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Marty, a bullied fifth-grader who escapes his lonely life through horror movies, until he discovers a severed human head in his older brother's closet and realizes his brother is a brutal serial killer.

This is a gem of a horror film i saw upon release via redbox its been quite a few years but upon revisiting it i think I like it more now I swear tubi has better movies than all the paid subscription services

“Ren and Stimpy” was made great and ruined by one man, John Kricfalusi. The Canadian-born animator got his start thanks to Ralph Bakshi and his mentor and icon Bob Clampett, and eventually would create “Ren and Stimpy” one of the first Nicktoons, and one of the most iconic. The documentary follows the creation of the show and interviews many of the animators. And if there’s a big takeaway to be had from the documentary, it’s that John K is an asshole and a creep. 

Long story short, watch the documentary for more details, John was a control freak and a perfectionist who operated a hostile work environment. He was eventually let go, which was a controversial move at the time with fans sending death threats (but letting him go was really was the right thing to do given K’s volatile behavior). And well after his career was over, news came to light that he groomed two of his teenage animators, Robyn Byrd (who appears in the documentary) and Katie Rice. John K didn’t necessarily deny the allegations, and he mostly tried to blame his behavior on his ADHD and bipolar disorder.

There are two camps when it comes to reviews of this film. It’s either “this film focuses too much on John K and makes the animators look good” or “this movie doesn’t properly address the allegations”. I feel like both of these statements are true. I saw this one review on IMDb which was mad that the last quarter of the film focused too much on John K’s issues and trashes the people who “bult themselves up off of the allegations they raised against him”. Which is such a horrible take. John K deserved to be fired for mistreating his staff, even if the pressure was on him. The man is the definition of his own worst enemy. Second, most victims of abuse have very little to gain from calling out their abusers. Take the women who were victims of Louis CK (the biggest myth I keep hearing is they consented, they didn’t), they haven’t gained much. Most people don’t even know who they are, and their stories deserve to be known (watch Comedy Without Error’s brilliant video series on Louis CK). And take Byrd and Rice, they may be more well known now but they’re not famous, and didn’t get much financial gain out of outing John K. They were abused by someone they trusted so they deserved to have their stories told. But that’s another fault of the documentary. I’ll give the filmmakers the benefit of the doubt since it was released two years after the allegations and usually documentaries take a long time to complete, but the film feels like it’s not telling the full story. We get Byrd’s perspective, but Rice’s is mostly a footnote. Maybe Rice didn’t want to appear in the documentary, which is fair. John K is interviewed in the documentary as well, and the way they allow him to speak will either make you sympathetic to him, or hate him even more (for me the latter). 

I’ll give the documentary credit for one thing. It may really make you dislike John K. I feel like there was a mythos around him I used to believe, that he was a brilliant but tough guy who was screwed over by the network. Reality is much more complicated and a lot more ugly. And the documentary allows the efforts and stories of other animators like Bob Camp, the late Chris Reccardi, Jim Ballantine, and even Spongebob’s Mr. Lawrence to come through. It’s also great that they got Robyn Byrd to share her experience. 

So yeah I would recommend watching it. I take issue with some things in the doc but overall it’s not bad. It won’t make you happy, but it will provide you with more of the true story that’s largely been hidden thanks to nostalgia. 

Comedy Without Errors: We Need to Talk About Louis

Trailer: https://youtu.be/YNbWcOcVgQ8?si=G0bEcMsSDkpQz\_Db

Dawn is a teenage girl involved in an abstinence group and has promised to remain a virgin until marriage. When she's sexually assaulted she discovers that her vagina has grown razor sharp teeth which she uses to defend herself from the sexually aggressive men around her.

The promise: https://youtu.be/ghtGcGtVtho?si=EVZmnh1Je1joX4X6

Exam gone wrong: https://youtu.be/RH7LXP3ftZs?si=JF-Yj2IJtZQ0gW7Q

Vagina Dentata: https://youtu.be/6vtpmEd3SNk?si=qhQrToUUXigceL7N

There's even a musical stage show based on the movie: https://youtu.be/w92vWu9rekU?si=ueTdp9-kl7zEb\_j3

Now what on Earth was all this about??? Everything about this movie is bizarre, from the clunky, odd dialogue to the director’s IMDb bio. Very early on in the movie, there is a montage with two of the characters, and the guy is holding a monkey, and the monkey punches him in the eye, and you can tell it wasn’t supposed to happen. It made me laugh out loud. Just…I cannot stress enough that every single beat of this movie is weird. Why are they speaking English in Brazil?? Why are there United States dollars being stolen in not-United States??? Why does the director’s IMDb trivia include a bit about a “Madagascar witch doctor” casting a “dreaded curse” on him???? This one was a real doozy. I can’t explain any of it. Trailer below.

Watching The Quiet Earth again for what seems like the 10th time. I rewatch it in every few years. A favorite movie for sure.

Bruno Lawrence plays Zac, a man who wakes to find he is the last man on Earth. One of the great unsung performances. What makes it so endlessly rewatchable is that brutal tonal whiplash. The first act is almost a dark comedy of liberation, but by the time Zac is screaming at the sky and trying to blow himself up, it hits you right in the existential gut.

One of the most underrated sitcoms of all time. It's so good. Glad that they just added it to Tubi.
R.I.P. Phil Hartman

This movie is a great example of why you shouldn’t assume things. You think this is about a black hole? No!!! Well, kind of. It’s more about an electricity alien(?) that wreaks havoc on St. Louis, which I learned is in the Midwest and not the South as I had thought. It’s also about a doctor who is afraid of phone calls, and people who think nuclear bombs are the answer to everything. Oh, and the doctor is played by Judd Nelson, who looks like he’s joined the Counting Crows. Jesus Christ. Trailer below.

A depressed man is mistaken for a hitman after planning to end his life, leading to dark comedic chaos.

Saw this on Tubi earlier and it's fucking awesome. A J-splatter horror comedy where a disgruntled former employee injects sushi with a serum that turns it into a bunch of flesh-eating monsters. Watch it.

Not for the squeamish or faint of heart...this film is a blood soaked extremely graphic gore fest...amd its not even a horror film...this film ultimately tackles the duality of mankind as well as weakness and strength ...but in the most graphical ways possible for a film from early 2000s...i dont know how to put in words the insanity that is Itchi....BE WARNED this is Not For Everyone.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/mFfXqzd7PlI?si=eFP8pwyeFbnVoI8R

Brad Renfro (R.I.P.) plays Todd Bowden, a 1980s Southern California teenager who discovers that his elderly neighbor is actually fugitive Nazi war criminal Kurt Dussander (Ian McKellan) who is hiding in the suburbs of America. Instead of turning him in Todd blackmails Dussander into telling him the real stories about the Holocaust and the death camps.

Based on story written by Stephen King which I haven't read. Ian McKellan playing one of the most chilling characters of his career. Brad Renfro was only 14 at the time and manages to hold his own against McKellan.

The plot of Apt Pupil was later parodied in an episode American Dad: https://youtu.be/ovPGYPzpbWk?si=M6wO2bwocFZTFAqC

JoBlo review: https://youtu.be/RKgiJHipkGI?si=oJyq6ySYcYmIBAWJ

What did you do during the War?: https://youtu.be/nKZj0zZR-HU?si=b8jYb153faSTAB66

How long did it take?: https://youtu.be/pdss2siRcSo?si=r6mq1W0o-I4bwULM

SS uniform: https://youtu.be/FdfhGfSDGUM?si=FFaDA1XmpG7WR6pd

Holocaust survivor: https://youtu.be/1tw\_tLUY5H4?si=QdXdx6M6ylMYjfDf

Remember “Heavy Metal”? The iconic adult animated anthology based on the magazine of the same name? It wasn’t perfect, but it had humor, it had really good animation, and it had an awesome soundtrack which prevented its home video release for a while. Here’s two fun facts for you, David Fincher and Tim Miller’s “Love Death + Robots” had originally started as an aborted reboot of “Heavy Metal”. And did you know the original movie was produced by “Ghostbusters” director Ivan Reitman? Look up his filmography because he was producing a lot of wild films before 1984 (including a Soviet Gulag Dominatrix film called “Ilsa the Tigress of Siberia”). We all know the classic, now let’s meet its underachieving sibling. 

All this came about thanks to Kevin Eastman. Eastman is best known as one of the creators of the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”, and he wrote the graphic novel the movie was based on. After selling his comic book publishing house Tundra Publishing, Eastman bought the Heavy Metal magazine and would later be responsible for getting the film re-released and on home video. He and his then wife, the late model and actress Julie Strain, would then start to develop a sequel to the first film. It would be a half German, half Canadian production, which brought on Strain as the scifi Red Sonja-adjacent character Julie, Michael Ironside as the villainous sadist and bloodthirsty seeker of immortality Tyler (darn it change your name, watch out for Tyler!), and Billy Idol as the alien sage Odin. 

Of course it’s a heavy metal movie, so you got to bring in heavy metal. And it’s the year 2000 so you know what that means?! NU METAL BABY!!! Well I say that but most of the bands here wouldn’t be considered nu metal, but the sound can be nu-metal adjacent. And the soundtrack features Pantera, Machine Head, Monster Magnet, Insane Clown Posse, System of a Down, Queens of the Stone Age, Billy Idol, and Bauhaus. Overall, it’s not bad. 

Eastman talked about the film enthusiastically, “I always wanted to do an epic heroic adventure with a strong female lead. One that is thriving in a backdrop that combines the desperation of Road Warrior, the intensity of Aliens, the visual feel of Blade Runner, and the magnitude of Akira Kurosawa’s Ran, Heavy Metal 2000 captures all that and more. The film combines classic 2D-cel animation with advanced 3D-computer animation, and an extraordinary original soundtrack featuring some of the biggest names in hard rock. It’s intense, full of action and very fast paced.” It’s a description which makes it sound like the most epic thing of all time.

Did he accomplish it? Absolutely fucking not! I read that quote after watching the film and as someone who’s seen the four films he mentioned, I didn’t feel any of those emotions. The 2D animation isn’t terrible, but when he says “advanced 3D-computer animation” think awkwardly spliced 3D characters popping out on a 2D background (mostly at the end). The characters, didn’t care about any of them. The performances given for them are good, but they're written like cardboard. The movie’s biggest sin is it feels like a fetish movie. The original was definitely horny and lewd, but this one has a scene where Julie has to make out with a slimy alien, and we focus on them for an uncomfortably long time. The whole film feels like a long episode of a saturday morning cartoon but with boobs and gore. 

The film was released direct to video and any hopes of doing a sequel or anything “Heavy Metal” related have all but fizzled out. I say skip this one and stick with the original. 

Watch Exposing Muybridge on Tubi: https://link.tubi.tv/qpcafItTH5b

This movie is solid proof that if you have colorful lighting and a way to contact Danny Trejo (and somehow Tom Sizemore), you can make a vampire movie. What’s that? “I can make a good vampire movie?” No, sweetheart, I didn’t say that. In what must have cost no more than the price of a diarrhea-inducing Crunchwrap Supreme, this film has all the charm and lighting of a pop-up vape shop, as well as the kind of cutting dialogue that can likely be found there. Oh yeah, everyone is also a vampire except for maybe two people. The plot does not matter at all, and I think this is one of the only times I’ve seen actors not act WITH each other, but AT each other. It’s almost like they’re saying their lines to a pillow wearing a Danny Trejo mask. Trailer below.

One of my favorite movies. That final closeup of Kathleen Byron as sister Ruth has been with me ever since.

Michael Powell's own view, this was the most erotic film he ever made. "It is all done by suggestion, but eroticism is in every frame and image from beginning to end. It is a film full of wonderful performances and passion just below the surface, which finally, at the end of the film, erupts." The English film critic Peter Bradshaw, who put it on his list of the ten best films ever made, took Powell's statement further, and said that it was the most erotic film he had ever seen.