trailer break: ‘Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Sometimes… good cops go bad. Beautiful: “What are these iguanas doing on my coffee table?” –Nicolas Cage. “There ain’t no iguanas.” –Val Kilmer. And: “Shoot him again — his soul is still dancing.” –Nicolas Cage. I think I’ve got some entries in the year’s worst dialogue… or … more…

Astro Boy (review)

It’s creepy, and it’s weird, and it’s something like a mecha minstrel show, particularly in how the film pretends to a ‘robots are people too’ theme yet fails itself to treat them as such.

new DVD releases in Region 1, July 7

green light (definitely check it out): Mystery Science Theater 3000: XV: Includes the experiments on The Robot Vs. The Aztec Mummy, The Girl In Lovers Lane, Zombie Nightmare, and Racket Girls. [Amazon U.S.] Doctor Who: The Rescue/The Romans: Early William Hartnell stuff, including how he helped start Nero’s big fire. Doh! [Amazon U.S.] [now available … more…