Go to www.drhorrible.com and see what NPH (Neil Patrick Harris A.K.A. Barney from “How I Met Your Mother” A.K.A. Doogie Howser S.S.) would do. It’s a three part streaming musical about a supervillain struggling to get into the League of Evil and win the heart of a woman he met at the laundromat. It’s wonderfully entertaining, told in three parts that are each about fifteen minutes long and, best of all, it’s FREE! Go, see, enjoy! And do it soon because the whole crazy experiment is only available free until midnight Sunday July 20th.

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2008 / 110 Minutes / PG-13
Reviewed by Dale J. Nauertz

Guillermo Del Toro is a likable enough guy. But, as a director, he seems to return to the same well over and over again. Allow me to elaborate.

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Well fortunately (for me anyway) I did not get hit by a bus, but I still managed to be almost a week late getting this posted. Lame I know.

Lucky for you, this podcast is a double-decker special edition of rambling zaniness as it managed to balloon into a nearly 2 hour long podcast. So I guess the old saying “beware what you wish for” has been proven to be quite accurate in this case, since you get to put up with us for even longer this time.

The first half of the podcast deals with us discussing the celebrity deaths from the first half of the year, as we reminisce about the likes of Charlton Heston and George Carlin. Then we improbably manage to wander into a discussion of Julia Roberts movies on our way to dissecting the latest “best of” lists from the AFI and Entertainment Weekly. Needless to say there is a lot of rambling mingled throughout, but if you’ve listened to us for this long then you should expect nothing less.

The second half is where it gets interesting as for some reason we wandered off into political land. If you have no interest in hearing our opinions on abortion, gay marriage, smoking bans, patriotism and all manner of other supposedly taboo subjects then listen no further than about the 55 minute mark. If you want to hear a couple of guys from Wisconsin espouse their views on some of the more heated subjects in the news these days then continue on.

Hopefully, when all is said and done, we will still have some listeners left. As always… Enjoy the show!

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Well friends… It has been an eternity, but we are back with not one but two podcasts this week.

This is the first of them and it is quite dated as it was actually recorded on the day the Oscars took place this year (late February I believe). We discuss the pros and cons of the original Star Wars trilogy vs. the prequels trilogy. To top it all off we go through the Oscar nominees and make our picks, so now you will have the benefit of being able to see just how far off our rockers we really are.

We hope you enjoy this one despite the fact that it is about 4 months overdue and that there were some technical difficulties in the last 5 minutes that make Dale’s audio less than ideal.

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Feel free to have a belated Oscar discussion below. The other podcast will go up tomorrow unless I get hit by a bus…

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2008 / 136 Minutes / PG-13
Reviewed by Dale J. Nauertz

There are some movies that don’t truly suck, but they fall so short of how good they could have been that you say they suck anyway, even though they’re really just kinda mediocre. The fourth entry in the “Indiana Jones” franchise is just such a movie. It’s not exactly horrible, and it has some entertaining moments here and there, but it sucks because it should have been so much better.

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2008 / 136 Minutes / PG-13
Reviewed by Dale J. Nauertz

Bruce Wayne is a pussy.

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by Dale J. Nauertz

It’s summer once again, ladies and gentlemen. The weather is warm, the sun is shining, and, if you’re anything like me, you drink outside and play a couple rounds of golf in a token effort to enjoy the summertime before retreating into an air-conditioned theater to watch months worth of big dumb action movies.
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2008 / 112 Minutes / R
Reviewed by Dale J. Nauertz

I may not love Judd Apatow as much as a lot of people but I’ve got to admire his pretty much single-handed revitalization of the modern comedy. His “40 Year Old Virgin” is an inspired bit of art, a movie with heart and soul that manages to keep its romantic comedy leanings fresh and provocative…and its raunchy moments are truly ingenious. “Knocked Up” mined the same formula and stumbled a bit, though it was overall pretty good (it lacks “40 Year Old”’s replay value, however). Apatow and his collaborators (especially the underrated Jake Kasdan who made one of my favorite films of the 90’s with “The Zero Effect” before taking a completely different career track with “Orange County”) then bounced back with “Walk Hard”, a rather inspired parody of the musical biopic genre (scenes like the destruction of the sink were simply dead-on). I didn’t see “Superbad”, mostly because the teenagers-trying-to-score genre is beyond played out for me, but I hear mostly good things. Aside from “Virgin”, each of these movies arrived in theaters bearing the Apatow seal of approval within just one year. Even with some quibbles about their quality (though none of the ones I have seen are less than three fist efforts) I have to admit this is an extraordinary feat for one group of talented people: Apatow, Seth Rogen, Bill Hader and Jonah Hill.

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by Dale J. Nauertz

Because I hate you all, here is the trailer for Mike Myers’ latest “comedy” which is about an Indian love guru hired to help a black hockey player get back together with his girlfriend so he can win the Stanley Cup. http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/theloveguru/large_trailer.html

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http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/indianajones.html?showVideo=1

Go there, see it, discuss. Personally, this movie looks far better than I expected. Of course, this is only two minutes of randomly edited footage, so who knows. What think you, fine sirs and madams?

- Dale

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