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The word "grindhouse" is an American term for theaters that show mainly exploitation films, while the word "redux" means being brought back or a return. Last week The Midnite Movie Mamacita brought back the sorely missed Grindhouse Redux to MadCap Theaters in Tempe with The Tattoo Connection and The Final Comedown. How can you not enjoy a double dose of awesome with appearances by Jim Kelly and Billy Dee Williams?
Read More...Bookmans has long been a supporter of the Orpheum Theater, but now we’re sponsoring great movies on a monthly basis! The Orpheum Theater, a local landmark in historic downtown Flagstaff, Arizona, was built by John Weatherford, who owned of the Weatherford Hotel just up the street in the early 1900s.
Read More...The AVN Entertainment Expo, also known as the Porn Show, was held in two halls in the Sands Convention center next to the CES show, and the co-mingling of geeks and porn people in the lobby was priceless. As one would expect, much of the talent was dressed in very revealing outfits, and if I had a nickel for every CES attendee in uncomfortable shoes shooting sidelong glances (or outright staring) at the copious amounts of flesh on display, I’d be yada yada… Comedy gold.
I arose from my short three hours of sleep on Friday morning to get prepared for an even longer day at the show. My friend Albert and I headed over to the bus stop by our hotel to get the shuttle to the Convention Center. Among the people waiting for the bus was a guy wearing a baseball cap with an Arizona flag on it. I began talking to him and found out he was an artist from Tucson. After a little more small talk he slowly revealed to me his area of interest and expertise, Furries or anthropomorphic characters.
Read More...I arrived in San Diego off of a 45 minute flight that took 3+ hours. I then took the shuttle from my hotel which took forever. I walked into the San Diego Convention Center relieved and sweaty as hell. If it were any more humid I could start swimming.
My first task was to go retrieve my pre-registered badge. As we were pulling up to the spaceship looking convention center we could see the hundreds of poor unfortunates who hadn't pre-registered lining up around the building standing in the direct sunlight. That line of people always gives me the willies, thinking I could never last the 2 to 3 hours in line it normally takes to get in.
Read More...Whether you're a guy or girl who loves it, wouldn't be caught dead watching it, or harbored a secret crush on Sailor Jupiter for 14 years, you've heard of Sailor Moon. It is one of the most successful animated series worldwide and helped spark the phenomenon of anime (otaku) culture in the U.S., but did you know that it was also one of the most censored and edited animated shows on American television?
Ultraviolet ramps up with a title sequence of nonexistent comic covers, showing adaptations of the action heroine drawn in styles from golden age through modern. Unfortunately the film itself more resembles a gutless Image title - all arty flash with only semblance of substance.
The future will look like a very large Danish luxury hotel. At least if Aeon Flux has anything to say about it.
Set 400 years from now, a disease has decimated the world's population to a mere five million, all enclosed in the walled city-state of Bregna run by an iron-handed committee, opposed by righteous alt-looking Monican rebels who feel not all is right with the way things are. Disappearances and strange dreams for starters.
This weekend, I watched a very disturbing (but excellent) film called Cannibal Holocaust. I'm a sucker for Italian horror/thriller movies.
Made in 1980, this movie is like The Blair Witch Project (or the inspiration for it) but more frightening in many ways. The plot follows an expedition into the Amazon that is searching for another expedition from the previous year that had gone looking for an elusive cannibal tribe (the Yanomamo, i believe, of Chagnon fame). The first part of the movie is all about the rescue party entering the jungle and searching for the film crew, and the second part is the rescue party, returned to "civilization" with the film that the original expedition shot, and piecing together what happened to them.