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DVD REVIEW: STRANGE CIRCUS

BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: TLA Releasing MSRP: $24.99RUNNING TIME: 108 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES: • Strange Days: “making of” featurette• English SubtitlesThe PitchThe Japanese take a break from horror movies about evil videotapes to bring some truly surreal creepiness to our shores!The HumansMasumi Miyazaki, Issei Ishida, Hiroshi Ohguchi, Rie Kuwana Couldn’t have said it better … Continue reading

DVD REVIEW: HUNT FOR THE BTK KILLER, THE

BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE! STUDIO: Sony Pictures MSRP: $24.96RUNNING TIME: 88 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES: noneThe PitchBased on a true story!The HumansRobert Forster (Jackie Brown), Gregg Henry (Slither)The NutshellBetween the years of 1974 and 1994 the city of Wichita Kansas lived in fear as a serial Killer known as BTK (a name he chose for … Continue reading

DVD REVIEW: LOONATICS UNLEASHED – SEASON 1

BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Warner Home VideoMSRP: $19.98 RATED: NRRUNNING TIME: 271 minutesSPECIAL FEATURES: • Loonatics Unleashed: Villain Invasion Challenge The Pitch The Looney Tunes gang are back… sort of… and they’re, um… African Americans… The Loonatics Ace Bunney, Danger Duck, Lexi Bunny, Slam Tasmanian, Tech E. Coyote, Rev Runner. "Oh look, it’s … Continue reading

DVD REVIEW: MOONLIGHTING – THE FINAL SEASON

BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERESTUDIO: Lion’s GateMSRP: $29.98 RATED: NRRUNNING TIME: 600 minutesSPECIAL FEATURES: • Commentary • Original screen tests for Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis The PitchThe best show of the ‘80s and the biggest flameout of the ‘80s… The Humans Cybill Shepherd, Bruce Willis, Allyce Beasley, Curtis Armstrong "Man do I love … Continue reading

DVD REVIEW: ZODIAC, THE

BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERESTUDIO: THiNKFilmMSRP: $29.99RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 96 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:•Commentary with writer Kelly Bulkley and Alexander Bulkley•“Behind The Zodiac” Featurette•The Zodiac Letters and Ciphers•Chronology of The Zodiac Killings•Theatrical Trailer The Pitch “Okay, I wanna make a crime drama, but all I can come up with is generic crime-drama stuff, I need to … Continue reading

THUD: TV NEWS ROUNDUP – 3.16.07

TUBE OF D You remember David Duchovny, don’t you? He’s the guy who, for about thirty minutes there in the nineties when The X-Files was huge, made it okay to be a conspiracy theorist. After a series of cable cameos, independent films, and gigs guest hosting late-night talk shows, Duchovny is coming back to television … Continue reading

DVD REVIEW: FIFA 2006 WORLD CUP FILM, THE – THE GRAND FINALE

BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentMSRP: $24.96RATING: Not RatedRUNNING TIME: 112 minutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Exclusive interviews with Fabio Cannavaro, Hidetoshi Nakata, Jens Lehmann, Michael Ballack, Didier Drogba and Horacio Elizondo• Trailers The Pitch A billion plus people can’t be wrong. Can they? The Humans Hundreds of soccer players and thousands of rabid, … Continue reading

MCP: GAMING NEWS ROUNDUP – 3.16.07

This is delicious: via Gamepolitics we have here a story about Variety columnist Ben Fritz defending videogames against the world of film criticism. Fritz seizes upon the recent, prevalent comparisons between 300 and videogames, which almost always use "videogame" as derogatory. It’s an attack on lazy criticism as much as it is a pat on … Continue reading

MCP: GAMING NEWS ROUNDUP – 03.15.07

It’s Thursday, Ninja Turtles are awesome, and the world mourns for Caesar. All of which might explain where there’s so little of substance to report today. The crazy folks at the Wikipedia project have launched gaming.wikia to join their music, auto, and health community pages. These "wikia" aren’t exactly like the encyclopedia-format Wikipedia, instead filling … Continue reading

DVD REVIEW: JEFFERSONS, THE – SEASON 6

BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERESTUDIO: Sony PicturesMSRP: $29.95 RATED: NRRUNNING TIME: 572 minutes SPECIAL FEATURES: ZilchThe Pitch Season 6 of George, Weezie, door slams, zebra and white jokes. The Humans Sherman Hemsley, Isabel Sanford, Marla Gibbs, Roxie Roker, Franklin Cover, Paul benedict, Mike Evans, Berlinda Tolbert. "You know, Weezie, the ’70s suck. I can’t … Continue reading