Reminder: Doomsday Machine is available

A couple of days ago, Cinematic Titanic’s second episode finally saw the light of day, in both DVD and download forms. How is it? Any good? It’s not high enough on the financial priority list for me at the moment, so I’ll have to rely on hearsay, for now.
If you head to the CT website [...]

MST3K + Spore = Nightmare Fuel

As you might have heard, a demo for upcoming PC game Spore was recently released. Spore is a long-awaited “evolution sim,” I suppose you’d call it. You create your own species from the ground up, then guide them as they evolve and advance, going from a single cell to a spacefaring race.  At the moment, [...]

Next Rifftrax: “The Sixth Sense”

Mike Nelson lives again, as the next Rifftrax release will be a regular, run-of-the-mill commentary — no Rifftrax Presents shenanigans. Along with Bill and Kevin, Mike will be diving head-first into the astoundingly overrated world of M. Night Shyamalan, riffing on his breakthrough film, The Sixth Sense. On June 25th, you’ll [...]

A weekend musing… nothing to see here

This is my birthday weekend, and that’s my excuse for being absent from this blog. Once all the beer and cake and ice cream stops flowing, I’ll eventually pick myself up out from the heaving mounds of confetti and party favors and get back to blogging. Hopefully. Anyway, Josh posted on the CT blog a [...]

Rumors confirmed! MST3K reunion at Comic-Con is GO!

Okay, just ignore the last paragraph of my previous post. It’s happening. Satellite News brings word that the entire cast of Mystery Science Theater 3000 will be getting together at the San Diego Comic-Con for a discussion panel. And when I say “the entire cast,” I mean it.
On Friday, July 25th, at 7:15PM, all the [...]

Ain’t no Comic-Con party like a Rifftrax Comic-Con party

While so many fortunate souls geekgasm to their hearts’ content at the San Diego Comic-Con each year, I sit here on the East Coast sullen and alone. Why, just last year, Rosario Dawson went home alone after the event, all because I didn’t have the finances to make it there. Well, this year’s Comic-Con will [...]

“Doomsday Machine” gets dated, also a new trailer

June 19th. That’s the date when you will finally be able to purchase the second episode of Cinematic Titanic. Doomsday Machine will be available simultaneously in both DVD and digital, burn-it-yourself form. Also, a second trailer with new footage was just released, which I embedded above.
And even more exciting, we’re getting [...]

Next on the remake list: “Manos”… yes, “Manos”

I have a question for you: Did you actually, literally shudder when you read the post’s title? I did, when I read the news. Deep, deep down in my very soul, I shuddered. However, there is one small comfort to all this: Hollywood isn’t behind it. No, they haven’t fallen that far, yet. This is [...]

Crow T. Cylon will frak you up

Ladies and gentlemen, I want to share with you one of the most incredible things I have ever seen, as a Mystery Science Theater fan. The Sci-Fi Channel’s DVICE tech website and Make Magazine are hosting a “Make a Cylon” contest. In case you can’t figure it out from the post’s [...]

Next Rifftrax Presents: “Alien”

And the hits just keep on coming. Bill and Kevin will be tackling the original Alien, for the next entry in the unMiked Rifftrax Presents series. On June 10th, you’ll be able to download the commentary and enjoy riff after delicious riff about Sigourney Weaver’s tiny white underpants. As usual, it’s $2.99 and you can [...]

Is Weezer’s new album a musical MST3K episode?

Since 2000, I’ve been a tremendous fan of the rock band Weezer. In fact, they’ve probably been one of the most influential artists in my life. And now it looks like, once again, two of my greatest loves — MST3K and Weezer — have crossed paths… unfortunately. Weezer’s new album, a self-titled LP nicknamed “The [...]

Late-Night Thoughts

So, it’s 4AM over here, and I’m looking through the blog’s visitor statistics, before I head to bed. And I notice something. Something that leads me to a question that is sure to puzzle me through ’til the morning: Why is there a sudden influx of people coming to this site via searches for Beowulf [...]

Starship Bill

Pardon the graininess of the above image, but I love the picture so much, I just had to use it despite its small resolution. It’s from this interview (scroll down) at Minnesota Monthly, which is entirely about Meet Dave (formerly “Starship Dave”), the upcoming sci-fi family comedy that Bill wrote a while back.
If you need [...]

MST3K.com is fully operational

MST3K.com finally reopened today. (An unstoppable video autoplays, so beware.) Though the site is certainly different, the overall feel is essentially the same as the previous incarnation. It still says, “We’re feverishly clinging to the glory days, in hopes that you’ll buy some merchandise.” There’s very little content, beyond rehashing old MST content. It’s really [...]

Reminder: Rifftrax Presents’ “X-Files” out today

I don’t make a habit of posting about a single Rifftrax commentary twice, but seeing as though this is my blog and I can do whatever the heck I want, I’m doing it now.
I just thought I’d remind you that today is the day that the Rifftrax Presents commentary for The X-Files: Fight the Future [...]