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May 27, 2005
Does this mean that the dudes selling bootlegged Passion of the Christ DVDs near the World Trade Center site may be raising money for another attack? Somehow I doubt it.
May 21, 2005  The Ganymede show last night at Rare in New York was lots of fun, the sound was generally good and I was happy with the turnout. May 10, 2005  Um, this column on Orkut by my friend John Gorenfeld will give you a window into the bizarre world of Dennis Madalone, Hollywood stuntman turned would-be Lee Greenwood. The video for Madalone's patriotic rock anthem, "America We Stand As One," needs to be seen to be believed. May 08, 2005  Here's some pure entertainment, as a crazy Scandinavian band armed with kitchen appliances and thick accents takes on "Total Eclipse of the Heart"... [Thanks to Paul Frankenstein for this one.] May 05, 2005  Words nearly do not describe this, a 1996 kiddie sci-fi movie that was deemed too bad to release to theaters, and became the most expensive direct-to-video film at the time. Whoopi Goldberg tried to get out of Theodore Rex both before and during the production, resulting in legal action against her. But in the atmosphere created by the judgment against Kim Basinger from Boxing Helena, Whoopi buckled under the pressure. She appeared in the movie, giving a miserable performance, and then refused to promote it afterwards, which was probably a wise choice. Director Jonathan Betuel, writer of the great 80s fantasy The Last Starfighter, wrote and directed this epic tale of a tough cop paired with a lovable, genetically engineered cuddly tyrannosaurus pal in the near future. The movie mostly evokes Howard the Duck, as "Teddy" rex bumbles, farts, and eats himself through a police investigation. The script ineptly tries to bring in cyberpunk and Blade Runner-inspired elements that simply cannot work in a film pitched at the Trapper Keeper set. May 04, 2005  George P. Cosmatos, the Italian-born director of some of the greatest movies of the 80s, died on April 19th at age 64. I like almost all of Cosmatos' movies for various reasons, including the essential, priceless Stallone vehicles Rambo: First Blood Part II and Cobra, the incredibly entertaining western Tombstone, the Peter Weller movies Leviathan (the chintzy cousin of The Abyss) and Of Unknown Origin (about a man fighting a giant rat), and the hilariously dated 70s train disaster movie The Cassandra Crossing. (The Jerry Goldsmith scores to Rambo, The Cassandra Crossing and Leviathan are among his best work.) |