Hasta La Gadget!

Watching a movie for exactly the second time ever, when you haven’t seen it since you were a young kid, is a pretty amazing experience. I streamed Scrooged the other night. I hadn’t seen it since shortly after its 1988 release, when I was about six or seven. Total flashback. The terrifying ghouls under the cloak of the ghost of Christmas Future. The incomprehensible mania of a drunken, laid-off Bobcat Goldthwait. The pointless distraction of the love story. Those things were not, I can report, a bunch of scary nonsense this time around. More »

In 1979 Jim Henson brought the Muppets to the big screen with the aptly titled film “The Muppet Movie.” On December 5th, the Muppet Movie came to Netflix. Tonight, you should watch it. More »

No one ever believed town treasure Bernie could have killed his companion, the insufferable snake woman Marjorie Nugent. Oh, well! More »

The Carp and The Seagull isn’t what you might normally call a “film” despite having many of those characteristics. Instead, it blurs the lines between “film,” “game,” and “experience” by taking your input and morphing itself accordingly. More »

So we just had a Presidential election, and as always, it brought out plenty of people who wanted to yell and scream and accuse anyone and everyone involved in either political party the root of all evil. Well here’s a politician who gets right down in there and gets his hands dirty, with a little encouragement anyway. More »