The Room is in the House!

Don't ask us why it took so dang long, but we have finally snagged copies of The Room for y'all. Yes, the cult smash sensation that's still sweeping the floors of the nation! If you're not aware of this brilliant motion picture, The Room is the work of master thespian and dynamic director Tommy Wiseau. This is a man who bleeds emotion for us on both sides of the screen. Watch the trailer below because my words cannot fully relay the incredibleness of this cinematic jewel. The acting on the new 90210 is Shakesperian in relation and Mulholland Drive makes way more sense when compared to this.



And recommended to us by our friend Dangerous Doug Tilley, The Room tribute at Newgrounds and this wonderful Room rap. Thanks Doug!

Naughty language - nsfw

Celebrity Jello Wrestling Match Poll Results!

The last Have You Seen.. in-store poll was 'Which Celebrity Would You Most Like to Battle in a Jello Wrestling Match?' and there were some really interesting picks. Here's a sampling:

- all the kids from Eight is Enough


- Garry Shandling


- Meatloaf


- Angela Lansbury


- Karl Marx


- the guy who played Urkel


- Jello Biafra (ohh, hardy har)


- Sissy Nobby


Who is YOUR pick? Here's mine!

HAVE YOU SEEN… PAYS PEOPLE TO SAY NETFLIX SUCKS!

HAVE YOU SEEN… PAYS PEOPLE TO SAY NETFLIX SUCKS!

It started out as a well meaning protest at Aylmer and Charlotte streets in Peterborough’s downtown. Two movie lovers gathered at the intersection to proclaim their love for local independent video store Have You Seen… and their distaste for American corporate monolith Netflix. The American company recently stormed the Canadian border, invading their gentle neighbours to the north with the promise of bargain basement streamed movies and TV shows.

“Netflix sucks!” said one of the men, a bald, bearded gentleman with a large stomach. “Their selection is meager at best and they lack all of the fun associated with actually leaving your house and communicating with the nice human beings at the video store.” Pointing at Have You Seen… he continued by saying “Those really good looking people in there love their city and their downtown and don’t take too kindly to this big bully coming in here and giving us wedgies. I just bought this frigging underwear!”

The other gentleman with an accent that was hard to place, I’m gonna go with South African, took over the rant. “This here big mean company, what they called, Nettrix or sumthin’, they don’t live in Peterborough and employ folk who live here, folk who spend their loonies at our local stores. We done do gosh dangit! All them money them big corpo go an make, she leaves an goes right back over that there border!”

It all seemed to be legitimate, just a couple of guys with something to get off their chest, when it was revealed that these two were actually the owners of Have You Seen… and had paid themselves to have a negative view of Netflix, using revenue accumulated at their store… a video store that rents people really killer, hard-to-find films for a fair price.

Calls to the store for a comment went unanswered at press time

-Julie Julia Giuliani

Over the past couple of weeks, there has been enough TV on DVD released to cause rectal bleeding... of the eyes!!

-30 ROCK Season 4
Moly holy, this show just keeps staying exactly the same. And by that I mean totally awesome! 30 Rock is still one of the funniest, chuckliest, laugh-inducing, knee-slapping, tummy-jiggling, side-splitting series in the dangerous, vicious, cut throat television game. That guy with the hair is hair-larious!
-HUMAN TARGET Season 1 (DVD + BLU-RAY)
-SPARTACUS: BLOOD AND SAND Season 1
-MODERN FAMILY Season 1
Every type of modern family is proudly represented except for the oft-neglected Rat People. Twentieth Century Fox, what do you have against the Rat People?
-HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER Season 5
-BORED TO DEATH Season 1
HBO series with the guy from Cheers, the guy from Rushmore and that other guy with the beard who's in all the movies lately.

-FRINGE Season 2
This show is totally on the edge.
-IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA Season 5
Has anyone collected meteorological data to verify these claims?
-GOOD WIFE Season 1
-GREY'S ANATOMY Season 6
-BIG BANG THEORY Season 3
-OFFICE Season 6
-GLEE Season 1 Part 2
-HOUSE Season 6
-BROTHERS & SISTERS Season 3
-DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES Season 6

Hollywood also found time to release some movies as well and we got 'em!

ROBIN HOOD


EXPERIMENT


SECRET IN THEIR EYES
Academy Award winner Best Foreign Language Film 2009


LOOKING FOR ERIC
Latest from Ken Loach.


And worth noting from the last couple...

MICMACS
Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amelie, City of Lost Children)

I Think We're Alone Now

The skinny: I don’t ever want to be alone with any of these people.

Everyone is obsessed with something. Golfing, cycling, full contact knitting. For the two subjects of the documentary I Think We’re Alone Now, it’s eighties pop music sensation Tiffany. Now, I certainly have my guilty pleasures. As anyone who knows me is well aware, I think Don Knotts movies are the bee’s knees. I fully admit that I probably enjoy The Love God? a little bit too much, but I have never at any time felt psychically connected to the comedy legend. OK, wait... maybe. But I have never ever believed that we were destined to be together and that one day our souls would intertwine in the heavens, fusing us together for eternity. Jeff Turner and Kelly McCormick kinda sorta really strongly do believe this stuff.



Director Sean Donnelly uses a magical mind key to open the creepy gates and grant us intimate access to the lives of these two beyond fans. What we witness is funny and frightening. Both Tiffany lovers have their own unique delusions and are only too eager to profess their feelings and beliefs in front of the camera. Turner is sure he is in communication with Tiffany by way of a technological piece of headgear that utilizes a bike helmet as its core. In addition, he's also been accused of stalking the celeb by wanting to get up close and personal. McCormick is certain she was a friend of the pop star during their teenage years and that one day in the future, they will be together again.



I find myself drawn to movies that are uncomfortable to watch and I Think We’re Alone Now pays off in spades. The cringe factor ranges from medium to high and intensifies as the film rolls on, as the events become more and more bizarre. I found it freaky, too, that many of those featured in the movie reminded me of people I know. Some may feel the producers are bordering on exploitation, due to their editing choices and the obviously compromised mental states of the subjects. I personally found I Think We’re Alone Now to be a fascinating character study and engaging piece of filmmaking.

-Paul