DVD Day: May 20th, 2008
? The Muppet Show: Complete Third Season
The season with Sylvester Stallone, Racquel Welch and Alice Cooper. That’d be a hell of a group to have dinner with.
? George Romero’s Diary of the Dead
The Blair Witch/Cloverfield of zombie movies. Apparently, the zombies hit when you filmmakers are making a low-budget zombie film, which would make things confusing. Quelle coincidence!
? Vexille
It’s exactly like the recent CG Appleseed movies, but without the benefit of it being Appleseed.
? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Ninja Tribunal
The Turtles get special powers from mystical ninjas to find the original, 300 A.D. Shredder. It’s a slow week for DVDs, guys.
? Women’s Prison Massacre (Uncut)
Who, oh who, would buy the censored version of Women’s Prison Massacre? Who wants to see women, in cages, but without all that naughty sex and violence? I’m baffled, frankly.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.