For a while, I thought I was getting soft. It seemed that I was hard pressed to find a movie I didn’t like; I mean in the b-movie circuit anyway. After classics like Zombie and Brain Damage, I grabbed a bunch of Shot on Video DVD’s thinking I’d get more of the same. After watching…
Captain Comic (1988)
This was a fun title from back in the shareware era. When sidescrollers ruled, Captain Comic helped pioneer the PC implementation of the genre. The game is simplistic. Jump, dodge, and shoot your way through several zones and collect a few items. No bosses, no characters to meet, just the simple goal. In order to…
Fatty Drives the Bus (1999)
This review has been a long time coming. It probably would have been in the last batch of reviews in 2001, but probably came just too late when that whole ‘life’ thing took over. But now we start anew and I have this not only on VHS (in EP mode no less) but in DVD…
The Last Sentinel (2007)
The Last Sentinel has the rare distinction of being one of the few good Sci-Fi Channel Original movies. Despite what the cover of the DVD suggests, this story is more about Don “The Dragon” Wilson’s character Tallis than Katee Sackoff’s character who, interestingly, is never named. The story starts out simple enough. In this post-apocalyptic…
Gertrude’s Secrets (1986)
This game is a huge throwback. Despite its simplicity, I remember playing this quite a bit. I mean I was playing on an Eagle PC IBM Clone, so what else was there at the time. Speaking of Eagle computers, pick up the book ‘Soul of a New Machine’. Despite sounding like a Fear Factory album…
Bouncing Babies (1984)
Bouncing Babies. The idea sounds noble, but in practice seems somewhat morbid. When a building is on fire, and two fireman are the only ones that stand between life and death, somehow a large trampoline doesn’t seem like the best solution. Delving deeper into the backstory would be pointless. Wondering why so many babies are…
The Black Hole (2006)
Despite what the title tells you, the emphasis is on an electrical monster, not an astronomical force of destruction. There IS a black hole, but somehow the impending implosion of planet Earth is less dangerous than ONE stupid monster that the authorities can’t contain. The story starts out simple enough: a quantum research center has…
Shadow Puppets (2007)
This movie sat in my waiting box for about two years or so. Sometimes things slip through the cracks as I look at the discs and just say to myself, “Self, you probably don’t care to watch this”. And in most cases, my disembodied self is right. Other times, I finally get to watching them,…
Terror Toons 2 (2007)
Much like the classic Lovecraftian protagonist, I too am haunted by knowledge not meant for man. This knowledge comes in the form of movies that a colleague of mine has so generously decided to bring to my attention. Our story starts out in suburbia. As young Tiffany wakes up to her birthday, the house maid…
The Impossible Kid (1982)
I have a feeling that I will be reviewing more sequels in the near future than original entries. Luckily for me, my taste in movies doesn’t really make that matter much. So anyway as a grand follow-up to the classic ‘For Your Height Only’, Weng-Weng is back as Secret Agent 00. The original couldn’t decide…