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LATE PHASES (review)

November 12, 2014, 1:00 pm
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Review by Dean Galanis
Produced by Larry Fessenden, Brent Kunkle, 
Greg Newman, Zak Zeman
Written by Eric Stolze
Directed by Adrian Garcia Bogliano
Starring Nick Damici, Ethan Embry, 
Lance Guest, Erin Cummings, Rutanya Alda, 
Tina Louise, Caitlin O'Heaney, Karen Lynn Gorney, 
Dana Ashbrook, Tom Noonan


The werewolf film Late Phases resembles a cross between the Stephen King adaptation Silver Bullet and the Don Coscarelli cult fave Bubba Ho-Tep.

It’s better than the former and not quite as good as the latter, but it’s got a nice, old-school vibe, fun practical werewolf effects and make-up, and a blast of a cast for genre fans, led by the terrific Nick Damici.Damici is a blind Vietnam vet who, as our story begins, is being taken to a retirement community by his son (Ethan Embry, quite good and seemingly channeling Hank Azaria), presumably to spend his remaining years.

As Damici says later, “This isn’t a place where people come to live. It’s a place where people come to die.”

Damici is none to happy about the move, but he’s none too happy about anything; he has deep regrets and some nightmarish memories, and is plainly a bitter, miserable man.

After a vicious (and well-staged) “animal attack” leaves his neighbor dead, Damici soon pieces it together that the community is under siege by a werewolf once every full moon (how he comes to this realization is kinda glossed over; thankfully, the filmmakers don’t drag out the protagonists’ resistance to a supernatural explanation for an interminable stretch, but really, he just accepts it too readily).

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Magical Realism Soars in BIRDMAN

November 12, 2014, 2:00 pm
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By Erin Maxwell

For those who haven’t seen Birdman yet, please read no further. Go back into the archives and read "How To Style a Pompadour" . This article will still be around once you return from the movie house.


Alejandro González Iñárritu’s brilliant and inspired Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is more than the tale of an aging actor looking to reclaim his popularity. It’s a story the effects of one person’s insufferable vanity and selfishness on the people in his life. It’s a tale of redemption and forgiveness.

And it’s the story of a batshit crazy actor who has conversations with his superhero alter ego.


But one of the many factors that makes Birdman particular special is the use of magic realism the telling of the tale.

A genre that is rarely used, and one that can have a disastrous effect on a film if not used correctly. When applied in the hands of a capable director, magic realism can transform a movie into something special and unique, giving the audience a one-in-a-lifetime experience.

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CRAFT DORK: Beginners Edition

November 12, 2014, 3:00 pm
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I’m a crafty lady. I always have been.

So, is my mom. And my grandma, too!

It’s in our blood, our hands, and our brains. Crafting goes way back in my lineage, but I know that it doesn’t for everyone.

For that specific reason, I put together four crafts that don’t require years of agonizing practice. All of these make wonderful kitschy gifts, but they’re also pretty rad to hold on to as well!


In this edition of Craft Dork, I’ll show you how to make Twin Peaks dent-free hair ties, personalized wooden pins, True Detective votive candles, and, our first project, quote coasters!

Now, let’s get to it!


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BROAD CITY: SEASON ONE Arrives on DVD December 2nd!

November 12, 2014, 4:00 pm
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Making quick bank by “returning” office supplies from your temp job? Check. Identifying the suspicious stains on the rental apartment wall? Done. From the collective minds of Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Grazer, and executive produced by Amy Poehler, “Broad City” follows the adventures of two best friends working the big city. No matter how bad it gets, these broads are always down with whatever hits them.

Special Features Include:
  • Outtakes & Deleted Scenes
  • Video Commentary
  • Photo Gallery
  • Map of Broad City drawn by Abbi

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Kickstarter Korner - MEGA RAN Documentary & CYBERINES #1

November 12, 2014, 5:00 pm
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Two talented artists have some campaigning ending really soon so I grabbed them to tell us about their projects.  

 One is more familiar to this column — a comic book project from Joe Martino (Shadowflame, The Mighty Titan).

The other is only a household name to those hyped on the nerdcore rap scene.

Random aka Mega Ran aka Raheem is a former teacher who tours the world rapping about life, but also he is the only rapper to be officially endorsed by Capcom.

Following the footsteps of his friend Damien Hess also known as MC Frontalot’s Nerdcore Rising, Random is Kickstarting a documentary Mega Lo Mania - Director’s Cut for full distribution.

Joe even has some Kickstarter tips as well, so keep your eyes peeled, creative types.

If you have a few dollars or a dollar to spare, consider backing these hard working gentlemen! If you can’t spare anything but you like what you see, spread the word. They will be grateful!


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ANNABELLE on Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD, and Digital HD on January 20th

November 12, 2014, 5:23 pm
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Blu-ray and Digital Download include The Curse of Annabelle, Bloody
Tears of Possession, Dolls of the Demon, A Demonic Process and Deleted Scenes
She terrified you in “The Conjuring,” but this is where it all began for Annabelle. Capable of unspeakable evil, the actual doll exists locked up in an occult museum in Connecticut—visited only by a priest who blesses her twice a month.

New Line Cinema’s supernatural thriller “Annabelle” begins before the evil was unleashed. John Form has found the perfect gift for his expectant wife, Mia—a beautiful, rare vintage doll in a pure white wedding dress. But Mia’s delight with Annabelle doesn’t last long.

On one horrific night, their home is invaded by members of a satanic cult, who violently attack the couple. Spilled blood and terror are not all they leave behind. The cultists have conjured an entity so malevolent that nothing they did will compare to the sinister conduit to the damned that is now...Annabelle.

Discover the secret of what she wants when “Annabelle” arrives onto Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and Digital HD on January 20 from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. Reuniting the filmmakers behind 2013’s hugely successful supernatural thriller “The Conjuring,” “Annabelle” is the terrifying story of where it all began as Annabelle comes to life.

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FOG! Alum Alert!: D4VE’s Mid-Life. Crisis. Is Coming To Print At IDW Publishing

November 12, 2014, 6:00 pm
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Experience The Comedy Of One Robot’s Existential Crisis In Print
The partnership between IDW Publishing and Monkeybrain has brought some of the most critically acclaimed digital comic-book series to an entirely new readership, and both are pleased to welcome another to the printed page: D4VE.
A war for Earth was fought and the robots have won but the results are far less “brave new world” and more of the “same old, same old.” Starting February 2015, fans of print comics will get the opportunity to meet D4VE, a great robot war hero who now is trapped behind a desk at a soul-sucking day job.

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Meet Hatebeak, A Death Metal Band With A Parrot As Lead Vocalist

November 13, 2014, 7:00 am
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From 2004-2009 a 21 year-old parrot named Waldo fronted a death metal band named Hatebeak (along with Blake Harrison + Mark Sloan), something I was completely unaware of until yesterday and to which I have rectified.

The band never toured (out of respect to the Waldo's quality of life), released three albums: Beak of Putrefaction (2004), Bird Seeds of Vengeance (2005) and The Thing That Should Not Beak (2007) and created a sound that not only embraced the guttural nature of death metal but allowed it to "soar" to new heights (bird pun!).


After the break are a few of Hatebeak's songs, I suggest you turn it up all the way to 11 and allow the power of the squawk to embrace you.

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THROWBACK THURSDAY: Spend Four Glorious Hours Watching Some Tubular 80s Commercials...It's Like Being A Latch-Key Kid All Over Again

November 13, 2014, 9:00 am
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After spending the last four days in bed with the flu I can easily say that I have exhausted the amount of time one should spend on YouTube before seeking therapy. But before I make that call to a psychiatrist, I thought it might be nice to share with you an epic time suck that will hold your hand down memory lane, a four hour-long mix of commercials spanning the whole of the 80s (and some of the very early 90s...which was just a continuation of the 80s anyway).

Yep, four whole hours of the very things that made up your youth while your parents left you home alone.

God, I loved my television babysitter.

Video after the break.

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How To Make Toasted Marshmallow Shot Glasses

November 13, 2014, 11:00 am
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If you are a semi-alcoholic with a foodie side then this DIY activity should bring you closer to God (which, for me is Alton Brown). What we are talking about here people is a stupidly simple, Falltastic, F*ck Yeah! craft that will have you purchasing various coffee/s'more-related booze by the case and inviting everyone you know to come over and drink until they're unable to function.

It takes nothing more than a heat source (which can include a fire or the top of your gas or electric stove), two forks, a plate and, of course, marshmallows (and let's not get all artisanal here, the regular fat ones in a bag will do just fine).

Oh, and if you're wondering how you hollow out the inside to make room for the liquor, the toasted marshmallow DOES THAT FOR YOU...it's like it wants to be a shot glass.

For the exact how-to, check out the video after the break, it will show you just how easy and lovely your next get-together will be.

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Boston Cinegeeks! We've Got Passes For AMERICAN SNIPER Starring Bradley Cooper and Directed by Clint Eastwood

November 13, 2014, 12:00 pm
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From director Clint Eastwood comes “American Sniper,” starring Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history. But there was much more to him than his skill as a sharpshooter.

U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle is sent to Iraq with only one mission: to protect his brothers-in-arms. His pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and, as stories of his courageous exploits spread, he earns the nickname “Legend.” However, his reputation is also growing behind enemy lines, putting a price on his head and making him a prime target of insurgents. He is also facing a different kind of battle on the home front: striving to be a good husband and father from halfway around the world.

Despite the danger, as well as the toll on his family at home, Chris serves through four harrowing tours of duty in Iraq, personifying the spirit of the SEAL creed to “leave no one behind.” But upon returning to his wife, Taya Renae Kyle (Sienna Miller), and kids, Chris finds that it is the war he can’t leave behind.

A two-time Oscar nominee for his work in “Silver Linings Playbook” and “American Hustle,” Cooper heads the cast, which also includes Sienna Miller (HBO’s “The Girl”), Jake McDorman, Luke Grimes, Navid Negahban and Keir O’Donnell.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Clint Eastwood (“Million Dollar Baby,” “Unforgiven”) is directing “American Sniper” from a screenplay written by Jason Hall, based on the book by Chris Kyle, with Scott McEwan and Jim DeFelice. The autobiography was a runaway bestseller, spending 18 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, 13 of those at number one.

Opening December 25, 2014, Warner Bros. Pictures presents In Association with Village Roadshow Pictures, A Mad Chance Production, A 22nd & Indiana Production, “American Sniper.” The film will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company and in select territories by Village Roadshow Pictures.

The advanced screening of AMERICAN SNIPER will be on Tuesday, November 18, at 7pm at the AMC Boston Common.

There will be a Q&A with Sienna Miller after the screening.

For a chance to get tickets, go to www.gofobo.com/Redeem and enter the code FOG89Wiu2. 



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THE BORGIAS By Alejandro Jodorowsky and Milo Manara (graphic novel review)

November 13, 2014, 1:32 pm
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Review by Lily Fierro
Written by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Art by Milo Manara
Introduction by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá!
Translated by Katie LaBarbera!
Published by Dark Horse Comics
Publication Date: November 26, 2014
$59.99
ISBN-10 1-59582-787-0
ISBN-13 978-1-59582-787-6


Allegory can be a powerful literary tool. Using a historical institution to represent a modern one can provoke reflections and realizations about the flaws of the modern world.

The erosion of faith through organized religion has been the subject of many works of culture and the artifact of many historical events. Conveying and understanding this erosion can lead to interesting discussions around conflicts of individual and popular faith.


In Jodorowsky’s introduction, he indiscreetly suggests that The Borgias is a metaphorical narrative that represents the behavior of the United States in the political and economic world arena.

He describes the corruption and the evil that most dynasties have incurred on the world and their eventual end, suggesting the impending doom of the fall of America as a world power. The Borgias, for him, is an exercise in allegory, comparing the destruction of the Borgias dynasty to that of a modern world power, hoping to provoke some realization of humanity and kindness and humility in the reader, which are as lacking today as they were in a post Black Plague Europe.

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LEGO JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. BIZARRO LEAGUE Arrives 2-10-15 on Blu-ray/DVD/Digital HD

November 14, 2014, 11:20 am
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All-New Original LEGO DC Comics Movie Featuring Exclusive Batzarro LEGO Minifigure

In the follow-up to LEGO Batman, The Movie: DC Super Heroes Unite, the Justice League is newly solidified yet faces a peculiar set of villains when Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Warner Bros. Animation, DC Entertainment and The LEGO Group release LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League vs. Bizarro League on Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and Digital HD on February 10, 2015. The Blu-ray and DVD releases will include an exclusive Batzarro LEGO Minifigure on-pack, while supplies last.

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Waiting For Wonder Woman And Black Panther, And Fearing Their Arrival

November 13, 2014, 3:00 pm
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It’s been quite a run for superhero movie geeks in this past month, as DC and Marvel have set up some 40-odd films in the next six years.

Sure, we’ll all be totally sick of the things by then, but that won’t stop these corporations from their pursuit of money. (Oh, I mean serving fans.)

As much as I have enjoyed this 21st-century run of superhero movie mania from Hollywood, there is still many a day that geeks of another hue and/or gender especially have been left hanging.

Don’t get me wrong: I loved The Dark Knight, own pretty all of Marvel’s Phase One movies on home video, saw The Avengers at a midnight show, caught both Hellboy flicks in the theater. At this point in the game, I need someone other than a straight white guy at the center.

So I have a bit of about-damn-time mixed with it’s-too-late that we’ll get a Wonder Woman solo movie and Black Panther in 2017, Carol Danvers-era Captain Marvel in 2018, and Cyborg in 2020. 

Can I get a "hell yeah"?

Will we actually get all of these movies in the next six years? I don’t know; one bad box office showing can change the world. And last year we already were debating whether we’re at peak superhero. So it could be that we’ll get to the women and black superheroes at the worst possible time.

Plus, given the variance of the comics business, DC and Marvel could be spinning off into totally different directions in a few years, which could affect the on-screen product because the comics are different.

Today, this blerd is just gonna jump up and down and scream, “Finally!”

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THE GOOD LIE Arrives on Blu-ray Combo Pack and Digital HD on December 23rd

November 13, 2014, 4:00 pm
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“Moving and unforgettable…The Good Lie is a movie that simultaneously enlightens and inspires.”
— Michael Medved, The Michael Medved Show

They were known simply as “The Lost Boys.”

Orphaned by the brutal civil war in Sudan, which began in 1983, these young victims traveled as many as a thousand miles on foot in search of safety. Fifteen years later, a humanitarian effort would bring 3,600 lost boys, as well as girls, to America.

Mamere and Theo are sons of the Chief in their village in Southern Sudan. When an attack by the Northern militia destroys their home and kills their parents, eldest son Theo is forced to assume the role of Chief and lead a group of young survivors, including his sister Abital, away from harm. But the hostile, treacherous terrain has other dangers in store for them. As the tattered group makes the difficult trek to Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, they meet other fleeing children, forging a bond with Jeremiah, who, at 13, is already a man of faith, and Paul, whose skills become essential to their survival.

Thirteen years later, the now young adults are given the opportunity to leave the camp and resettle in America. Upon arriving in Kansas, they are met by Carrie Davis (Witherspoon), an employment agency counselor who has been enlisted to help find them jobs—no easy task, when things like light switches and telephones are brand new to them.

Although Carrie has successfully kept herself from any emotional entanglements, these refugees, who desperately require help navigating the 21st century and rebuilding their shattered lives, need just that. So Carrie embarks on her own unchartered territory, enlisting the help of her boss, Jack (Corey Stoll).

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Tales from the Casting Couch: Hollywood Players Who Got Their Start In The Adult Industry

November 13, 2014, 5:00 pm
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Everyone has to get their start somewhere.

Most move to Hollywood with big dreams and few connections, a perfect roadmap for losing your way in Tinseltown.  Given Hollywood also happens to be one of the major adult film capitals of the world, the lure of easy money and quick fame was a bit too much for most folks to deny.


While most tend to dwindle and fade in the industry, few were able to break away and turn their experiences into a legitimate career, with accolades and A-list status to boot.

Here are a few of that broke on through despite a little light dabbling in adult industry.


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WTF FRIDAY: Telly Savalas Sings 'If' And You Are Going To Love It Baby

November 14, 2014, 7:00 am
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If (a song first popularized by the band Bread and covered by practically everyone else) is one of those melodies that you hear at really lame weddings where they don't offer Pigs-in-a-Blanket during the h'orderves portion of the reception. Usually it's a "first dance" or, if it isn't, it comes somewhere in the middle when everyone is as drunk as the limited bar options will allow and causes people over the age of 45 to inappropriately make-out with their spouse/partner, grossing everyone out.

In other words, it's a lame-ass song.

But to hear the great Kojak "sing" it, it sounds, well, somehow more threatening...which is probably why, in 1975, it reached #1 on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks.

Check it out after the break and be prepared to fall in love.

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SCIENCE GEEK: Why Elephants Never Forget

November 14, 2014, 9:00 am
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Elephants are one of the most glorious creatures to ever walk the planet and in this TED-Talk, we stupid humans will learn that their ability to remember long-ago friends, intellectualize and experience empathy should shame us into becoming a more altruistic member of the animal species.

Seriously, we are a bunch of asshole neanderthals next to these incredible benevolent beings and I feel bad that they have to share the same air as us.

I'm going to go and watch a bunch of YouTube videos of baby elephants learning to walk and cry...you watch this.

Video after the break.

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IDW and Yoe Books Announce THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF BLACK COMIC BOOKS

November 14, 2014, 10:00 am
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A Groundbreaking Collection Coming This February

IDW and Yoe Books are proud to announce The Untold History of Black Comic Books, brought to you by Professor William H. Foster III, a leading authority on the history of Black cartoonists and comics, and fellow comic book historian Craig Yoe.

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Lonely Water: A 1973 PSA That Proves Bodies of Water Are Killing Machines

November 14, 2014, 11:00 am
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I've never looked at a puddle and thought, "Hmm, that is going to kill me" but in this Donald Pleasence-narrated British PSA, that's exactly what is going on...death lurking around every body of water.

I don't know what the statistics are of British kids drowning in a ditch while surrounded by a bunch of fully capable friends who could pull them out, but I do know something far more scarier than a lake, Dr. Samuel Loomis whispering in your ear how much he will enjoy killing you because you had the audacity to be a kid near water.

Good luck in getting young, impressionable children to take a bath after watching this, Central Office of Information.

Video after the break.

And just so you know, after I watched this all I could hear in my head was this: I met him, fifteen years ago; I was told there was nothing left; no reason, no conscience, no understanding; and even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, of good or evil, right or wrong. I met this six-year-old child, with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and the blackest eyes... the devil's eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized that what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply... evil.

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