In honor of the release of Spider-Man 3, which is almost certain to be the worst in the series, 10 Zen Monkeys has assembled the “Ten Worst Spiderman Tie-Ins,” products so loathsomely commercial and banal you might just be compelled to purchase them. For example, the Spider-Man freight train:
What kid hasn’t dreamed of replacing fighting [...]

I’ve always heard that George Lucas was a control freak who doesn’t like other kids to play with his toys, but perhaps that’s ill-informed hearsay after this bit of news. Or maybe now that he’s a bloated old fart with more money than god he’s relaxing a little bit. Either way, this is exciting news: [...]

It’s like admitting that you wear a toupee, or that you dig it when she wears a strap on, but fuck it: I love the classic 1980 musical flop Xanadu. The music is awesome, and every kid born in the 70’s had a crush on Olivia Newton-John; Grease did us all in with one fell [...]

Our pal Erica is a lifelong loser science fiction fan. One of her tattoos is the Rebel Alliance symbol, others include Trill spots (think ST: DS9) up the back of her neck and shoulders, and a white one on the webbing between her thumb and forefinger of some symbol from the Principia Discordia. She attends [...]

With prostitutes, drugs, trashed hotel rooms and a battalion of cops, Tom Hanks’ celluloid Bachelor Party from 1984 was pretty much my point of reference when I started working on BACHELOR PARTY CONFIDENTIAL, a new book that looks at the bachelor party ritual from different perspectives.
So maybe I shouldn’t have really been surprised that for [...]

The campaign to convince Nike to make the shoes that Marty McFly wore in Back to the Future II continues apace, despite the fact that the people behind this have been making this case for at least a couple of years. At this point a couple of scenarios seem likely:
• Nike doesn’t have the rights [...]

Tomorrow night at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater, join Susie, Alex, and me as we watch a collection of short films from Kat Fitzgerald called Dancers, Monsters, and Dogs “featuring dance films, music videos, and an assortment of miscellaneous shorts involving trolls, zombies, tango, vampires, and 10 gallons of chocolate pudding.”
$10 at the door includes [...]

No nudity or outright sex in this dance number, but it’s rude and lewd, like a Bollywood Cinemax.