That Godfather parody really was stupid. I can't believe movie makers are still trotting Godfather gags out like they're fresh, 40 years after the film came out.

Boo!

Darn it, the nearest showing is in a neighboring state. Oh well, at least I can download the poster here. Thanks!

Could someone please tell me where I can see The Forbidden Room? I live in a rural area and was kicking myself because I missed the one festival showing in driving range. Are there any definite plans for a broader release or (more likely) some kind of home media?

As someone who sat through the first season with modest enjoyment and the second with growing resignation, this isn't a loss.

My favorite is the "news headlines" handoff at 1:25. It's not the single funniest clip, but you just know this isn't the whole story. These two have some kind of weird work dynamic going on, and all we're seeing is a glorious momentary glimpse of it.

Just rewatched this for the first time after seeing it in theaters back in '09. It's still a very strange, frequently hilarious movie, and it's objectively bad in a lot of ways. But, at the same time, the visuals remain compelling, the pacing (generally) cracks right along, and - at times - a garbled sort of sincerely…

This looks disappointing.

Recreating himself every three years works for Doctor Who, so I guess the same logic applies here.

Did anyone even ask Brendan Fraser if he wanted the part?

The way his face opens up completely before any sound comes out of it is actually kind of terrifying.

I think there was a GJI awhile back that linked to an interview with the people doing the Criterion restoration of the Apu movies. The interviewee said that 35mm celluloid has a resolution roughly equivalent to 5K video. "Roughly," because film grain is analog and modern video is digital. I found "5K" a little…

I did this on an 8mm projector at home once. Managed to burn a perfect little hole in the celluloid without tearing it.

Yeah, but then you start getting into dicey territory about who decides what survives.

I once had all seven Firestone Presents Your Christmas Favorites LPs. It took me two years of thrift shopping/yard saling to find the whole set. Of note is that every album had an original Christmas song on there, and those could be interesting.

I had one of their excessively fancy wooden table models for four years (I gave it away during a move). I never had a problem with it, so I don't get where the hate is coming from.

Imagine being someone who gets to watch a Lifetime Original Movie before the general public. Imagine that weight on your shoulders.

There is a LOT of Lost in here, right down to the flip-card clock (that particular touch was a bit too on-the-nose, but overall it works). And there's some Day of the Dead in the ambiance and score.

As someone who IS into this kind of thing and just rented it from Redbox: Yeah, it's worth seeing. Not worth getting your hopes up for, but worth seeing.

This mostly works. The weird lighting in clubs means that the space they take up is pretty much amorphous, which is interesting. And I enjoyed seeing Jean Claude Van Damme's make-your-own-movie green screen footage edited in here.