...ips by my Vidiocy radar, only to wind up in this section at a later date. This time around it’s GUARDIAN, a sloppily plotted but not uninteresting mixture of action film and horror starring Mario Van Peebles. The box cover gives little hint to the cine...
It’s comedy week here at `Vidiocy,` as two recent hits and a largely forgotten item from the early ‘60s lead us into a week of mirth and madness. Up first, Buena Vista Home Entertainment’s release one of the year’s biggest surprise hits, Scary Movie. R...
... 2001The Vidiocy column has appeared, in various forms of print and pixels, for 10 years now. Each year, I've taken the opportunity to abuse my forum by listing my opinions on the best and worst direct-to-video releases of the year. Due to the huge ch...
Based on Actual Television ShowsGreetings Cinescapers! It has been a sad week here in the wasteland; writer and former Vidiocy scribe John Thonen has passed on. I had the pleasure of knowing John and I can't express how great the man was. It was damn awes...
OK, first thing's first... The DVD guys call their regular column "Vidiocy," which I think is a pretty cool title, and Sonia calls her regular TV column "Remote Patrol," also a cool title... but when our editor Scott asked me to do a regular book column I...
...he March `Vidiocy` column, I took some jabs at Columbia/Tri Star’s Velocity Trap. Imagine my surprise when it turned out to be a very enjoyable science fiction-action hybrid. From the very first scenes, a series of slightly satirical TV commercials—c...
Welcome to the second day of 2001: A Space Vidiocy. The new video selections are slim this week, but, with the holidays behind us, better days loom just ahead. Meanwhile, let’s take a look at the third misfire in a row from one time genre master, Paul V...
...is weekly Vidiocy column, so I won’t go into that aspect too much except to say that this is basically a feature-length elaboration of the `Taarna` sequence from the first Heavy Metal movie, and the comparative quality is inversely proportional to the ...
This entry of the Vidiocy column marks its first appearance under its new weekly schedule. In honor of this momentous occasion, I’d like to offer Fandom’s readers a cornucopia of exciting new releases and venerable classics. That’s what I’d like to do. ...
...k here at Vidiocy with a double feature dose of Mondo mania along with a film about a director and his cast who get a bad case of worms.Vidiocy is our weekly Video & DVD column.
This week’s column is dedicated to John Thonen, who passed away recently at the young age of 51. John was the very talented creator of this column’s predecessor "Vidiocy", which had a long run on Cinescape.com and has been a big influence. Not much more y...
VIDIOCY NEWS LORD OF THE RINGS information is starting to come out regarding the DVD release of the film on August 6th. First up will be a two-disc "Theatrical Edition" with disc one offering the film as seen during its highly successful theatrical run. D...
... order to Vidiocy friend, J.R. Bookwalter. The DVD release of the director’s recent Full Moon release Witchouse 2: Blood Coven has received 6 nominations from Video Store Magazine in their annual DVD festival. Since the film was the inaugural releas...