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Mystery Science Theater 3000 Volume XVI	There are good things, there are great things and then there is that which is known as Mystery Science Theater 3000. Possibly the most perfect creation known to mankind, surpassing fire, the wheel and sliced bread, MST3k—as it is known – spent 11 seasons (if you include the first year,…	Madison Carter	11/18/09	0
Children of the Corn (2009)	One form of remake hell crashes into another as we get a new take on Children of the Corn, which brings together a form of slasher film mixed with the filmography of Stephen King. We’ve had more than enough of both lately, neither side of which has really gained any…	Madison Carter	11/16/09	0
DC Comics Complete Collections: Plastic Man and Superman (1988)	DC Comics and Warner Brothers are really breaking out the obscure stuff now in their quest to get the entire DC animated catalog on DVD. Their two latest offerings are two of the most overlooked shows in that filmography: Plastic Man and the barely-remembered late-80s version of Superman. Plastic Man…	Madison Carter	11/12/09	0
Godkiller volume 1	Not a fan of motion comics. Never have been. To me, they’re the epitome of the worst aspect of animation, namely their limits. All too often lately, more and more “animated movies” and shows are nothing more than storyboards captured on film and given a soundtrack. Anime has been getting…	Madison Carter	11/11/09	0
Saturday Morning Cartoons volume 2	Imagine a time when Saturday morning cartoons weren’t simply half-hour advertisements for toys or video games. Hell, try even imagining a time when Saturday morning cartoons lasted from around 6 a.m until noon. Those of us old enough certainly do, though admittedly having been born in 1976, I only managed…	Madison Carter	11/02/09	0
Stop Making Sense: 25th Anniversary Edition	I suppose I could be considered a fair-weather or bandwagon fan when it comes to the influential 1980s rock band the Talking Heads. Love their singles, love their videos, but I never bothered to buy an album or give a hoot otherwise about them. To me, they were just one…	Madison Carter	10/29/09	0
Peanuts 1970’s Collection Vol. 1	Good ol’ Charlie Brown. Ever since his debut in 1950, Chuck and his pals, collectively known as the Peanuts, have become a pop culture phenomenon that has lasted ever since. Snoopy, Linus, Lucy, Peppermint Patty…these are all names that are easily recognizable to virtually every person in America and probably…	Madison Carter	10/26/09	0
Last House on the Left	As a fan of the wave of 1970s and early ‘80s grindhouse/drive-in horror films, I still have very mixed feelings about the current trend to remake virtually every single one of those films into slick new versions. Mother’s Day? Really? Anyway, one I was pretty amused with the notion of…	Madison Carter	10/26/09	0
William Castle Film Collection	Hollywood has relied on gimmicks to help sell tickets since the dawn of celuloid. Nothing has been beneath the studios when it comes to putting butts in theater seats, and no man did this more creatively than William Castle. No producer or director I can think of went to such…	Madison Carter	10/21/09	1	10/21/09
Spongebob Squarepants: The First 100 Episodes	After ten years of longevity, the Nickelodeon show Spongebob Squarepants has become a very dominant part of pop culture, to the point that everyone on the planet is simultaneously enthralled by it yet sick of it. I never got the chance to get into it before, but when a monstrously…	Madison Carter	10/19/09	0
Marvel vs. DC: Animated DVD Round-Up	The age old question of which is better – Marvel or DC – is being revisited on DVD as we speak, as several recent and upcoming DVD releases feature the classic comic book characters from both companies in animated form. Both have seen their characters turned into Saturday morning cartoon…	Madison Carter	09/24/09	0
Icons of Sci-Fi: Toho Collection	My goal to collect every Japanese giant monster movie on DVD just got a major addition with the release of Sony/Columbia’s Icons of Sci-Fi: Toho Collection. This set, consisting of three discs, brings Americans three of the most sought-after Toho sci-fi films that we’ve been long awaiting in the digital…	Madison Carter	09/23/09	0
DVD Round-Up	Here at PopSyndicate, we receive a lot of DVDs to review. A lot. Sometimes, there’s just too many and we can’t get to them all. I find that a bit of a disservice not only to our readers, but the studios that are kind enough to mail us their stuff.…	Madison Carter	09/17/09	0
Haunted World of El Superbeasto	Imagine taking the stylings of animation great Ralph Bakshi, adding in the crudeness of his successor John Kricfalusi, then letting musician and film director Rob Zombie have his way with whatever comes of that, and you have The Haunted World of El Superbeasto, Zombie’s newest effort…in animated form. This is…	Madison Carter	09/16/09	0
Dark Dreamers volume 1	There have been plenty of documentaries exploring and interviewing the various filmmakers and related folks who have been responsible for keeping the horror movie biz going. Some focus on a particular person or area, but the ones that try to go all-encompasing (see: Fearmakers) tend to be monotonous and lacking.…	Madison Carter	09/02/09	0
Daffy Duck’s Quackbusters	Pretty much the last attempt by Warners to shoehorn their old Looney Tunes cartoons into feature-length films, Daffy Duck’s Quackbusters is nowhere near as good as previous LT films. Still, it has a few chuckles here and there, thanks mostly to the classic scenes. The basic plot of the movie…	Madison Carter	09/01/09	0
Passions of a Private Secretary / Secrets of a Desperate Housewife	“Pink Cinema” is a genre that few westerners are really familiar with. It’s a Japanese style that is (usually) softcore sex mixed with a good bit of S&M and bondage, and it’s been a staple of the industry for at least forty years now. Director Yutaka Ohgi contributes to the…	Madison Carter	08/31/09	0
New quartet of Redemption DVD titles	It’s always interesting to get a package of DVDs from Redemption, as this company has a history of releasing some really weird stuff. Their latest four offerings are no different, nor are they any less ecclectic than before. Their four newest releases (or re-releases as it were on a couple…	Madison Carter	08/20/09	0
Fanboys	Having been born the year before the original Star Wars hit screens, the franchise was always something in the background of my youth. One of my earliest partial memories is going with my family to see the original film at a drive-in; the only things I can remember from that…	Madison Carter	08/20/09	0
10 Stories That Need to Be Made into Movies	10 Stories that Need To Be Movies There is very little originality left in Hollywood; that’s a given. Week after week, we are inundated with remakes, sequels, direct-to-DVD sequels, prequels, spin-offs and adaptations of cartoons and television shows. Oddly, one unoriginal strategy in Movieland actually gets a little respect, and…	Madison Carter	08/18/09	1	08/18/09
Hardbodies collection + Spring Break	Much as I love T&A films, one subgenre I never really cared for until just recently was the early 1980s “teen sex comedies.” Never mind the fact that 90% of these didn’t star actual teens or feature teen characters (or usually either), they remained popular for years, much to my…	Madison Carter	08/18/09	0
Mad Monster Rally	Retromedia is one of those companies that focuses mostly on digging up the most god-awful horror and sci-fi films around and releasing them upon an unsuspecting public on DVD. This is actually a good thing for B-film fans like myself, and it’s even better when they round up some of…	Madison Carter	08/17/09	0
Reaper season 2	When I gave up television a couple of years back, there were only two shows that I lamented leaving behind were Antiques Roadshow and Reaper. Naturally, as with most all episodic shows I give a damn about, Reaper was cancelled at the end of its second season, which at least…	Madison Carter	08/11/09	0
Ulysses	Most people agree that it was the success of the Italian-made Hercules starring Steve Reeves in 1958 that kicked off the “sword and sandals” genre. However, there’s a forebearer to the genre, made in 1953 – by the Italians, no less – that fits perfectly into the group and should…	Madison Carter	08/10/09	0
Sea Beast	Ah, another entry in the ever-continuing Maneater Series from Genius Entertainment. I have no idea why, but I always look forward to these things, no matter how blah some of them get (Black Swarm) because there’s a few real gems mixed in. Now I’ll grant you, none of them are…	Madison Carter	07/22/09	0
Transformers season 1 (25th Anniversary Edition)	Shout Factory continues to keep hitting home runs. I’ve grown fond of this little company and their new release of the entire first season of the original Transformers only adds to my love for them. Now, I’ll admit that, these days, I’m not the biggest Transformers fan around. I didn’t…	Madison Carter	07/21/09	0
Mystery Science Theater 3000 volume XV	It’s that time again. Time for me to gush like a little kid on Christmas morning as I review the latest thing to hit my desk: Mystery Science Theater 3000 volume XV. I’ve reviewed four or five of the previous volumes of this ongoing series of sets for PopSyndicate, and…	Madison Carter	07/16/09	0
Saturday Morning Cartoons: The 1960s and 1970s Collections	Everyone born before the mid-1990s did it. I did, you did, that one kid in class who smelled funny did it. We ALL woke up early Saturday morning, without the aid of an alarm clock even, so that we could plunk ourselves down in front of the television, bowl of…	Madison Carter	07/14/09	0
Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus	This is one of those reviews where all I really need to do is post the DVD title and leave it at that. There simply isn’t more I can do to condone or condemn a movie titled Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus. The most notable thing about this film on…	Madison Carter	07/09/09	0
Tom and Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection	Ah, Tom & Jerry, you amuse me so. I loved the original Hanna-Barbara incarnation and I even tolerate the universally-maligned Gene Deitch run, but my favorite run in the series is the one that most others agree is the one that never should have been: The Chuck Jones years. Now,…	Madison Carter	07/09/09	0
Friday the 13th (Unrated Killer Cut)	Norman Bates. Michael Myers. Leatherface. All classic villain slashers, and all fell victim to the modern remake. It should have come as no surprise when Jason Voorhees’ turn came up (and the final classic slasher – Freddy Krueger – is due a reworking shortly, but that’s neither here nor there).…	Madison Carter	07/08/09	0
Peanuts: The 1960s Collection	You’ve done it again, Charlie Brown. I have been very excited in the recent past with Warners’ release slate of the classic (and sometimes not-so-classic) Peanuts television specials. I had withstood the temptation to get the Paramount releases, as I felt they weren’t up to snuff quality-wise; so when Warners…	Madison Carter	07/08/09	0
Monster Quest season 2 / Jurassic Fight Club season 1	My interest in monster movies has often led me to other related fields such as cryptozoology and the ever-present ancestors of the modern turkey, the dinosaurs. I’m probably not alone, and thus film and television producers have long tried to appeal to one by delving into the other. Such is…	Madison Carter	06/30/09	1	07/18/09
Three Stooges Collection volumes 5 & 6	Ask anyone to name the Three Stooges and you’re most likely to get the obvious answer: Larry, Moe and Curly. If you run into a smartass like myself, you may get the answer of Larry, Moe and Joe Besser, or even Moe, Curly Joe and Emil Sitka (look it up).…	Madison Carter	06/23/09	0
In the Sign of…(The Zodiac Series)	I’m a self-confessed trash collector. I haunt Amazon and local DVD stores hoping to score the crappiest, shlockiest, sleaziest films available. An avid fan of the drive-in/grindhouse eras, there isn’t a single creature feature, biker flick or T&A fest that I wouldn’t take a look at. What makes this review…	Madison Carter	06/17/09	0
Lionsgate’s The Lost Collection	I went to dictionary.com and typed in the word “lost.” It brought up no less than twelve definitions. And not one – not one applies to how Lionsgate seems to have used the term for their new Lost Collection. No, it’s not some set of the hit television series; it’s…	Madison Carter	06/11/09	0
Muscle Madness	Despite their many flaws (the least of which might be their unoriginality), the films of the “sword and sandal” genre (or peplum) have a certain charm that keeps them popular among B-movie fans. In terms of plot, most of them leave a lot to be desired and, frankly, most of…	Madison Carter	06/09/09	0
Hell on Wheels	Few sports suffer the public apathy that roller derby currently endures. Maybe curling, but at least that’s an Olympic sport. It’s the sort of competition you would expect to see on The Ocho, and that reputation has crested and crashed repeatedly over the past 80 or so years. The newest…	Madison Carter	06/09/09	0
The “Do Not Watch” List: The 20 Worst Filmmakers	We all do it. We get to that one movie or book or video game or comic that makes us finally give up on the creators, be it a director, an artist or an author. Sometimes there are flashes of genius, or at least mild mediocrity before they finally reveal…	Madison Carter	06/08/09	22	06/14/09
The Wrestler	The life of a professional wrestler is one that is not easily explained to those on the outside of the business. They appear to be pantomime artists, putting on a con using gymnastics and basic acting skills to pretend to beat each other up for a living. The truth is…	Madison Carter	06/03/09	0
American Scary	I feel like a complete shmuck as I finally get around to reviewing this wonderful little documentary. I special-requested it ages ago, they sent it to us quickly and I…sort of lost it for a while. Nevertheless, it has been recovered and now I can finally extrapolate upon one of…	Madison Carter	05/21/09	0
Going Mad: Toons in Review	Over the last few weeks, my Going Mad column has delved into the worlds of monster movies and exploitation trash cinema. This turn around, I want to look at something a little bit more innocent: Cartoons. Sadly, I’m afraid the animation-on-DVD market isn’t quite as healthy at this particular moment…	Madison Carter	05/11/09	0
Sexploitation Explosion	I may be the world’s easiest-to-please cineophile. Even the worst film out there can be redeemed by one of two things in my mind: Monsters and boobs. Both in the same film is a masterpiece. Just not boobs on the monster – that’s just weird. Last time around on Going…	Madison Carter	04/24/09	0
Creature Features	Greetings and welcome to the first installment of Going Mad, my own little attempt to contribute to the littering of the intrawebz with rambling blogs. In these, I’ll be taking a look at all sorts of things I find of interest, from movies to comic books to quantum physics. Okay,…	Madison Carter	04/03/09	0
Mystery Science Theater 3000 volume XIV	It’s no secret that I consider Mystery Science Theater 3000 to be my favorite all-time television series. Through the original airings, various previous video and DVD releases and even some grey-market tape trading (don’t look at me like that, the MST guys encouraged that!), I managed to compile the entire…	Madison Carter	02/20/09	2	02/23/09
Simpsons: Season 11	It’s inevitable that every popular and well-received television series that lasts more than a season hits that point where people start to care a lot less. Sometimes it’s due to a major cast change, or a shift in storyline. With comedies it seems more of a matter of the creators…	Madison Carter	02/20/09	0
His Name Was Jason	As evidenced by the box office receipts this past weekend, people still can’t get enough of the Friday the 13th franchise. With a total of twelve movies spanning almost thirty years now, the series continues to be one of the real tried-and-trues of horror. It never had to delve into…	Madison Carter	02/19/09	0
Hey There! It’s Yogi Bear / The Man Called Flintstone	In the mid-1960s television cartoon giant Hanna-Barbara tried to break into the feature film department with two films starring their hit creations. While these films showed all of the corner-cutting that H-B was notorious for, they’re still pretty fun stuff. Hey There! It’s Yogi Bear, released in 1964, and The…	Madison Carter	01/21/09	0
Warners’ Horror Double Features	One of the great things about DVD studios scraping the bottom of the barrel is that occasionally they turn up real gems. Not always, but occasionally. Having released so much of their major and well-known horror movies over the past 10 years now, Warner Brothers have started looking at that…	Madison Carter	01/21/09	0
Ultimate Classic Wrestling Presents…	I used to be a fan of professional wrestling. Not so much these days. I could spend hours and paragraphs defending my one-time hobby, but it’s no use. Those that understand do and those that don’t never will, to paraphrase a comment once made by wrestler Jeff Jarrett. Today’s stuff…	Madison Carter	01/21/09	0