The much-hyped and highly overrated North By Northwest Music and Media Conference blew into Portland this weekend. It wore out its welcome like a distant relative.
Re-released to video are episodes of the classic Incredible Hulk and Spiderman live-action TV series. These shows are absolutely awesome in their ineptitude.
My musing in this space will mostly be concerned with bands, and the various sub-cultural concerns and other peripheral crap that affects music and vice versa.
The Island of Dr. Moreau is a modernized version of an already twice-told tale of genetic manipulation. Marlon Brando tackles the role with a strange gusto.
If you are interested in Japanimation, this is a good one to get; it is a solid and entertaining piece of work. It is not the very best, but it holds its own.
A real oddity that showcases several stars embarrassing themselves, The Sentinel came out in the ’70s, and churned in the wake of classics as The Exorcist.
Brad Pitt plays a pretty boy in Cutting Class who combats a fellow student bent on stabbing people. The good news is that Brad gets his head shoved in a vise.