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Pete’s Dragon: The High Flying Edition Personally, I love Pete’s Dragon.  When I was a kid, I wore out the VHS tape I had of it.  It was one of those movies I liked to have on in the background while I fell asleep.  And amazingly, after I growed up a bit and other movies replaced… Matt Rox 08/31/09 0
Battles B.C.: The Complete Season One Inspired by the movie 300’s visual style, Battles B.C. takes a look at eight military conflicts from the ancient world.  Some are biblical (e.g. Moses, Joshua) and others more historical (e.g. Hannibal, Caesar), but all highlight famous generals and their stratagems. The episodes are broken up into three parts that… Matt Rox 08/20/09 0
The Mighty Boosh Series 1-3 How do you describe The Mighty Boosh to someone who has never experienced it?  Comedy?  Certainly.  Musical?  Definitely.  British?  Damn straight.  Weird as shit?  Beyond the realms of believability.  Genius?  Abso-freakin’-lutely. The Mighty Boosh is an idiosyncratic, ever-evolving sitcom that combines music, live-action, animation, bizarreness, hilariously quick dialogue, dance, crazy… Matt Rox 08/18/09 0
Amateur Pornstar Killer 3: The Final Chapter The days I spent leading up to watching Amateur Pornstar Killer 3: The Final Chapter were filled with heady anticipation.  Not having seen the previous two films, would I be able to comprehend what must by now be a complicated web of plot twists?  Would there be subtle nuances in… Matt Rox 08/04/09 0
Splatter Movie: The Director’s Cut Shot as a movie-within-a-movie,  Splatter Movie tells the story of an unfortunate film crew shooting a horror movie called “Tesseract” in a seasonal haunted house location called Hundred Acre Mansion.  The director of “Tesseract” Amy Lee Parker (played by Splatter Movie;s director Amy Lynn Best) starts us off by blogging… Matt Rox 07/30/09 0
Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II The geniuses at Stoopid Monkey, LLC have done it again!  Following on the heels of the wildly hilarious and successful Robot Chicken: Star Wars Special, Seth Green and Matt Senreich amp up the sick Sith-ness with – what else – Robot Chicken: Star Wars: Episode II.  And as impossible as… Matt Rox 07/30/09 0
One-Eyed Monster In One-Eyed Monster, a porn crew travels out to a remote cabin site in the middle of winter to film a skin flick starring Ron Jeremy (played by the only man who could fill his shorts, the big-man himself). Ron is accompanied by real life friend and porn co-star from… Matt Rox 06/25/09 2 08/07/09
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Season 2 To start off with, I’ll assume you’ve never heard of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! and give you a quick prep. Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim are the titular creator/stars of the sketch/musical program. They play most roles in their [adult swim] sketch show, though plenty of guest… Matt Rox 04/30/09 0
Donkey Punch: Unrated Edition Let me start by saying this: I can’t believe they greenlit this film with the title Donkey Punch. For those of you in the unknow, a donkey punch is a rumored sexual act where the man is behind the woman and at the penultimate moment, socks her in the back… Matt Rox 04/13/09 0
Dragonball Z: Broly Triple Feature Not being an expert on all things Dragonball Z shouldn’t prevent you from checking out the Funimation Dragonball Z Broly trilogy.  It’s really just icing for the DBZ cake.  The stories take place outside of continuity, though they reference the Dragonball canon. The Broly movies – each sequel shorter than… Matt Rox 03/30/09 6 11/07/09
Dragonball GT: Season 1 Years have passed, and the characters that populate the worlds of Akira Toriyama’s Dragonball and Dragonball Z are older. Some have lost their hair while others have grown some. Children are young adults with children of their own. And Goku, the man who began his adventures as a young, impish… Matt Rox 03/16/09 0
Frisky Dingo: Season 2 Adam Reed and Matt Thompson – the creators of the distinctive and over-the-top Sealab 2021 – return for a second season of the equally exciting and bizarre Frisky Dingo. Unlike Sealab though, Frisky Dingo boasts completely original animation and characters. Picking up one year after the first season ended (with… Matt Rox 02/25/09 1 02/25/09
Best of Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist In Comedy Central’s 1990’s-era, Emmy award winning Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist , animated versions of real-life comedians discuss their problems with Dr. Katz (voiced by standup Jonathan Katz); and the clips on The Best of are spliced together from several episodes into one long marathon of counseling sessions. But before… Matt Rox 02/23/09 0
Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor: The Complete Collection In Guyver: the Bioboosted Armor, school student Sho Fukamachi finds a Guyver, an alien artifact that becomes a suit of organic armor that covers Sho’s body. This sends Sho and his friends into an escalating series of battles with a group known as Chronos Corporation. Chronos wish to recover Sho’s… Matt Rox 02/19/09 0
2012: Science or Superstition The clock is ticking towards the December 21, 2012; and Disinformation’s 2012: Science or Superstition has experts on both sides giving different points of view on the significance of that date. Is it the end of the world or (possibly the end of an age for mankind) as predicted by… Matt Rox 02/19/09 0
Zombie Diaries Dear Diary, Why can’t this movie be good? Thought you’d seen the gambit of zombie plots? Don’t worry. You have. Zombie Diaries brings nothing new to the table, despite all its effort. The entire film is a documentary-style piece of horror about a zombie plague that takes over the world.… Matt Rox 01/28/09 2 01/28/09
Ninja Cheerleaders Remember those 3 Ninjas movies from the 1990’s? Ninja Cheerleaders is kind of like that mixed with Charlie’s Angels and with more boobs. Don’t be confused by the title. There is maybe one scene where the titular characters dress as cheerleaders. They are too busy. Besides having there extracurricular activities… Matt Rox 01/28/09 4 09/14/09
Thirst: Special Edition Made in 1979, Thirst is a twisty, winding tale about vampirism and cults. The myth that surrounds the history of Countess Elizabeth Bathory (known as the “Blood Countess” and the most prolific female serial killer in history) is blended together with the brainwashing techniques and horrors of Jim Jones’ People’s… Matt Rox 01/26/09 0
Scorpion Clovis Cornillac (who was brilliant as the cross-dressing inmate Marcus in Malefique) stars as Angelo, a mixed martial artist who gets thrown in jail for killing an opponent outside the ring. After being released, a few years later, he gets involved with organized crime’s underground ultimate fighting circuit and must… Matt Rox 01/22/09 0
Tropic Thunder: 2-Disc Director’s Cut Tropic Thunder starts off with one fake drink/candy commercial and three fake movie trailers that all pertain to the major characters in the film.  The trailers rip on movies like Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps, Brokeback Mountain, and .  They are fantastic in their presentation and parody.  The only problem… Matt Rox 01/07/09 0
Son of the Beach: Volume 2 For those unfamiliar with Son of the Beach, think Baywatch crossed with Police Squad! or Get Smart. Mix in some ecstasy, Viagra, and the maturity level of a 13 year-old and you’ll be close. But what else would you expect from executive producer Howard Stern? The thrust of the series’… Matt Rox 01/07/09 0
Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat Sundown starts with an incomprehensibly small text scroll that unnecessarily sets up the movie’s lame plot.  Under the direction of Count Mardulak, vampires have banded together to form a “normal” middle American town.  The bloodsuckers wear sun block and stay in the shade during the day to keep up the… Matt Rox 11/28/08 1 12/09/08
Numb3rs: Season 4 NUMB3RS: Season 4 picks up from the cliffhanger from the previous season.  One agent on the FBI team lead by Eppes brother Don is accused of being a traitor.  The agent gets himself into trouble, the rest of the team gets him out, and he spends half the season trying… Matt Rox 11/28/08 0
According to Jim: The Complete First Season In According to Jim, Jim Belushi (Red Heat, Mr. Destiny) plays Jim (quite a stretch), the patriarch of a suburban family.  His wife Cheryl is played by Courtney Thorne-Smith (Melrose Place, Ally McBeal) and the two share a small brood while dealing with the weekly trials and tribulations of being… Matt Rox 11/28/08 0
Spin City: The Complete First Season The set up for Spin City follows the day-in/day-out events of a fictionalized New York City mayoral staff.  (Think The West Wing, but instead of 80’s star Rob Lowe, City has 80’s star Michael J. Fox.)  Fox (Family Ties, Back to the Future) stars as the beset Deputy Mayor of… Matt Rox 11/28/08 0
Son of Rambow A young English boy who is a member of the Brethren (a religious sect with a strong moral code and strict societal rules) gets caught up in an awkward friendship with his school’s local malcontent.  The two start making a home movie called, “Son of Rambow”, which is about Rambo’s… Matt Rox 11/27/08 0
Chowder: Volume 1 Chowder’s setting is Marzipan City, a city of mish-mashed cultures and cravings.  Everything in the city revolves around the procuring, production, or consumption of food.  The stories concentrate on Chowder, a young and purple cat/bear/rabbit-thing that serves as the ever-hungry chef’s apprentice.  Chowder is apprenticed to the ancient-but-spry chef Mung… Matt Rox 11/20/08 0
Star Wars: The Clone Wars 2-Disc Special Edition Taking place in the Star Wars continuity between Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (and roughly around the same time covered by the Clone Wars cell-animated show), Clone Wars helps to start filling in that three year gap.  The movie is a computer-generated… Matt Rox 11/17/08 0
Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil: Uncensored In Root of All Evil, angry and uncensored comic Lewis Black presides over the social ills of our time like a foul-mouthed TV judge.  Prosecuting each societal evil is a professional comedian armed only with words, illogical leaps in logic, and some great improv.  Black listens to the cases and… Matt Rox 11/05/08 0
Liberty’s Kids: Est. 1776: The Complete Series Set in colonial and revolutionary America, Liberty’s Kids tells the story of James Hiller (a young colonist who is pro-separation), Sarah Phillips (a young Englishwoman who is anti-separation), Henri LeFevre (a French orphaned juvenile), and Moses (a freed slave).  All four work for Benjamin Franklin at his Pennsylvania Gazette.  The… Matt Rox 10/22/08 0
Rob & Big: Season 3 For those in the unknow who may not be familiar with the brilliance that is MTV’s Rob & Big, meet our heroes: Rob Dyrdek, a short pro-skater with a tendency towards hyperactivity and Christopher “Big Black” Boykin, the man-mountain who doubles as Rob’s bodyguard and best friend.  The two opposite-looking… Matt Rox 10/22/08 1 10/22/08
When We Left Earth NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) recently turned fifty this past summer, having been established back on July 29th of 1958.  To help celebrate this anniversary, The Discovery Channel has released When We Left Earth, a four disc set of six episodes that cover the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo… Matt Rox 10/20/08 0
Dead Space: Downfall Dead Space: Downfall is a prequel to Electronic Arts, Inc.’s new third person sci-fi/horror survival actioner Dead Space.  The game will be a multiplatform release (PS3, Xbox 360, and PC DVD) and is expected to do very well for EA.  Unfortunately, I don’t see the same thing happening for the… Matt Rox 10/16/08 0
Burn After Reading - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Like all of the movies directed by Joel & Ethan Cohen (known as the Cohen Brothers), Burn After Reading is scored by Carter Burwell.  And elements of the previous movies’ soundtracks can be heard throughout the new one.  But it’s not just the past that can be heard.  New elements… Matt Rox 10/14/08 0
The Universe: The Complete Season Two The History Channel’s The Universe: The Complete Season Two does a really good job of living up to its name.  Not bound by just the planets in the Solar System (or even the Milky Way), the series covers theories and facts about the nature of the entire universe – from… Matt Rox 10/13/08 0
Legion of Super Heroes: Vol. 3 To catch everybody up, Legion of Super Heroes tells the story of super-powered teens in the 31st century.  A young Superman, brought from the 21st century, joins their ranks and helps them to keep the United Planets safe from threats.  Some threats are political, while some are more your standard… Matt Rox 10/08/08 0
Jeffrey Ross: No Offense We’ve all seen Jeffery Ross. He’s the head the Friar Club’s roasts of such icons as William Shatner, Pam Anderson, Flava Flav, and Bob Saget.  Most of us have seen him dispense unabashed, raw wit in his specials (or at least bits of them) on Comedy Central.  And with the… Matt Rox 10/08/08 0
Shin-Chan: Season 1, Part 2 In Shin-Chan: Season 1 Part 2 the Noharas (title character Shin, his sister Hima, and parents Hiro and Mitzi) move out of the Falling Apartments and back into their house which was being re-built after Shin had blown it up in part 1 of the first season.  The normal stresses… Matt Rox 10/02/08 0
Starship Troopers 3: Marauder Starship Troopers 3: Marauder returns to the roots of the first film and acts as a direct sequel (unlike Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation which just took place in the same universe).  Unfortunately, writer director Edward Neumeier successfully copies Paul Verhoeven’s style on the first one; the result… Matt Rox 10/01/08 0
Heroes season 2 The second season of Tim Kring’s Heroes picks up four months after the end of the first season.  All the characters have dispersed into smaller or individual groups and are in (some cases) in radically different situations.  Peter, the power-absorber, is an amnesiac in Ireland with no clue as to… Matt Rox 09/24/08 0
Saving Grace season 1 Saving Grace is a series about a jaded Oklahoma detective named Grace Hanadarko (Holly Hunter) who gets a “last chance angel” named Earl (Leon Rippy) assigned to her so she can get her act together.  They meet one night when Grace is driving drunk and runs over a convicted felon… Matt Rox 08/12/08 0
Brutal Massacre: A Comedy In the tradition of mockumentaries like This is Spinal Tap, Living in Oblivion, and Comic Book: The Movie, the Stevan Mena film Brutal Massacre: a Comedy does almost everything right.  The story is a behind-the-scenes look at B-horror director Harry Penderecki (a director on the outs with the Hollywood machine)… Matt Rox 08/12/08 0
Pineapple Express Original Soundtrack The new comedy from the Superbad team of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, Pineapple Express, is a callback to the stoner/buddy/low-brow comedies of the late 70’s and early 80’s.  The music chosen for the soundtrack reflects this personality, mixing new elements and recalled songs/artists into a CD that has honestly… Matt Rox 08/11/08 2 01/15/09
The Entrance The Entrance is a story about Detective Porhowski (Sarah-Jane Redmond from Smallville and the upcoming X-Files: I Want to Believe).  One night, a well-dressed drug dealer named Ryan James (Michael Eklund who will appear in Terry Gilliam’s Heath Ledger vehicle The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus) who has a wild story… Matt Rox 07/29/08 0
The Del Tenney Collection Del Tenney is a horror mogul in the smallest, teeniest sense of the word. Forcing himself onto the scene with Violent Midnight (reissued as Psychomania) in 1963, Tenney was quickly able to secure money and distribution for the other two films in the Del Tenney Collection box set: The Horror… Matt Rox 07/27/08 0
Toxic Bare with me on this plot description, okay kids?  Toxic tells the story of a guy who stole some money…no, wait…it’s about a cursed mob boss and his daughter…hmmm…no…uh…it’s about this hitman who becomes a bartender at a gentleman’s club/brothel…maybe…maybe it’s a psychological thriller?  Seriously, this thing is all over… Matt Rox 07/20/08 0
Shin-Chan: Season 1, Part 1 Shin-Chan (Crayon Shin-Chan as it was released in Japan) tells the ongoing suburban life story of the Nohara family.  Dad (Hiro), mom (Mitzi), baby girl (Hima), and son (title character Shin) make up the human members of the family, along with Whitey their dog.  Life is pretty normal for them. … Matt Rox 07/16/08 0
Lucker the Necrophagous: The Director’s Cut The underground cult fav Lucker the Necrophagous was made in 1985 and released in 1986 in Belgium by director, writer producer James Desert (neé Johan Vandewoestijne).  The movie has an odd history that equals its plot in strangeness.  With a budget of $30,000, poor quality film, and an ax to… Matt Rox 07/08/08 0
Attitude for Destruction Attitude for Destruction (the title an homage to the Guns n’Roses album Appetite for Destruction) tells the story of a small band who attracts the attention of a record company due to the lead singer’s black-magic-wielding girlfriend calling the label. After the lamest backstage party ever, the label reps decide… Matt Rox 07/08/08 2 07/09/08
The Orphanage Guillermo del Toro produces and presents fellow Spaniard Juan Antonio Banyard’s The Orphanage (El Orfanato in its original Spanish).  Since this was originally a Spanish movie, the audio track is in Spanish with English subtitles provided.  Normally I like the ability to be able to watch a movie in English,… Matt Rox 07/01/08 0
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