Reviews: "My Name is Bruce" by Zombie Boy "In the sleepy Oregon town of Goldlick, a group of teenagers partying in a cemetery filled with the Chinese victims of a decades old mine implosion inadvertently release Guan-Di, the Chinese god of war. He takes immediate, and hilarious, vengeance on them, and the sole survivor is Jeff…who just happens to be the world’s largest Bruce Campbell fan. So he sets out to wrangle his hero into saving his home town before virtually everyone in it is beheaded by the pissed off entity he has unleashed. The problem?..." Read More "My Name is Bruce" by Angela Mac "The movie industry is, at its core, an industry – which is to say, a business. Celebrities could hug every last tree in the Amazon rainforest, but it would do little to negate the fact Hollywood is not a non-profit entity. Incidentally, major studios aren’t standing around, frothing at the bit for an opportunity to give Bruce Campbell millions of dollars just to screw around in front of a camera.
… but thank the good Lord there were people willing to give him hundreds of thousands of dollars to!" Read More "Bubba Ho-Tep" by Midnight Butterfly "Bubba Ho-Tep is so much more than it appears to be on the surface. When you say the plot out loud it sounds beyond ridiculous: Elvis (Bruce Campbell) is actually alive and living in a nursing home in East Texas because, back in the Seventies, tired of the pressures that come with being a cultural icon, he had switched lives with an Elvis impersonator just to take a break. The impersonator died and Elvis got stuck in his impesonator’s life…which was okay, because he felt free again, revitalized. A tragic accident that broke his hip also left him in a coma for twenty years. Now, old and broken with a rickety hip and a cancerous growth on his penis, he whiles away in bitterness and self pity in the Shady Rest nursing home. While there, he and a patient who thinks he is John F. Kennedy (Ossie Davis – yes, that Ossie Davis) have to do battle with a four-thousand year old mummy in order to save their souls and the souls of the patients in the nursing home. Ridiculous, right? Well, yes, it is. But it is a truism of art that comedy is someone else’s pain and that’s never truer than it is in this movie. Bubba Ho-Tep is funny, you laugh at and with it, but it’s also sad and horrifying. At its most fundamental then, Bubba Ho-Tep is a metaphor for old age..." Read More |
