The Flaming Lips U.F.O.s at the Zoo: The Legendary Concert in Oklahoma City Warner Bros. Street: 07.07 Fans have been waiting a long time for this; a concert DVD that lives up to the unique live The Flaming Lips experience. The changes the Lips have undergone over the years don’t constitute a reinvention of style,
Black Test Car Yasuzo Masumura Fantoma Street: 05.22 The Fast and the Furious, Red Line, Days of Thunder… all these movies deal in one form or another with cars and racing them. Most of the time, these movies involve babes with tons of cleavage, outrageous, impossible cars and the people who drive them. Interestingly, Black
Black Criterion Games Reviewed On: PS2/XBox Street: 02.28.06 I’ve heard a lot of people complain about this game. No story, moronic enemies, claustrophobic maps etc. Here’s what I say to them: this game kicks ass. I’m not saying that they are wrong; in fact, this game does have a sitcom-thin plot line and the enemies
Heatseeker Codemasters Reviewed On: PS2 Street: 05.07 When I was 12-years-old I saved and saved and bought a game called Flight Simulator for my Commodore 64 computer. It took 15 minutes to load, consisted of nothing more that a really bad airplane motor noise and some green lines and ran at about two frames per
Guitar Hero II Red Octane Reviewed On: Xbox 360 Street: 04.03 It seems I can’t mention my fondness for video games to anyone these days without getting a sermon on the marvels of the Guitar Hero series. I’ll confess that the success of these games and my own hobby of playing real guitars instilled in
Percy Gloom Cathy Malkasian Fantagraphics Books Street: 06.21 Percy Gloom was written by Cathy Malkasian whose previous work as an animator includes the shows Rugrats and The Wild Thornberrys Movie. Her leap from animation to the graphic novel form (especially from those quirky kids’ shows) is not a far cry from her previous work. Percy
House Josh Simmons Fantagraphics Books Street: 03.07 House eerily recalls Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves, not so much in its complex storytelling but in its scary incompleteness. House leaves more questions open then it answers. The story is about a mansion three kids find in the woods that they decide to go exploring in.
MOME Various Artists Fantagraphics Books Street: 05.22 MOME follows in the fine footsteps of other anthologies and quarterlies of this century (ex. McSweeney’s) by showcasing first-rate up-and-coming artists, writers, etc. The comics represented here range from self-conscious absurd dream narratives to the surreal pop panel to an extended meditation on depression and comic book creators.
Hollywood After Dark The Film Crew Shout! Factory Street: 07.10 For those who were saddened by the demise (yes, demise) of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 and hoped that its off-kilter brand of DVD commentary would roam the earth again, hope some more. The Film Crew (what happened to a clever title?) is nothing more than
Graffiti TV is straight from the mid-90s. Everything from the shaky cameras, poor film quality, flannel shirts and bad, bad haircuts were reminiscent of a home movie. … read more
America’s Mexican George Lopez HBO Home Video Street: 07.03 WHITE PEOPLE TALK LIKE THIS, LATINO PEOPLE TALK LIKE THIS. Now that I have that out of the way, I can say that George Lopez was able to get most of that material out of the way within the first 15 minutes of this DVD. There’s
The Seeker In Forever Alan Fox StoryFocus Communications Street: 09.07 A fascinating comedy by Alan Fox that pulls you into a dream-like world where one man battles to prove the way to peace is not war. Emerging in an effort to confront an establishment that has taken the power from the people, this young man
