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  1. Last movie you watched?

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    "Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker" (1991)


    A child and his mother are targeted by a manufacturer of lethal playthings in this bizarro Yuletide mash up of "Pinocchio" and "Puppet Master."  The "Silent Night, Deadly Night" franchise limped to a (merciful) end with this fifth direct-to-video installment, which may actually be the best-made one of the lot.
    Interestingly enough, the mysterious "Toy Maker" of the title is played by slumming Hollywood legend Mickey Rooney, who'd been one of the most vocal celebrity critics of the original "SN, DN" film. Way to stick by your principles there, Mick.

  2. Last movie you watched?

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    "Santa's Slay" (2005)

     

    A demonic Santa Claus comes to town to teach everyone the meaning of yuletide FEAR in this tongue-firmly-in-cheek holiday horror comedy. A tasteless laugh riot with a great cast incl. Dave Thomas from "SCTV," wrestler Bill Goldberg as the badass St. Nick, Robert "I Spy" Culp (who makes up for his appearance in the dismal "Silent Night Deadly Night 3" with this flick) Fran "The Nanny" Drescher, James Caan (!), and lots more.

  3. Last movie you watched?

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    Time for some seasonal schlock:

    "Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out!" (1989)

    A blind girl with psychic powers accidentally "connects" with the comatose "Ricky" (aka the Santa Claus killer from "SNDN 2"), who wakes up and follows her to Granny's house to crash her family's Christmas celebration. You can probably figure out the rest. This dreadfully slow paced and poorly acted direct-to-video slasher schlock may be the worst entry in the entire "Silent Night, Deadly Night" series, which is really saying a lot, esp. if you've seen "2." :D

    "Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation" (1990)

    While investigating a woman's mysterious fiery death, an L.A. magazine reporter is drawn into a coven of witches who want her to become their newest member. Eventually she learns that for the final step to get her into the club, she has to perform a human sacrifice on Christmas Eve. Yikes!
    This DTV sequel is totally unrelated to the other three SNDN films, which is actually a good thing. It wasn't great by any means, but it was certainly better than the previous installment, thanks to some bizarre body-horror moments ala Cronenberg, the cool/icky bug/creature effects, and the performances from some familiar faces incl. Maud "Octopussy" Adams and the always dependable Clint Howard. I've read some reviews that call this flick the "Halloween III: Season of the Witch" of the "SNDN" series, and I can agree with that.

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    "Krampus" (2015)

     

    When a young boy loses faith in Christmas, his bickering family's dysfunctional holiday gets crashed by the Yuletide demon of German folklore. 
    Director Michael Dougherty's festive horror comedy isn't quite on par with his cult Halloween classic "Trick r' Treat," but it's got cool creature effects and a mean streak a mile wide, making it a nice antidote to all the shiny-happy holiday movies that take over at this time of year. 

  8. Last movie you watched?

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    "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" (2017)

    Marvel Comics' wise-ass space mercenary Peter Quill, aka Star-Lord, finally learns his origin when he meets his long lost father, Ego (Kurt Russell) -- a god-like being with cosmic powers and his own planet. At first the father/son reunion seems to be going well, but eventually Daddy-O reveals his nefarious purpose and the rest of the Guardians have to come to the rescue. 
    This fast, funny, action packed sci-fi adventure is just as much fun as the first "Guardians" film. Two Rocket Raccoon paws up.

  9. Bride - working on new CD

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    17 hours ago, KarpetRydOFunk said:

    I'm more interested in why you were in a Christian metal group on FaceTubes. 

    I belong to a crapload of music-related FB groups. Some are for info, some are to socialize, and I use some to self promote my crappy blog.

    I gotta say, the CCM metal group(s) were comedy gold during the recent Stryper/Tim Gaines brou-ha-ha. :D

  13. Last movie you watched?

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    "Ratchet & Clank" (2016)

     

    A mechanically-inclined space critter and his robot pal are recruited into the mighty Galaxy Rangers to help beat a super villain with a planet-destroying device. 
    Goofy cartoon fluff based on the series of Playstation video games which my 10 year old loves, so he laughed all the way through this. File this one under "harmless fun for kids, painless for their parents."

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    "The Image Revolution" (2014)

    In 1992, seven of Marvel Comics' most popular artists abruptly left to start their own independent company - Image Comics. Todd McFarlane, Rob Liefeld, Marc Silvestri and the rest changed the comic book industry landscape forever when titles like Spawn, Youngblood, WildC.A.T.S., The Savage Dragon, and CyberForce became instant best sellers and left "the big two" companies eating Image's dust. 
    The ride didn't last forever, though, and this documentary shows not only their rapid rise, but their near-collapse in the late 90s and subsequent rebirth in the '00s thanks to new series like The Walking Dead.  Overall this is a cool, entertaining history lesson for comic fanboys.

  16. Last movie you watched?

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    "Too Funny To Fail" (2017)

    A behind-the-scenes look at the strange saga of 1996's "The Dana Carvey Show," which tried to bring hip, late-night style counterculture sketch comedy to prime time... and failed miserably. After its legendary crash-and-burn, though, many of the show's young, unknown supporting cast and staff members ended up going on to much bigger things in the 2000s, like Steve Carell, Louis C.K. and Stephen Colbert. I had only the vaguest memories of the "Dana Carvey Show," but this doc is packed with plenty of clips from the program to fill in the gap. "Too Funny to Fail" is an entertaining study of a show that was too hip for the room in '96 but would probably be a pretty big hit if it premiered today.

  22. Last movie you watched?

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    "Comix: Beyond the Comic Book Pages" (2016)

    This documentary examines the long history of the comic book industry and its impact on other forms of pop culture. Interviewees include Stan "The Man" Lee, Frank Miller, Neal Adams, John Romita Jr. and many more. There's nothing here that comic fans haven't seen in dozens of similar docs already, but I could listen to Stan tell stories of the old Marvel Bullpen forever so I enjoyed this. 

  23. Last movie you watched?

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    "Black Sabbath" (1963)

    A cool, colorful horror anthology by Italian director Mario Bava, featuring the great Boris Karloff as your host for three spooky tales (he also stars in one): a nurse learns why you shouldn't steal from the dead, a woman is stalked via telephone, and an outsider learns of a family's vampire curse. Fun stuff, and of course it also inspired the name of a certain band you might have heard of.

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