Woo! Brain Eating and Full Frontal Nudity! Sign me up! By David B. Grelck June 23, 2005 With Land of the Dead opening this weekend, I decided to revisit my favorite Non-Romero zombie movie. Can you imagine my dismay when I found out, via the featurette on this DVD, that the genesis of this project was John Russo, the same…
Read More »The Force is strong with the Buddha’s teachings. By Diana Estigarribia June 20, 2005 In 1996 I found myself getting deeper into Buddhism. I was reading everything in sight that I could about the Eastern philosophy. But it was often tough going, with unfamiliar ideas and terms. One day I looked up the word “dharma” in the glossary of my…
Read More »Zombies, man…Freak me out. By David B. Grelck June 29, 2005 I have always held Zombie movies to a special place. The original Night of the Living Dead was one of the very first horror movies I ever had an opportunity to see, late night on channel 11 watching with my father, decidedly not a horror fan. Then, surprisingly, he also rented Dawn…
Read More »Here come the Thetans! By Matt Springer July 01, 2005 There are many kinds of Spielberg movies, and many flavors of Spielberg. There is the preachy ham-handed Spielberg of Amistad, the genius collaborator Spielberg of Raiders, the light and boppin’ Spielberg of Catch Me If You Can. Then there is the Spielberg who is the master engineer of popcorn entertainment,…
Read More »“Tonight… on Biography.” Sorry, I have MST3K on the brain. All will become apparent in time. By Chris Stewart July 22, 2005 Take Parts: The Clonus Horror, with a touch of The Sixth Day. Maybe a jigger of Coma (you know, Tom Selleck’s first movie.) Cram it full of action, and enough blatant product placements to make it like a running commercial, with all…
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