Great News! Richard Bey is back!

The trailer for the new Richard Bey movie is finally on line!

RIP - Eat-a-Pita

After at least ten years the famed pita place closed it's doors and knocked down it's building. It's too bad. A great place to eat outdoors and scare at the crazy people walking by.
I'm sure the beauty parlor next door is happy to have some light coming through the side windows.

Good Bad Movie stuff

Watch Wicker Man Fifth Symphony on CollegeHumor

Are you drunk and/or famous?

Then I have a casting call for you...
From Cynopsis.com:

Casting Call: VH1 is casting for season three of Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew, looking for recognizable celebrities who are struggling with an addiction or who are recently recovered and can benefit from being on the show. Series producers and Dr. Drew work with the celebrities involved in a sensitive manner to achieve positive, life-changing results. To recommend a celebrity for the show, send an email to tvtalkrr@yahoo.com.
I guess the producers assume that famous people that hit rock bottom read Cynopsis.com.

FOX Says Osbournes Variety show was an early April Fools Day Joke

Ratings from the Programming Insider: But all was not well on Fox care of inane variety series The Osbournes: Reloaded, which kicked-off with a fourth-place 5.0 rating/8 share in the overnights at 9:30 p.m. Retention out of the 9:00 p.m. portion of lead-in American Idol (13.6/21) was only 37 percent. Keep in mind that at least 16 Fox affiliated stations refused to air the Osbourne special, and an additional 10 moved it out of prime-time and into the early hours of the morning. So, these initial results are approximate. And Fox's decision to a) not schedule the remaining five episodes of the six-episode series yet, and b) trim last night's debut from one-hour to barely 30 minutes means there is a possibility the remaining telecasts will never see the light of day.

All in all, I personally think The Osbournes: Reloaded is now the worst variety series in the history of television. Move over The Brady Bunch Hour, The Chuck Barris Rah Rah Show, Turn-On and Pink Lady!

Bad Products for Kids

Whose idea was it to give an 8-year-old boy a large buck knife?

I found these treasures when shopping for toys for my friend's kids. They used to live out of town so I would bring them toys whenever I visited. Now the gift giving is the norm and they live 5 miles from me. I don't even get a hello or eye contact - just "What did we get?"

Giving a hyper kid something he can stab people with seems like a bad idea. I gave him a plunger that shoots up a ball that you hit with the bat that came with it. First he was letting the plunger shoot his face then I found him in the kitchen shooting apples into space and laughing like a cartoon villain. The kid can make anything into a weapon why take that creativity away from him?
As the kids get older, the gifts get better. I have to step up my game. Pretty soon, this will look like a good gift.

Quick Podcast Review

If you are looking for an 80's music podcast - "Monday Night 80's" is the best. There are others, but instead of telling you why I don't like them - here's why I likes MN80's.
Low DJ chatter - The host comes on at the beginning, apologizes for not doing a podcast in a while, then maybe he'll come on once before saying good bye
Music variety - Although it's mostly new wave, there's pop and some songs you might not remember. Lots of good stuff. Not just 8675309 over and over again.
great sound quality - other podcasts sound like you are listening on an old boom box. Maybe that's the point...but MN80's sounds great.

The bad part is that new eps are hard to come by. He stops for a long time and then comes back. Luckily there's a ton of recorded episodes available. It's not like there are new songs coming out.

Future Good Bad Movie Night

Lindsay Lohan's latest film, Labor Pains" is going right to cable and DVD. You can be snarky and blame the star, but I blame the film. It's about a woman who pretends to be pregnant to keep her job and wackiness ensues. People believe her and some how she writes a book and goes on a talk show hosted by Janeanne Garofolo. It's like a long "Three's Company" episode (Note: We will be updating our references soon. We've had a delay and everything will be right on track.)

The actors look down a lot - as if they are hiding their faces.
At the very end of the trailer there's a card that reads, "Now in Post Production." Is that a pregnancy joke or are they reassuring their investors? Either way, I can't wait to see this future classic.

more Troll 2 stuff

good bad movie night: Troll 2

There's a documentary about this film called "Best Worst Movie." I would have to say they are on to something there. First off - it's a movie called Troll 2 and there are no trolls. At all.

My only reservation about slamming this popular cult film is that it feels so amateurish that it feels unfair to slam it. The acting, costumes and special effect make it look like a community theater production.

But they did get the "Troll" name and the director went on to make other films (in his home country of Italy.)

Yes, another vanity project from a foreigner who wants to make a typical American movie. This time a horror film. In Tommy Wiseau's case a love triangle/drama (the Room!)

What both films have in common is that on many occasions it looks like the director said, "No one will notice." Like when a fly landed on victim's forehead moments before turning into a plant.

Yes, a plant. Apparently a nice all American family took a vacation in a house in a town in the middle of nowhere. Also a bunch of teenaged boys got an RV and decided to park it in the same woodsy small town.

The towns people are apparently (spoilers) goblins who feed the unsuspecting victims this brightly colored goo that turns them into a vegan paste. Then the towns people turn into Goblins and feast on the goo.
The goblin costume look like well, goblin costumes. I thought for a second that it was a plot point. But it was not. Like a lot of the scary things in the movie, it looks like they bought on November 1 at a Halloween store.

This movie is bad in so many ways. Bad enough that it's good. If you enjoy terrible films, you will enjoy this one.
How's that for a pull quote?
3 3/4 cans. Rent it here...

Let's see him make butter too

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