Movies & TV

You’d think employees of world-renowned SE video store Movie Madness would have more “arty” films for their favorite movies, like Wings of Desire or Trust. In actuality, they didn’t even mention Jean-Luc Godard! Movie Madness Employee: Angelo Favorite Movie: Repo Man Why: “It’s pretty zany. I like Alex Cox’s style.” Movie Madness Employee: Jamie Favorite […]

Thursday, August 10 8:00 WB POPULAR The gang gets sent off to “sensitivity camp”–and come back bigger assholes than before! 9:00 CBS FAMILY TELEVISION AWARDS A show that awards programs in the undeserving genre of family television, like Touched on the Swimsuit Area by an Angel. Friday, August 11 8:00 TBS ROADHOUSE–Movie (1989) Patrick Swayze […]

OPENING AUTUMN IN NEW YORK CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED EYES OF TAMMY FAYE L’ATALANTE REPLACEMENTS VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED MOVIES & EVENTS The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle Once upon a time, a badly-drawn cartoon dependent upon pained sarcasm was shown on national television. This was clearly a horrible idea, appealing only to the least […]

GOOD FILMS DESERVE clear, competent examinations because they are complex and immortal; bad films deserve only experimental reviews, because, really, what else can you do with them except, as the British say, take the piss out of it. The Replacements certainly deserves the latter treatment, which is why Bruce and I decided to conduct a […]

THE DIRECTORS of The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey) certainly selected the raw materials needed for a brilliant documentary: a crazy, wannabe drag queen with 10-inch eyelashes who married another lunatic and started a multi-billion dollar television evangelism called Praise the Lord (PTL). Yet their analysis falls short because the film […]

Curb your end-of-summer lament with these short subjects: Midgets having sex with full-sized folk! Whee! Mondo Extreme Volume 16: Getting a Little–Sometimes a little goes a long way; these scenes of dwarves fucking are a prime example. Yeah, the box cover says they’re midgets but that’s because there aren’t any cool names that rhyme with […]

Thursday, August 3 9:00 CBS REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION Don’t miss this taxpayer-funded pep rally starring Bruce Willis, Ben Stein… and, oh yeah, that Bush guy. 10:00 TNT ENTER THE DRAGON–Movie (1973) Bruce Lee opens up a can of chop-socky whup-ass on some opium crime lords! Friday, August 4 9:00 FOX GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS Two idiots […]

OPENING COYOTE UGLY HOLLOW MAN PERIPHERAL PRODUCE EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE SPACE COWBOYS TRASH MOVIES & EVENTS * Barbarella Although 32 years has rubbed off some of it’s more shocking edges, Jane Fonda as a space cowboy nympho is still an energizing fantasy. Dressed – and undressed – in skintight cellophane and glittery […]

THE NEGATIVLAND EXPERIENCE is so enjoyable–they’re chaotic deconstructionists who eschew copyright laws, warp our familiar images, and feed them back. In their newest film with Trevor Maloney, Gimme the Mermaid, they bake their traditional humor-and-clusterfuck pie by co-opting Disney’s The Little Mermaid. A big-haired Ariel spouts gutteral threats of “It’s mine, you can’t use this […]

Hung over? Remorseful? Never going to drink again? I’ve got your prescription: watch these videos between dry heaves, and you’ll realize a life of alcoholism is truly a life of whimsy! Shakes the Clown (1992)–Bobcat Goldthwait plays Shakes, a drunken, down-in-the-dumps clown who’s framed for murder. What’s more chilling is that he also wrote the […]

Did you know the Catholic Church uses trained killer-priests to hunt down the Devil’s disciples and whack them? No? Then you missed these recent Vatican Hit Squad movies: Bram Stoker’s Shadowbuilder (1998)– Burly Michael Rooker stars as a pill-poppin’, pistol-packin’ padre with a haunted past who tries to stop Satan from seizing the soul of […]