Looking for articles, reviews, interviews and discussions of DVD, film, television and popular culture that are a cut above the run-of-the-mill? Look no further than DVDInMyPants.com. We got you covered, baby! http://www.dvdinmypants.com/ en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss BBEdit 8.5 chrishughes@dvdinmypants.com webmaster@dvdinmypants.com How Goddamn stupid are we horror fans? http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/O-V/reeker.php Wed, 26 September 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0140 Forget everything you've ever known about William Shatner. Forget Star Trek. Forget the Has Been and Rocket Man albums. Forget self-deprecation. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/H-N/intruder.php Wed, 26 September 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0139 Ambitious, beautifully-crafted and well-performed by all, the contrivances and forced ironies of Babel ultimately sap it of it's grand intentions. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/babel_two_disc.php Wed, 26 September 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0138 It's hard to talk about televised sketch comedy without instantly bringing up Saturday Night Live and how much it does/doesn't suck. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/O-V/upright_citizens_brigade.php Thu, 20 September 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0137 There was a time not so long ago where Hong Kong films dominated the world market, except for the United States. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/dragon_heat.php Tue, 18 September 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0136 The 1980's really were a different world. It was the decade that I feel saw the most diverse (though not necessarily great) film output. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/flash_dance.php Tue, 18 September 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0135 30 Rock is easily one of the best-written network comedies to come along in recent years. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/O-V/30rock1.php Mon, 17 September 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0134 In the halcyon days of my youth, I used to "get down" quite frequently. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/boys_girls_guide.php Fri, 14 September 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0133 Thanks again to the incredible success of J-Horror and American remakes of J-Horror films,the floodgates of foreign horror films have opened. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/O-V/snake_womans_curse.php Fri, 14 September 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0132 Red Dawn is one of the three greatest films ever made. This is fact. Only Commie pinko scum would deny this simple truth. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/O-V/red_dawn.php Thu, 13 September 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0131 A lot of people have negative things to say about Season 3. Well, I have something to say to them: You're all douchebags. Shut up. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/greys3.php Tue, 11 September 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0130 It used to be that Hong Kong was the biggest Asian market for hardcore action and martial-arts flicks, but Korea has begun, in recent years, to dip it's toe into these financially lucrative genres. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/city_violence.php Mon, 10 September 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0129 Somewhere there is a world that gives a shit about The Little Indie Movie That Could, where sappy, melodramatic bullshit is embraced. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/O-V/our_very_own.php Fri, 7 September 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0128 France isn't exactly well known for their horror output. In fact, aside from a few true classics, not even that much horror exists from the 1960s-1980s. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/blood_rose.php Thu, 6 September 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0127 Funny how the whole "cult" film scene works, huh? http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/dark_backward.php Tue, 4 September 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0126 I've been a "gamer" my whole life. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/O-V/resident_evil.php Mon, 3 September 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0125 Watch a movie based on a beloved comics character, and you're bound to fret over its fidelity to the source. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/doctor_strange.php Fri, 31 August 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0124 Back in 1987, budding cartoonist Ben Edlund created an oddball character named The Tick. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/O-V/tick_season_two.php Thu, 30 August 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0123 I don't watch a considerable amount of TV. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/O-V/ugly_betty1.php Wed, 29 August 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0122 While he's not a name thrown around with much weight in America, the late director Teruo Ishii was quite a prolific and well known director in Japan. http://dvdinmypants.com/reviews/H-N/horrors_of_malformed_men.php Tue, 28 August 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0121 The internet tells me that Flash Gordon is now a cult film. I thought I was one of the few people who liked it! How wrong I was. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/flash_gordon.php Mon, 27 August 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0120 Sonic is arguably one of the most identifiable video game mascots ever. He's right up there with Mario and Pac-Man. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/adventures_sonic.php Fri, 24 August 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0119 Why do marketing people exist? Aren't the best people to decide how a movie is sold, the people that made it? http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/bridge_terabithia.php Thu, 23 August 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0118 KISS. As Paul Stanley once said, "You show a picture of us to anyone in any place in the world and they can tell you what band that is." http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/H-N/kissology_2.php Tue, 21 August 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0117 When Disney TV animation first created it's "Disney Afternoon" lineup in 1990, the concept was that every fall, a new series would be added to the lineup, relegating the oldest series to the syndicated purgatory of the Disney Channel. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/darkwing.php Tue, 21 August 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0116 Before the fall of the Berlin Wall at the end of the decade, the populace of the mid-1980's Germany was under constant surveillance from the secret police, or Stasi. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/H-N/lives_others.php Mon, 20 August 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0115 "Firefly went on the air a few years ago and was instantly hailed by critics as one of the most canceled shows of the year." http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/O-V/serenity.php Mon, 20 August 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0114 Much has been said about Elvis Presley's film career and how notoriously spotty it is. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/charro.php Fri, 17 August 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0113 Here's a scene for you. Try to imagine a movie coming out today that features the following and is NOT a Farrelly Brothers comedy. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/O-V/stay_away.php Fri, 17 August 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0112 One day, you're looking at someone you know intimately, perhaps a family member or close friend, when you sense something ... off about them. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/H-N/invasion_body_snatchers.php Thu, 16 August 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0111 Not often, but every once in a while I get a screener offered to me out of the blue. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/H-N/jimmywork.php Thu, 16 August 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0110 In a plot that shamelessly rips off Rear Window, Disturbia comes across as a film Hitchcock would have made if he had been born about fifty years later, rotted his mind with television and was far more interested in youth-oriented product placement than in generating any authentic tension or dread. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/disturbia.php Wed, 15 August 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0109 26 seasons. Just think about that for a minute. 26 years worth of programming. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/drwho_survival.php Tue, 14 August 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0108 The Pertwee years are hotly debated to this day by Doctor Who fans, and I can understand both sides. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/drwho_robot.php Tue, 14 August 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0107 From time to time, I like to think of myself as a fairly well-adjusted person, but there's just something about seeing a human being tied up and knife-fucked that gets me going. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/O-V/vacancy.php Mon, 13 August 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0106 I've often noticed that there seems to be some kind of theme that Hollywood goes though where two or more films are released close to each other about roughly the same thing. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/H-N/leviathan.php Fri, 10 August 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0105 To be honest, I wasn't expecting much from Master and Commander - The Far Side of the World. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/H-N/master_commander.php Thu, 9 August 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0104 James Cameron's Titanic (1997) has been an object of both adoration and scorn. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/O-V/titanic.php Wed, 8 August 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0103 If the musical genre has become a footnote in cinema history (face it folks, Moulin Rouge! and Chicago did little to revive this)... http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/esther_box.php Tue, 7 August 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0102 You know, at this point anyone writing about Jaws has to ask themselves, "Does this need a review?" http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/H-N/jaws.php Mon, 6 August 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0101 If your epic, multi-season cartoon is going to, well, be an epic, multi-season cartoon, you'd better give me a satisfying finish to the second act. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/avatar_4.php Fri, 3 August 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0100 It's time to play the music. It's time to light the lights. It's time to get things started on the Muppet Show tonight. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/H-N/muppet_show_two.php Thu, 2 August 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0099 Hard Boiled opens with a tight shot of a tumbler being filled with tequila, which is then topped off with a mixer, and covered with a napkin. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/H-N/hard_boiled.php Tue, 31 July 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0098 You might initially think it's a stupid movie, and to some degree you would be right, but while watching the film, the simple fact will grow on you like a fungus until you realize in your mind's eye, "This movie is fucking bonkers." http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/dynamite.php Mon, 30 July 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0097 Nintendo and its world dominating Nintendo Entertainment System console had almost no competition. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/adventures_of_mario.php Fri, 27 July 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0096 It's kind of creepy how much Sienna Miller looks like Edie Sedgwick, the subject of director George Hickenlooper's 2006 bio flick Factory Girl. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/factory_girl.php Thu, 26 July 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0095 Is there any planet in our solar system that has produced more curiosity in the human race than Mars? http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/O-V/roving_mars.php Tue, 24 July 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0094 When it comes to science fiction, I'm pretty much a take it or leave it kind of guy. Most of the time, I tend to leave it. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/O-V/renaissance.php Mon, 23 July 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0093 Few heroic figures have ever been as popular or as enduring as Robin Hood. Almost since the time he allegedly lived, his exploits have been passed down through plays, novels and films. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/O-V/robin_hood.php Thu, 19 July 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0092 Look, I'm just as intrigued as you probably are reading, no, not even reading this review, but glaring at the title and the title alone: Yo-Yo Girl Cop. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/W-Z/yo-yo_girl_cop.php Tue, 17 July 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0091 The children's literature market is, in many ways, the easiest to break into but the toughest to find any longevity in. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/H-N/miss_potter.php Mon, 16 July 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0090 Has any other science fiction television series produced in the past two decades garnered as rabid a cult following as Mystery Science Theater 3000? http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/film_crew_hwood.php Thu, 12 July 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0089 Back in the 1970's, American animation was in a terrible state. Even the once-mighty Disney empire was churning out such pleasant-yet-forgettable fare. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/O-V/secret_nimh.php Mon, 9 July 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0088 It's been something of a disquieting trend over the past several years to see a certain generation of aging 80's action stars resurrecting their most iconic franchise characters. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/H-N/live_free_or_die_hard.php Thu, 5 July 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0087 Following the commercially and critically successful launch of Die Hard 2: Die Harder in 1990, it was inevitable that a third adventure would be contrived for Bruce Willis' working-class cop hero John McClane. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/die_hard_with_vengeance.php Wed, 4 July 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0086 After 1988's Die Hard blew audiences through the back wall of the theater, grossing over $80 million at the box office and earning 4 Oscar nominations, a sequel was a foregone conclusion. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/die_harder.php Tue, 3 July 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0085 It may be difficult to anyone born after 1990 to fully understand just how trend-setting the summer of 1988 release of John McTiernan's crackerjack action flick Die Hard was. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/die_hard.php Mon, 2 July 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0084 I am a fan of a lot of things. I am a "blathering fanboy" about only one. That thing is Ghost Rider. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/ghost_rider.php Thu, 28 June 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0083 Though Peter Davison made his debut as the Doctor in Castrovalva, the adventure was actually the fourth one filmed in 1981. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/drwho_castro.php Tue, 26 June 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0082 Logopolis, Tom Baker's final adventure as the Doctor, marked a major turning point for the series. After seven seasons playing the Doctor, Baker wasn't just the most popular actor to play the roll; he was the only Doctor for an entire generation of young fans. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/drwho_logopolis.php Mon, 25 June 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0081 Shanghai Express (aka Millionaire's Express) is one of those western/comedy/kung-fu concoctions that only Hong Kong seems capable of creating; a slapstick cinematic Cuisinart of Keystone Cops, Rio Bravo, and Drunken Master. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/O-V/shanghai_express.php Fri, 22 June 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0080 1981 was a transitional year for the long running British Science Fiction/Fantasy program Doctor Who. Tom Baker, arguably the series' most popular Doctor, was leaving the series, and producer John Nathan-Turner was finally being given an opportunity to remake the show to his own designs. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/drwho_keeper.php Thu, 21 June 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0079 Throughout the 1980's PBS stations broadcasted quite a few British mystery programs that American audiences would never have seen otherwise. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/good_german.php Mon, 19 June 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0078 The real star here is Soderbergh's meticulous re-creation of the style of the Michael Curtiz movies of the period. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/good_german.php Fri, 15 June 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0077 From time to time, I hear people say "I don't like art"-a statement that strikes me as almost completely meaningless. It's like saying, "I don't like food" or "I don't like sounds." http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/O-V/simon_power.php Thu, 14 June 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0076 Film snobs can not like The Magnificent Seven. The film is, after all, a reworking of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (Film snob protocol dictates that I note this in my second sentence!). http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/H-N/mag_seven.php Wed, 13 June 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0075 I wanna meet the guy (or gal) who asked "I wonder why Hannibal Lecter eats people?" http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/H-N/hannibal_rising.php Tue, 5 June 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0074 Andy Stitzer (Steve Carell) is that bland, anonymous guy you know from pretty much every job you've ever had. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/40_yearold.php Mon, 4 June 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0073 Chilean-born Alejandro Jodorowsky began his career as a mime (working in Paris with Marceau Marceau). From there, he progressed into avant-garde stage productions, and eventually worked his way into writing and directing films. http://www.dvdinmypants.com/reviews/A-G/films_jodorowsky.php Fri, 1 June 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.dvdinmypants.com/feed2Item0072