Electric Dreams: The Movie DVD Has Forgotten

D.C. Cab, Girls Just Want To Have Fun, My Bodyguard, Just One of the Guys, Midnight Madness:   That was just five examples of semi-obscure 80's movies that have made the leap to DVD over the years.  But why no love for Electric Dreams?  It's a fun, music-filled, geeky amalgamation of science fiction, technology and romance.  With our current economic climate, rising gas prices, depletion of the ozone layer, and lower standardized test scores, we can't afford NOT to have this classic 80's flick on DVD.

Attack of the Chick Flick

When it comes to watching TV, I'll often give my girlfriend free-reign to watch whatever she chooses (which, incidentally, is why I ended up writing a piece on "Bridezillas"). It's not so much an act of chivalry but more of apathy. I only actively watch a handful of programs out of the hundreds presented every week. Everything else on TV is open to suggestion. But after seeing Because I Said So, I may have to rethink my policy on not offering input*.

Does Quality Mean Nothing to Pirates?

It's a typical Saturday afternoon in late summer of 2005. I'm doing some wash down at the local laundromat. I just stand there, watching the fuzzy TV tuned to Telemundo with one eye and the hypnotic swirl of soap and boxer shorts with the other. My daydreaming is suddenly interrupted by an unassuming woman peddling some DVDs. Out of curiosity I take a look at what she has to offer. Amongst her collection is a copy of The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Having wanted to see the hyped film but not wanted to venture into a movie theater, I purchased a copy for eight dollars.

Movie: The Musical: The Movie

Somehow, a discussion about the movie "Hairspray" came up. Not the musical adaptation staring a "way too comfortable in drag" John Travolta, but rather the John Water's classic. Although I don't know how we started on the topic of that movie, I know where it led: my bewildering confusion as to the sudden glut of stage musical versions of popular, non-musical films.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

I don't have to tell you that this movie blows. If you were at all interested, you've read scads of scathing reviews already. I'm not a die-hard Star Wars fanatic that knows the back-story of every tertiary character, but even I could tell Lucas phoned this one in from a tin-can attached to a wet string.

I'm Just About "Shreked" Out

The release of the third movie in the Shrek series is serious cause to celebrate... if you're Dreamwork's accounting department. The rest of us will see it as yet another sequel that may or may not be enjoyable. But judging by the amount of exposure the Shrek characters are getting by appearing in commercials for other products unrelated to the movie, you'd think that someone, somewhere somehow hasn't gotten enough of these computer animated screwballs.