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Comedy
Editor's rating:
3.6
Saturday, 27 September 2008 |
Written by
Noah Fleming
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I first heard Brian Regan do some stand up comedy back in 1998 at "Comedy Day 98" in San Francisco Golden Gate Park. While it was only a brief segment, Regan left me with a splitting side ache from laughing so hard. Everything in his comedy bit was common day occurrence, and yet he put a new spin on them unlike any other comedian.
Regan comes to DVD in "The Epitome of Hyperbole" in which he analyzes numerous topics, covering: reading, movies and parties, art and language, law, TV, space and marriage. No stone is left unturned.
Brian has a sense of humor that sometimes doesn't agree with the typical audience. Some comedy bits sound like a rambling tangent, which results in a punch line that is lost in translation. Meanwhile, other times he nails the bit.
Regan is a comedian that ...
Tuesday, 07 August 2007 |
Written by
AVRev.com
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title:
Unaccompanied Minors
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studio:
Warner Home Video
MPAA rating:
PG
starring:
Lewis
Black, Wilmer Valderrama, Tyler James Williams, Brett Kelly, Gina
Mantegna, Quinn Shephard, Paget Brewster, Rob Corddry, Dominique
Saldana, Jessica Walter, Rob Riggle, David Koechner, B.J. Novak.
DVD release date:
August 7, 2007
It's Christmas Eve and a huge blizzard has just shut down the airport,
threatening to ruin holiday plans for all stranded travelers. Snowed in
en route to their father's house, two "Unaccompanied Minors"--dubbed
UMs--Spencer (Dyllan Christopher) and his little sister, Katherine
(Dominique Saldana), are ushered to the airport's Unaccompanied Minors
Room, a holding cell for dozens of stranded, parent-free kids from all
over the country. Caught in the crossfire of projectile cupcakes and
juice boxes and desperate to escape, Spencer makes a run for freedom
along with four other UMs, who couldn't be more different if they
tried: spoiled rich girl Grace (Gina Mantegna), trailer-park tomboy
Donna (Quinn Shephard), academic overachiever Charlie (Tyler James
Williams) and comic-book ...
Tuesday, 29 August 2006 |
Written by
Dan Macintosh
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title:
Mystery Science Theater: Volume 10
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studio:
Rhino/WEA
MPAA rating:
Unrated
starring:
(The Giant Spider Invasion):
Steve Brodie, Barbara Hale, Alan Hale Jr., Robert Easton, Leslie Parrish. (Godzilla vs. Megalon):
Katsuhiko Sasaki, Hiroyuki Kawase, Yutaka Hayashi, Robert Dunham, Kotaro Tomita.
(Swamp Women):
Beverly Garland, Carole Mathews, Mike Connors, Marie Windsor, Jil Jarmyn.
(Terror in the Night):
Bill Bloom, Rick Harris, Stacy Smith, Jim Asp, Mickey Banga
series release year:
1988
DVD release year:
2006
film rating:
Four Stars
sound/picture rating:
Four Stars
reviewed by:
Dan MacIntosh
There is no mystery in the Mystery Science Theater formula: bad movies
and good jokes meld to form gleefully sardonic entertainment, every
time. It is like the analogy of making lemonade out of lemons, and
similar to houses built out of pop bottles or Howard Finster’s folk
art—one man’s garbage is another man’s art supplies. B-movie directors
may have daydreamed about winning regal golden statuettes named Oscar,
but these four MST-d films are closer to another altogether different
Oscar. They are, whether ...
Tuesday, 15 August 2006 |
Written by
Mel Odom
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title:
Hoot
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studio:
New Line Home Entertainment
MPAA rating:
PG
starring:
Luke Wilson, Logan Lerman, Brie Larson, Tim Blake Nelson, Neil Flynn, Robert Wagner
director:
Wil Shriner
film release year:
2006
DVD release year:
2006
film rating:
Four Stars
sound/picture rating:
Four Stars
reviewed by:
Mel Odom
Carl Hiaasen has been a bestselling novelist for years, but has only
recently decided to try his hand at young adult fiction. Many of
Hiaasen’s adult books have environmental themes, or characters deeply
tied to the environment or issues surrounding land development and the
protection of endangered species, so it’s no surprise that he chose to
hit those hot buttons again in the book, “Hoot.” This movie shows he
found kindred spirits in Wil Shriner and Jimmy Buffett, the latter a
native Floridian and songwriter. Hiaasen has recently published another
young adult novel, this one also focusing on the evils of big
corporations and the plight of the beleaguered environment, called
“Flush.”
Tuesday, 16 May 2006 |
Written by
Dan Macintosh
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title:
Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol 9
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studio:
Rhino
MPAA rating:
Unrated
starring (by film)::
Women of the Prehistoric Planet: Wendell Corey, Keith Larsen, John Agar, Stuart Margolin, Merry Anders, Irene Tsu, Robert Ito
Wild Rebels: Steve Alaimo, Willie Pastrano, John Vella, Bobbies Byers, Jeff Gillen
The Sinister Urge: Kenne Duncan, Duke Moore, Jean Fontaine, Carl Anthony
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies: Cash Flagg (aka Ray Dennis Steckler), Carolyn Brandt, Brett O’Hara, Atlas King
DVD release year:
2006
film rating:
Four Stars (for humorous commentary)
sound/picture rating:
Two Stars
reviewed by:
Dan MacIntosh
If you get off on the combination of bad movies and good comedy,
“Mystery Science Theater 3000” is a concept that was created with you
in mind. This ninth volume of the TV program is a four-DVD set, which
includes a quartet of films that are so stupid they’re entertaining.
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