Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on November 26th, 2004
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on November 24th, 2004
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on November 24th, 2004
Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern are the last-word in star-crossed lovers. Pursued by theminions of Dern’s psychopathic mother Diane Ladd, they engage in a nightmarishly picaresquejourney across the American south, encountering one grotesque after another (most memorablyWillem Dafoe’s deeply creepy Bobby Peru). The over-the-top sex and violence is held togetherby a narrative that is a dark remake of The Wizard of Oz.
This was David Lynch’s follow-up to Blue Vel...et, and with this he earned a Palmed’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. It is filled with memorable characters and scenes, but thelunatic humour prevents the movie from being as intense as its predecessor. For that matter, Ifind Lost Highway a more satisfyingly committed descent into weird nightmare (though Iacknowledge being in a minority on this). Nonetheless, flaws aside, this is spectacularfilmmaking.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on November 23rd, 2004
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on November 23rd, 2004
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Many years ago, a mystical peach holding the secret of eternal life was stolen. Now, aftertraining since childhood at the Shur-Li Temple (get it?) under the tutelage of Master Card and thelike, a hero arises to recover the peach: Art Chew. He arrives in Vancouver (played by SanFrancisco, in one of the film’s cleverer conceits), and is joined on his quest by such friends asRoy Lee, who has seen a great many kung-fu movies, but is completely incompetenthimself.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on November 22nd, 2004
I must admit that this show wasn’t quite as good as I remembered it. That’s not to say it isn’t great 70’s escapist science fiction, or that I am at all disappointed in seeing it again. Buck Rogers was almost a companion piece to Battlestar Galactica. They had a great deal in common. Both pilots were released in theatres with the trendy Sensurround. The concept was mostly overloaded subs to create a shake in the room during the space battles. The f/x were done by some of the same folks. Even the control sticks to the...Rogers fighters were identical to the Viper controls in Galactica. The comparison ends, however, when we get down to the scripts. Rogers was far lighter in tone. What do you expect when one of the characters is a short little robot named Tweekie who speaks with Mel Blanc’s cartoonish voice? I do remember having my first adolescent crush on Erin Gray’s Wilma. I remember mostly thinking that Gil Gerard looked a lot like Lee Majors. A highlight of the show is the appearance of the original Buck Rogers, Buster Crabbe as Flash Gordon (another original Crabbe character).
The short second year was a completely reworked show with Buck and Wilma serving aboard the “Seeker,” which was searching for the lost tribes of Earth. No doubt there was once an intended tie-in with Galactica, which featured Earth’s lost tribes searching for Earth. Thom Christopher’s birdman Hawk was a nice touch, but the reworked show was not accepted by the fans. Ratings fell, and Buck Rogers was gone.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on November 22nd, 2004
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on November 21st, 2004
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by Archive Authors on November 20th, 2004
Everybody’s favorite guy in a construction hat is back. No, not Sully from Sesame Street It’s Bob the Builder! He stars in Snowed Under: The Bobblesberg Winter Games. To join in on the fun, Bob has his favorite buddies along too, Lofty, Scoop, Muck, Roley, Travis, Spud, Wendy, Dizzy. And there’s even a new character to the crew, Benny. What trouble does Bob have to fix this time? Well…let me tell ya kids. It’s the Bobblesberg Winter games and the course is snowed under. And it’s up to Bob and h...s crew to fix and re-build everything before the opening ceremonies. Can he fix it?? Well…what do you think.
This is a full length Bob episode (just over 50 minutes). It’s about 5 times longer than a normal episode, so the kids might get restless. And there’s a feature where you loop the movie. So the kids can watch the same episode over and over again while Mommy can do the mommy stuff upstairs. Is it worth repeated viewings? The episode length is stretching it a bit. But there is an air of familiarity for the hard-core Bob viewers. The main characters are exactly like expected (even though Scoop seems a little more bossy than usual). But the alpine scenery, action and yodeling are enough to keep the kids attention.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on November 19th, 2004
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