Doyle was a popular jock & Aimee was an outcast smarty. Both were selected to attend Galaxy High, an honor given to those with exceptional talent/intellect. Aimee finds herself fitting in quite well and becoming popular, while Doyle rubs the other alien students the wrong way and becomes a outcast. While only lasting 13 episodes, the show is pretty good. And yes the creator/writer is the same Chris Columbus who directed “Home Alone”, “Mrs. Doubtfire”, & wrote “Gremlins”.

The legal owner of the series posted them online for all to enjoy…

Basically a re-telling of Homer’s “The Iliad” in a futuristic setting, Ulysses captains a spacecraft called Odyssey and with his crew he defied the gods and rescued his son from the clutches of Cyclops (a maniacal robot). Doomed to travel the stars in search of home, this show again lasted 1 season…

Someone apparently restored all 26 episodes, here is the first…

For the Love of Movies – “Video Violence”

(Box art is copyrighted by its rights holder, used for illustration purposes only)

Back in the 1980’s, VHS box art was important to get people to rent your video. Sometimes the art had nothing to do with the movie, or included scenes that were cut from the film (false advertising at its finest). Sometimes it just jumped out at you from the shelf screaming, “Rent Me!”.

The box art for “Video Violence” did just that for me back in 1988. The video had two things going for it, it was a ludicrously large box with a flip cover (most vhs boxes were cardboard sleeves or plastic clam-shell cases). The second thing was the photo of the bloodied/shredded hand feeding a tape into an old VCR with the question, “Could this happen at your video store?”.

The plot is rather simple, a couple moves from New York City where the husband was the manager of a large movie theater and the wife was a paralegal to a small town upstate in search of a slower-paced life. The town is not kind to outsiders in the least, and as the film progresses you find out why.

Re-opening the video store in town and hiring the only other “outsider” (a young man that had grown up in town but went off to college), the new owner notices that the majority of his clientele are renting slasher horror & porn movies which he finds as peculiar. An unmarked tape lands in their return slot containing some horrific video. Is it real? Who are Howard & Eli and what have they unleashed?

The movie spawned a less-stellar sequel that finds Howard & Eli on their own pirate television network spewing their own brand of blood & violence for the eager masses. The distributor released a DVD compilation of both films back in 2007, since gone out of print. Used copies can be found on eBay for around $30 & someone posted it online (with Spanish subtitles)…

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Mobile Armored Strike Kommand was an elite crime-fighting unit that utilized masks that would allow them to use special powers and also change their vehicles. They were always out to defeat V.E.N.O.M. (Viscious Evil Network Of Mayhem). Technically this show had 2 seasons, but the 2nd season found the team immersed more in the car racing scene than crime-fighting.

There are many episodes online, here is the first episode…

Lovable Losers

Andrew Luck retired from the NFL at age 29 due to mental fatigue and physical issues. Lots of fans were upset and booed the quarterback as he left the field. “Deacon Blues” is the correct name of the song by Steely Dan…

Rob Gronkowski retired earlier this year due to the same reasons, we predict many more will follow suit…

An interesting article (“opinion”) that delves into the question – “Are NFL players’ salaries out of control?“

$500-$1,000 all-in for a family of four to go to a major sports game these days. If the player salaries were reduced, more fans could go (and the players could potentially make more from merchandise/sponsors)…

Are sports recruiters/scouts still relevant today? Some say yes, others say not so much…

Matt Patricia has a long row to hoe...

A short read and certainly worth reading is “QBQ!: The Question Behind the Question“…

Pluto TV is a free streaming service for Roku/Android/iOS/Computer that has television shows, movies, documentaries, & even sports! You have to wade through commercials (how they make their money), but just as annoying as Hulu w/ ads or YouTube ads…

“The Banana Splits Movie” IS NOT a nostalgic romp with the lovable characters from the early 1970’s live-action kids show. This is a take on the concept from “Five Nights at Freddy’s”, where the characters go on a murderous rampage…

“Supernaturals” was the toy line that Matty was thinking of, where you could flip the characters to reveal REAL holograms!

Coming up we will be doing a commentary for the movie “Brightburn”, so stay tuned!

“Baskets” is Matty’s new favorite show. Give it an episode or two and you will be hooked by this WEIRD show. Louie Anderson plays Mrs. Baskets & here he talks about the inspiration for his character…

Louie’s story about his brother the safe cracker is hilarious…

Zach’s Funny or Die skit, “Between Two Ferns” is getting a feature-length movie on Netflix…

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In a distant future where technology & magic co-exist, Jayce and his friends set off across the universe searching for his father while fighting the evil menace of the Monster Minds. This series lasted one season and did not even have a series finale, so the plot never got resolved…

Someone posted almost the entire series online, here is the first episode…