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• DARK SHADOWS (2012)

  by zacharythax July 12, 2012
  I think I may have sat through at max 5 minutes of the TV show before I got so bored I switched it off. A lot of critics have slammed this one, but it's got great use of music (though I don't see how the 15 year old daughter Carolyn could have been listening to Iggy and the Stooges' "Sick of You " i...
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• Another Remake Nobody Asked For: SOLARIS (2002)

  by zacharythax July 9, 2012
  WARNING: In case you actually give a fug, this review contains spoilers, not that it matters. The review of the original in the Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film goes like this: "Better than 2001." If I were to make a one-sentence entry on this remake my first impulse would be "More soporific than T...

• WINTER'S BONE (2010)

  by zacharythax July 6, 2012
  THE "FEEL BAD" MOVIE OF THE YEAR! Grim depressing tale of modern day hillbillies in Missouri who have been cooking meth for years and its aftermath. It's has a gritty documentary-like feel with almost no background music. Jennifer (Hunger Games)  Lawrence lives with her catatonic mother and takes ca...
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• SHEITAN (2006) France subtl.

  by zacharythax July 5, 2012
  ON Christmas eve bunch of horny rowdy chavs at a DJ club try to get laid, one of them (Bart) gets samshed in the face with a bottle after being rebuffed by a girl he's hitting on. They get into a tiny car, rob a convenience store of candy and gas (while watching a Santa Claus slasher flick) and take...
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• MYSTERY MEN (1999)

  by zacharythax July 1, 2012
  Although positive reviews abound now on the internet, when it came out I can't remember anyone having anything good to say about this goofy fantasy-comedy about a cadre of superheroes who may or may not have actual superpowers. In a Blade-Runner inspired city the Red Eye gang (led by Artie Lange) br...
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• SPACE PROBE TAURUS (1965) b/w

  by zacharythax June 30, 2012
  I don't recall reading about this in any of the reference books.  In the future year 2000 the USA sends a space probe "beyond earth's universe." to a planet where they land underwater and encounter an incredibly cheezy-looking monster with really long fangs and a thick mohawk. Very talky and claustr...

• BIGFOOT LIVES (2007)

  by zacharythax June 30, 2012
  Most of the running time of this disappointing documentary is filled up with rednecks in camo out in the woods telling stories. Now nobody is more of a believer in the existence of bigfoot than I, but I find it a little disconcerting that in this day and age when everyone is carrying a cell phone wi...

• Leonard Nimoy: Kid Monk Baroni (1952) and Valley of Mystery AKA Disappearance of Flight 603 (1967)

  by zacharythax June 30, 2012
  KID MONK BARONI (1952) Nimoy said in an interview that this film sank at the box office because of the advent of television. Paul "Monk" Baroni is the leader of J.D. gang who gets caught by a kindly, but tough parish priest sawing up a stair railing for firewood. He invites them to train at the chur...

• Boardwalk Empire (2010--)

  by zacharythax June 23, 2012
  If you would have talked to my grandparents when they were alive you would have the impression that they never even THOUGHT about sex. That my grandpa never got drunk in his life, just one night he "had a few too many but that was just once." and that he never smoked a cigarette just one "it wasn't ...

• 8 1/2 (1963)

  by zacharythax June 22, 2012
  The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film doesn't have a lot to say about this aside from the fact that Barbara Steele is in it (looking HOT!) It was shown all the time in college film classes in the early 80's, but I first saw it in a library basement and to me made the first connection between trash a...