From a bookish, asthmatic child to crack addict to mainstream recording powerhouse, Coolio charted a path to hip-hop superstardom like no other. — Read on www.nytimes.com/2022/09/28/arts/music/coolio-rapper-dead.html Sad news for music fans. Fans of fine action movies will look up his Wikipedia listing and wonder if they should watch his movie “Submerged” out of respect. They should not. Nil nisi bonum, my dudes.
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Now I’m wide awake and watching the SciFi Channel’s miniseries, ‘Knights of Bloodsteel’ The four-hour, two-part movie tells the tale of Mirabilis, a mythical land chock full of humans, elves and goblins in which the only thing of value, apparently, is a magical metal called bloodsteel. What little remains is controlled by the awful and horrible Dragon Eye (Mark Gibbon), a monster so ridiculously hideous he looks like he was drafted from a later episode of “The Power Rangers.” There is, as luck would have it, a magic crucible that produces vast quantities of bloodsteel. To ensure that Dragon Eye…
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A long time ago, in a far-away land, I used to be a major geek for Highlander: The Series. I even bought a computer so I could find other fans online, and eventually hosted a twice-weekly chat on AOL and ran keyword: H I G H L A N D E R. Yep. like I said, geek. There was a marathon of old Highlander episodes on the SciFi channel today, culminating in a showing of the direct-to-DVD movie, Highlander: The Source. I knew that long-time fans, who still belong to the HIGHLA-L mailing list either due to nostalgia or because…
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Immortal DVD | Movie and TV Reviews | SCI FI Weekly Oh, lucky day. I was channel surfing just now and stumble onto the opening credits of tonight’s SciFi.com “scinema” feature, Immortal. Struck by the oddity of just one character so far being played by a fully human actor, and most others with some sort of weird CGI overlay, I decided to record it and see what happens. So far, there’s ripoffs of concepts from the original Stargate movie (Egyptian gods emerging from sarcophagi), stylistic nods to Blade Runner, the Fifth Element, the European science fiction magazine Heavy Metal, and…
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I was checking local movie listings just now, and spotted a potential Perfectly Dreadful Movie contendah. Anything I find bwah-worthy (possibly spit-takeworthy) will be in bold: Beerfest – Movie Details – Yahoo! Movies When American brothers Todd and Jan Wolfhouse travel to Germany to spread their grandfather’s ashes at Oktoberfest, they stumble upon a super-secret, centuries old, underground beer games competition–“Beerfest,” the secret Olympics of beer drinking. The brothers receive a less than warm welcome from their German cousins, the Von Wolfhausens (because evil German cousins are always the Von Somethings), who humiliate Todd and Jan, slander their…
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Chicago Tribune | Actor Dennis Weaver Dies at 81 He really had quite a distinguished career. What a pity that career included Submerged. Still, he was in some great plays, great TV series, and some great movies (not Submerged, though).
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Another one of those really bad movies that I watched as a public service, so that no one need ever watch it again. Title: Submerged (2000) Cast: Coolio …. Jeff Cort Maxwell Caulfield …. Agent Jim Carpenter Brent Huff …. Agent Mack Taylor Nicole Eggert …. Tiffany Stevens Fredric Lehne …. Richard Layton (as Fredric Lane) Dennis Weaver …. Buck Stevens Hannes Jaenicke …. Dr. Kevin Thomas Fred Williamson …. Captain Masters Tim Thomerson …. Owen Cantrell Robert Torti …. Dr. Frank Ewing Yvette Nipar …. Agent Wendy Robbins Stacey Travis …. Cindy Kenner Art Hindle …. Sam Meredyth Hunt…
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Title: Darklight Stars: Richard Burgi, John DeLancie, David Hewlitt, Sherri Appleby Official Website: Sci Fi | Darklight my husband David recorded this movie because John DeLancie was in it. We always, always enjoy his work, so I thought “How bad could it be?” and sat down to watch with him. There was some sort of incomprehensible pre-show sequence about a demon or woman that walks up out of a swampy place all nekkid and covered with goo, and some guys sitting around in a futuristic chapel being told that their sacrifice was for the good of mankind before they get…