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DVD: How Jackass Raised the Gross-Out Comedy Bar

One of the interesting ideas in the original graphic novel Watchmen is the notion that in a world where meta-humans actually existed, superhero comics would become…

7 years ago

DVD: Dry Your Tears, Guillermo Del Toro Fans

There's been a great deal of gnashing of teeth online this week over Universal deciding not to pony up $150 million for At the Mountains of Madness, a horror epic based…

7 years ago

Every Day's Liev Schreiber on Speedos, Fatherhood and the Hollywood-Broadway Divide

In Every Day (out this week on DVD and Blu-ray from Image Entertainment), Liev Schreiber stars as Ned, a TV writer balancing the arrival of his ailing father-in-law…

7 years ago

DVD: Master Ninja and Other Embarrassing Ghosts of TV Past

The new Mystery Science Theater 3000 XX box (out this week from Shout! Factory) features the two Master Ninja "movies," although in reality they're just four…

7 years ago

DVD: Five Non-John Hughes '80s Teen Comedies That Are Still a Bajillion Times Better Than Take Me Home Tonight

So not only does Take Me Home Tonight get the small details wrong -- someone makes a Rain Man reference even though TMHT is set during Labor Day Weekend 1988 and Rain…

7 years ago

DVD: The Weird Faces on Reboot and the Growing Pains of Computer Animation

There's nothing weirder than someone else's nostalgia. Case in point: The animated series ReBoot (the first two seasons of which Shout! Factory is releasing on DVD this…

7 years ago

DVD: It Takes the Genius of Fellini to Make an Awesome Movie About Clowns

Yesterday, I dredged up the terrifying childhood memory of the creepy ventriloquist's dummy (if that's not redundant) in the ads for Magic, so let's keep the…

7 years ago

DVD: Bambi and 6 Other Films That Scarred My Childhood

Don't get me wrong -- I don't believe that children should be prevented from scraping their knees or eating dirt or falling off the furniture or anything else that…

7 years ago

DVD: After the Oscars, Burlesque Suddenly Seems a Little Less Terrible

None of its songs made the fifth slot in the Best Original Song category -- and we were even deprived of hearing co-host James Franco warble the Diane Warren-composed…

7 years ago

Alonso's Oscar Picks: The Kids Are All Right, The Oscars Are Not

When I was a little kid, I really, really, really loved the Oscars. For a wee gay movie-obsessed lad growing up in the suburbs of Atlanta, it was the sort of annual…

7 years ago

Oscar History Watch: The Year Indies Bellied Up to the Oscar Bar

Nowadays, we're used to significant overlap between the Oscars and the Independent Spirit Awards. All five of this year's Best Actress nominees at the Academy Awards are…

7 years ago

DVD: Why Birdemic Isn't Just for Hipster Douchebags

While nü-school auteurist stinkers like Birdemic: Shock and Terror (out this week on DVD and Blu-Ray from Severin Films) and The Room continue to pack midnight…

7 years ago

DVD: Sweet Smell of Success Still a Cookie Full of Arsenic

One of the amusing running gags in Barry Levinson's Diner is a character who wanders through the movie, constantly muttering lines from Sweet Smell of Success, newly…

7 years ago

DVD: Road, Movie, and 11 Other Awesome Road Movies

Generations of filmmakers have learned that putting your characters in a car and unleashing them on the open highways of the world is a sure-fire formula for drama. With…

7 years ago

DVD: The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who May Have the Most Outrageous Movie Title Ever

With Shout! Factory releasing the Mystery Science Theater 3000 take on Ray Dennis Steckler's horror musical The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and…

7 years ago

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