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World's Greatest Dad DVD Review
14 December 2009 10:02 PM, PST
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World's Greatest Dad (2009), now out on DVD, slipped almost unnoticed under the radar upon its release in theaters earlier this year, and that's a shame. A low-budget black comedy written and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait, who also makes a quick cameo, World's Greatest Dad follows Lance Clayton (Robin Williams), a poetry teacher and struggling writer for whom life sucks. He's a single dad with a pretty -- and pretty opportunistic -- girlfriend (Alexie Gilmore) whom he thinks may be cheating on him, and a mega-jerk of a teenage son, Kyle (Daryl Sabara of Spy Kids), no one will buy his writing efforts and his class at school attracts hardly any interested students. More to the point about Kyle, the kid swears like a sailor, causes problems at school, everyone hates him (except his one best friend), and, um, pivotal but disturbing point coming up, he's into autoerotic asphyxiation while masturbating.
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- ianspelling@corp.popstar.com (Ian Spelling)
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[DVD Review] World's Greatest Dad
9 December 2009 6:30 PM, PST
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Looking back at Robin Williams’s career either for just the last five years or the last decade leaves you feeling pretty underwhelmed. Dotted amongst a landscape of underdeveloped films or mindless and comedy-stricken disasters are small nuggets of gold that gave his fans some modicum of hope to cling to as they awaited the man’s glorious return to the land of decent roles. For awhile, it seemed Robin had sold his soul to some demon of film mediocrity in return for an unending line of awful characters which let him off without ever having to flex his acting muscles. He became a caricature and little more. Is World’s Greatest Dad just another short-lived spark of greatness amidst an ongoing dry spell? Or has Robin Williams finally realized that deeper, reflective roles like his turn in World’s Greatest Dad light the way to getting him back in
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- Lex Walker
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Music Box Massacre 5 Comes to Chicago - Fangoria's giving away tickets!
21 September 2009 9:39 PM, PDT
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Movieside's Music Box Massacre 5 comes to Chicago's Historic Music Box Theatre on October 10th, and in addition to giving you the full details on the event - Fango's giving away 3 pairs of passes to the annual 24-hour horror event!
Chicago icon Stuart Gordon joins the Music Box Massacre 5 (Oct 10.) screening his Masters Of Horror episode, The Black Cat (starring Jeffrey Combs) which is a fictitious portrayal of Edgar Allan Poe spiraling into madness while writing the classic tale "The Black Cat." In addition, Gordon's Re-animator and From Beyond will be screened.
In addition to having Stuart appear - Chicago residents Tim Kazurinski (Saturday Night Live, Shakes the Clown) and Greg Holliman (Strangers with Candy) will be reading poetry selections from Edgar Allan Poe's work.
Here's the full details on what you can expect at Music Box Massacre 5:
24-hours-of-horror-movie-Madness!!! October 10, 2009
Music Box Theatre | 3733 N. Southport Ave., Chicago, Il 60613 | 1.773.871.6604 | Noon 'til Noon!
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
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Sundance 2009: "World's Greatest Dad"
23 January 2009 5:07 AM, PST
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When "Shakes The Clown" came out in 1991 I was quite taken with it. It's a genuinely dirty little movie, gross and absurd, set in a surreal world that doesn't really make a lot of sense, but there was a real filmmaker's sensibility at work in the film. I remember telling people about it at the time, and more often than not, as soon as I mentioned the writer/director/star of the film, people would just tune out. "Oh, you mean that guy from the 'Police Academy' films who screams a lot? No. No, thanks." And while I may not have that
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- Drew McWeeny
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