First off, I’ve got a review of The Strangers up at cinema-suicide.com. There’s also a review of Sex and the City up at The Wire. The short verdict on both: meh. There haven’t been two more different movies opening up on the same weekend, but they ended up being sort of similar, in that both sputtered out in their respective final acts and didn’t really deliver on all the hype and promise.
The summer movie landscape isn’t all that barren, though–at least not my personal landscape. One of the last few independent video stores in town is ditching their movies and becoming a full-time tanning salon/Asian-influenced cafe. On the way home from work tonight, I picked up some VHS goodies: Horror Express (starring both Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing), Satan’s Blade (which just had some neat box art), and Zombie Lake, which improbably features one of my favorite plot devices–Nazi zombies rising up from the bottom of a lake to munch on people. Nazi zombies are worse than regular zombies, no doubt, and they’ve always been a favorite since that bit in the sort-of-climax of the Illuminatus! Trilogy when the AMA’s concert resurrects some Nazi zombies during a music festival. Reviews will follow, of course, most likely up on cinema-suicide.com, so stay tuned.
In the meantime, buy some art. That’s right, you heard me. VeggieArtGirl.com, the official online store of artist extraordinaire Stacey Lucas is up and running, though it’s still very much in beta. Stacey is providing all the awesome art, of course, and I’m providing what little internets-skills I have. And on a related note, Stacey’s real-life gallery, The Art Barn, is kicking off its second season with a grand opening on Saturday, June 7. There’s going to be some cool local art along with live music by Jim Tyrrell and others.
My mouse (of the computer variety, not the cheese-eating kind) is having some sort of robot freak-out, and so this Thursday evening edition of The Shameless Plug Hour is going to have to come to an end.
