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http://searchforschlock.com/media/podcasts/sfs-062-MyScienceProject.mp3 Download MP3 Yet again do we all pay for Chris's nostalgic love of 80s movies starring Fisher Stevens. In this one, Fisher sports a goofy Brooklyn accent, so it's not as offensive. In this one, some high school kids find the discarded power source from a UFO, which the U.S. government apparently left in a junkyard and didn't bother to study or whatever. So naturally they hook it up to a car battery, and cause a time warp that threatens all of reality. And that's it, really. Rick Baker is involved, so parts of it look good, at least (including an impressive-for-1985 dinosaur sequence), and there's a tongue-in-cheek Dennis Hopper role. What can I say? Chris has bad taste in movies. Original post located at searchforschlock.com.

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http://searchforschlock.com/media/podcasts/sfs-061-Cobra.mp3 Download MP3 Cobra is the story of Los Angeles police officer Marion Cobretti and his one-man, several-automatic-weapon war on a cult of murderers led by the Night Slasher (played by that guy from X-Files with the face). So you can see why we knew we'd love it. American auteur Sylvester Stallone wrote and starred, but inexplicably did not direct; SFS favorites Golan and Globus produced, god bless 'em. This is the kind of movie that played right to every Reagan voter's base assumptions about rampant crime and the appropriately deadly response necessary -- we're talking almost Death Wish 3 levels of anarchy and vigilantism. (I may have mentioned that we love Golan-Globus.) Much of Cobra came from Stallone's idea of what Beverly Hills Cop should have been like, so maybe he's not as smart as we think he is. Original post located at searchforschlock.com.

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http://searchforschlock.com/media/podcasts/sfs-059-HedwigAndTheAngryInch.mp3 Download MP3 Longtime listeners know that the all-powerful Omegahedron has good sides as well as bad, and that occasionally we watch movies that don't suck. This is one of those times, particularly because Andrew has been trying to get Chris to watch Hedwig for years, and the only way to make Chris watch any movie is coercion. That's not to say Hedwig is an inappropriate choice; even more than a decade after its release and in the wake of a Broadway revival starring Doogie Howser, Hedwig enjoys only cult-level popularity and continues to drift below the general pop-cultural radar, in spite of being excellent in just about every way that matters. Well, you're not going to get mainstream acceptance by casting Michael Pitt, I guess. Original post located at searchforschlock.com.

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