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Cult DVD: Christmas on Mars
This year, NASA found snow on Mars. The Flaming Lips found vaginas. Lots of them. Vaginas in rock formations, vaginas in space equipment, hallucinogenic vaginas; the Flaming Lips also seem to be the first
Read More »In the City of Sylvia
In the City of Sylvia (En la Ciudad de Sylvia) Dir: José Luis Guerin Rating: 4.0 Eddie Saeta S.A. & Chateau Rouge Production 84 Minutes It’s easy to forget that film is a visual
Read More »Adam Resurrected
Adam Resurrected Dir: Paul Schrader Rating: 2.5 Bleiberg Entertainment 106 Minutes In Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s UK comedy series Extras, Kate Winslet, playing a parodic version of herself playing a nun in a
Read More »The Wrestler
The Wrestler Dir: Darren Aronofsky Rating: 4.5 Fox Searchlight 109 Minutes Professional wrestling is not “real”: that’s the worst-kept secret in sports entertainment. About a decade ago on an NBC news special, WWE President
Read More »Wendy and Lucy
Wendy and Lucy Dir: Kelly Reichardt Rating: 4.0 Oscilloscope Pictures 80 Minutes In desperate times we often make desperate (and dumb) decisions — and so it was with Wendy. Based on the short story
Read More »The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Day the Earth Stood Still Dir: Scott Derrickson Rating: 1.0 Twentieth Century Fox 103 Minutes Director Scott Derrickson, screenwriter David Scarpa (and probably a stable of script doctors), and Twentieth Century Fox (a
Read More »Pomagrita Punch
Pomagrita Punch Festive and full of alcohol Regardless of whether you view the holidays as something to be endured or the most wonderful time of the year, something that both sides can agree on
Read More »Stephen Colbert and Friends: A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All
Stephen Colbert and Friends A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All Rating: 4.0 Label: Viacom We all know the character by now: Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report parodies conservative vigor with such
Read More »The Raveonettes: Wishing You a Rave Christmas
The Raveonettes Wishing You a Rave Christmas Rating: 3.0 Label: Vice Records Don’t believe the hype, kids. You may not know it from the phosphorescent streets and the happy-go-lucky kiddies, but Christmas can be
Read More »Best CDs of 2008, Part 3
David Harris The year 2008 was all about life after death. I do not mean that in a West Coast-infused Karmic good time type of way by any means; sometimes death is preferable. For
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