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• TV Review: Made In Canada

  by zacharythax April 26, 2009
  Superfans of Trailer Park Boys will want to see this if for nothing else than for Mike Clattenberg as Assistant Director. The show is about manipulations and shenanigans behind the scenes at a Toronto TV station. It may be a comedy and while it never actually made me laugh out loud too much, it's st...

• Movie Review: Terror on the Beach

  by zacharythax April 26, 2009
  Remember Dennis Weaver from Steven Spielberg's first film Duel? Well this is kinda like it. A made-for-TV version of The Hills Have Eyes. I saw this years ago before VCR days and for a couple of decades wasn't sure whether I had actually seen this or just dreamed it. To my knowledge this has never b...
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• Movie REview: Death Sentence

  by zacharythax December 19, 2007
  If you live in Columbia, SC the reason to see this Death Wish-like revenge action flick is all the familiar downtown locations. Some of this was filmed right down the street from my house. The local weekly ran a huge feature on it, all the critics slammed it, but it's sure to show up on pay-cable as...
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• Movie Review: Rise of the Dead

  by zacharythax December 10, 2007
  Rise of the Dead2007D: William WedigS: Joshua Crook, Jeffrey Crook, Kris Scotto I had heard that back in the 80's George Romero had done some clever legal wrangling so that no one could release a film with anything followed by "...of the Living Dead" or "...of the Dead" without his permission. He m...
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• Editorial: Sirius XM Merger

  by zacharythax December 10, 2007
  I still don't know what to think about the merger between the two satellite radio companies. On the downside it would create a monopoly. Without competition it may lead to inflated rates and crappy service. Anyone who has ever dealt with a small-town cable company knows what kind of headaches a comp...
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• Movie Review: Chainsaw Sally

  by zacharythax December 7, 2007
  Since the 80's there's been a huge amount of low-budget horror films made by true fans of the genre that just didn't work. Sure, you can make a movie with tons of gore, nudity, great FX and all that, but there has to be something else there to make it all work--to make the whole thing more than the ...

• Another Movie Review: Johnny Thunders Born to Lose

  by zacharythax December 7, 2007
  Johnny Thunders: Born to Lose (2001) D: Lech Kowalski P: Lech Kowalski Bette Wanderman In 1991 when I first heard about the death of the guy who played great sloppy guitar for the New York Dolls, my friend's comment was, "They said 'Live Fast, Die Young and leave a beautiful corpse.' The only ...
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• Your Psychotronic Movie Guide for the 21st Century

  by zacharythax November 29, 2007
  Alas, we have entered a sad new era with the passing of Michael Weldon's great Psychotronic Video magazine, but we will attempt to continue to carry the torch with constant reviews of what I've been watching:The Richland County Public Library (Columbia, SC) for years has consistently had an amazing ...
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