. It Just Doesn’t Get Any Sleazier, Folks! What’s it all about? Oh, glory: “A young bride,” promised the … more…

12 Rounds (review)

This ain’t the real *12 Rounds.* Not the actual movie. It’s more like a storyboard. Or an animatic. That’s it. Just to give you an idea of what the real movie’s gonna look like. Man, you’re gonna love it, I swear.

of all the TV ads I hate…

…I think I hate this one the most: Five. Five dollar. Five dollar footlong. It makes me think of cheap porn, or cheap male prostitutes, or both. And I don’t want to be thinking about those things. I wonder if Subway wants us to be thinking about those things, and especially thinking about those things … more…

trailer break: ‘Dragonball Evolution’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… The best part of this trailer might well be the note the fan added to the beginning, about how all those “ignorant” “whiners” complaining about whatever is supposed to be wrong with this movie simply don’t understand it. Also excellent, though, is this line: “With this dragonball, … more…

The Haunting in Connecticut (review)

It’s almost impossible not to be sympathetic to any character Virginia Madsen (The Number 23) plays, she’s so irresistibly likeable a screen presence, but that gets tried sorely in this rote haunted-house flick, which telegraphs its obvious scares, even the ones it has shamelessly stolen from far superior scary movies. The year is 1987, and … more…

question of the day: Is HBO going online in the right way?

I’ve long been an advocate of TV shows being made available online, but it seems to me that HBO has it entirely wrong: Time Warner Cable, the second-largest cable operator in the country, is working with customers here to test a subscriber model for online TV viewing. Residents who pay for HBO can watch “Big … more…