The GeekCouch: Collector's Edition - Ep 1 (Iron Man...
The first episode of The GeekCouch: Collector's Edition is up! Today I sat down via Skype and chatted with Trever Schoenfeld (@schofizzy, Schofizzy Movie Review) from the Top 5 Film Podcast (@top5film)...
31 Days of Halloween Begins October 1st!
Halloween is my favorite holiday. In fact, the month of October is when my Horror collection grows the most. So, since I own so many movies, and have a handful I've never gotten around to watching,...
New DVD/Blu Ray Podcast in the Works - The GeekCouch:...
This is just a "formal" announcement of my new podcast "The GeekCouch: Collector's Edition" that will record it's first episode this weekend.
I was searching for a podcast specifically geared toward...
12-Year-Old Killed By Train While Listening to iPod
While listening to his iPod (really, it could have been any portable music device), 12-year-old Caesar Muloki walked directly in front of a train and did not hear the New Jersey Transit train's horn. ...
DVD/Blu-ray Releases for 9/21/2010 Buying movies is almost a dangerous obession with me. I love it, and probably have spent more money on movies in my lifetime than any sane person. At least I’m not spending money on heroine. New Movie...
A rural town becomes prey to a strain of Black Slugs spawned from toxic waste dumping and it’s up to the local health inspector to stop them.
Review:
I really don’t know where to start with my review of Slugs. OK. It’s a bad movie. A horrible movie. A “shit-tastic” movie. The acting is horrible and the plot is ridiculous (they’re SLUGS! Mutant Slugs, but still they’re slow and they can be squished). However, the precedings are so laughable and ridiculous, and the acting so bad, it’s endearing. All this is highlighted by some of the grossest, sickest, nonsensical gore you’ll ever see in a movie.
Two Warriors engaged in a savage, futuristic war between Earth and the planet Dracon, crash-land on a desolate, fiery planet. At first, the human (Dennis Quaid) and his reptilian, alien opponent (Louis Gossett Jr.) are intent on destroying each other. But after battling the elements and each other, the two stranded pilots gradually realize that the only way either of them will survive is to overcome their undying hatred.
Review:
Enemy Mine is one of those movies that slipped by me during childhood. I always would see the VHS box in the video section whenever I’d be browsing the Science Fiction section, but I never gave it a chance. If I would have been introduced to it then, I probably would have been bored by it, to be honest. I was too busy watching and re-watching Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and Explorers that year. Enemy Mine would have been over my head.
However, I can now say that Enemy Mine was probably ahead of it’s time both thematically and stylistically. This was the Art House Science Fiction film of 1985, and I’m surprised a studio backed a film like this. Even today, a science fiction film with only 2 characters on screen for an hour and 15 minutes wouldn’t be interesting to a major studio. Look at movies like Sunshine, The Fountain, Solaris and Moon. Not viewed by the mass movie-going public as popular films. However, to film geeks like myself those all are masterpieces that should be more profitable than they were. Enemy Mine is a thought provoking, slow build of a movie that has huge ideas and heart behind it.
A group of people are trapped in a large West Berlin movie theater infected by ravenous demons whom proceed to kill and posses the humans one-by-one thereby multiplying their numbers,
Review:
Demonsis one of those movies I would always see on the back Horror shelf of the video store as a kid. I remember looking through all the vhs boxes imagining what these movies were like. In the process, I would freak myself out and most likely have a nightmare that night. Finally, 20 years later I’m catching up on all the great horror flicks of the 80s, and the Italian gore-fest Demons is 80s mayhem at it’s best.
In New York, a man in a cop’s uniform starts killing people for no apparent reason.(IMDB)
Review:
The tag line (“You have the right to remain silent. Forever!”) pretty much sums up Maniac Cop. There are no suprises or twists here. We have a maniac cop murdering innocent people for no reason. And it’s up to Tom Atkins (Night of the Creeps) and Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead) to stop him!
