Author Archives: andy

Bring back Affleck please!

Elektra (Widescreen Edition)

Year: 2005
Length: 104 minutes
Category: Action
Media: DVD
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Rating from : Unrated
UPC for dvd: 024543182641
ID in Amazon.com: B0007P0Y7C

Rating: 1 out of 5

Not to be undone by her husband, Jennifer Garner delivers a serious piece of spectorqular badness in this rousing epic about I’m not really sure what. [...]

XXX: State of the Cube

XXX - State of the Union (Widescreen Edition)

Year: 2005
Length: 100 minutes
Media: DVD
Studio: Sony Pictures
UPC for dvd: 043396102064
Cast:
Darius Stone: Ice Cube
Rating: 4 out of 5

XXX: State of the Union has really nothing to do with the first one except that Samuel L. Jackson is in it. I was at Hollywood [...]

Stranded on Late Night Cable

Stranded
IMDB
Year: 1986
Length: 90
Category: Comedy
Media: On TV
Cast:
: loni anderson
: perry king
Rating: 1 out of 5

Ah the 80’s. Who can forget WKRP and RipTide? Two hot shows in a hot time. Well if you are just lucky enough to have Encore and bored enough to be looking for a [...]

Uwe’s Gold: Let Video Game Badness Rayne

Bloodrayne

Year: 2006
Director: Uwe Boll
Length: 94 minutes
Studio: Uwe Boll Productions
Rating from : Unrated
UPC for dvd: 855280001380
ID in Amazon.com: B000EQ5V8G

Rating: 3 out of 5

Forget the exploding blood a la Kill Bill Vol. 1. Forget the amazing performances by Michael Madsen, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Rodriguez, and Billy Zane. Forget the ridiculous [...]

The Spectorqular Freeze: Rules to Make More Cube-tastic Movies (Vol 1)

Inspired by HSX Research, we decided to offer our own consulting services to the studios. To executives at the studios, please feel free to use these… no charge.

#32 - At least 3 times in the movie, demonstrate a blatant lack of physics in your movie world.
#33 - Be extremely inconsistent with your rules about [...]

An Alias in Xenu’s Clothing

Mission: Impossible 3

IMDB
Year: 2006
Length: 126 Minutes
Category: Action
Cast:
Ethan Matthew Hunt: Tom Cruise
Rating: 2 out of 5

If you have watched Alias, then you have seen this movie. If you can get past Tom Cruise’s recent nuttiness, then this movie may be for you.
Basically, Felicity gets kidnapped but it is a double double-cross. [...]

Cat-tastic… 3 Claws up… Purrfect

Catwoman (Widescreen Edition)

Year: 2004
Length: 104 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Rating from : PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
UPC for dvd: 012569694392
ID in Amazon.com: B0006L0LOS

Rating: 3 out of 5

In what was repeatedly called one of the worst movies of 2004, this review is after a recent rewatching on cable of this Spectorqular gem. [...]

Lep in the Hood Out to Do No Good

Leprechaun In the Hood

IMDB
Year: 2000
Length: 91 minutes
Category: Comedy
Studio: Lions Gate
Rating from : R (Restricted)
UPC for dvd: 31398728528
ID in Amazon.com: 1573628174

Rating: 5 out of 5

Is this the most spectorqular movie of all time? It may be. I’m not sure if this is blacksploitation or midgetsploitation.
Warwick Davis returns as the [...]

Belly of the Seagal

Belly of the Beast

Year: 2003
Length: 91 minutes
Category: Action
Media: DVD
Studio: Sony Pictures
Rating from : R (Restricted)
UPC for dvd: 043396007246
ID in Amazon.com: B000006PAB

Rating: 2 out of 5

Oh to see the mighty fall. In what may be his worst movies (and I mean bad as in Hard to Kill bad not [...]

I’d be safe and warm if I was in L.A….

Congo

IMDB
Year: 1995
Director: Frank Marshall
Length: 108 minutes
Category: Sci-Fi
Media: DVD
Studio: Paramount
Rating from : PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
UPC for dvd: 097363303879
ID in Amazon.com: 6305495106

Rating: 4 out of 5

It cannot be stressed enough how key this movie is in the pantheon of bad movies. Start with Michael Crichton’s loose hold on popular science, [...]