There sure was a lot of junky cartoons in the late ’70s, one of which was Rickey Rocket, which appeared as a part of the Plastic Man show. Sort of like Fat Albert in space, this featured an all black cast with a homemade spaceship that had scruffy hair and a streetwise style. Some Wikipedia [...]
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Dear Alex and Annie…the show no kid liked!
March 9th, 2010 
rberry ABC used to pad the start and end of their Saturday morning cartoons with cool stuff like Schoolhouse Rock, but back in 1978 they thought 2 suspender wearing dorks and t-shirts with their names on them would be great to feature answering questions from real kids. I hated the theme song, and even though I’d [...]
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3 Comments »Alice In Wonderland Is Hardly Wonderful
March 4th, 2010 rberry Alice in Wonderland is an unappealing boring movie that squanders money, talent, and time like no film I’ve seen before. There’s almost nothing to like about this film, and studios should seriously question giving Tim Burton more than 20 million to make another movie again.
First off, the film is revolting to look at. From the [...]
Posted in Movies, Television, and DVDs Tags: alice in wonderland, johnny depp, movies, tim burtno 4 Comments »The Crazies Reviewed
February 26th, 2010 rberry The Crazies was a film that really didn’t need a remake. The 1973 original is not a very well known film, and aside from having a good title and a connection to George Romero, I don’t see the benefit of paying any amount of money to do it. That being said, it’s a competent and [...]
Updated Karate Kid Trailer (with fun bonus at the end)
February 24th, 2010 rberry As much as I don’t want to see a remake, this looks like a beautifully shot movie with charm to spare. If you’re jaded, just skip to the end and listen to the 2 second song clip that’s playing when Jackie Chan catches a fly with chopsticks!
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The Spectre Is A Great Extra In The New JLA DVD
February 24th, 2010 rberry I always have dug The Spectre, and I brought back our 2007 article on the character written by Bradley Mason Hamlin directly below to remind everyone how cool he is. I was thrilled to learn that there was an exclusive short of The Spectre included in the Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths DVD. It’s [...]
Ian McShane Cast As Blackbeard in New “Pirates” Film
February 24th, 2010 rberry MTV and other gossipy sites are reporting that Deadwood and Lovejoy star Ian McShane will be playing the iconic Blackbeard in the next installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. This is super exciting news, as I have long thought that McShane would make an excellent Blackbeard! We paid $50,000 to have the special [...]
Posted in Movies, Television, and DVDs Tags: blackbeard, disney, ian mcshane, johnny depp, movies, pirates of the caribbean No Comments »Shutter Island Review
February 19th, 2010 rberry Shutter Island is a damn fine thriller that’s smartly written, incredibly acted, and masterfully directed. There’s intrigue from the second the film starts that doesn’t stop until moments before the closing credits. In the hands of someone like M. Night Shyamalan, this movie would have really sucked, but Martin Scorsese’s eye for art and decades [...]
Christian TV Show Gets Pop Culture Pranked
February 18th, 2010 rberry This guy reads an email tale of salvation that’s just the theme song from “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”, and a heartwarming tale of how a man named Ben Kenobi in Nigeria helped him see the light. Great stuff! And the host is actually rather adorable once he finds out he’s been had.
And he got [...]
Posted in Movies, Television, and DVDs, Videos Tags: Star Wars, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air 3 Comments »300 Review
February 15th, 2010 rberry I’ve never seen violence romanticized like this. The wanton and stylized spearing, amputation, hacking, beheading, and impaling through the mouth make Zack Snyder’s 300 seem like a Gatorade commercial for gladiators. And if you’re looking for a giant kick-ass fight scene to pump you up and make you want to attack the other theater-goers with [...]
Posted in Movies, Television, and DVDs Tags: 300, frank miller, gerald butler, Movie Review, Zack Snyder No Comments »Ocean’s 13 Is Greater Than 12 But Less Than 11
February 15th, 2010 rberry Sure, there’s no compelling artistic reason to make this movie, but if you strip it down and take Ocean’s Thirteen for what it is, 2 hours watching Clooney, Pitt, and their pals look cool and saying some funny things while pulling off a big crazy scam, it delivers.
Yes, the “there’s no way they could have [...]
Posted in Movies, Television, and DVDs Tags: al pacino, brad pitt, george clooney, matt damon, Movie Review, ocean's 13 No Comments »The Walking Dead Fan-Film Scene
February 14th, 2010 rberry Wow! This is pretty damn great. Even if you don’t know anything about the comic, I think you’ll admit this is very well shot, directed, and acted. Good work all around. Let’s hope the AMC Series is as good as this.
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It’s a Thin Line…
February 14th, 2010 rberry 1989’s Do The Right Thing with a wonderful tribute to the immortal “Love/Hate” scene from Night of the Hunter…
…and the original scene that inspired it.
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THE WOLFMAN Has No Bite…It SUCKS!
February 12th, 2010 rberry The Wolfman is simply a horrible movie. The art direction and look of the film is wonderful, but that’s about it. On the surface, it seems to have all the right things going for it, but it’s poorly directed, horribly written, badly edited, awfully acted, and all around sucky. Benicio Del Toro delivers his lines [...]
Jace Whitman review THE WOLFMAN
February 12th, 2010 rberry I walked into an advance screening tonight in Sacramento of The Wolfman with guarded high hopes. To say I’m a horror movie fan would be an understatement, so I’d been following the progress of The Wolfman since it was announced. I knew of some of the productions issues and heard of some [...]