Chew, vol. 4
Chew, vol. 4, by John Layman and Rob Guillory 7.25 Well, Chew is finally starting to wear out its welcome. Based on the first two paperbacks, I would not have […]
Tag Archives: Comedy
Dèmoni
Synopsis: They will make cemeteries their cathedrals and the cities will be your tombs! In 1985, Italian horror masters Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava unleashed this landmark splatter shocker about a group […]
Comic Relief: The Greatest…
Synopsis: Humor in the face of adversity. The phenomenon that is Comic Relief is a uniquely American dynamic, created by Bob Zmuda and Chris Albrecht as a way of using […]
Riget
Synopsis: Acclaimed director Lars Von Trier delves into the world of the supernatural with the chilling series that inspired Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital. At The Kingdom, Denmark’s most technologically advanced […]
Hausu
Synopsis: How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashi’s indescribable 1977 movie House (Hausu)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario Bava? Any […]
Tôkyô zonbi
Synopsis: Tadanobu Asano and Show Aikawa star as fulltime slackers and wannabe ju-jitsu champions who bring the body of their murdered boss to Tokyo’s towering toxic waste dump known as […]
Braindead
Synopsis: Some things won’t stay down…even after they die. On a quiet street, in a small town, pure evil has come to stay. Lionel, an innocent young man, is forced […]
The Frighteners: The Director’s Cut
Synopsis: From Academy Award®-winning director Peter Jackson (King Kong, The Lord of the Rings) comes this wicked comedy-thriller. Michael J. Fox stars as Frank Bannister, a small-town “ghostbuster” in league […]
Ghostbusters
Synopsis: Suit up for classic comedy! When kooky, spooky college profs Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) and Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) lose their university jobs, they decide […]
La cité de la peur
Synopsis: This French comedy parodies horror movies and detective films. It is set at the Cannes Film Festival. There, Odile, a sincere publicist, tries to promote the horror movie “Red […]
X: The Erotic Treasury
X: The Erotic Treasury, by various authors 7.5 I was given this gorgeous anthology by my partner some three years ago, for Christmas. It’s such a beautiful, almost velvety, book and […]
Showgirls
Synopsis: Shocking. Titillating. “Glittery (and) gleefully vulgar” (Dayton Daily News)! From the creators of Basic Instinct comes Showgirls, an “instant camp classic” (The New York Times) and a spectacularly lusty […]
George Carlin: It’s Bad for Ya!
Synopsis: It’s Bad For Ya, Carlin’s Emmy-nominated 14th and final HBO special from March of 2008 features Carlin’s noted irreverent and unapologetic observations on topics ranging from death, religion, bureaucracy, […]
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