The title refers to a curly haired soldier (Matthew Kennedy) who awakens in the future, post-Hell Wars, to find himself rebuilt as, yes, part man, part machine — a Manborg, if you will. Dr. Scorpius (Adam Brooks) has created him in the hopes of besting the evil Count Draculon (also Brooks), who feeds upon humans: […]
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Beauty Day
It debuts on demand Feb. 12 from FilmBuff. As Beauty Day informs us, Zavadil was a man before his time as cable-TV personality Cap’n Video, a David Lee Roth-looking, Jackass-style camcorder prankster who was doing his thing in the mid-1990s, before Johnny Knoxville and the gang even dreamt of getting paid to puke. Director Jay […]
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Hot! hot! hot!
Credit: Brad Gregg “[Then] I got an email from Cosmo saying they had picked me,” he said. “I was caught off guard, but I was excited for the opportunity to represent my state.” And represent he does. His scruffy facial hair doesn’t hide his chiseled jaw, which matches his chiseled abs. Um, where were we? […]
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Happy Canadians
Brake doesn’t mention that the Canadian dog will have to come up with thousands of dollars for the hip replacement while the human hip replacement is covered by the government program. Overall, the average Canadian is quite happy with the Canadian system. Brake could also have told us that every year thousands of Americans go […]
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Die
Awaking in adjoining glass cages are those unlucky half-dozen strangers: a police detective (Elias Koteas, A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas), a compulsive gambler, a doctor, a nurse, a young prostitute and her billionaire client. Jacob takes turns bringing them out in pairs; one is strapped to a chair, the other presented with a […]
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Dead Hooker in a Trunk
Substitute “bomb” with “whore corpse,” and you have the Canadian crime spree known as “Dead Hooker in a Trunk.” The title is the best thing about it, raising all sorts of hope it cannot satisfy. Written and directed by sisters Jen and Sylvia Soska — who star as Geek and Badass, respectively — the low-budget […]
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The Weeknd — Echoes of Silence
Not so fast! “Echoes of Silence” continues with the cadre of really sad characters (such as the poor girl working “for your face-lift” on “XO/The Host”) in really sad, sexually exploitive situations spelled out on The Weeknd’s first two mixtapes, without adding many new elements to that signature hazy, narcotized atmosphere of industrial beats and […]
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Astron-6
While hit-or-miss, this double-disc collection of comedy shorts from a Canadian collective offers some subversively welcome stuff. Most all of the great bits are front-loaded, appearing on disc one, where viewers will find a healthy sampling of shorts — some veering into the half-hour mark — that parody ’80s genres with VHS-appropriate flair. For example, “Cool […]
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Astron-6
While hit-or-miss, this double-disc collection of comedy shorts from a Canadian collective offers some subversively welcome stuff. Most all of the great bits are front-loaded, appearing on disc one, where viewers will find a healthy sampling of shorts — some veering into the half-hour mark — that parody ’80s genres with VHS-appropriate flair. For example, “Cool […]
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Terra Lightfoot — Terra Lightfoot
It’s a far, more pleasant cry from the rough-worn, truth-saying voices of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie and the usually sparse, simple arrangements that accompanied them. Terra Lightfoot is one such contemporary. The artist from Waterdown Canada has also played with country band The Dinner Belles. Here we have her solo debut, which calls upon […]