Blogcritics Category: Video: Cult

DVD Review: Mystery Science Theater 3000, 20th Anniversary Edition

Blake Matthews — Fri, 9 Jan 2009 10:48:13 EST

The extras are what really make this set.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 was a cult television show that elevated the act of making fun of movies to an art form. The show, which ran from 1988 to 1999, featured Joel (replaced by Mike in 1993). An evil scientist forced him onto the Satellite of Love and made him watch terrible movies. Joel could have escaped using parts he found on the...

My Ten Most Anticipated Films of 2009

Arlo J. Wiley — Thu, 8 Jan 2009 16:29:40 EST

Boy wizards, undead monsters, and Inglourious Basterds.
Right now, 2009 remains a blank slate, untouched, full of promise. January is the graveyard month, during which studios drop mostly movies they don't care about, so it won't take long for the new year to become sullied. I'm thinking that this weekend's triple threat of Bride Wars, The Unborn, and Not Easily Broken are gonna get...

An Interview With Sera Gamble, Supernatural Producer and Writer, Part One

Alice Jester — Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:51:01 EST

Sera talks about the introduction of angels to the mythology, Castiel, Dean�s faith issues, and Sam and Ruby's strange relationship.
A seven-week hiatus can be rather maddening. Given Supernatural’s explosive season four and the mind-boggling material that’s been presented for ten episodes, this long time to reflect has left me with more questions than answers. I’m sure I’m not alone.Thankfully Sera Gamble, supervising producer and writer for...

DVD Review: Mysterious Skin

Dan Schneider — Tue, 6 Jan 2009 17:51:22 EST

A good film that could have been great had its director reined in his own worst tendencies.
In watching the 2004 drama, Mysterious Skin, by filmmaker Gregg Araki, I was reminded of the old gilding the lily nostrum, in that a little bit less would have been a whole lot more, qualitatively, for this film. This is a very good film that certainly had the potential to be great, but its excesses knock it a notch or two below, just enough that...

Supernatural: Top Ten Sam and Dean Moments

Alice Jester — Tue, 6 Jan 2009 07:13:54 EST

My completely subjective take on the Top Ten Winchester Brother Moments.
In between the mass insanity known as my family's holiday rituals, the hubby and I managed to filter through some Supernatural DVDs to help our withdrawal symptoms over this long hiatus. During that process, my warped brain threw together an arbitrary and subjective list of the top ten Winchester brother moments. In generating this list,...

Capsule Reviews: Oodles of TV On DVD from CBS/Paramount

Luigi Bastardo — Sun, 4 Jan 2009 15:34:49 EST

Adam Becvar (aka Luigi Bastardo) checks out seven different TV shows on DVD ranging from campy to classic.
I love movies. I love watching TV, too. I admit it -- I’m an addict. But I’m not worried about it because I’m happy, dammit! But sometimes, my eagerness to watch everything that hits the shelves of the store turns around at a lightning-fast speed and takes a large bite out of my ass. When this sort of catastrophe occurs (and...

DVD Review: Children of the Stones

Friend Mouse — Sun, 4 Jan 2009 12:46:46 EST

A fun and freaky treat for fans of campy sci-fi.
Children of the Stones is a British cult favorite, a science fiction children’s television series filmed on location at Avebury, England, with its stone circle that predates Stonehenge. Combining ancient Druidic rites, brain-washing, the ouroboros, psychic phenomena, black holes, and time bubbles – not to mention a creepy soundtrack of...

The Year in Film: The Best and Worst of 2008

Arlo J. Wiley — Fri, 2 Jan 2009 10:19:23 EST

Of how superheroes and comedies prospered, and of how the best movie I saw this year came from the Internet.
2007 was a hard year to top, as good a year for movies as any I've lived through. We had great new films from first-class filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino (Death Proof), the Coen brothers (No Country for Old Men), and Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood), among others, not to mention fresh blood like Diablo Cody and her screenplay for...

Book Review: The B List - The National Society of Film Critics on the Low-Budget Beauties, Genre-Bending Mavericks, and Cult Classics We Love by David Sterritt and John Anderson

Alyse Wax — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:39:17 EST

A subpar collection of essays on "B-List" movies.
The B List: The National Society of Film Critics on the Low-Budget Beauties, Genre-Bending Mavericks, and Cult Classics We Love is a collection of essays on some of the most influential, bizarre, and low-brow films in history. Edited by David Sterritt and John Anderson, contributors include David Ansen, Jami Bernard, Roger Ebert, Carrie Rickey,...

DVD Review: Christmas on Mars

El Bicho — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:52:59 EST

Hopefully it comes with a gift receipt.
Subtitled A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring The Flaming Lips, Wayne Coyne’s directorial debut was seven years in the making although it’s not clear why he thought it was ready to be released as the film has a lot of problems.Christmas on Mars opens moving the viewer through space and ventures to a manned station on Mars where a...