The Baker of Butchersfield... or Something

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More novelty governors than you can shake a stick at in next week's Rifftrax Presents release. On July 9, 2009, we'll get Blame Society's take on another Schwarzenegger classic, Running Man.

Okay, back to vacation again.

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Red Dawn is Out

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Pick it up here. Now back to my vacation.

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Bon Voyage

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Two Three items:

1) The summer of Swayze begins today with Ghost, riffed by Janet Varney and Cole Stratton. Pick it up now.

2) I may be leaving on a, er, jet plane, but I do, in fact, know when I'll be back again. Normal reviews and coverage will resume upon my return on July 13, 2009. I might update a few times anyway from the road, though. You never know. Play nice while I'm gone, kids.

3) Mike Salva continues his intermittent world tour, bringing his excellent little MST3K alumni-populated superhero cartoon Max the Hero to the San Diego Comic-Con. Watch it on Friday, July 24 at 2:30 p.m. in Room 26AB.

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Swayze Mania Grips the Nation

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Yeah, I already appointed Janet Varney and Cole Stratton as the new Official Swayze Torchbearers, but now Mike has run out onto the field and to try and snatch his torch back. And he's recruited Joel McHale (of E!'s The Soup) to help him. Tune in next Thursday, July 2, 2009, when Messrs. Nelson and McHale riff the eighties cold war paranoia classic, Red Dawn.

Wolverines!

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Delays, Delays

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But for unknown (probably technical) issues, Janet Varney and Cole Stratton's commentary for Ghost would have been released this very afternoon. Alas, it is not to be, at least until the new release date, which will be Thursday, June 25, 2009. I was going to make a joke about how Patrick Swayze gets to live just a little longer, but then I remembered his current health issues and abstained. Sort of.

Sadly, this delay means that I will not be able to review it for you until mid-to-late July, as I will be taking my family on the road that very evening, and not returning until the thirteenth of next month. Given the occasional wi-fi connection I might update a couple of times from the road, but as I herd my children from exotic locale to exotic locale (for a given value of "exotic", anyway) I won't have time to type up a full review. I'll just have to catch up when I get back, I guess.

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We're Tearing Him Apart! (Lisa!)

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Wow. Just... wow. Here's my review for the Rifftrax of The Room. Let us never speak of this again.

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Climbing Back Aboard the Swayze Train

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SF Sketchfest co-founders Janet Varney and Cole Stratton, not heard from since their last venture into Swayzedom, have finally returned to mix things up a little with... another venture into Swayzedom. On June 23, 2009, Janet and Cole will officially succeed Mike as bearers of the Swayze torch with a Rifftrax Presents commentary for Ghost.

Note: This movie co-stars Whoopi Goldberg. Consider yourselves warned.

Also, I have seen The Room (full review next week) and it is, um, surreal. The movie's odd, mellow, melodramatic, fever-dream tone is truly unique, as evidenced by the fact that the adjectives I just used to describe it ought to be mutually exclusive. If you're squeamish about sex scenes, I suggest you skip this one (unappealing sex takes up about a fifth of the running time, no exaggeration), but if you don't care, well... The closest I've ever gotten to stoned was a handful of post-surgical codiene I took when I was twelve. Watching this movie made me feel kind of like that. Yes, The Room is so bad, it actually has psychotropic side effects. Watch with caution.

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