The Netflix Threat to Quality TV
Whether anyone intended it to happen, somehow TV has become better than just about any movie that comes out of Hollywood. But this could all be undone rather quickly by the way Netflix and its peers...
View ArticleHUMP DAY WTF: If Benny Hill Was Alive, This Is What He Would Have Wanted Us...
What do you get when you combine two highly pissed-off ladies, a Roman Gladiator and a Vespa? The best :30 you will probably see on the internet today. If only Yakety Sax was playing behind the...
View ArticleBATES MOTEL: "The Truth" S1E6 (recap)
By Apathy Babcock On last week’s episode, we learned that although Norma likes to tell Norman he sees things that aren’t real, he actually did see an Asian sex slave in her boyfriend’s basement. Does...
View ArticleNOW YOU'RE COOKING WITH POWER! The Nintendo Power Glove Oven Mitt Will Make...
Okay, so technically the Power Glove was a Mattel product, but those who slipped one on back in 1990 didn't care who made it, they just wanted the damn thing to be as cool as it looked in the...
View ArticleFOG! Chats With HIGH HEAVENS Game Creator RYAN LESSER!
For almost two decades, game designer Ryan Lesser has been part of the Providence art scene and part of the RISD community, both as a student and later as an adjunct professor. A long time...
View ArticleThe List: End of The World Movies (80s edition)
We humans are a narcissistic lot. There is nothing we like better than to think that we are the end all be all of this planet, and nothing gives us a thrill more than watching it go 'boom'. A theory...
View ArticlePAINT YOURSELF UP Like Betty or Veronica With MAC Cosmetics New Line of...
Archie always struck me as one lucky dude. I mean, the guy lands the affections of two hot babes who continuously fight over him for 60 years (not to mention the fact that he has occasionally dated...
View ArticleIt's the End of the World, and I Love It
I saw Oblivion recently. It was pretty good, but then pretty much had to see it despite Tom Cruise starring in it.Oblivion was made by Joseph Kosinski, who directed TRON: Legacy, and I think he has a...
View ArticleHERE'S A TOM WAITS/COOKIE MONSTER Mash-Up...Thank You Internet
I have to be honest with you, it took quite a while for me to really enjoy the raspy, whiskey and cigarette ravaged, warbled singing of Tom Waits. But it was worth it, the man knows how to write a...
View ArticleHistory of Science Fiction Cinema: 1951: The Year Worlds Collided and the...
A year after the decade that would become known as the heyday of sci-fi cinema, started out with a rocketing bang, moviehouses across the nation were spaceship happy. But, unlike 1950, when the...
View ArticleTHERE'S NOW A CUP HOLDER For Your Fries...(Sigh)
Because there is an obvious need for you to have access to your fucking fries AT ALL TIMES, McDonald's has unveiled a new holder specially created so that you can begin shoving the cracked-laced...
View ArticleView From The Brig(gs) Episode 8: A Fibonacci Cube, And The Air That We Breathe
Hey, Brigateers! It was a struggle to get this week's piece together (slightly late: sorry, Ed), as my last few weeks have been jam-packed with all kinds of film-making intrigue on Gary Kurtz and...
View ArticleLEARN KOMPUTERS The Easy Way With Kim Komando (1990s)
Once upon a time computers were so scary to people that they watched VHS training tapes in order to learn how to not blow them up or accidentally start a nuclear war (which was something people...
View ArticleTRIPLE SHOT: SUPERMAN FAMILY ADVENTURES #12, JUPITER’S LEGACY #1, B.P.R.D:...
The thing about history, baby, is that it goes way back. All the way back. We stroll down memory lane with Miss Lane, get lost in a Legacy and follow B.P.R.D’s Simon Anders back to a small Czech...
View ArticleTHE AMERICANS: "The Oath" S1E12 (recap)
By Morayo Sayles The FBI gets their hands on more information about Directorate S – The Jennings’ spy couple, yet thanks to the dedication of two Soviet nationals, the Soviets appear to have made moves...
View ArticleARROW: "Home Invasion" S1E20 (review)
By PJ Hruschak This was the week of many deaths. No hero characters died, mind you, but there were plenty of no-namers who bit the dust for the sake of plot progression thanks to a pair of assassins....
View ArticlePSYCH: "Juliet Wears the Pantsuit" S7E10 (recap)
By Morayo Sayles The fallout between Shawn (James Roday) and Juliet (Maggie Lawson) continues as Juliet places ads on Craigslist or as Shawn called it – murder-me-right-now.com and in response to the...
View ArticleBlu-Ray Reviews: Disney's Mulan, Brother Bear and The Hunchback of Notre Dame...
By PJ Hruschak Disney recently released a trifecta of films on Blu-ray that each included both the main animated feature as well as the straight-to-home-video follow-up movie on the same disc. For my...
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