Created by Tracy Torme & Robert K. Weiss Universal Television Sliders is a science fiction television series about a foursome who travel, or “slide” as the show refers to it, between parallel universes trying to return to their Earth after an accident strands them. They are led by Quinn Mallory, …
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Review: Bodysong
Written and directed by Simon Pummell Bodysong is not a film to be passively watched, but is instead a piece of art that tries to actively engage. The director wants the audience to be mindful of the images on screen in the hopes that each viewer will create an individual …
Read More »Cleopatra 2525: The Complete Series
Guest reviewed by Caballero Oscura Let’s review the basic concepts of Cleopatra 2525. Hot chicks? Check. Skimpy costumes? Check. Sci-fi with lots of action? Check. Exec produced by Sam “Spider-man” Raimi? Check. So on paper, this series would appear to have the basic ingredients needed to satisfy most adolescent and …
Read More »Foo Fighters – In Your Honor
Foo Fighters celebrate their 10th anniversary with their fifth release, a double album of 83 minutes that is split into a rock disc and an acoustic one. Leader Dave Grohl wanted In Your Honor to be the one album the band is remembered for in the same way that he …
Read More »Review: The Jerk (26th Anniversary Edition DVD)
Directed by Carl Reiner Screenplay by Steve Martin, Carl Gottlieb, Michael Elias Story by Steve Martin & Carl Gottlieb The Jerk tells the “rags to riches to rags” story of Navin R. Johnson, a “typical bastard” to some. When the film opens, Navin is homeless and he tells the viewer …
Read More »Review: Northern Exposure: The Complete Third Season DVD
Northern Exposure, which ran from 1990 to 1995, is set in the fictional town of Cicely, Alaska, where the residents are lovable eccentrics whose lives are set in a world of magic realism, limited only by the writers’ imaginations. It’s a place where it’s perfectly natural for ex-boyfriends to be …
Read More »Review: Live Aid (the four-DVD set)
Bob Geldof and Midge Ure reacted to the famine in Africa and the world’s lack of response to it by organizing Band Aid, an all-star group of mainly British performers who recorded the charity song, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” They then created Live Aid, an intercontinental concert that took …
Read More »Review: Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
Written and directed by Preston Sturges After a successful run of seven hit films in four years with Paramount Pictures, writer-director Preston Sturges left and signed a deal with Howard Hughes. Their arrangement didn’t work out and resulted in the release of only one film, technically two if you count …
Read More »Review: Constantine
Directed by Francis Lawrence Story by Kevin Brodbin Screenplay by Kevin Brodbin, Mark Bomback and Frank Capello Based on the DC/Vertigo comic book Hellblazer Constantine begins with a quote about the Spear of Destiny, which is fabled to have been the spear that pierced Jesus’ side while he hung from …
Read More »Patricia Vonne – Guitars and Castanets
Austin’s Patricia Vonne returns with her second album, Guitars and Castanets, 41 minutes of music culled from her roots. The collection is filled with Texas rockers and Mexican folklorico ballads, three of which are sung in Spanish, including the translated title track, which was co-written by her brother, director Robert …
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