This Week In Entertainment (6/21/11)

My Pick of the Week is this documentary about William Castle.  He was known for making horror movies in the sixties that had an audience participation gimmick.  For example, the Tingler was suppose to attach itself to people's spines, so certain seats in the theater would have a mild electric shock. 


Also out this week in theaters is Cars 2.  You know, a sequel to Pixar's weakest.  Eh, if it makes them money to make other movies, no objections here.  And Cars wasn't bad.  It was just mediocre as heck.

More like, Conan Obrien Can't Stop from getting cancelled!  (smug smile)   Note:  The writer of this post made the joke before he bothered to learn about the movie. 

You ever like an actor or actress a lot in one film, and then you never like them again?  I liked Cameron Diaz in The Mask.  Bad Teacher looks awful.  Check out the terrible quotes at the bottom of the Rotten Tomatoes page.


Did you watch Finding Nemo and liked the turtle part?  Well Turtle: The Incredible Journey is for you.


On DVD Steve McQueen stars in The Honeymoon Machine.  Geez, my generation just calls them ---- ----.

Finally, someone tells it like it is.  If only they can make more movies about every other musical genre.

The first season of the wonderfully insane Mr. T cartoon is here.

No, this isn't that play by the South Park guys.  Trapped by Mormons is a 1920s film. 

Besides that anti-Mormon film, there was a ton of DVDs from the 1920s.  So many that I just skipped them.  But here's this shorts collection. 

At least that's only a bat.




I don't watch basketball, but I'm always complaining that you can't buy sports games or watch them online.  So I support the fact that the NBA conference finals are available for purchase.  Of course, it would be nice if they sold the games in a set.  Here's game one of Bulls/Heat and game one of Mavs/Formersonics.  You'll have to find the rest.



In video games, we have Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D.  I know I probably come off as a Nintendo fanboy, but I'm sick of Ocarina of Time.  It wasn't even the best N64 Zelda.

Movie tie-in:  Cars 2 for Wii and DS.  How come the DS version has online support but the Wii doesn't?

It seems bold to me to make a race game for the console that already has a Mario Kart game.  Oh, they're Super Karts?  That'll do.

Gummy Bears Magic Medallion.  Yeah, the Wii is really starting to wind down.

Finally, I like that the icon for this game seems to be astounded by the game's goofy title.  A title that includes a question mark, no less.