Epinions Recent Reviews for deadmilkboy

The Party's over, but Nick Cave sows the Bad Seeds to equally creepy effect.

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:06:41 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author deadmilkboy - After The Birthday Party migrated from their native Australia to both London and Berlin, cutting a pair of abrasive, intense LPs and building up a reputation for brutal onstage antics, the Party were over in 1983. Singer Nick Cave would...

Teenage drifters, middle-aged lady wrestlers and Adam West's "Zombie Nightmare."

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:53:56 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author deadmilkboy - When it comes to TV-on-DVD aficionados, MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 fans seem to have it the best. It usually takes a year or more for a new Simpsons season package to street, and there hasn't been word yet on when the fourth season of The Muppet Show...

Tromasterpiece Collection 4: "I'm a hero...God help me."

Tue, 4 Aug 2009 22:27:22 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author deadmilkboy - Originally completed in 1984 under the title of AMERICAN NIGHTMARE (before some Canadian slasher film that had f*** all to do with American or nightmares forced it to adopt a new moniker), Buddy Giovinazzo's 16mm warhorse of a debut was picked up...

Tromasterpiece Collection 3, The Last Horror Film: The Maniac Cannes!

Tue, 4 Aug 2009 05:48:59 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author deadmilkboy - When a little movie called Maniac made its rounds across American theatres in 1981, it was greeted with notoriety, protest and a big fat profit, making about seventeen times its modest...

Tromasterpiece Collection 2: Dawn of the Hee-Haw Dead.

Tue, 4 Aug 2009 05:13:36 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author deadmilkboy - "Tobacco-chewin', gut-stompin', cannibal kinfolk from Hell!"The first title distributed by the good folks at Troma to become noticed as a Trivial Pursuit question, REDNECK ZOMBIES returns to DVD as the second title featured in the...

Tromasterpiece Collection 1: Cannibals in Colorado from the man behind Cartman.

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:12:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author deadmilkboy - "In the tradition of Friday the 13th Part 2 and Oklahoma! comes the first intelligent film about cannibalism." - line from the trailer.Welcome to the student film from the brainchildren of South Park:...

"More miserable crap," this time on DVD.

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:45:19 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author deadmilkboy - "What has 20 legs, 18 balls and one brain? The State." - David Lipsky, Details Magazine, 1996.On October 2, 2007, the first season of The Sarah Silverman Program was released on DVD from Comedy Central/Paramount. I...

It's stick time once again with the debut season of RENO 911!

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:57:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author deadmilkboy - A couple of years after both MTV and CBS networks gave up on the 11-stone comedy troupe known as The State, a small network called Comedy Central came to the rescue by allowing a few of its members a new sketch-oriented program called Viva...

Chicken and cheese, Troma style (Eggs-clusive 3-disc collector's edition review).

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:59:14 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author deadmilkboy - Like KFC before them, it seems Troma has done right by chicken, or at least by their own standards. We are talking about the 30-year-old independent studio that has specialized in schlock that has capitalized on popular genre trends, delivering ample...

Arrested development in Reno's fourth season.

Thu, 2 Apr 2009 18:26:11 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author deadmilkboy - The fourth season of RENO 911!, Comedy Central's long-running COPS parody/sketch program, was particularly crucial because in between the cycle, the feature-length Reno 911! Miami spin-off was released theatrically. Despite having...

Know your rights, they don't.

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:47:40 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author deadmilkboy - The long arm of the law is here, but it's on fire, as you'll notice as watching the opening credits on the third season of RENO 911!I not only decided to play catch-up with this Comedy Central show as it prepares to launch a sixth run of...

"From the heart comes a warning filled with bloody good cheer..."

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:01:21 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author deadmilkboy - The slasher film may have existed prior to Halloween, but it wasn't until the success of John Carpenter's independently-made scarefest that it seemed horror was the new industry standard. By 1980, when Friday the 13th turned a...

Foxy Chocolat is back, and this time it's personal!

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:08:07 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author deadmilkboy - If you judge the worth of a performer solely by his or her filmography, then chances are you wouldn't exactly be familiar with Aisha Tyler. Or maybe, like me, you just might feel flat out disappointed. The best work she's done this far has...

Rub-a-dub-dub, thanks for Paul Rudd.

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:10:02 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author deadmilkboy - My one semester of drive-in horror education during the mid-1990s did yield one surprising revelation. It was when Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers opened, and I was reacquainted with the character of Tommy Doyle, the young tyke...

Bill Hicks is spitting mad in SANE MAN.

Sun, 8 Mar 2009 03:24:31 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author deadmilkboy - Not too many stand-up comedians are considered prophets based upon their material, but there's something about Bill Hicks which is bracing and alarmingly honest even to this day. Although raised in the South, Hicks was a candidly free speaker and railed...

The second MST3k set in four months offers four more fantastic voyages.

Fri, 6 Mar 2009 03:55:45 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author deadmilkboy - In October of 2008, Shout! Factory picked up the distribution rights to the cult series Mystery Science Theater 3000 to celebrate its 20th anniversary (...

My Bloody Valentine 3-D: Not quite heartlessly in love with you, MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3-D.

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 06:22:24 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author deadmilkboy - Patrick Lussier's remake of My Bloody Valentine harkens back to an unsung golden age of horror, the kind which needed three dimensions because everything else was merely 1-D, from the acting down to the story. Even though I...

"Oh Manchester, so much to answer for" (Deluxe Edition review).

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:06:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author deadmilkboy - If you go to Amazon.com to look up albums by the Smiths, you might discover that two of their albums are not in stock: 1987's U.S. only rarities compilation Louder Than Bombs and 1995's Singles, which was for over a decade the only decent...

"I just might die with a smile on my face after all."

Thu, 4 Dec 2008 20:05:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author deadmilkboy - But first, a couple questions to determine your personality. Have you ever spent a sunny July day indoors slaving away at an upsetting letter to some buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg? And if you're more of a night person, did you ever grieve the fact that...

The original "Bosom Buddies" plus Marilyn Monroe (Collector's Edition DVD review).

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:55:15 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author deadmilkboy - This is my last submission to Captain D's The Good Movies Epi Guide 2 write-off. Special thanks to everyone who submitted and congrats to the Captain for getting over 200 contributions, and I was happy to be in the top five:...

"I guess that this must be the place."

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:22:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author deadmilkboy - In the commentary track for STOP MAKING SENSE, Jonathan Demme talks about how he found something inherently cinematic upon watching a Talking Heads concert at the Greek Theatre. Working with conceptual designer/band member David...

Isn't this the one with the donkey and the chambermaid?

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:03:15 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author deadmilkboy - Before he got the chance to helm a multi-million dollar update of King Kong, Peter Jackson paid tribute to Skull Island by exporting a creature greater than any ape: the Sumatran Rat Monkey. A victim of interspecies rape used in voodoo...

"Let's you and me go for a ride, Otis" (20th Anniversary DVD review),

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:05:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author deadmilkboy - Otis: "Where you going?"Henry: "Nowhere - you wanna come?"This review is an entry in Captain D's The Good Movies Epi Guide 2 write-off: http://www.epinions.com/conten
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something to...

Don't just be a man, be a Melon! (Extra-Curricular Edition DVD review)

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:38:34 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author deadmilkboy - Here's an entry in Captain D's The Good Movies Epi Guide 2 write-off: http://www.epinions.com/conten
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ten highest grossing movies of 1986 included Aliens and Ferris Bueller's Day Off,...

"Come with me, my love..." (Collector's Edition DVD review)

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:09:30 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author deadmilkboy - This is a submission to Captain D's Good Movies Epi Guide 2 write-off: http://www.epinions.com/conten
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women, like my ex-wife Denise, for example...you step out of line a little, she'd like to...