Editor’s Note: As part of our Year in Review, we’ve asked our resident DVDologist Brian Gibson to lay down his 15 favorite releases from 2008. For more of Brian’s DVD picks be sure to check out his DVDs I Bought This Week column every Tuesday. It’s that time of year again, th...

I really don’t get what the big deal is about this movie. A lot of people are calling it ‘Pixar’s Greatest!’. Really? Because my family thought it was boring as hell. The most disappointed was my youngest daughter. She has been going nuts waiting to see this movie. She was so...

It would have been impressive if Johnny 5 were merely sculpted from LEGO bricks. But Brickshelf user rack911 did one better and created a Johnny 5 with fully working treads and a—we'll call it......

A wise man once said “It’s not just about seeing Star Wars two weeks before everyone else. You’ve gotta plow through crap like Marie Antoinette and Catwoman as well.� I have the fortune of being able to see all of the films that I want, and find out that they are only worth one viewing (or l...

I think I have officially reached the point of information overload. The other morning I woke up and was sitting in bed thinking about a topic or two to write about. For some reason the topic of “Robot Semen Makes People Afraid of Technology” popped into my head. I was positive that at s...

Mere days after the news of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure 3 flared a fresh ulcer in our cultural digestive tract, news over the wire says Bob Weinstein is planning his own Apocalypse Pre-Game Show with a remake of the 1986 hit Short Circuit. The original featured Steve Guttenberg and Ally Sheedy ...

Oh hell no. They’re remaking Short Circuit. Foster, who produced the original with his partner Lawrence Turman and son Gary Foster, said the film will be similar in theme to the original, but it will factor in advances in technology. That’s code for “this movie is gonna suck.”...

Clearly excited that all the Wall-E promos have elicited comparisons to Short Circuit, Dimension Films has scooped up the remake rights to the 1986 film about an obnoxious, peace-loving war-bot. Plans are to create a new, technologically-updated Johnny 5, but keep the same "peacenik" themes, even br...

As if making remakes of really bad 80’s shows weren’t enough, Hollywood has to continue remaking really bad 80’s movies, too. I don’t know what kind of demented Hollywood executive greenlit this project but Short Circuit, that cheesy 80’s movie is about to be remade by ...