DVD Release Date: March 23, 1999
Dark Star is a 1974 comedy science fiction film that follows the eponymous space craft to its conflict with a circular alien. The film was a student project for then USC student, John Carpenter.
Category: Comedy
Doctor Who Special: Christmas 2017
Release Date: February 13, 2018
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS
In an episode entitled Twice Upon a Time (Doctor Who Special: Christmas 2017), the Twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi) encounters the First (David Bradley) who is fighting regeneration. The Doctor duo encounters a World War I soldier (Mark Gatiss), who was temporarily saved from death by the disruption of the timeline when the Doctors met, but who is being pursued by a new threat known as Testimony. Continue reading Doctor Who Special: Christmas 2017
A Christmas Story (1983)
Release Date: November 18, 1983 | DVD Release Date: October 29, 1997
A Christmas Story (1983) is based on an autobiographical story by Jean Shepard. Set in the 1940s, nine-year-old Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) desperately wants a Red Ryder BB Gun and goes to great lengths to convince everyone that it would be the Christmas gift to end all Christmas gifts. Continue reading A Christmas Story (1983)
Categories:Comedy, Movie Reviews
All American Christmas Carol (2013)
Movie Released: November 2013 | DVD Release Date: August 22, 2016
In All American Christmas Carol (2013), Cindy Wegman (Taryn Manning) is a single mother with multiple kids from different fathers and has adopted the attitude that working is for suckers. She quit working as a hairdresser when her mom died and has been floundering, taking advantage of anyone who will either look the other way or fall for her charms. She’s visited by three ghosts who try to show her the error of her outlook and put her back on a positive path. Continue reading All American Christmas Carol (2013)
Categories:Comedy, Movie Reviews
Cherry Pop (2017)
DVD Release Date: September 22, 2017
Cherry Pop (2017) is a movie about a young man (Lars Berge) looking for his big break decides to take his chances as The Cherry at the Drag Club, Cherry Pop. Continue reading Cherry Pop (2017)
Categories:Comedy, Movie Reviews
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (2010)
Release Date: December 12, 2010 | DVD Release Date: November 29, 2011
In Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (2010), Tucker (Suburgatory’s Alan Tudyk) and Dale (Tyler Labine, probably best known for Breaker High) purchase their dream vacation home, a lakefront cabin in West Virginia. On the way to the cabin, they come across a group of college students at a gas station, headed out to camp by the lake. Dale approaches Allison (Katrina Bowden of Sex Drive) at the urging of Tucker, who thinks he needs to build self-confidence. Allison and her friends are startled by Tucker and Dale’s hillbilly appearance and what follows is a night of misunderstandings and revenge. Continue reading Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (2010)
What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
Release Date: February 13, 2015 | DVD Release Date: July 21, 2015
The Movie, What We Do in the Shadows (2014) is a Mockumentary following four vampires who share a flat in Wellington, New Zealand. Continue reading What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
Night of the Living Deb (2015)
Release Date: October 8, 2015 | DVD Release Date: September 6, 2016
In Night of the Living Deb (2015), the super-awkward camerawoman, Deb Clarington (Maria Thayer of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Hitch) wakes up on the Fourth of July in the bed of Ryan (Argo’s Michael Cassidy), the hottest guy in town. Not sure how she got there and not eager to leave, Deb doesn’t realize the turmoil brewing outside her door. Can Deb and Ryan escape the zombie apocalypse? Continue reading Night of the Living Deb (2015)
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency Season 1 (2017)
DVD Release Date: January 24, 2017
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency Season 1 (2017) is based on Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency series. Shortly after Todd (Elijah Wood) finds the body of Partick Spring, a billionaire with a lot of secrets, Holistic Detective Dirk Gently (Samuel Barnett) crawls through his window and presses him into investigating the murder. With a holistic assassin (Fiona Dourif) on Dirk’s heels, can he solve the case before he’s swimming with the fishes? Continue reading Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency Season 1 (2017)
The Watch (2012)
DVD Release Date: November 13, 2012
In The Watch (2012), a night watchman at the local Costco is brutally murdered, the manager of the store, Evan Trawling (Ben Stiller) starts a neighborhood watch group. He and his group of misfits, Bob (Vince Vaughn), Franklin (Jonah Hill) and Jamarcus (the IT Crowd’s amazing Richard Ayoade) soon suspect alien invasion. Can they stop the aliens before their small Ohio town is laid to waste? Continue reading The Watch (2012)