For Your Consideration
  • An email from Jimmy Castor is like getting a letter from Paul McCartney about your Xeroxed Beatles magazine, or Dan Marino calling to tell you how to win your office football pool.

    What We’re Gonna Do Now is Go Back

    Posted on January 18, 2012 | No Comments
    An email from Jimmy Castor is like getting a letter from Paul McCartney about your Xeroxed Beatles magazine, or Dan Marino calling to tell you how to win your office football pool.
  • Though I didn't realize it at the time, Teleport City was created for one reason and one reason only: to eventually review <em>Intrepidos Punks</em>. And now our destiny is at hand

    Intrepidos Punks

    Posted on January 11, 2012 | 9 Comments
    Though I didn't realize it at the time, Teleport City was created for one reason and one reason only: to eventually review Intrepidos Punks. And now our destiny is at hand
  • New things for weeks four and five. Week four saw us enjoying a couple pints at Growler, while week five found us at The Museum of the Moving Image

    52 New Things: Growler & Moving Images

    Posted on January 9, 2012 | No Comments
    New things for weeks four and five. Week four saw us enjoying a couple pints at Growler, while week five found us at The Museum of the Moving Image
  • The past two weeks found me eating at a number of places to which I'd never been before, and while there can be only one official New Thing, there are two other new spots that deserve mention as well.

    52 New Things: Three Restaurants

    Posted on December 26, 2011 | No Comments
    The past two weeks found me eating at a number of places to which I'd never been before, and while there can be only one official New Thing, there are two other new spots that deserve mention as well.
  • The Bollywood b-grade horror film is where we like to play, and it's about time someone celebrated the music from those fantastically terrible movies full of rubber fright masks

    Bollywood Bloodbath

    Posted on December 21, 2011 | 2 Comments
    The Bollywood b-grade horror film is where we like to play, and it's about time someone celebrated the music from those fantastically terrible movies full of rubber fright masks
  • I've lived in New York City for sixteen years now. Somehow, despite my love of <em>Nighthawks</em>, I've never been on the iconic Roosevelt Island tram.

    52 New Things: Roosevelt Island Tram

    Posted on December 19, 2011 | 1 Comment
    I've lived in New York City for sixteen years now. Somehow, despite my love of Nighthawks, I've never been on the iconic Roosevelt Island tram.
  • Lifeforce mixes everything into a completely loopy sci-fi horror tale featuring a perpetually nude female lead and an exploding Patrick Stewart. It's overdue for a little love.

    Lifeforce

    Posted on December 16, 2011 | 16 Comments
    Lifeforce mixes everything into a completely loopy sci-fi horror tale featuring a perpetually nude female lead and an exploding Patrick Stewart. It's overdue for a little love.
  • If I tell you there's a movie starring Richard Harrison, Anthony Alonzo, and Tetchie Agbayani, do you look at me quizzically and shrug, or do you start to shake with giddy anticipation?

    Intrusion: Cambodia

    Posted on December 13, 2011 | 12 Comments
    If I tell you there's a movie starring Richard Harrison, Anthony Alonzo, and Tetchie Agbayani, do you look at me quizzically and shrug, or do you start to shake with giddy anticipation?
Maybe Worth Reading
  • In November, I had a chance to visit San Diego for the first time. As befits a man of my tastes, the trip was built entirely around fancy places to eat and drink3December 12, 2011

    Eating and Drinking, San Diego Style

    In November, I had a chance to visit San Diego for the first time. As befits a man of my tastes, the trip was built entirely around fancy places to eat and drink

  • So the "52 New Things" challenge has been issued. The deal is simple: do something you've never done or go somewhere you've never gone at least once every week.4December 12, 2011

    52 New Things: Pegu Club

    So the “52 New Things” challenge has been issued. The deal is simple: do something you’ve never done or go somewhere you’ve never gone at least once every week.

  • Anyone who is familiar with the tropes of the sword and sorcery genre will be on firm ground, but the fact that <em>Wolfhound</em> lacks originality doesn't mean it lacks for entertainment value.19December 7, 2011

    Wolfhound

    Anyone who is familiar with the tropes of the sword and sorcery genre will be on firm ground, but the fact that Wolfhound lacks originality doesn’t mean it lacks for entertainment value.

  • High on lack of food and an overdose of assorted health tonics and juices, we plunged headlong into a truly dizzying array of ephemera, incredibly expensive lamps, and general knickknackery1December 5, 2011

    Monkey Butlers & Christmas Trees

    High on lack of food and an overdose of assorted health tonics and juices, we plunged headlong into a truly dizzying array of ephemera, incredibly expensive lamps, and general knickknackery

  • Some said my self-made cleanse was heavy on grains. I replied that I'd been told to consume more whole grain, and here I was willing to indulge not just in whole grain, but whole <em>bottles</em> of grain1December 2, 2011

    Sweet Sweet Hippie Juice

    Some said my self-made cleanse was heavy on grains. I replied that I’d been told to consume more whole grain, and here I was willing to indulge not just in whole grain, but whole bottles of grain

  • As latter-day Hammer films go, <em>The Vampire Lovers</em> is an entertaining, sexy romp. It relies less on the hammy scare tactics of the later Dracula series and more on the audience's assumptions. 13November 26, 2011

    The Vampire Lovers

    As latter-day Hammer films go, The Vampire Lovers is an entertaining, sexy romp. It relies less on the hammy scare tactics of the later Dracula series and more on the audience’s assumptions.

  • Compared to the appellations given to the protagonists of other 1980s action films, the Stabilizer sounds pretty benign. You'd think he was given that name only because the others were taken.7November 23, 2011

    The Stabilizer

    Compared to the appellations given to the protagonists of other 1980s action films, the Stabilizer sounds pretty benign. You’d think he was given that name only because the others were taken.

  • Peter O'Brian was working in Jakarta for a while as an English teacher and was boarding a plane one day when a couple film producers approached him with an offer to do some movies.2November 7, 2011

    Rambu: The Intruder

    Peter O’Brian was working in Jakarta for a while as an English teacher and was boarding a plane one day when a couple film producers approached him with an offer to do some movies.

  • If there's one lesson to take away from this lavish Thai swashbuckler, it is this: if you are a dick to whales, don't go to war against a guy who is nice to whales and can also ask them for favors.12November 3, 2011

    Legend of the Tsunami Warrior

    If there’s one lesson to take away from this lavish Thai swashbuckler, it is this: if you are a dick to whales, don’t go to war against a guy who is nice to whales and can also ask them for favors.