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Showing posts with label Rusty Ward. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rusty Ward. Show all posts
3/8/14
More ANDREW 12-SIDED DICE CLAY
Three new videos from the ANDREW 12-SIDED DICE CLAY web-series.
Plus an appearance by rival geek comic, JEFF BALROGWORTHY.
For more, visit A12SDC.tumblr.com
10/13/13
Sh!t Nerds Never Say
Related posts:
ANDREW 12-SIDED DICE CLAY: Nerdy, dirty web-series
KING KONG: DELETED SCENE - a short film
A IS FOR APOCALYPSE:#7 in a series of pop culture A-Z
WHO'S MORE RACIST? - COMIC CON EDITION
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See Friday's show at the Alamo Drafthouse in Yonkers:
Kevin Geeks Out - All About Evil (get tickets HERE)
Kevin Geeks Out All About Evil Trailer from Matthew Glasson on Vimeo.
10/1/13
Kevin Geeks Out joins The Alamo Drafthouse
The Kevin Geeks Out Show is teaming up with the coolest movie theater in America: The Alamo Drafthouse.
The first show will be Saturday October 19th at the Yonkers Cinema. (Click HERE for tickets.) When you get tickets you'll choose a specific seat. The event starts at 7:30 but you can arrive at 7:00 and order some food or drinks, which are served during the show. 
The October 19th show is ALL ABOUT EVIL and features film clips and special presentations about evil clowns, evil computers, evil rocks bands and more. Host/comedian Kevin Maher welcomes special guests:
Clown Matt Wilson
Comedian Rusty Ward
Filmmaker Matthew Glasson
Cult Blogger Tenebrous Kate
Variety Show host Tom Blunt
This world-famous Alamo Drafthouse is the perfect home for the Kevin Geeks Out series. "I've had some excellent times seeing special events at the Drafthouse," Kevin Maher said during a recent press conference that really did happen and isn't something he just made up here. "I attended Phantasmania -- where they showed all four Phantasm movies over the course of three midnight shows, with cast and crew present. And I was there for Bruce Campbellpalooza. The Alamo Drafthouse was an influence on the Kevin Geeks Out show, so it's perfect that we team up now that they're in New York."
Kevin Geeks Out: All About Evil
Saturday October 19th @ 7:30
The Alamo Drafthouse
2548 Central Park West
Yonkers, New York
Get tickets HERE
*video edited by Matt Glasson
**poster created by Tenebrous Kate
3/14/13
Watch my new web-series: ANDREW 12-SIDED DICE CLAY
My long-awaited web-series has finally launched. You can watch the videos HERE.
Andrew 12-Sided Dice Clay is the nerd, dirty bad-boy of the comic book shop. His routines are obscene, obscure and often observational.
But don't take my word for it -- JUST WATCH!
11/7/12
LIVE TAPING: Andrew 12-Sided Dice Clay
Join me for a very special show.
We're video-taping stand-up to be used in the ANDREW 12-SIDED DICE CLAY series.
Plus, I'm recording a few routines for my own digital download. (Which is like a comedy album)
Andrew 12-Sided Dice Clay: Nerdy n' Dirty
*** A LIVE TAPING ***
Thursday November 15th @ 8:00pm
UNDER ST. MARKS - 94 St. Marks Place
(between 1st Ave and Avenue A)
(between 1st Ave and Avenue A)
$10
9/24/12
This Friday - come to the Banned Book Party
You can imagine how honored I feel to be included in Mike's BANNED BOOK PARTY (which takes place this Friday night.) I'll be talking about an especially dopey bout of pop culture hysteria, I'll do a short slideshow, read from a "controversial" novel and screen one of my all-time favorite film clips.
10/30/11
Frankenstein & Me
Growing up as a tall kid, I was always forced to be Frankenstein whenever my friends played monsters. I'm sure other tall kids had to put up with this. This continued as an adult, when my old sketch group was developing a TV show called MONSTERS ON THE RUN, I was to play the fugitive Frankenstein Monster (framed for a crime he didn't commit. He was framed by a rich Kennedy-esque Playboy Mummy and lost his trial when a William Kunstler-esque lawyer used the case as an opportunity to blame society, saying, "You're the monsters! YOU are the monsters." I wish we'd made that.)
One Halloween I was the monster, my wife was the bride, my kids were the Doctor and Igor. (You can make a cute baby look spooky by adding a unibrow and hunchback.)
We screened clips from Frankenstein Vs. Baragaon, Andy Warhol's Frankenstein, TV's The Monster Squad (at 1970's TV series in which Frankenstein, Dracula and the Werewolf team up to fight crime, aided by The Love Boat's Gofer and a super-computer.) and more.
We listened to an excellent radio adaptation by the Quicksilver Radio Theatre.
We also watched Thomas Edison's Frankenstein film (from 1910), which I'd first seen at a Frankenstein film festival in New Jersey. It was introduced by a religious old kook, who owned the film print and because he was letting the theater screen his movie, he insisted on speaking before the film and speaking out against evolution. (Which, he believes is at the heart of Edison's adaptation, because the monster is not a re-animated corpse, but a man made from the earth.)
Throughout the night we saw some radical interpretations of the classic character, and the audience really got excited seeing Boris Karloff, it's like he's THE ONE. This PSA parody was a big hit at the show, and it still holds up.
Here's an old AMC video I made looking at some of my favorite adaptations:
Here's a collection of 50 Posters from various Frankenstein Movies
And in this new video Rusty Ward and I look at FRANKENSTEIN ISLAND, featuring several great clips from the movie.
And in my newest video, I use one of my all-time favorite gags about the monster:
(Hey, be sure to donate to the kickstarter campaign HERE)
Frankenstein is always showing up in popular culture.
DC's WEIRD WAR TALES ran a great series of stories about CREATURE COMMANDOS, in which the Mosnter, teams up with Dracula and the Wolf man to battle Nazis. (I don't know why writers are always pairing these three up. I mean, in real life they seem like they wouldn't get along at all.)
In Dickie Goodman's novelty song FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE BEATLES, the monster becomes envious of the band's popularity, so he forms a rock quartet to compete with the Fab Four. The Liverpool lads end up feeling sorry for him and invite him to join the band, though it's never clear what instrument he plays.
The new anthology horror-comedy CHILLERAMA features a very funny segment about THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANKENSTEIN, but as an internet nerd it's my duty to point out that the gag was made a decade earlier by Michael O'Donoghue. (Click here to read his SPIN magazine piece, "Six Hit Movies.")
The influence of Mary Shelley's story shows up in the oddest places, here's some holiday-themed pop-tarts that seem to play out a theme from the novel:
"'I am alone and miserable: man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species and have the same defects. This being you must create.'" ~ The Monster, in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Happy Halloween everybody.
related posts:
King Kong and Me
7/27/11
Kevin Geeks Out About Evil Dogs of 1978
But as far as horror movies go, it's dog territory.
Because people fear dogs. (And it's much easier to direct a canine.)
Specifically, dogs have been harbingers of death in films of the 70's and 80's, ushering in the worst kinds of destruction. I don't know if this goes back to earlier centuries, where dogs carried diseases, but you can see this theme play out in a number of films including: Cujo, The Pack, Play Dead -- and don't forget the dog who hosts the monster in The Thing.
In this two-part video-review, Rusty Ward and I look at two stand-out films from 1978. (I'm still not sure if one was ripping off the other -- you be the judge.)
ZOLTAN, DRACULA'S DOG and DEVIL DOG: HOUND OF HELL
Full disclosure: the reason we did two episodes is that when Rusty suggested we watch ZOLTAN, I got excited because I thought it was DEVIL DOG. So we ended up watching both.
6/30/11
Kim Jong Il's Monster Movie
This was a challenging review, because we were applying our Western cultural standards to the film, but I imagine most people will do the same. That's a fancy way of saying, my bad attitude is justified.
Still to come -- our two-part series looking at the EVIL DOG CINEMA OF 1978.
And don't forget, this coming Thursday I'm hosting Kevin Geeks Out About... EVIL CHILDREN
The double-feature brings together THE CHILDREN (1980) and DON'T GO TO SLEEP (1982)
Two movies for just ten bucks. Don't miss out!
6/26/11
Kevin and Rusty talk about THE HAND (1981)
The latest offering from Rusty Ward and me, we talk about THE HAND.
5/28/11
Kevin Geeks Out About Mazes & Monsters
*Not to be confused with AL JAFFEE'S MAZES & MONSTERS. (which, I imagine, would have been titled "Mazes & Morons", filled with snappy answers to stupid questions. "Are you going to jump off the Twin Towers and commit suicide?" "No, I am Pardu, I can fly from this tower and join the great Hall.")
Like a role-playing game, the movie has many levels to it -- that is, you can enjoy it any number of ways. I first saw this movie as an 8-year-old, and now I've watched it again as an adult. I enjoyed it each time I've seen it.
I don't want to give too much away here, since unlike other reviews we've done this video sums up our observations and doesn't require lengthy bonus material.
Related posts:
AMC's Sci Fi Department episode: Actors Who Needed the Money
AMC's Sci Fi Department episode: The Hungry Actor Pop Quiz
5/3/11
The Hulk and Me
One of my latest projects is co-hosting SO BAD IT'S GOOD, a movie review web-series created by Webby-award winning comedian Rusty Ward. In our first episode we reveiw the 1988 made-for-TV movie THE INCREDIBLE HULK RETURNS, this marks the first feature-length appearance by Thor.
Now curiously, the 1988 movie takes places just 6 years after the Hulk TV series ended. (It's like attending your 6th high school reunion.) Donald Blake mentions being Dr. Banner's student 10 years earlier at Harvard. (That would've been 1978, when Banner was regularly transforming into the creature, and traveling the country as Bavid Bannister or David Ballinsgley, etc.) That's because the movie is supposed to take place just two years following Banner's initial exposure to gamma radiation that's turned him into the Hulk.
Other observations and what-have-you:
In the movie, Banner has shacked up with a familiar looking woman -- it's the hot mom from Valley Girl,
one of pop culture's first MILFs.
The actor playing Thor is a bit stiff. This could be an homage to the 1960's Thor cartoon. (for maximum wooden-ness, skip ahead to 5:15)
In 1988 NBC passed on doing a TV series of THOR, but they did make three more seasons of HUNTER.
During one sequence, Donald Blake takes Thor out on the town, because Thor is always thirsty. (He totally has a drinking problem.)
When they walk by a marquee it announces that Dave Alvin will be playing at the bar. Unfortunately, we never get to see him.
It seems a shame that we only get to see a short clip of Thor partying on the town. Rusty and I agreed that it would be nice to bring Marvel Superheroes together in a non-superhero film, and see them in another genre entirely, like "The Incredible Hulk's Bachelor Party."
Related HULK material:
At Comic Con I arm wrestled Lou Ferrigno for my web show.
During my sketch days I ended one routine by hitch-hiking (and we played the super-sad Hulk song "The Lonley Man" -- p.s. why would anyone want this as a ringtone? To condition onself to cry at incomign phone calls.)
If you want a more upbeat tune, download this rockin' 45 of Nobody Loves the Hulk.
Even KEVIN GEEKS OUT ABOUT SHARKS related back to the Hulk. It always goes back to the Hulk.
And here's the time we mentioned the Hulk's "Terror in Times Square"...
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