
For better or worse, the character of
Rocky Balboa is one of the most recognizable in cinema history.
Sylvester Stallone’s from the streets to the championship underdog boxer powerfully resonated with audiences, spawning after it’s initial 1976 Best Picture winning film, five sequels, concluding…
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Added by Cyrus on November 20, 2009 at 5:13pm —
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“Wings of Desire: The Criterion Collection Edition”
Brace yourself kiddies, because I’m gonna get all arty here on you for a second. I can’t help it in this case. German director
Wim Wenders made in 1987 what…
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Added by Cyrus on November 18, 2009 at 3:49pm —
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I was prepared, going into this 2009 documentary, to be lectured on about the evils of
‘frankenfood’ a term the organic foods industry likes to toss around in such a general sense, that it actually causes harm. Take for instance, the wide-spread famine in Zambia when their leaders were…
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Added by Cyrus on November 18, 2009 at 2:24pm —
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CYRUS: I'm done. No more evil kids. Or evil kid-like things. I need a break. I'm positively inundated with miniature threats. It's as if it was a new Japanese economic invasion but upon our horror films instead of our electronic devices. I skipped
"Orphan"…
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Added by Cyrus on November 8, 2009 at 9:06pm —
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Blood: The Last Vampire
Oh. how I wish we weren’t embargoed and forced not to talk about
“Ninja Assassin” yet so I coul…
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Added by Cyrus on November 7, 2009 at 9:49pm —
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“Whatever Works”
This new
Woody Allen film was originally written by him in 1977 and it really feels that way. While it’s not a…
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Added by Cyrus on November 6, 2009 at 2:36pm —
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“Night of the Creeps”
It’s not easy to make an intentionally B-rated film for laughs. Many have tried and failed and only a few have made it past the surprisingly acute scanners of horror/genre film buffs. One of those held high amongst such of my brethren was
“Night of The…
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Added by Cyrus on November 4, 2009 at 3:10pm —
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“It’s Garry Shandling’s Show: The Complete Season”
Garry Shandling is one of the oddest men working in comedy. What I like about him is that his character, pretty much the same in his stand-up, this…
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Added by Cyrus on November 2, 2009 at 5:27pm —
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Well, I shouldn’t have joked so much about only being given the arty highbrow stuff to review because just guess what was waiting in my inbox the next time I looked?
Plastic Man.
Yep.
Plastic Man had his own animated…
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Added by Cyrus on November 2, 2009 at 4:06pm —
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So, all of
Jason and
Cyrus’ wacky fun back and forth on their
Fantastic Fest review’s really have made me want to jump back into the reviewing game with two feet and my now patented big bag full of snark
™.
So, on my last trek up to the
LEOG lair I went up to
Cyrus…
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Added by Cyrus on November 2, 2009 at 3:38pm —
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JASON: If ever there was a movie screwed over by whatever broken system grinds out movies and grinds up creative teams,
"Trick R' Treat" is it. I, along with every other horror n…
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Added by Cyrus on October 29, 2009 at 12:39am —
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Nick Swardson: Seriously, Who Farted
I’ve gotten too old for stand-up comics who direct their humor at college kids. Wait, now, looking back at all the stand-up I’ve ever liked, I think I was too old for it when I was too young for it. My humor tastes always ran to either the su…
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Added by Cyrus on October 28, 2009 at 5:39pm —
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Natural Born Killers: The Director’s Cut
I’m positive that if there was a list of the most polarizing, most argued about, most simultaneously passionately hated and loved films, that this would almost have to be in the…
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Added by Cyrus on October 27, 2009 at 3:37am —
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Life on Mars (American Version)
It seems like a shame that a show as good as this only got to 17. This remake of the hit British show outdoes its forerunner in almost every aspect but most especially in the ending, which, unlike its forebear, bothers to tie up all the story…
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Added by Cyrus on October 27, 2009 at 1:28am —
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Labyrinth Blu-Ray
I’m past the point of being able to judge this 1986
Jim Henson fantasy film objectively anymore. Maybe it’s not as good…
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Added by Cyrus on October 21, 2009 at 3:45pm —
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JASON: Look, kids! It's
Al Gore's favorite horror movie!
"The Thaw" is some doom and gloom shit that takes environmental panic to the next level. Borrowing a bit fr…
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Added by Cyrus on October 21, 2009 at 2:53pm —
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Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Collection Blu-Ray
This title is a bit inaccurate since the wonderful theatrical film
“…
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Added by Cyrus on October 20, 2009 at 7:52pm —
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Here’s a surprise revelation for some: I run out of time. A lot. I honestly try to watch every movie that comes out, both at home and at the movies, to play every game that’s worth playing, read every book and comic worth reading, and climb every mountain, yada yada. There just isn’t enough time. Sure is a fun life trying though, but for the sake of the nice folks who send me a lot of these DVDs to check out, I’m going to start posting these catch-up lists for the wonderful stuff I got in the of…
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Added by Cyrus on October 15, 2009 at 5:10pm —
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JASON: Jack Ketchum is certainly one of the more celebrated horror authors out there, and certainly one of the most sadistic. I say that with love, of course. The latest adapt…
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Added by Cyrus on October 15, 2009 at 4:06pm —
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CYRUS: More horror? More underground films? Deal with it. It's what
Jason and I do best, rummaging through the plethora of crappy movies in order to pick out the ones t…
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Added by Cyrus on October 13, 2009 at 2:05am —
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