Cannibal! The Musical

All Singin’ All Dancin’ All Flesh Eatin’ fun. This is the first movie directed by Trey Parker (should be an official Trey Parker weekend), and released by the nice people at Troma. It was made whilst at college and follows the story of Alfred Packer, the colorado scout who confessed to eating five gold miners. […]

Mystery Science Theatre 3000: The Movie

I’ve seen a bunch of episodes from this TV show. It’s about a dude and some robots who are stranded on a spaceship trying to get back to earth. The evil doctor meanwhile subjects him and his robot buddies to watch some of the worse B-Movies ever made. Most of the show is them sitting […]

Team America: World Police

I’ve been looking forward to this ever since I heard that Trey Parker was doing it. I think it was worth the wait. Filmed in what Gerry Anderson would have called Supermarionation (ie completely with Thunderbird style pupets) this is a political / movie / hollywood spoof that has the usual gross out moments that […]

Rodan

Made in 1956 this cousin of the Godzilla movies made by Toho (their first colour movie!) is a nice little monster movie. It carries a cautionary tale of messing with nuclear weapons because they lead to some monster maggots attacking some mines then – everyone gets attacked by Rodan(s). Has some high production values with […]

The Munsters

Ahhh. The Munsters… This is one of my favourite TV shows of all time. Herman is so cool. This DVD has been a long time coming, and they’ve only released season one at the moment. Not a lot of extras, but it does have the 15min pilot that has never aired. Watched the first two […]

Rescue Me

Denis Leary plays a NY fireman in this new series. Leary usually delivers the goods (I love his stand up) unless the cast includes Sandra Bullock, luckily she’s not in this and it wasn’t bad. Got a little cheesy re: 9/11 at times, but the scene where he was bribing his kids was great and […]

Las Vegas

Sky have kicked off some new series of US dramas, this is season two of Las Vegas – a glitzy show based in a casino. I like this, it follows the Montecino Casino security team and their boss played rather well by James Caan. The most entertaining parts are usually the completely ridiculous technology that […]

Elephant

Gus Van Sant’s movie about a normal day in a high school that is anything but normal. Based on recent school shootings in the USA this follows life in a school in Portland Oregon. Using steadicam it has great cinematography that follows the kids around the school halls, replaying aspects of the day as various […]