#zak sandler

[scenesandscreens]

Hustle (2022)

Director - Jeremiah Zagar, Cinematography - Zak Mulligan

"I'll say one last inspirational thing to you: they can't kill you if you're already dead."

#scenesandscreens #Hustle #Jeremiah Zagar #Zak Mulligan #Adam Sandler #Ainhoa Pillet #Anthony Edwards #Kenny Smith #Fat Joe #Jaleel White #Silas Graham #Robert Duvall #Jordan Hull #Heidi Gardner #María Botto #Queen Latifah #Ben Foster #Juancho Hernangómez

[lovelytsunoda]

what makes you beautiful // daniel ricciardo

summary: as contract season approaches and his future with mclaren isn’t so clear any more, daniel retreats to the austrian alps for some soul searching, where he meets a jaded woman who was left at the altar and decided to weather her honeymoon alone.

pairing: daniel ricciardo x fem!reader

warnings: y/n is super cynical about love, mentions of sex, reader left at the altar, plot worthy of an adam sandler movie. gets pretty steamy (read daniel taking off readers old engagement ring with his teeth) but there’s no smut.

authors notes: it’s bittersweet tk be finishing the one direction series, but I cannot wait to bring you the katy perry series, kicked off by my debut george fic, teenage dream.

also fuk zak brown and his american ass, they never deserved daniel in the first place.

kitzbühel, austria. day zero.

“what’s a pretty girl like you doing out here all alone?”

he didn’t know why he said it, the driver cringing internally as soon as the words left his mouth.

the woman turned to look at him, fractured segments of moonlight dancing over her hair as the breeze blew tendrils in her face. her delicate fingers clutched a half full glass of red wine, and daniel would have to be stupid to not see the ruby engagement ring on her hand.

which again begged the question: what was she doing outside, alone?

“drowning my sorrows and self pity on expensive wine.”

can’t fault her for that, danny thought to himself as he recalled his own reasons for retreating into the austrian alps.

“as good a reason as any. can I join you?” the australian asked, gesturing towards the chalets wicker patio set. tyrol was typically a winter destination for all the skiing one could accomplish, so the chalet was quieter in the summer months.

it was just what daniel needed.

the woman laughed, wrapping her slender fingers around the neck of the wine bottle, hefting it out of the plastic ice bucket. it was more than half full.

“can’t drink this all by myself now, can I?”

the two sat next to each other on the well-loved furniture, unaware of the hustle and bustle occurring inside the chalet as the last of the night owls danced away to nineties club music that shook the log cabin walls.

“my father always said that a problem shared is a problem halved.” the woman remarked offhandedly, filling an extra wine glass for daniel. “penny for your thoughts?”

where to begin? especially since the media coverage of his mclaren contract woes was so prominent in the mainstream media, if he had finally met someone who wasn’t going to recognize his face he didn’t want to throw that away so easily.

“I still have another year on my work contract, but my boss just gave it to somebody else. he’s trying to force me out with an exit clause.”

“shit.”

“right, now you.”

she sighed, taking a sip from her wineglass. “seems pretty personal to tell to somebody who doesn’t know my name.”

“then tell me.” the mclaren driver encouraged “I’m daniel.”

“y/n” she answered quietly after a moment of hesitation. “this was supposed to be my honeymoon. he left me at the altar.”

daniel choked on his wine. “shit! that kind of outweighs my shit, makes it sound insignificant”

“no, don’t worry. we all have our issues and they all affect us differently. it wasn’t derek’s fault, I should have warned him that my family was crazy before they all flew in for the wedding. he got cold feet and left me there the night before.”

“he sounds like a dick.”

y/n sighed. “he’s not. he was just scared, I think. forever didn’t mean the same thing to him as it does to me.” she looked at her hands, at the small ruby on her ring finger. “is it stupid of me to keep wearing the ring?”

danny shook his head rapidly. “no, it’s not stupid. if anything, it means you still believe in love.”

“that’s a comforting thought. it’s gonna hurt tomorrow once all of the pre-planned couples activities start and I have to do them alone.”

“don’t do them alone.” some part of daniels soul aches for the jaded, cynical woman sitting next to him. the woman that thought she finally found the person she could spend her life with only to have it yanked away. “I’ll go with you. it’s not like I really planned ahead, and I could do with the distraction.”

maybe it was the wine. maybe she was desperate.

but letting daniel ricciardo be her fake newlywed husband for three weeks would end up being the best decision she ever made.

“yeah, okay. let’s see if you can last all three weeks. I hope you’re a good actor.”

day one.

y/n was waiting in the chalet lobby, fully prepared to have to weather the guided horseback tour in her own. she was slightly hungover and ready to throw in the metaphorical towel.

and then she saw him.

she just happened to catch the movement out of the corner of her eye, the last person she expected emerging from the elevator to come and join her by the glass doors where she had been waiting for the tour guide.

“you came?”

“psh, of course I did.” daniel grinned. “wouldn’t make my mother too happy to know that I abandoned a maiden in need.”

y/n rolled her eyes. “it’s just a stupid horseback tour. it’s a big group of people, I’m sure nobody would have noticed I was here alone.”

“come on sweetheart. that’s no fun.”

“sacred I’ll kick your ass?”

y/n laughed, catching the attention of everybody in the lobby, as well as daniels semi-hard cock. okay, so maybe the fact that y/n was ducking beautiful was part of the reason he had suggested helping in the first place.

“please, I took ten years of horseback riding lesssons.”

“and I grew up on a farm. your point?”

“touché. I think this is gonna be fun, don’t you agree, honey?”

daniel chuckled at the coy grin on y/n’s face as she said it, he could feel himself falling but couldn’t care less about stopping it.

he had three weeks before he had to think about his problems, and spending that time with a beautiful woman couldn’t hurt.

“now you’re laying it on a little thick.” he whispered, mouth close to her cheek so that it looked like he was giving her a kiss.

y/n could feel her heart rate pick up as soon as the driver leaned in, a feeling she thought she’d never feel again after derek.

and it scared her so much.

day five.

she thought she could handle it, thought she could go through with the couples activities alone, and then with daniel.

she thought she was over derek diamandis and his stupid face.

all it took was one visit to the chocolatiers to make her burst out into tears again when the tour concluded and the jovial austrian chocolate maker unveiled the heart shaped box, with the collection of luxury chocolates and caramels and everything in between, pink letters on each candy spelling out ‘congrats mr. & mrs. diamandis’.

as soon as she saw the box, y/n ran off into the street with tears streaming from her eyes, leaving a sputtering daniel to try and explain to the chocolatier that he had done nothing wrong, and that his ‘wife’ was just feeling overwhelmed and emotional.

which was true, just not in the sense that daniel was attempting to make it come across as.

“hey,” daniels soft australian drawl calmed y/n down, slowed her racing heart.

she always had found aussie accents sexy as fuck.

“are you okay? you kind of fell apart on me back there.”

y/n shook her head. “I thought I could do it but I was wrong. I shouldn’t have come here. I shouldn’t have tried to do this all without derek and his stupid soft boy face.”

she was taken aback at what daniel did next, with the australian pulling her in for a hug, allowing her tears to stain his alexisonfire shirt as she cried in his arms. there was something intimate about the way that he stroked her hair and held her close, whispering sweet nothings and reassurances.

and that’s because there was. it had only been five days, but the lines were already starting to blur between friends and someone that daniel could see himself with.

and good lord did that scare him.

day seven.

“you never actually said what you did for a living. actually, you know more about me than I do about you.”

daniel’s blood ran cold. he knew this moment would come, the moment he gave up his anonymity the goddess sitting across from him.

until she saw him differently.

“promise it won’t change the way you see me?” the aussie started, hesitation in his voice.

y/n chuckled “what, are you a male stripper or something? all magic mike and shit?”

daniel laughed, hearty and boisterous, sending shivers down y/n’s spine. “no. not yet, at least. if this contract falls through, that might be my fall back.”

“would that really be so bad with a body like yours.” she was wine drunk and didn’t know what she was saying, instantly wishing she could take the words back before things became awkward.

“I’m actually a formula one driver, and I have been since I was eighteen years old.”

the table was silent.

“are you being serious right now?”

“deadly. my current team is trying to replace me with the f2 champion from a few years ago. he seems like a good kid, but mclaren have honestly been treating me like shit all year. I thought I was safe, but I don’t know any more.”

“well fuck.”

“hey, that’s daniel ricciardo!” one of the restaurant patrons shouted, starting an avalanche of people to come running over to the couples’ table.

the chalets main restaurant was small on a good day, but during the crowded dinner time, even two or three people coming over to ask danny for a picture or an autograph felt like too much. daniel could feel his chest tightening with anxiety, doing his best to answer a few questions about his contract with mclaren and taking a few reluctant pictures before y/n finally snapped out of her stupor.

“babe,” she said loudly enough that the crowd beginning to come could hear. “I’m starting to get a migraine, can you walk me back to the room.”

at first, daniel was confused. she had seemed fine mere moments ago. but when he looked over and saw her mouth the words ‘play along’, the metaphorical lights went on in his brain.

“of course, darlin.” he drawled, getting to his feet and making a show out of helping y/n up from the table “sorry, guys. I’d love to stay and talk with you all,” not totally a lie “but my wife is feeling ill and I have to be with her right now, so I’ll see you guys around, yeah?”

once they were in the elevator and on their way up to y/n’s room, she raised her eyebrows.

“my wife is ill’? laying it on a little thick there lover boy.”

daniel managed a sly grin. “all I wanted was for them to leave us alone. I guess I did get a little carried away there, didn’t I?”

“it’s okay.” y/n giggled, reaching for his hand as they left the elevator “we still had to hold up my charade, and maybe you’ll be in the news for something other than contract news this time. on second thought, maybe don’t become a stripper. you’d get mauled on your first day.”

Daniel groaned “there’s no way I can explain this one to my PR manager. he’s gonna kill me.”

“he’s gonna have to go through me first.” y/n couldn’t win the smile off her face as she dropped daniel’s hand, extracting the room key from her clutch purse. “well, this is me.”

there was no mistaking the wistfulness in her tone as she knew this was where she and the driver needed to part ways.

“this last week has been incredible, daniel. how can I ever thank you enough for stepping up? it’s meant so much to me.”

daniel hesitated, moving half a step closer, attentive to every minuscule movement that y/n’s body made, the breath she sucked in when he moved closer.

“there is one thing.”

“and what’s that?” there was merely an inch of space between their bodies, laboured breathing filling the air as they stood there, too afraid to move.

too afraid to speak.

“kiss me.”

y/n certainly didn’t need to be told twice, fingers grasping desperately for daniels shirt, lips tangling with his as he took the room key out of her hand, clumsily opening the door as they both stumbled messily inside.

danny kicked the door closed behind them, not breaking away from y/n for a second as he steered their bodies towards the king sized bed, barely even registering that this was the honeymoon suite, where y/n should have been relaxing while derek diamandis made sweet love to her.

and now he got to do that instead, fingernails leaving scratch marks on his skin as y/n tore his shirt buttons open, one button flying off somewhere in the distance, her little white dress bunched up over her thighs when she landed, legs on either side of the mclaren driver.

“daniel, please..” she whined, the angelic sound going directly to the drivers cock, springing to attention in his tight white chinos.

“tell me what you need, baby. I’m right here.” he said softly, placing gentl kisses along her collarbone, relishing in every small movement she made under his touch.

“please, danny, I need you to touch me.”

his lust-filled gaze softened as he ran his fingertips over her soft cheek, tilting her head towards him as he kissed her deeply, moaning into the kiss as one of her hands tangled in her hair.

“I am going to treat you like the fucking goddess that you are. derek diamandis never deserved you in the first place.” his voice was husky as he took her hand in his, staring at the ruby ring.

he didn’t even think before dipping his head down and sliding his mouth over the finger, withdrawing the ring between his lips before spitting it out on the sheets.

“that was so fucking hot.” y/n breathed underneath him, breath hitching as she searched for friction between her thighs.

“well, you don’t need that wankers ring any more now, do you.”

“not one bit. now fucking get between my legs before I have to do this myself.”

“ah, sweetheart, we’re just getting started.”

days eight to fourteen.

y/n y/l/n was falling in love again, something that she never thought would happen after she had to cancel the wedding.

and it was like a total dream to fall in love the way she did, with an incredible man in one of the most beautiful countries she had ever seen.

the days following the night that they spent together were a whirlwind of hikes, couples massages, romantic dinners and nights spent between satin sheets.

but her favourite parts were the mornings that she spent on the balcony with daniel, wearing the plush terry cloth bathrobes from the chalet, mugs of warm drinks in their hands as they snuggled into each other to watch the sun rise.

she felt truly at peace, something she never thought she would feel again with another man.

she was sitting on daniels lap, his hand slipping inside the bathrobe to rub calming circles over the skin on her side as he pressed a gentle kiss to the side of her head.

“have you decided what to do about mclaren?” she asked softly, not wanting to pry.

“I asked zak to buy out my contract. I’m not gonna stay until the end of next season. but I don’t know where to go from there.”

“then we figure it out together.” y/n said softly, bringing daniels knuckles to her lips before snuggling back into his side, one finger gently tracing the beautiful inked tattoos on his arm.

“come to belgium with me.”

“what?” y/n sat up a little straighter, palm on daniel’s chest. “I still have a week of the pseudo honeymoon.”

“you can bail. wouldn’t you rather be at race weekend than here alone? I’ve enjoyed these last few weeks so much, and I don’t want that to end because I have to go back to mclaren.”

y/n was quiet, thinking it over in her head. but at the same time, what did she have to lose? she’d be going back home to an empty apartment, an unworn wedding dress and a table of wedding gifts she’s eventually have to open.

fuck it.

“I’ll do it. I’ll come to belgium with you. they probably already think we’re married, do you think we can keep the charade going a little longer?”

“hell yeah. I can’t wait to get you and my boss in the same room.”

“god, I’m gonna give that man and his fucking american ass a scolding into next week.”

daniel grinned, kissing her gently on the lips.

“I’m so happy that I met you.”

and he hoped deep down, that maybe someday she would be mrs ricciardo for real.

#lovelytsunodas one direction series #daniel ricciardo x reader #daniel ricciardo x y/n #daniel ricciardo #formula one x reader #f1 imagine

[rhyse-writes-stuff]

Hello to whoever is reading this journal! Here is a little bit about me!

My name is Rhyse Paledino.

I am in the 14-16 year old category/age range.

I have pyrokinesis (or fire manipulation) and have I telekinesis (where I can move things with my mind by using my hands). I also have psionics, portal creation & multiversal travel (albeit I have a necklace that gives me those powers to travel the Good Omens Multiverse), superhuman strength and many more powers that you’ll find out about as you go along.

I have two dogs (Zak, a miniature grey male schnauzer & Porla, a mainly white with a tiny bit of brown and grey female pitbull) a blue parakeet (whose name is Blouis) & a neon tetra fish (whose name is Aquaman).

I am one of the original Guardians Of The Good Omens Multiverse (along with: Lissa, the one who started the group, Weston, Ashton, Preston, Wyatt, Delen & Briar).

My favorite colors are: red, amber and a fiery orange.

My favorite animals are: foxes, dogs, owls & pandas.

My favorite shows are: Good Omens (Lissa got me into it and I’ve been hooked ever since, even going into the Good Omens Multiverse), Stranger Things, Jessica Jones (I like S1 the best) & The Office (US).

My favorite movies are: Last Vegas, The Greatest Showman, Tammy, one of the Adam Sandler movies (I forgot what it was called but it was one from before 2018 I believe), Princess And The Frog, the Frozen movies (my favorite is the first one because it’s more nostalgic for me) & The Descendants movies (my ultimate favorite is the first one though, albeit I like Uma).

My favorite foods are: Tostino’s Pizza Rolls (the pepperoni ones preferably), Pizza (cheese, pepperoni and sausage), Onion Rings & Lay’s Potato Chips (or crisps as they call it in the UK).

My hobbies are: hanging out with my friends, going into the Good Omens Multiverse (using the necklace that Lissa gave me), writing in journals, making and watching videos or TikToks, playing video games (Among Us, Fortnite, Roblox, Minecraft etc.) & watching movies (I know most if not all the lines of my favorites).

I have two cousins and their names are Trace, who is in the 10-12 year old category/age range & Vinson (we refer to him as Vinny), who is in the 7-9 year old category/age range.

I also have other friends from the Defenders Of The Good Omens Multiverse (different from the guardians) and their names are: Luka, Noah, Jaydah & Jahmar (who are twins). As well as The Others whose names are: Alida (she’s from the U.K. and we refer to her as Ala or Ali), Ania, Millie, and Michael & Lily (who are Lissa’s cousins/sibling figures).

So, yeah! That’s all I can think of right at the moment. You’ll get to know me better the more I write in this journal. Also, feel free to ask me a question! Without further ado, welcome to whoever is reading this journal!

#rhyse writes #rhyse’s thoughts #rhyse shares #rhyse rambles #about rhyse #get to know me

[campwanatachi]

ANNOUNCEMENT: CAMP WANATACHI was accepted in the New York Musical Festival! Four rad women are at the helm: producer Bridget Regan (Jane the Virgin, Agent Carter), director Mia Walker (Broadway’s Waitress the Musical and Porgy and Bess), music director Emily Marshall (Nat’l Tours of A Chorus Line and We Will Rock You), and creator Natalie Elizabeth Weiss (Baby DJ School, Unicornicopia). Machinedrum made the beats, Bekah Brunstetter co-wrote the book, Conrad Winslow created the orchestrations and Zak Sandler will music supervise! #nofearinlove

#machinedrum #camp wanatachi #bridget regan #mia walker #emily marshall #zak sandler #conrad winslow #bekah brunstetter #natalie elizabeth weiss #unicornicopia #the green room 42 #nymf #new york musical festival #no fear in love

[natalieweiss]

#bridget regan #mia walker #emily marshall #natalie elizabeth weiss #camp wanatachi #nymf #new york musical festival #legend of the seeker #jane the virgin #waitress the musical #porgy and bess #broadway #musical theater #machinedrum #bekah brunstetter #Conrad winslow #zak sandler #shows

[kalup-linzy]

https://www.newgreenwoodllc.com/product-page/release-me-the-spirits-of-greenwood-speak-anthology @poet_phetote @tulsaartistfellowship @zaxary @drjosiah @davidcastillogallery @the_breeder_gallery @sean.horton.presents Late post!  Get a copy of Release Me, the Spirits of Greenwood Speak anthology.  Edited by Phetote Mshairi.  The poem below is my contribution. A Race In History Footsteps to History Sprints of memories Touchdowns of heartbreak A cheerleader of hate A marathon of inflicted wounds Because I refuse to be your coon A jog around the block A ride in an elevator Not your average hater Profiling, like you did my ancestors The epic ballad of "Karens" We need a chorus filled with "Sharons" A race not to be detoured by race A race to be won by Grace ***Please not that the "Sharons" I am referring to are more like my friend's (Zak and Josh) mother Sharon Sandler.  Not the ones who fall in line with Sharon Osborne's recent tone deaf approach on The Talk. Stroll through #kaluplinzy #releaseme #spiritsofgreenwoodspeak #1921tulsaracemassacre #commemoration #phetotemshairi #poetry #2021tulsaartistfellowship #2021tulsaartistfellow #sharonsandler #golfcartparade #thevillages https://www.instagram.com/p/CRex4CclfIz/?utm_medium=tumblr

#kaluplinzy #releaseme #spiritsofgreenwoodspeak #1921tulsaracemassacre #commemoration #phetotemshairi #poetry #2021tulsaartistfellowship #2021tulsaartistfellow #sharonsandler #golfcartparade #thevillages

[culturacafecontemplacao]

E aí, galera! Tudo bem com vocês?

Estamos adorando receber o feedback de vocês e hoje traremos uma das sugestões de contéudo nostálgico que recebemos! 

Assim, reunimos alguns de nossos programas favoritos da TV Futura, os quais tinham a apresentação pelo Quintal da Cultura! 😄

Esperamos que gostem e obrigada mais uma vez por todo o apoio;

Bora lá!! 

                                                         •••

10º Corduroy

Quem lembra do Ursinho Corduroy? Ele vivia diversas aventuras de imaginação com sua melhor amiga Lisa e outros amigos. Apesar de não lembrarmos claramente de muitos episódios, só ao ver sua carinha nos remete uma sensação muito forte de nostalgia❣️

9º Capitão Planeta

“Pela união dos seus poderes, eu sou o Capitão Planeta”

O sonho de crianças desde o lançamento do desenho, na década de 90, era um anel com o poder de um dos elementos: Terra, Água, Vento , Fogo e Coração! Além de muito divertido, nos passava uma mensagem de conscientização ambiental 🌳

8º Cyberchase

A equação de desenho animado + matemática pode não parecer que daria certo, mas produto gerado pelo desenho Cyberchase: A Corrida do Espaço foi um número exato!

A série contava a história dos amigos Jackie, Matheus, Inês e o cyberpassáro: Dígito, que, com a ajuda da Placa Mãe, reuniam sua inteligencia com a coragem para enfrentar o vilão Hacker e impedir a dominação do Cyberespaço.

7º De Onde Vem?

Com apenas 5 anos, Kika é muito curiosa e procura saber a origem de absolutamente TUDO & TODAS AS COISAS! E devido a seu interesse no mundo ao seu redor, nós aprendemos de onde vem o raio, o ovo e o choro;

“Se eu contar, você não vai acreditar, um tchauzinho quentinho e crocante e até o programa que vem com mais um de onde vem!"

6º As Trigêmeas

Anna, Helena e Teresa são irmãs gêmeas que sempre que aprontam são mandadas para o mundo de alguma história, como castigo, pela Bruxa Onilda.

Baseada em livros do mesmo nome, a série foi um sucesso e ganhou até mesmo um spin-off da melhor bruxa dos desenhos animados (p.s: os livros da Bruxa Onilda com sua coruja, Mocho, são INCRÍVEIS).

5º Doug

A série gira em torno da vida de Doug Funnie, um garoto de 12 anos, com seus fieis companheiros, Costelinha e Skeeter, e o amor de sua vida Patti Maionese.

Não digo nada além de: ÍCONE

4º Historinhas de Dragões

“Eu desejo, eu desejo

De todo o coração

Voar para longe

Para a terra dos dragões!”

Se o desenho esteve em um filme do Adam Sandler, sendo citado DIVERSAS vezes, é O desenho: entra ai Dragon Tales!

A história nos leva com Max e Emília para a Terra dos Dragões, onde vivem seus melhores amigos: Cacau, Ord, Zak & Zica 💖

“Com essa rima 

Nós vamos embora

Voltaremos então

Quando chegar a hora”

3º Madeline

Madeline era uma menininha ruiva, muito esperta e cheia de energia que morava em um orfanato na França, junto a outras 11 meninas. O desenho contava suas diversas aventuras e nos ensinava muitas lições, entre elas a amizade!

“E foi isso que aconteceu

Só isso

Mais nada”

2º Sagwa: A Gatinha Siamesa

A gatinha Sagwa, seus pais e irmãos, pertencem a família real chinesa. Como é muito animada e curiosa vive grandes aventuras ao lado de seus irmãos e seu amigo morcego, Fu-Fu, aprendendo novas lições a cada episódio!

1º Teca na TV!

Em primeiro lugar deixamos o único live action dessa lista & geração! 

Teca é uma menina espuleta e como outras que citamos aqui, sempre está em busca de viver algo novo e emocionante. E com a ajuda de seu irmão Guto, suas amigas, Bia e Nara, sua planta carnívora as aventuras se tornavam muito melhores.

P.s: nesse caso, em especial, estamos falando do reboot de 2007, com a atriz Clara Tiezzi

                                                            •••

Quem está com essa sensação quentinha e gostosa de nostalgia também?

Crescemos coma TV Futura e somos muito gratas pelos ensinamentos adquiridos; semana que vem estaremos trazendo um outro especial de outra emissora muito amada por quem acompanhava a Futura, vocês conseguem adivinhar qual será?

Esperamos por você;

Até a próxima!

#doug #patti maionese #historinhas de dragões #dragon tales #madeline #as trigêmeas #sagwa the chinese siamese cat #sagwa a gatinha siamesa #teca na tv #corduroy #de onde vem? #kika #cyberchase #capitão planeta #vamos mostrar cultura pra esse povo #cultura #tv futura #jornalismo #feevale

[tube-thoughts-blog]

Vol. 10

zero stars - terrible, 1/2 a star - dull, 1 star - folly, 1 1/2 stars - lacking, 2 stars - fair, 2 1/2 stars - decent, 3 stars - terrific

Killer Couples: Toybox Killings *An interstate prostitute escapes from a Truth or Consequences, New Mexico "rape dungeon" after being held hostage by a near retirement park ranger party animal and his much younger but still nearing middle aged yet still a white trash party girl at heart lover and willing accomplice. Oxygen network thrives on this kind of investigative murder porn, but gives mixed signals when the show's main sponsor is Oxygen's previews for a feel good family sitcom featuring Damon Wayans.* either zero or 2 stars

Breaking Greenville: You Are Now Safe *An orange tanned, obnoxious news anchor goes weird on the air and starts having a midlife crisis while talking inappropriately to the viewers about his pending divorce. The same guy brings together his news crew, in his small apt, to give them facial masks and it gets surreal looking at newspeople being reality tv stars buying for fifteen minutes of fame with these strange painted faces. Then, a nerdy meteorologist gives an awkward report from a tornado bunker, followed by a spunky morning reporter trying her hardest to be serious for a story of a church burning. A news veteran, with a walrus mustache, gives the spunky reporter advice, while inhaling a chocolate covered donut, to cover more stories about happy topics like food.* close to 2 1/2 stars

Crossballs, the debate show: Plastic Surgery, Nip-pocalypse *Put a bag over your head, if you must, but don't put a butterfly tattoo on your ankle.* close to 3 stars

The Ben Stiller Show: Season 1 Episode 12 *"There's nothing like being part of the team. That feeling that you're just an insignificant part of a much larger scheme." All for one and one for all. You can't handle the truth or pull the sword from the stone. "Human flesh is the ultimate fun food."* between 2 1/2 and 3 stars

Look Around You: Ghosts *They're there in their room.* close to 3 stars

Hippies: Muddy Hippies *Pitching a tent with the socialist state, landing in doo doo, and selling out to the bank.* 2 1/2 stars

The Gong Show with Dave Attell: Season 1 Episode 4 *The original Gong Show had acts more absurd and interesting than 20 something hipster nerd that's kind of good at yo yo or stripper catholic school chick lesbo act that's entertaining only at bachelor and frat parties.* running from 1 to close to 2 stars

=== Ghosts Adventures, Aftershocks with Zak Bagans: Zozo

*D-bag Zak puts on a sports jacket over his muscle shirt to give some former haunted people, from the show, a bit of paranormal therapy, Dr. Phil style.

The poor sap on this episode gets hammered with accusations that his conjuring of a demon via a oujia board (available at toy stores and gag gift shops in malls nationwide) led to his ex-wife having an affair with the nasty spirit and to her current stay in jail.

You can't make this stuff up. Oh, wait... you can, and they did, and it's as laughable to watch as it sounds.

Also, and I'm not making this up, there's some kind of contention, that needed to be explained by host and guest, about said lady's crotch odor actually not being her fault and instead was a sulfur smell from the pits of hell.

No kidding.*

1 star

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---- 12:01 Beyond --- Episode #5 --- Love Is Sex Misspelled ---------

*RKO cartoon - Cupid Gets His Man: An all out Cherub amorous assault on an old maid and an old bachelor.* 2 stars

*Old school, praise-filled promo for the cult classic Dr. Caligari 1989.* 3 stars

*Mr. Lobo sends one out to the lovers who like to "cop a feel."* 2 1/2 stars

*"Eavesdrop on America's darkest secrets." Intimate Secrets "Adults only. $2.00 per minute. Classic sleazy 900 number phone service.* 3 stars

*Ninja the Mission Force - "N" Is For Ninja: "Keep your money in your shoe." and your heart off your pajama sleeve.* close to 3 stars

*Super retro anti-drug cartoon circa late 60s or early 70s from Hanna Barbera.* 3 stars

*Republic Pictures Serials - The Crimson Ghost in Chapt. 5 'Flaming Death': Collision course on a collision course.* 2 stars

*Ballroom Dance Floor (interesting music video inspired by the Great Gatsby.* 2 1/2 stars

*Grindhouse trailer showing an "Oath of Green Blood."* 2 1/2 stars

*Mr. Lobo romances a potted plant.* between 2 and 2 1/2 stars

*A big costume heart shows up and sings to Mr. Lobo and his potted lady.* 2 1/2 stars

*Tom Sizemore in "Bad Love": Tom is Lenny -a lowlife, jealous, pathetic, controlling, abusive, mostly terrible lover/boyfriend to this short-haired city chick, who could do much better but is too dumb to try, in a saxophone and soft piano filled skid row setting softcore sex in the mid 90s romance flick.* close to 2 1/2 stars

*Videotape advertisement for satellite signal descrambler to have "American eXXXtasy" available to all those using a video cipher 2 for only a few hundred bucks. Get all the porn you want, same as an average schmoe in a trucker hat and a plaid shirt.* 3 stars

*A colorized King Kong goes car shopping for a Volkswagen to haul his captive sweetie around in a 1960s or early 70s car advertisement.* close to 3 stars

*Mr. Lobo can't get any privacy or satisfaction from the invasive Heart mascot, a cloud of poisonous urinal cake gas, or a post-apocalyptic plant lady mishap.* 2 stars

*Classic TNT Monstervision theme song, sung by Joe Bob Briggs, intro video where Joe Bob can't get any love from the hot, white trash bimbo TNT "Mail Girl."* 3 stars

*"Red Nightmare": Jack Webb stands on suburban street corners, staring into windows, abducting family men, who won't get in line and act like a good American, sending them to Soviet society where their freedoms are stripped away. Jack Webb is too ignorant to see the irony of his own thoughts and actions.* 1 star

*Superman in "Jungle Drums": "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!" Superman saves Lois from stereotype African savages who are trying to sacrifice her for not spilling top U.S. Navy ship location secrets to the savages' Nazi overlords." 3 stars

*"Women fear being raped, but it's double the fear if it's in outerspace and by aliens." in this grindhouse quality trailer for "Insemenoid."* 3 stars

*Colorful, quirky, scale model filled XXX outerspace adventure with horny space women, Harry Potter look-a-like with his Hogwarts professor sidekick, and overtly gay alien ship's computer voice. "Spaced Out." a grindhouse style trailer.* 3 stars

*"Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders" another retro trailer.* 3 stars

*Mr. Lobo is the last man on earth, left to his own devices -licking telephone receivers.* close to 2 1/2 stars

*Zero stars for the annoying voice over lady who complained during everyone of her intros. Was an enhancement the first few episodes of 1201, but for this episode it was a real detraction. Not sure if it was part of the act, or if it was a legitimate show of feelings. Either way, it sucked. Get rid of it, and her, if necessary.*

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VH1 sneak preview "Hot Grits" *Another insipid reality mess featuring "good looking" people, this time the cast being overprivileged 20 somethings from the southern United States (A number of other cable networks have similar shows. So, it's already a tired premise.) and VH1 really is daring its idiotic viewers to "hate watch" the awful people and antics on this steaming vomit, served in a bowl, excuse for a tv show.* zero stars

Red Letter Media presents Best of the Worst: Blood Debts, The Tomb, and Undefeatable *Generic Charles Bronson with a tiny cannon and a wife named simply "his wife" in the movie's credits, then a Indiana Jones rip off that has nearly zero action... limited stars' screentime... and phone filled exposition, followed finally by a mom jeans karate lady in a universe where everyone knows karate and an eyeball ripping out serial rapist is on the loose.* between 2 1/2 and 3 stars

American Horror Story - Asylum: Continuum *Communal state of delusion.* 3 stars

Crossballs, the debate show: Hellphones versus Interthreat *Electronic etiquette.* close to 3 stars

Forensic Files: Bitter Potion *Poisoned by Pie. Scratch that. Poisoned by Coca-Cola. Better yet, poisoned by a member of MENSA. A real 'Walter White type' chemist / former meth cook.* 3 stars

Weird Science: Fatal Lisa *"Getting it on (on the hood of a Dodge Viper, which is true love)" with a genie who won't take no for an answer.* 3 stars

Wizards and Warriors: Night of Terror *For the night is long and filled with spiders.* 3 stars

Swamp Thing: The Prometheus Parabola *John Wayne and Arcane have a tech-war shootout showdown.* either 1 or 3 stars

Viper: Firehawk *"Beware the Bandersnatch" Urban assault and compromising situations of a vehicular nature.* either 1 1/2 stars or close to 3 stars

Spicy City: Manos Hands *Redbeans, bongo musica, and bruja? brewha?* close to 3 stars

X Files: Darkness Falls *Pitch black.* 3 stars

Crossballs, the debate show: Mother Earth Bitch *Throwing a live chicken, wearing a jet pack, into the air is not pollution.* between 2 1/2 and 3 stars

Forensic Files: Fatal Fungus *Mold takes hold in the ghetto.* 2 1/2 stars

Gargoyles: Reawakening *Castle and community.* close to 3 stars

Hill Street Blues: Gatorbait *Passive aggressive "Prelude to oblivion."* between 2 1/2 and 3 stars

Robocop the series: Trouble In Delta City *Strange side effects. Tame violence and hokey characters are just fine when the satire is funny and biting.* close to 3 stars

The Gong Show with Dave Attell: Season 1 episode 5 *This show is so far removed from the spirit of the original Gong Show that it reminds one of a skanky Hard Rock Cafe amateur talent night. Adam Sandler's production company "Happy Madison" is in charge of the show, so that says something about the quality and the reason why this episode featured two unworthy, obnoxious female friends of his who were also "actresses" in one of his terrible movies (Something something Zohan).* 1 1/2 stars

Everything Is Terrible -----------------

*Family Easter Hell!: "Because he lives, we can face tomorrow. Now, here's an egg." A decorated egg.* 3 stars

*Christ Or Die: Too busy to hear about salvation? Think it's nonsense? Boom, comically horrible death without redemption.* 3 stars

*Jesus Has A Big Dick!: #BOING!# "That's right!" Gitty up, little doggie.* 3 stars

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VH1 Classic --- Pop Up Video --- Episode 3

*Meredith Brooks - "Bitch": A female dog was the first earth creature to orbit in outerspace.* 3 stars with pop ups 2 1/2 stars without pop ups

*Gin Blossoms - "Allison Road": According the the U.S. Census Bureau, you are watching television right now.* 3 plus stars with pop ups 3 stars without pop ups

*Madonna - "Take A Bow": Madonna wanted to get knocked up by Dennis Rodman. True fact. And true that she is as pretentious as this gorgeous 90s artsy music video.* 3 plus stars with pop ups 3 stars without pop ups

*Milli Vanilli - "Girl You Know It's True": The only thing true about Milli Vanilli was they were both lip syncing.* 3 plus stars with pop ups 3 stars (guilty pleasure) without pop ups

*Bobby McFerrin - "Don't Worry, Be Happy": "Happiness is a psychiatric disorder."* 3 plus stars with pop ups 3 stars without pop ups

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Look Around You: Sulphur *"9 hundred billion, billion, billion, billion matches."* 3 stars

Twitch City: People Who Fight Too Much *"Alleged spontaneous nature of..." dynamics.* 3 stars

Crossballs, the debate show: Voting, Electile Dysfunction *Don't "Rock the Vote!" More people coupon than vote. Voting should be fun like the lottery or the Pepsi Challenge.* 3 stars

The Ben Stiller Show: season 1 episode 13 *"Doomed souls wander the earth, unfit for either Heaven or Hell." Special guest Howie Mandell, and a Jeffersons reunion.* between 2 1/2 and 3 stars

"Bad Dudes Versus Dragon Ninja" (A Data East arcade game) *In 2015, Islamic terrorists are beheading innocents, Hillary is once again running for the highest office in the land, and a moron lands a gyrocopter on the lawn of the capitol building. In the 1980s, we had a president named "Ronnie" and he was kidnapped by ninjas.* close to 3 stars

"Shaq Fu" (*Brought to us by PEPSI and ego*) *Shaq wanders into an Oriental antiques shop, the kind that would sell a Mogwai to a stupid Westerner. The little old man sends him to retrieve a golden child from an ancient realm where Shaq ventures across what looks like the map from Super Mario World for the SNES and there he beats up voodoo women, cat women, and stereotype Universal style monsters.* 2 stars

Hippies: Disgusting Hippies *Young punks think Simon Pegg's hippie newsletter editor character is a cunt.* 3 stars

Weird Science: Killer Party *"Did you just turn my parents into teenage party animals!?!"* 3 stars

The Greatest American Hero: Reseda Rose *First off, it's crummy being an 80s kid with a flakey parent who won't spend her weekend with a kid at the zoo, 'cause she's too busy with her acting in commercials career. Then The Greatest American Hero breaks Superman's privacy rule by using his x-ray vision powers to peak through walls at a cocktail waitress hogtied by Russian undercover spies.* close to 3 stars

The Gong Show with Dave Attell: Season 1 Episode 6 *More b list celebrities flirting with Las Vegas "rawker" looking skanks and trying way too hard to be edgy talent/comedy routines.* between 1 1/2 and 2 stars

Bob and Margaret: The Dental Convention *Oral hypnotism. Bob's "matter of fact" attitude charms the masses and puts off his smarmy, new age dental clinic dental school classmate at a dental convention in Frankfurt, Germany.* close to 3 stars

Flinch (Vertigo - DC Comics) ------

*Mostly White: Women lose their small child during the insipid panic surrounding a big department store's Christmas rush. Reminds one of a more bleak Storm of the Century by Stephen King.* close to 3 stars

*The Harvester: Surgery of harvesting a deadbeat's organs goes through, even with the moral dilemma of the supposed braindead deadbeat not being dead.* 2 1/2 stars

*Sitter!: A neurotic slacker gets stuck babysitting his thug friend's wrapped in plastic dead stripper girlfriend's body that he shows up at his apartment with.* between 2 1/2 and 3 stars

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--- The Ben Stiller Show: Unaired Sketches

*An absurd and kooky wrestling characters battle royale. Ben dresses up like a deformed Ron Perlman and along with Bob Odenkirk and Andy Dick predicts the sad, pathetic lives of what would become "furries" in a mascot competition.

'Hard Edition,' a Hard Copy tabloid tv show parody keeps catching a horny, teenage Andy Dick whacking off to nudey magazines.

Three's Company era Don Knotts portrayed by Andy Dick joins a spandex wearing and lasso swinging Ben Stiller infomercial workout expert and his dominatrix.

Bob Odenkirk is a creepy, conspiracy theorist sitting on a bench in a park rambling about cancer, Dick Clark, Elvis, adult diaper cartels, tainted peanut butter assassinations.*

(I can see why some of these didn't make the cut, but still funny.)

3 stars

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Crossballs, the debate show: Sex Battle USA *A flamboyant pansexual Matt Besser character gets bitchy with a conservative reverend who believes the sexes should act their sex. A feminist has to explain the 1964 Civil Rights act allowed for women's rights not to be sexually exploited in the workplace. Ha. A business consultant thinks that the WNBA should dress their ladies like the Lingerie Football League so that they'll stop be unsuccessful in the ratings and attendance. A crazy inventor presents a robot vagina for the workplace.* close to 3 stars

Battletoads in Battlemaniacs (SNES) *So we've got an evil sorceress Latoya Jackson look-a-like, a turkey behind a computer terminal, and a jacked up toad zipping its way through hordes of pig-beasts wearing amateur wrestling singlets and viking helmets, raccoons with magnets, moles on checker board pieces all through fast flying obstacles and platform puzzle levels, like one where the toad has to hang on for a ride on the back of two tropical snakes through the holes of their tunnel nest. A rare gem alongside Donkey Kong Country and Rayman.* close to 3 stars

Death Rattle #18 (Kitchen Sink Comix) -------

*Bulto the Cow Camp, Thirty Years Later....: Historical and allegorical tales of ancient deposits of precious minerals sought by 19th century men of manifest destiny with gold and silver twinkling in their beady eyes.* 3 stars

*The Old Wisconsin That I Knew: Musings of an early 20th century bigot thinking back on when he and the white man could exploit and show unpunished cruelty to the red man out in the frontier of Wisconsin. Thanks to nature's natural ways, a cruel fate meets the old bastard in the most bleak and darkly poetic way possible, spilling his guts before his eyes and leaving his bones to be drenched by pounding rains and dried by the menacing sun.* 3 stars

*Small Acts of Revenge: A loner, whose overbearing parents still haunt him from the grave, tries to escape reality into the grotesque world of Tales from the Crypt style comics. That is when he's not being haunted by the gruesome visages of the victims of his wrongfully applied revenge.* close to 3 stars

*When I Grow Up: Kids playing make believe, on a suburban lawn, see a shooting star. A somber girl makes a wish, and strangely they begin aging and acting out the drama of their teenage through adulthood to middle age and death life sorrows.* close to 3 stars

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The Angry Video Game Nerd: Atari Porn *In the early days of videogames, designers were happy just to be able to pixelate  penises, humping, and ejaculating. It was that immature. Take history's tragic a-hole, General Custer, and have him dodging arrows so that he can poke a naked Indian chick tied to a cactus. Have a guy jerking off on top of a building with willing naked bimbos below to catch his falling semen. How bout a topless witch squirting milk to men with their goobers poking out of their pants? Or even a juvenile fantasy of a poorly pixelated naked chick stalking a neighborhood and breaking into houses to hump men in their sleep?* 1 star for the shitty games 3 stars for Nerd enduring the absurdity of it all

Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City (Electronic Arts for Super Nintendo) *When Michael Jordan was the most exciting athlete in the world, he was careful about how he had his image used. He'd play Larry Bird in a ridiculous game of h-o-r-s-e for a Big Mac or Pepsi, and he'd sell overpriced sneakers in an arthouse commercial co-starring and directed by Spike Lee, but you couldn't live out your dreams of being like Mike in basketball videogames like the awesome arcade dunkfest NBA JAM. No. At the time, you could play this game and bounce a basketball around a haunted, flooded, bat infested house / dungeon to platform hop and rescue Michael Jordan's NBA All Star team-mates.* 1 1/2 stars

Look Around You: Music *Don't play the forbidden notes.* 2 1/2 stars

Obscurus Lupa Presents: Pocket Ninja *If you were an 80s or early 90s kid, you were a martial arts spazz. You watched Ninja Turtles, you watched 3 Ninjas (barf), Surf Ninjas (laughs). and you were a threat to kick another kid or adult in the nuts while stupidly attempting karate. This one, Pocket Ninja, is a relic of its time. It's a cheap and direct to video IMDB bottom 100 "movie" featuring poor editing, awful slapstick in place of entertaining chop sockey, bad acting 90s brats, and a lot of taking itself not serious at all while thinking it's funny when it's not.* 2 1/2 stars for Obscurus Lupa's review and 1 star for the movie clips

=== Dead Rising *2006* (All story cutscenes in movie form)

*I'm not here to discuss the sandbox gameplay.

The cutscenes play like any other zombie outbreak flick, and nicely, with the usual mad science government conspiracy gone wrong.

This time with a theme of Americans' insatiable lust for red blooded meat and the abuse of the third world to get it.

Like with their Resident Evil series, Capcom nails the ambiance of a survival horror story with the crawling up on your shoulder sounds and music cues, and the mall setting is a nice homage to Dawn of the Dead.

Expect over the top acting performances from the CGI created stars and voice actors.

But unfortunately like more recent Capcom survival horror games it strays off the path with too big of a narrative scope and not knowing when to stop and what genre to stay in

(zombie wasps, Oriental stereotype psychopath butchers and grocery store managers gone mad, and an ending involving a military jeep battle with a tank commanded by the type of military a-hole like in Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket).

Other than that it fits in nicely with the zombie revival craze of the 2000s.*

2 1/2 stars

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Xenophage, Alien Bloodsport (Story Mode) *A "faces of meth" David Duchovny look-a-like, in a Canadian tuxedo, along with a Gillian Anderson look-a-like, both get abducted by the United Federation of Planets & Hokey Outer Space Martial Arts Tournaments. Nick (Duchovny) is midly disturbed by this. Think Mortal Kombat meets Celebrity Deathmatch levels of uncanny valley faces on the two humans. Of course, these two everyday Joe and Jane pair can hurl energy blasts from the palms of their hands, as requirement by all fighting games. The lizard / insect alien creature designs are at least visually interesting and deserve to belong in a better mid-90s sci fi PC game.* 1 star

River City Ransom (NES) *This game lives up to its name. You pretty much walk along the streets, by a river, in a nice Japanese (posing for American, I guess?) city, getting hit in the back of the head by "student" thugs, with street gang weapons, as you try to rescue your girlfriend from a high ranking crime lord named Slick. Sounds like the plot for many other 80s beat 'em ups / karate movies, and it is. Charming little title with the bite sized NES and cute little Japanese flare, including a bad side of town called "Generic Guy Territory" or something along those lines. And don't worry about the enemies, because our hero has a superfast kick attack that would make Street Fighter's Chun Li's loins quiver.* 2 1/2 stars

"No Exit" (Amiga) *A 2D fighter that looks like it pre-dates both Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. More like Mortal Kombat, though, and a possible influence (?) on the series. It contains small character sprites but they can perform special moves like turning into killer fish and screaming banshee faces. There's even a hilarious finishing move sequence where the loser walks around headless, with the head floating just there, before they collapse into a  pool of blood and electric sparks. The backgrounds are dark and gothic with demonic statues and menacing trees with faces, again like Mortal Kombat. Also there's an intro screen / possible box art with a regular Joe street fighting man set against a dark and gritty cityscape with the 'Satanic-goat-horned' image of what must be the main villain against the background, and that's just pure exploitation goodness for ya.* 2 1/2 stars

Everything Is Terrible: 2 Minute Super Soul Brother *"Doing it" in the name of science (?), money (?), bulletproof skin, mad science midgets, and big tittied blonde women.* 3 stars

Mortal Kombat: Defenders of Stupidity *Kombat krazy white chick special operative in gymnastics attire, untrustorthy ninjas of all kinds of variety, bumbling super computer wizard Native American stereotypes, and a black dude with bionic arms who calls a Thunder God the unflattering insult name of "girlfriend."* 3 stars

Eternal Champions (Sega Genesis) *A 1920s gangster, who knows kung fu, is teleported to a mystical martial arts tournament after his death. Fight against trident wielding mer-men, prehistoric brutes, neo ninja chicks, and cyborg dudes in a colorful Street Fighter 2 clone.* between 2 and 2 1/2 stars

Red Letter Media presents Best of the Worst ---------

*Ghetto Blaster: An urban warfare expert returns to his home city and finds it full of crime. After the convenience store robbery death of his dad and the brutal burning to death of his old black man friend (and his alley cat), the guy decides to take action. Pulling off mildly harmful clown pranks on the goofy acting gang bullies around town.* either 1 star or 2 stars

*Terror In Beverly Hills: "Terrorists have kidnapped the President's daughter and are holding her hostage in the old bean factory." (PfffHAA!) Cue keyboard cat-lady and Frank (totally not Sylvester) Stallone.* either 1 star or between 2 and 2 1/2 stars

*Killing American Style: Elephant Man look-a-like Robert Zadar and his gang of escaped convicts and sex perverts pull off a violent / half assed home invasion "thriller" at the home of a Rico Suave look-a-like and Steven Segal martial arts expert.* either zero stars (uncomfortable family murder / rape), 1 star, or 2 stars

Red Letter Media agrees that Terror In Beverly Hills is Best of the Worst

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Natsume and Milton Bradley present "Abadox" *Imagine Metroid for the NES, only with monsters ripped from the minds of H.R. Giger and Clive Barker.* 3 stars

"Guardians of the Hood" (Atari Arcade) 1992 *Some Jersey Shore rejects battle their way through a poorly digitized bad side of town filled with hookers and gangbangers and flashing perverts. Cheered on by a haggard looking gym owner similar to Mickey from Rocky. And unconvincingly menaced by a lipstick wearing model in "guy drag." In a tacky twist ending (to go along with the tacky rest of the game), the "Big Boss" (the model) takes off her old school gangster disguise and has a final fight with our steroid muscled and orange tan heroes while she wears dominatrix attire.* 1star

Everything Is Terrible: 3 Minute Bulletproof *Gary Busey invents and overuses the catchphrase "butthorn." Whatever that means.* 3 stars

"Kakuto Chojin" (X-BOX) *In the early 2000s, industrial techno noise & nu-metal guitar riffs were a grating chorus to America's bleeding eardrums, and the same "xtremez" who enjoyed this were likely to take Fight Club literally. This game represents the kind of turn of Y2K, gritty, urban fist to face revivals supposedly going on in back alleys and parking garages across cities nationwide. Gritty, but pretty in the same way Ninja Gaiden could be on the X-Box hardware. And featuring a nice presentation effect of having the camera do a 360 degree slow motion pan around each KO. The most memorable thing about the game is the controversy around one character's Muslim extremist dialogue in the game. This lead to it being pretty much dead on arrival in the American videogame climate of the early days after 9/11.* between 2 and 2 1/2 stars

"JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" (Dreamcast) *Over the top manga presentation style with characters drawn in the same way mannequins' faces are both appealing and appalling. Each fighter fights alongside a spirit / avatar being / creature. It's like the Monty Python cartoon, but creepier, cousin to all the other highly animated 2D Japanese fighting games of the 90s. Funniest moment, that I witnessed, being when a steam-roller gets dropped on a pug sized dog character and the opponent begins pounding the steam-roller, with his fists, as the dog whimpers beneath.* 2 1/2 stars

"Dark Edge" Sega 1992 (Arcade) *Set in a sprite art pixelated and nifty cyberpunk dystopia. Battle it out as leather clad ninja chicks on hoverboards, mech dudes with missiles and flying torpedo dive attacks, biological monsters, another guy in a monkey-fighting-style inspired mech suit, and a final boss that's a techno ghoul nightmare like out of Frank Miller's Ronin. Fighters can move around each other giving the illusion of early 3D gameplay, and featuring the upbeat style of 90s Japanese video game music and bad "Engrish" phrases like "Wound One" instead of round one.* close to 2 1/2 stars

"Strider" Capcom (Arcade) *"All sons of old gods die!" Pretty dramatic, eh? Well, if Emperor Palpatine made a deal with space pirates, Amazon women, and robotic commies you wouldn't need no Jedi, Wonder Woman, Captain America, or Flash Gordon to save the day. Just take one arcade token and about 15 minutes and let a wall climbing ninja do what the galactic rebels couldn't do in a trilogy of movies.* close to 3 stars

Everything Is Terrible: 3 Minute Netforce *'So dated that it's funny' fearmongering about the dangers of global e-terror during the early days of the internet.* 3 stars

---- Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 (Nintendo 64)

*The world of pro wrestling is a niche part of entertainment culture.

Fans watch it for a variety of reasons:

kids who enjoy the heroic action, adults (who never grew up) for a more nostalgic reason, fandom fans who admire the celebrity surrounding the hunky dudes and buxom babes of the sport (er... sports-entertainment), and the internet wrestling community who dissect the current product and the past eras of the product and consider it an artform with varying degrees of level of quality of product and performance.

Well, you can't get more niche than a Japanese version of pro wrestling and a pro wrestling game that was made in the late 90s.

The popular AKI "No Mercy" wrestling engine featuring a legendary wrestler and anime character "Tiger Mask Number 2" and portrayed by a legendary Japanese wrestler (Misawa) who tragically died while performing his "art."

In this game, it's made weirder by the fact the game features a crowd of cardboard cut out Japanese wrestling fans.

Yeah, pro wrestling is niche, and weird, but it's fun, just like this wrestling game featuring great action and a great game engine that's had a lasting appeal of fun gameplay to play or watch for close to two decades.*

3 stars

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"Buriki One" (SNK) 1999 *Remember that scene in the movie "Lost In Translation" where Bill Murray couldn't get the tone right for his Japanese whiskey commercial? That's sort of what this game is like and that weird period of time when combat sports mayhem was trying to figure out just how to go about what would eventually become mixed martial arts like the UFC. Different styles of throwdown meet here, on the mat, including everything from karate to pro wrestling to low impact elderly ancient Chinese exercise technique (jk). It's interesting, but it works about as well and is almost as boring as the first time these different styles of sport met when boxing clashed with karate in the infamous Ali versus Inoki fight where one challenger, afraid of the other's fists, chose to lie on the ring floor and kick at the other like a scared rabbit.* either 1/2 a star or close to 2 1/2 stars

"3 Count Bout" (SNK) *Superficial and on the surface is a stigma when it comes to video game graphics. As soon as developers could make 3D and fans could get their hands on it, we entered into a trying time. Blocky and often ugly characters replaced sprite animation because it was the new thing. Dreary attempts at 3D environments were as fun to look at as getting about an inch away from a dirty, grey concrete wall and cracking your skull against it. Things have improved from those early days of 3D graphic experimentation, but at the time, I would have rathered stuck with something like this game. An early 1990s arcade button smasher featuring colorful kabuki ninjas throwing big bad Mad Max movie inspired bruisers around & into electrified deathtraps in a cheesy, and dated, --beat'em up-- 'eye candy' grappler.* between 2 1/2 and 3 stars

---- "Real Bout Fatal Fury Special" --Level 7 Ultra Hard-- (SNK Arcade)

*Playing as a Jacki Chan inspired Hong Kong super-cop wielding a set of nunchaku through a series of scantly clad karate babes, little old sensei who morphs into huge muscle bound badass, and dance fighting dudes from the Caribbean.

Finally beating the purple haired Euro-dictator-themed final boss, one would think that an arcade battler would be done munching one's quarters.

But think again. During the celebrating credits, the music changes to a wind instrumental samurai movie sounding theme and one is transported through a  series of sliding open doors featuring beautiful classic Japanese artwork of feudal warriors.

It stops at a martial arts badass with his back turned towards the camera and standing amidst huge samurai warrior oni statues in a menacingly eerie flame lit dojo.

It's secret final boss, by the name of Geese Howard, who looks like a handsome American corp executive or presidential candidate and is ripped with muscles and decked out in kung fu threads.

The screen reads the bold words "Nightmare," as he precedes to backfist you in the mush and charge up monster truck tire sized energy blasts to pummel and embarass you with and make you feel like a loser, even though you beat the game.

It's cheap, you feel like a klutz, but it's pure unadulterated martial arts tournament cliche movie/game exploitation goodness to the last clud to the floor in agonizing defeat.*

3 stars

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"Ninja Master's" (SNK/ADK) 1996 *From an artistic eye viewpoint, feudal Japan was one moody place. In this setting, one might witness a lone swordsman standing in a rainstorm with a flash of lightning to reveal ninja assassins creeping up on him, or a samurai sword clash in front of a desolate and overgrown farm overran by crows, then maybe another bloody encounter on a lone pier watched over by a willow tree above other trees in the newly flooded river with mountains in the distance, an honorable duel to the death might come in a cave filled with bats, and moonlit temples often played host to battles with evil samurai overlords like the dreaded Nobunaga and his sentient, burning blade.* between 2 1/2 and 3 stars

"Weaponlord" (Namco for the SNES) *Long before Namco mastered weapon based combat games with the Soul Calibur series, they jumped in on the Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat 2D fighter action. What it boils down to is stone aged brutes bashing other stone aged brutes, Viking women, and demonic brutes in the skull with swords, axes, and huge rocks tied to huge clubs with leather. Featuring  an artistic style similar to a Frank Frazetta drawing -thanks to comic arist Simon Bisley who is famous for his dark fantasy artwork in Judge Dredd & Lobo. Eyecandy for fans of 1980s heavy metal album covers, sword and sorcery flicks of the same era, and readers of Conan the Barbarian pulps and comics.* between 2 1/2 and 3 stars

---"Sexy fights and brutal deaths in" **The Black Heart** (indie) *An indie (Mugen, a form of online fighting game mashup creator and sharing service) 2D fighting game with over the top super moves similar to Marvel vs. Capcom. However, darker than Capcom's own horror based fighter Darkstalkers. Inspired by the more bloody Silent Hill, Hellraiser, and the Japanese ghost genre of The Ring. It does feature a few comical characters like a twig man who smokes pot and wears a green suit like another silly horror villain in Warwick Davis's Leprechaun. Also there's a sexy "fan service" spider-lady who looks like something out of a Tim Burton stop motion movie.* 2 1/2 stars

"Abobo's Big Adventure" (New Grounds & I-Mockery) *The alternate history imagined tale of a random baddie from the arcade and NES classic "Double Dragon." The bald, mean faced, and lovingly dumb, newly protagonist murders his way through tons of classic NES game characters. It's a tribute / parody with a very morbidly entertaining sense of humor.* 3 stars

"Martial Masters" 2001 *Playing like a brightly colored cousin to Capcom or SNK fighters, but featuring a setting and cast from China of old. Gorgeously pastoral with scenes of old men sweeping the floors of temples as cranes pose gently near about, a monkey boy and his actual monkey friends dancing around, and children sitting in a meadow playing with and feeding a panda that's rolling to and fro for their amusement, along with the typical market scenes of the genre. For fans, like myself, of Shaw Brothers kung fu movies and modern fare like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.* close to 3 stars

Everything is Terrible: 3 Minute Unborn 2 *Overly dramatic bad horror movie about a killer baby that's such a horrible looking prop that it's even harder to take seriously than it already would be. Ends with mom having had enough and elbowing monster baby in the face, several hard times, before blowing herself and junior (and even more unbelievably the house) up with the old homemade explosive device in the microwave trick.* either 1 star or 3 stars

Dave's Nostalgia Trip: "Big Bang Pro Wrestling" (SNK) Neo Geo Pocket Color --2000-- *For a handheld wrestling game this has a nice presentation. The crowd is lively, the tunes have a headbobbing gentleness that's not so grating, and the action packs a bang (even if the game is bite sized). Any pro wrestling game where you can pull off a top rope moonsault has an instant fun factor.* close to 3 stars

Weird Science: Sex Ed *"You don't understand the meaning of the words funky cold medina, shoop a doop, zoom uh zoom zoom in the boom boom."* 2 1/2 stars

Manimal: High Stakes *Wild horses couldn't chase as much tail as Manimal.* either 1 star or close to 3 stars

Ed the Happy Clown: Issue 6 of 9 (Drawn & Quarterly Publications) *A micro-dimension has been discovered when the tiny head of another dimension's Earth's president Ronald Reagan appears as the penis head of a loser named Ed. Tiny pygmie savages, of the city, want to worship it as a penis god. And a tv show/government agency of science wants to investigate this other dimension, but they turn against the whole idea, rather violently, when they discover the only way to again contact this other dimension is to put the other dimension's Ron Reagan into a dimensional gateway that also happens to be the anus of a dead man. It's not the necrophillia that they have a problem with, it's the homosexuality.* 3 stars

"Burn: Cycle" (Phillips Compact Disc Interactive) --1994-- *"Sol Cutter has something on his mind... ...in two hours it's going to explode!" You kind of know what to expect from a dated full motion videogame when you hear something like that as a tag line. This one has all the cliches of the cyberpunk 90s genre: cityscape right out of BladeRunner only with poor 90s cgi, flying cars, high tech espionage plot, sinister new-age cult, cyber addiction, hipster nite club with neo-jazz music, and a main character who narrates his broken down in the gutter life like a noir tragic figure. It's like Johnny Mneumonic (sp?) with an "Everybody betray me!" Tommy Wiseau level of bad acting, yet dull.* between 1 1/2 and 2 stars

Super Star Wars --SNES-- (Lucas Arts) *Storywise, it's the even more juvenile imagined parts of Episode 4 turned into a run and gun sidescroller. But in reality, it's set in a galaxy far, far away. A very long time ago before the edited special editions and prequels killed most of the magic of the series. And before Disney dug up the holy corpse to cash in on it. It's Luke blasting first and asking questions never, pulling an Annie Starkiller and wasting countless lives of Jawas, Sandpeople, and Stormtroopers. He hadn't really got a handle on the whole more peaceful side of the force yet. You can get Chewbacca (for a more whimsical approach) or Han (for a more morally ambiguous path). Still, it feels rather repetitive and very Duke Nuke'em instead of Jedi Knight or loveable space rascals.* 2 stars

"Mace: The Dark Age" (N64) *Some would say this 3D brawler wants badly to be either Killer Instinct or Mortal Kombat. Especially with a voice announcer who demands "Execution!" after the final round. But you can't totally dislike a game that puts a dwarf in a steampunk powered war-mech built out of ale barrels and carrying a Thor hammer and spiked mace as weapons.* close to 2 1/2 stars

The Gong Show with Dave Attell: Season 1 Episode 7 *It all feels a little too rehearsed. Everyone of the contestants has an edgy or alt-2000s carnival act. Where are the true weirdos and not these phonies?* 2 stars

Spicy City: Tears of a Clone *One in a million girl with a one in a million genetic code. But not anymore, and hardly worth the trouble. Still, you kind of feel for her.* 3 stars

From Dusk Till Dawn, the series: Self Contained *Owed a soul and a crossing over.* close to 3 stars

Farscape: Family Ties *A cross between the lunar landing and Return of the Jedi, only more bleak.* 3 stars

Attack On Titan: Episode 1 *Taking the tired concept of refuge from a horde of cannibalistic humanoids (zombies) and turning it on its head. This time instead of thousands of zombies clawing outside a wall or a building, it's giant, mindless humanoid cannibals clawing outside a giant wall. The people inside are shaken from their sense of comfort when one is big enough to bring even the huge walls down for the first time in a 100 years or something. Made even more entertaining by the grandiose over the top anime style acting and voice performances. Also, this show reminds me of SouthPark, for some reason (maybe the kids?), and that's definitely a good thing.* 3 stars

Everything Is Terrible: 3 Minute Death Drug *Angel Dust makes Miami Vice's Phil Michael Thomas go crazy and destroy a supermarket.* either 1 star or 3 stars

"Nasty Hero" circa 1980s or officially 1987 via 'The Private Movie Company Inc.' (ooh fancy) *A real Neandertal is released from the slammer after being framed for a crime he didn't commit. Now he's out for ridiculous action movie revenge. He always wears a dirty wife beater or mechanic's shirt (hence the name Nasty Hero, I guess). He'll have to take down the blackmarket sports car ring of obnoxious yuppies out to make his life a living hell. The main douchebag is even after his old flame Yolanda (*snickers*). Set in the "So 80s it hurts!" time period in the thousand flushes blue toilet bowl of America that is known as Florida. And featuring a ton of bad movie cliches and homo-erotic moments. Still, the cheese and action goes down easy.* close to 2 1/2 stars

Heart She Holler: Fear Is Dog Spelled Bassackwards *Perversion of the conversion. Regular folk, n-word, chicken dinner.* 2 1/2 stars

Kung Fu, the series: The Soul is the Warrior *A rose grows beyond the wall.* 3 stars

--- "Daraku Tenshi, The Fallen Angels" (Psikyo) 1998

*Usually fighting games don't have a uniting theme when it comes to stages.

If they can animate it, then they'll fight anywhere from the jungle to outerspace.

Even if it doesn't make any sense.

Here is not the case. The setting being a decade after a major cataclysm leaves a west coast city, with an obvious Asian influence, in the climate of a cesspool and never recovering from the disaster.

It makes sense then that a dirty karate master, who is followed around by flies, would fight in a dingy back alley near the trash dumpsters in which he'd fight cats for his supper.

Or a somber, rainy graveyard which would be filled with victims of the earthquake.

The criminal element, like crazed kung fu dudes in leather jackets and hired gunmen, would go for the little bit of human blood left in encounters in dingy bars that are in disrepair and haven't seen a patron in years.

Fat, mutated freaks would fly into fight in tire filled junkyards with the rubble of the never cleaned away destroyed city as the backdrop skyline.

It really has a beautiful art style.*

3 stars

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"Mortal Kombat versus DC Universe" (Warner Bros.) --2008-- *Most modern videogames play like movies, but they often find a hard time defining whatever generic protagonist is the lead. The lead usually designed by committee to fit the bland tastes of a mass audience. Fighting games and superhero comics don't have the problem of generic characters. They're usually bold. This game plays like a movie and has an ensemble of really bold characters. But these two "universes" don't mesh together out of a "Gee, what if?" concept put down on paper. I applaud the cinematic effort, which the MK team would improve on somewhat in the sequel/reboot (Mortal Kombat 2011). Still here, it's awkward and filled with unintentionally funny moments and dialogue (a lot of it laughed at by The Joker who almost seems in on how ridiculous it all is). either 1 star or close to 2 1/2 stars

---- "Samurai Showdown" II thru V-Special (SNK)

*In my early teens, during the 90s, I was an Mortal Kombat fan.

I wish I would have had better taste. The gore and juvenile humor and dark fantasy appealed to my angst ridden desires.

At my local arcade, no one crowded around the Street Fighter machine. Even the Marvel versus Capcom series didn't appeal to me, though a few years earlier, I was a big fan of the X-Men cartoon.

Nope, me and the neighborhood kids craved blood, guts, farts, glimpses of titties, gangster rap, Beavis & Butthead, Summer blockbuster movies, alt-rawk.

In my early 20s, I started appreciating Samurai movies on cable, and in my later 20s, I began reading Lone Wolf & Cub samurai manga.

During the 16 bit 2-D fighting game craze, I wish I had been sopisticated enough to have taken notice to this highly artistic, and yet still bloody and fun, take on Samurai and a fighting game.

It does a lot of what made Mortal Kombat appealing to my teen tastes, but with a master stroke that has the lasting effect of standing the test of time as true art and not mindless "junkfood" fun that really has more of a nostalgia appreciation value (like Mortal Kombat).

3 stars

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--- Jason Vorhees special guest character in "Mortal Kombat X" --2015--

*My generation had a lot of movie boogeyman.

They were so much in our young, collective conscious that they were almost urban legends seemingly lurking in the woods at the end of the street.

Kids, today, could care less. When, the internet "nerd culture" began reporting on this horror icon coming to a fighting videogame, the comments sections below the articles read something like this, "Laaame, LOL, who'z this f@g, no one wants thhis hockey face lozer INOURGAME!!!!"

To that I say, this guy invented "fatalities," kid.

He was figuring out ways to dismember long before there was even a Mortal Kombat or the outrage of a fatality in a videogame.

More than that, you were probably not even alive or were in diapers when Mortal Kombat was originally popular.

Jason even had a videogame that was terrible, but still gave my generation, including me, nightmares.

I remember, to get nostalgic again, the first time I saw it. It was at my weird next door neighbors.

The dad had an artificial leg and beat his kids and made them go to bed before dark.

But for some reason he was nice to any kid not his. Even weirder he had an NES that seemed to be more his than his kids.

He showed me, and another neighbor kid (not his), the Friday the 13th NES game, and seeing a hockey mask wearing purple-boogeyman stalk victims in 8-bit had me eyeing the door to escape not just the creepy one-legged neighbor but this pixelated killer.

Cheers to Jason's return to videogames and to the collective conscious of dumb, videogame playing youth everywhere.

Even if they don't appreciate it.*

2 1/2 stars

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"Tattoo Assassins" (Data East) 1995 *This "game" strived for infamy, and fell into obscurity, never being released. Out of shame, I'm sure. Surprisingly, Back to the Future screenwriter Bob Gale came up with some ideas for it. It almost shows in a tongue in cheek way. It all seems like a big joke parodying the 90's over the top media in the same way almost that Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers did. Except this is more Looney Tunes than anything with racial stereotypes and absurdity out the wazoo. With characters based off the likes of tabloid trash like Tonya Harding and boasting to have thousands of supermoves like turning an opponent into a famous painting, farting random objects from one's anus, and comic nudity. There's also some nonsense about magical tattoos that thought tattoos wouldn't be tacky enough so they're the cause of the supermoves and are animated like they were created using Microsoft paint by a special needs person. Also, the game's mascot is a sad-faced eastern looking religious figure in an adult diaper.* 1 star (so bad it's almost good)

=== Wrestling Society X (MTV)

*For a brief moment, in the 90s, pro-wrestling was "edgy."

As absurd as that sounds. "The Rock" & "Stone Cold" were household names, much to the disappontment of concerned parents groups and tabloid hysteria news.

Pro-wrestling's punk rock moment all seems ridiculous now in retrospect.

The WWE went back to a family friendly product in order to sell t-shirts and toys.

So, who was to satisfy the wrestling dreams of backyard idiots who were jumping off of grandma's house onto a pillow filled with rocks?

MTV stepped in with its timeless formula of stupidity for the youth.

They aired, again briefly, an "underground" wrestling tv show filled with constant explosions, constant loud music, and constant shouting....

Goth kids, pregnant teens, musclehead niteclub douches, rednecks amped up on Mountain Dew, and wiggers across America, in the mid-2000s, rejoiced...

well, maybe not rejoiced.

More like they barely took notice with all their attention disorders, or skateboard trick injury videos taking place, and myspace photo sessions in the bathroom mirror.*

zero stars

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"Bad Street Brawler" -NES- (Mattel Inc. & Beam Software) --1989-- *"Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you!" Trouble, I guess, means a metrosexual "badass" with a yellow flat-top hairdo, black sunglasses with the yellow city lights  reflecting in them, a yellow tanktop, wearing only yellow underwear (no pants), and cute knee high yellow boots. Hello Yellow! Most of his attacks look like danceclub moves and he spends a lot of time fondling enemies and dogs.* either 1 star or close to 2 1/2 stars

"Dead Man Calling" --Junji Ito-- (Manga) *The ghoulish projection of a death row inmate haunts the family of his victims. Seeking forgiveness. A nightmarish meditation on grief and revenge.* close to 3 stars

Forensic Files: The Blood Trail *A failing farmer, in the quiet English countryside, stages a bizarre seies of crimes, around his property, including blowing up his wife in a homemade carbombing, putting a severed sheep's head and threatening note on his own fence, and poorly attempting to make it look like his "deranged" neighbor visited one evening and tried to kill him with a boxcutter, forcing him to shoot the neighbor in "self defense" with a shotgun.* 2 1/2 stars

Freddy's Nightmare: Freddy Something ----------------

*A jobless yuppie, with an extreme fear of the dark, goes nuts working in the sewers for the eccentric old guy from Gremlins.* 2 1/2 stars

*A lowlife owner, of a 1980s videostore, gets "Scrooged" by a self-help Billy Ocean wannabe that the lowlife ripped off in his typical jerk fashion.* 2 1/2 stars

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Forever Knight: Dance by the Light of the Moon *A black-hearted seductress tries to manipulate our reformed from evil detective, much like she does with every other poor male.* between 2 1/2 and 3 stars

----- Croooow Plays: Way of the Warrior (3DO)

*Video-blogs used to play videogames for a blogger's web audience are called "Let's plays."

Let's get that out of the way.

I personally prefer video reviewers like SpoonyExperiment, AngryVideoGameNerd, ObscurasLupa, and so on.

The reviewers take the time to find something' interesting about the game or movie to actually critique and even write jokes, scenarios, pick out certain clips from what they're reviewing, and put it all into a usually enjoyable package.

"Let's play" bloggers seem to have a level of vanity where they think they can just sit down and roll the camera and do it "on the fly."

It hardly ever works, and is often annoying, frustrating, and dull.

They struggle to play the game and find something interesting to talk about it, other than their ineptitude or frustration, and their random attempts at humor are painfully bad.

One "let's play" celebrity named PewdiePie has hit stardom with his awful brand of yelling unfunny nonsense while playing a game live, unedited garbage and SouthPark took notice satirizing it and him.

It's almost as bad as when during the 90s hack videogame programmers took the cheap digitized graphics craze to its overkill by hiring their handful of what I'm guessing were party friends or the local community theater rejects to be physical "actors" as horribly over the top generic stereotype characters in shitty disc format vidja lames.

Our let's player, Croooow, struggles to "let's play" and also entertain in his "let's play" video.*

zero stars for the game

and 1/2 a star for Croooow

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Forensic Files: Charred Remains *A male stripper cremates a former playboy playmate over a cocaine sharing night gone wrong.* 2 stars (zero for the exploitation of the cremated remains)

American Horror Story - Coven: Protect the Coven *Fried green blood fetishes.* 3 stars minus 1 star for the Twilight romance feel good ending

#killer couples #breaking greenville #crossballs #ben stiller show #look around you #simon pegg hippies #gong show #dave attell #ghost adventures #best of the worst #spicy city #x files #robocop the series #Tattoo Assassins #River City Ransom #Martial Masters #Weapon Lord #Mortal Kombat #Mortal Kombat Defenders of the Realm #No Exit Amiga #Eternal Champions #Natsume #Abadox #Guardians of the Hood #Kakuto Chojin #JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Dreamcast #Dark Edge Sega #Strider Capcom #Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 #Buriki One

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“Spellbound! A Perfect Musical Fairytale” Showcase Production

It’s finally arrived!  After 7 years of long hard work, “Spellbound!” is finally ready to be shared with the world.  Our cast includes Katie Emerson, Harrison Bryan, Annie Watkins, Calli McCrae, James Delisco Beeks, and Tiffany Chalothorn, as well as me!  Music Direction by Zak Sandler, Directed by Matt Cowart and Will Clark.  Performances June 28- 30 @ Open Jar Studios.  Get tickets here.

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I highly recommend this article on Screen Rant by Zak Wojnar:

“Netflix is supposed to be better than the typical Hollywood studio. They proudly proclaim that they aren’t about ratings, they’re more interested in generating discussion. There are lots of bold, innovative programs on the streaming giant which pride themselves on not adhering to the conventional standards of normal TV, such as Sense8, Master of None, and Dear White People, among so many others.

Netflix should be beyond capitulating to societal standards of what is and isn’t mass-marketable. After all, that’s why they embrace a subscription model; to broaden the horizons of their users, not to wedge themselves into the preconceived notions of viewers. If subscribers don’t have to pay for each and every individual program they watch, then they’ll be more inclined to make risky choices and take a chance on something new and different.

Whitewashing is a huge problem, but it’s also a symptom of Hollywood’s obsession with sucking the soul out of a foreign property when they adapt it for American audiences. Whitewashing is offensive towards people of color, that they have their ethnicity taken away before they can become important to the plot, unless they’re one of the lucky few chosen token minorities.

Netflix has the opportunity to court enthusiasts of various niches, uniting all fans of the numerous disparate sub-genres under the Netflix umbrella. It’s worked wonders with their shows set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, their endless supply of stand-up comedy specials, and their wide variety of Netflix original movies. They should keep up the good work, and not try to curry favor with the type of person who doesn’t care what they watch, as long as they can “just put something on.” That type of person already has enough movies to watch on Netflix, and most of them star Adam Sandler.”

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Hasil Piala FA 2018/2019: Man City Gilas Rotherham United 7-0

Liputanviral - Manchester City melangkah mudah ke babak keempat Piala FA 2018/2019. Menjamu Rotherham United, Citizens menang tujuh gol tanpa balas. Pada laga babak ketiga yang dihelat di Etihad Stadium, Minggu (6/1/2019) malam WIB, City tetap memainkan tim terbaiknya meski melakukan tujuh pergantian dari kemenangan atas Liverpool tiga hari lalu. Hal ini membuat Rotherham tak bisa berbuat apa-apa selain melihat gawangnya digelontor tujuh gol bergantian selama dua babak. Gol Raheem Sterling, Phil Foden, dan bunuh diri Semi Ajayi tercipta di babak pertama. Pada babak kedua, City menambah gol lagi lewat Gabriel Jesus, Riyad Mahrez, Nicolas Otamendi, dan Leroy Sane. Jalannya pertandingan Baru dua menit laga berjalan, City sudah dapat kans ketika crossing De Bruyne menemui Gabriel Jesus di depan gawang tapi sayangnya tandukan pemain Brasil itu melayang di atas mistar. City terus menekan dan tak memberikan Rotherham kesempatan mengembankan permainan. Pada menit ke-11, Riyad Mahrez memaksa kiper tim tamu Marek Rodak susah payah menepis sepakannya. Kebuntuan pecah di menit ke-12 ketika kerjasama 1-2 antara Sterling dan De Bruyne mampu membelah pertahanan Rotherham. Sterling yang mendapat bola terakhir dengan dingin menaklukkan Rodan lewat sepakan terukurnya.

Rotherham dapat satu kans untuk bikin gol tak lama setelah kebobolan, tapi sepakan bebas Ajayi melebar dari gawang Ederson Moraes, yang nyaris tanpa gangguan sejak kickoff. City terus menggempur Rotherham untuk menciptakan peluang demi peluang, tapi kekurangtenangan barisan penyerangnya membuat gol tambahan urung tercipta. Publik tuan rumah baru bersorak lagi pada menit ke-43 ketika Foden menerima umpan Ilkay Guendogan di kotak penalti. Sempat salah kontrol, Foden kemudian menuntaskannya jadi gol. City menutup babak pertama dengan keunggulan 3-0 ketika Ajayi menjebol jalanya sendiri saat hendak menghalau umpan tarik Kyle Walker. Masuk di babak kedua, City tetap tancap gas dan baru delapan menit berjalan, gawang Rotherham kembali djiebol. Jesus akhirnya bikin gol setelah melewatkan beberapa peluang. Kali ini Jesus dengan sigap menyontek bola umpan tarik Sterling. Mahrez! Winger asal Aljazair itu ikut mencatatkan namanya di papan skor pada menit ke-73. Lewat kerjasama umpan pendek dengan Guendogan, Mahrez dengan mudah menggulirkan bola melewati sela kaki Rodak. City menggoyak jala Rotherham untuk keenam kalinya ketika korner Guendogan ke tiang jauh tanpa kesulitan disundul Otamendi ke dalam gawang. Pesta gol City tak berhenti di angka enam karena Sane ikut-ikutan bikin gol juga pada menit ke-85. Guendogan membuat assist keempatnya setelah bola sodorannya disepak Sane dan masuk ke gawang, setelah sempat membentur pemain Rotherham. Skor 7-0 jadi penutup laga tersebut. Susunan pemain Man City: Ederson; Kyle Walker, John Stones, Nicolas Otamendi, Oleksandr Zinchenko; Kevin De Bruyne (Philippe Sandler 67'), Ilkay Guendogan, Phil Foden; Riyad Mahrez, Gabriel Jesus, Raheem Sterling (Leroy Sane 57') Rotherham: Marek Rodak; Zak Vyner (Richard Wood 89'), Semi Ajayi, Clark Robertson, Joe Mattock; Jon Taylor (Sean Raggett 74'), Will Vaulks, Ryan Williams (Matthew Palmer 90'), Anthony Forde; Ben Wiles; Michael Smith. Read the full article

#ManchesterCity #PialaFA #PialaFA2018/19 #RotherhamUnited

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ZAK HENRI - JD

Zak began his acting career as Charlie in Amy Sherman-Palladino’s BUNHEADS for ABC. He landed his first feature soon after as teen heartthrob Jake in the Warner Bros. Adam Sandler/Drew Barrymore box office hit BLENDED. Further TV roles include Owen in MTV’s AWKWARD., Henry in DAYS OF OUR LIVES, and guest star appearances in the primetime shows BONES, NOTORIOUS, and DR. KEN. His indie films include TEENAGE COCKTAIL (SXSW), the Keegan-Michael Key comedy TEACHER OF THE YEAR, and THE SPHERE AND THE LABYRINTH with Lesley Ann Warren. The LA native definitely has talent that runs in the family: his mother is Emmy-nominated Brenda Strong of DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES fame. Zak has a blast playing DRAMARAMA’s shrewd and rebellious disruptor JD!

#cast #zak henri #jd #indiefilm #dramarama

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Moderna Inc  (NASDAQ: MRNA) Moderna Vaccine Against COVID-19 Phase 1 Interim Results Publication Conference Call Transcript

Moderna Inc  (NASDAQ: MRNA) Moderna Vaccine Against COVID-19 Phase 1 Interim Results Publication Conference Call Transcript

Moderna Inc  (NASDAQ: MRNA) Moderna Vaccine Against COVID-19 Phase 1 Interim Results Publication Conference Call July 15, 2020

Corporate Participants:

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Analysts:

Matthew Harrison — Morgan Stanley — Analyst

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Broadway musician opens conversations about mental health on campuses using his original musical about his own bipolar

Broadway musician opens conversations about mental health on campuses using his original musical about his own bipolar

Zak Sandler

Broadway pianist and mental health advocate Zak Sandler is inspiring honest conversations about mental health with his original musical, INSIDE MY HEAD.

NEW YORK CITY, NY, USA, February 2, 2020 /EINPresswire.com/ — Broadway pianist and mental health advocate Zak Sandleris inspiring honest, life-affirming conversations about mental health at colleges and high schools around the…

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DOWNLOAD Manchester City vs Rotherham 7-0 – Highlights

Manchester City vs Rotherham 7-0 Highlights Download 06 January 2019 FA Cup

– Man City have been drawn against Rotherham just once before in the FA Cup, prevailing 4-2 in a third-round replay 40 years ago following a goalless draw in the original tie. The last time the sides faced off in any competition was in the second tier of English football in March 2002, playing out a 1-1 draw that day.

Rotherham subs: Joe Newell, Sean Raggett, Matthew Palmer, Lewis Price, Billy Jones, Richard Wood

ROTHERHAM XI (4-4-1-1): Marek Rodak; Zak Vyner, Semi Ajayi, Clark Robertson, Joe Mattock; Jon Taylor, Will Vaulks (c), Ryan Williams, Anthony Forde; Ben Wiles; Michael Smith

Man City subs: Philippe Sandler, Aymeric Laporte, Bernardo Silva, Arijanet Muric, Fernandinho, Leroy Sane, Danilo

MAN CITY XI (4-3-3): Ederson; Kyle Walker, John Stones, Nicolas Otamendi, Oleksandr Zinchenko; Kevin De Bruyne (c), Ilkay Gundogan, Phil Foden; Riyad Mahrez, Gabriel Jesus, Raheem Sterling

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New DVD/Blu Ray Releases for April 24 2018

If you can't find anything to watch on any of the streaming services or TV itself, then take a peek at what is being released on DVD & Blu-Ray for the week of April 24th, 2018.

New Video on Demand, Rental Streaming, and Digital

The Handmaid's Tale Season 2 (Hulu Original) The first two episodes start streaming Wednesday, April 25.

Source: hulu.com  "Fifty Shades Freed" The final film in the "Fifty Shades" trilogy comes home Tuesday, April 24 on digital/Movies Anywhere, and May 8 on Blu-ray/DVD/4K Ultra HD Blu-ray. "Supercon" Out on digital Friday, April 27 and on DVD June 5. Extras include two commentary tracks, with director Zak Knutson and members of production. Week of.. (Netflix Original Movie) Adam Sandler and Chris Rock star in this comedy heading to Netflix this Friday, April 27. "3%" Season 2 (Netflix Original Series) It's like a dystopian cousin to "The Hunger Games," set in a future where the Inland majority live in poverty while those in the Offshore live in virtual paradise.  Season 2, is available April 27. "Bobby Kennedy for President" (Netflix Original Documentary Series) Available April 27 -- looks at Bobby Kennedy's ill-fated, and very brief, run for president in 1968. "Candy Jar" (Netflix Film) This comedy, streaming April 27, follows an introverted high school girl (Sami Gayle) from a working-class background who clashes with her wealthy, debate-team nemesis (Jacob Latimore). "But when they're forced to work together to compete in the state championship, they might discover opposites can attract."

New on DVD and Blu-ray

"Paddington 2" The family film arrives on DVD and Blu-ray April 24, both the DVD and Blu-ray include the featurette "Paddington: The Bear Truth"; the Blu-ray also has several more cute featurettes, plus audio commentary by director/co-writer Paul King.

Source: IMDB.com "Maze Runner:  The Death Cure" The final installment in the "Maze Runner" series arrives on disc this Tuesday, April 24. Fans who buy the movie on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray or DVD get a 24-page prequel origins comic book written by screenwriter T.S. Nowlin. The trilogy boxset is also releasing April 24 on Blu-ray/DVD and includes the three films in the series and the exclusive comic book. The Blu-ray trilogy will include an exclusive "Maze Runner" bandana chosen by fans. "The Death Cure" discs all feature audio commentary, with the Blu-ray and digital releases, also including a gag reel, deleted and extended scenes and four behind-the-scenes featurettes. "Den of Thieves" Blu-ray and DVD April 24. A director's cut is available alongside the theatrical cut, adding nine minutes to the feature. Extras include an alternate ending, commentary with director Christian Gudegast and producer Tucker Toole, outtakes and deleted scenes, and several behind-the-scenes featurettes. What are you looking forward to seeing?  Let us know in the comments. Read the full article

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