New Rifftrax: I Am Legend

A new Rifftrax came out today, this one for the most recent addition to Will Smith’s long line of movies we never really wanted to see, I Am Legend. As you probably know, Legend is the third film adaptation of Richard Matheson’s novel about one of the last survivors of a plague that’s turned the [...]

Trace and Kevin Do Hamlet, Robot-Style

Are you in serious robot withdrawal? Do you long for the days when you could turn on your TV on a Sunday morning and hear the lush tones of Kevin Murphy and the sharp wit of Trace Beaulieu coming out of robot puppets? Well, it looks like you’re going to be able to get a [...]

CORRECTION: Mike Hits The Bottle TWICE, This Summer

It seems I was so excited to hear that Mike would be returning for another of those neat drink ‘n’ riff get-togethers at Stone Brewery, I completely overlooked the fact that he’s actually appearing at two such events. (Thanks, Erik!) As I mentioned, Mike will be present at the end of the summer for a [...]

Bulge Slaterock will be attending… Harvard?!

Earlier this month, Satellite News posted this humorous bit of news. It seems that the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is hosting a viewing of that science fiction classic, MST3K episode 820, Space Mutiny. It happens on Saturday May 3rd at their Phillips Auditorium, doors opening at 6:30PM. If you’re near Cambridge, [...]

Mike Nelson Returns to the Loving Arms of Alcohol

Remember this event? Last summer, Michael J. Nelson took some time off from his busy schedule of dating European supermodels and doing ecstacy in Prague discos to spend some time with movie fans at the Stone Brewing Company, in Escondido, for a night of Rifftrax watching. Well, guess what. He’s doing it again.
Mike (a different [...]

New Rifftrax: Cloverfield

J.J. Abrams’ latest pseudo-intellectual pop-entertainment wankery, Cloverfield, is out on DVD today. The film crew at Rifftrax isn’t wasting any time, as their commentary of the film is also out today. Though I still haven’t seen the film, I can’t honestly imagine it being anything less than sweet, sweet riff fodder. Damn you, shaky-cam! The [...]

New Rifftrax Short: The Horrors of “One Got Fat”

Ever hear of One Got Fat? It’s a 1963 educational short about bicycle safety. It’s horrifying. See that picture above? Yeah, that’s it. I keep expecting Nicholas Cage to run into that scene and start punching those monkey-masked children.
Anyway, if you can stomach it (and you really shouldn’t be able to, unless you’re evil), you [...]

Trace! In Moving Pictures!

The above footage recently surfaced, showing Trace on the set of Triptosane, the upcoming indie film in which he voices a rampant A.I. It’s surprisingly lengthy, and there’s the posibility of more from the uploader. The audio quality is a little on the quiet side, but it’s fun to see Trace, [...]

New Rifftrax Short: “If Mirrors Could Speak”

No sooner had I put up the last Rifftrax post, then this pops up in my inbox. Another On Demand short is online now. If Mirrors Could Speak is a delicious, and somewhat disturbing, 1970s PSA about how children’s insecurities manifest themselves at school. They apparently manifest themselves by turning the children into frightening clowns [...]

Cinematic Titanic Updates Ahoy!

Don’t worry. Headlines like that make me want to shoot myself in the head too. Please disregard and let’s focus on these recent updates from the Cinematic Titanic realm.
Last week, the downloadable version of The Oozing Skull finally went on sale here. It’ll cost you $9.99, which I still think is a bit of a [...]

Recent Rifftrax Releases

In case you’ve missed it, there have been no less than three different Rifftrax releases, over the past month. Most notably, James Lileks (a guy from Minnesota that does stuff) guested on the just-released Spiderman 3 commentary. I absolutely loathed this film, an absolute butchering of what was a fine film series and some fine [...]

Hiatus

In case it isn’t obvious, Deep Ape is currently in the middle of a sort of semi-hiatus. Every half-a-year, I burn out from blogging about all things MST3K, and I just need to ease off of it. I’ll still post from time-to-time, but expect the pace to be as slow as it has been, for [...]

Shout Factory To Release Season Seven Episodes?

MST3K forum user slapdawg recently noticed an interesting little post by an employee of Shout! Factory, on the Shout! Factory community forums. While folks were discussing the possibility of the release of some (or all) of the infamous season seven, Shout! employee Brian Ward made this cryptic statement:

Funny you should mention that…

Now, that comment was [...]

Yet Another Frank Project: “Writer’s Room”

Sony recently started up a new venture, with a mini online network of comedy series called C-Spot. Basically, they’re regularly releasing 5-minute episodes of 4 or 5 comedy series, and Frank Conniff is featured in the Writer’s Room series. The title is self-explanatory — it’s about a team of TV comedy writers, a sort of [...]