What We Watched LIVE!- CENTURIONS, DINO RIDERS, DINOSAUCERS

The second part of my Con-G 2013 updates!

So most of you are familiar with a little show I produce called What We Watched. Well, back when I was invited to Con-G as a guest, I decided to put my money where my mouth is and perform the show live as a panel. To fit it into the time slot, I decided to talk about not one, but *THREE* shows!

THE CENTURIONS!

DINO RIDERS!

DINOSAUCERS!

So sit back and watch this two part video, and learn the amusement of power armour and robot battles, dinosaur-riding telepaths fighting aliens, and idiotic dinosaur shapeshifters.  Yee haw.
 

GODZILLA: THE SERIES (What We Watched)

Yeehaw, kids! Its Saturday morning, and this is Derek the Bard back with another episode of What We Watched, the show laser-targeted at your brain's nostalgia gland! Well, I've got a new episode up this week, and its just in time for that most important day for all cartoons...SATURDAY MORNING! Ok, at least its Saturday morning where I am right now, holed up in the manly yet somehow also awesome Bardcave.

Back in 1998 there was a terrible Roland Emmerich movie starring Matthew Broderick trying to deal with a giant monster that people kept inexplicably calling "Godzilla", despite the fact that at no point in time did it ever breath radioactive fire or get into a fist fight with Gigan. Well, it was Adelaide Productions to the rescue with its cartoon tie-in! Not only does this series create a whole new Godzilla mythos for an American audience, it captures the power and majesty of the original Japanese films while still paying subtle homage to them.

So sit back with your bowl of Captain Crunch and a bottle of Yoo-Hoo, because for the next 25 minutes I'm going to (re-)introduce you to...GODZILLA: THE SERIES!

AEON FLUX (What We Watched)

Well, after a month long hiatus due to the holidays, MAGFest, and work we're finally back! This time on What We Watched, I shall discuss a television show that, over 20 years later, I'm STILL trying to understand. I...I just don't get it. I don't get...

AEON FLUX

 

TOP 5 WEIRDEST CHRISTMAS EPISODES (What We Watched)

Now we're back on track! Its a new What We Watched more in keeping with the holiday season. So sit back, grab some egg nog, and prepare to hear about my...

TOP 5 WEIRDEST CHRISTMAS EPISODES (Of Shows From My Childhood)

 

BEETLEJUICE (What We Watched)

Though you know you should be wary, What We Watched returns with something scary. Ghostly reviews we turn loose: Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice...

BEETLEJUICE

 

BRIMSTONE (What We Watched)

What We Watched triumphantly returns, and all has not been idle at Chasing the Muse central! So this time we take a rare look at a live action, adult series. That's right, folks, its...

BRIMSTONE

 

THE LAUNDRY FILES (Warning! Readers Advisory!)

Well, friends, its time for us to finally bring the Summer...I mean SEASONS...of Lovecraft to a close. We've been on a long ride these last 8 episodes, looking at various flicks from Lovecraftian film canon. To close things off, lets take a look at a series of novels, shall we? Thus we present the 9th, and final, installment of our little tale of woe as we crack open...

THE LAUNDRY FILES by Charles Stross

 

DRIVE ANGRY (Better Off Read)

Y'know what? Lovecraft isn't scary enough for Halloween. No, instead we need to take a film that most WOULDN'T consider a horror movie and try to suss out its hellish aspects to reveal the frightfest within. So I present for the approval of the Midnight Society this, the Halloween special (originally aired on Halloween, being posted here, sadly, on November 1st) of Chasing the Muse...

DRIVE ANGRY

 

TUCKER & DALE VS EVIL (Better Off Read)

We take a break from the Summer of Lovecraft to talk about a little horror-comedy film called...

                                            TUCKER & DALE VERSUS EVIL
 

DAGON (Warning! Readers Advisory!)

The Summer of Lovecraft continues with another film by Stuart Gordon and Brian Yuzna. This time its a fish-tastic feeding frenzy as we take a look at the horrific, unsightly, and down right WEIRD film called...

DAGON

IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS (Warning! Readers Advisory!)

The Summer of Lovecraft continues with a classic film from John Carpenter. This little diddy isn't BASED on one of Lovecraft's stories, but is instead inspired by the whole of them.

This review also has a segment filmed at ConBravo 2012, and features a number of participants and guests. A huge thanks to the folks there; they were incredibly accommodating.
Anyway, this week's review is called:

IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS

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WITCH HUNT (Warning! Readers Advisory!)

The Summer of Lovecraft continues with more shenanigans as we take a look at the infamous SEQUEL to last episode's "Cast a Deadly Spell". Replacing Fred Ward with Dennis Hopper, and using Julian Sands and Eric Bogosian as the villains, one must wonder: Does this film rise to the challenge of its predecessor...or should it be tossed on the concrete like a private eye's well smoked cigarette?

(Hint: The answer is that it sucks) Hold onto your hats, kids, this is...

WITCH HUNT

 

CAST A DEADLY SPELL (Warning! Readers Advisory!)

Welcome back, friends, to the Summer of Lovecraft. For the next three months I'll be reviewing movies and books based on the work of HP Lovecraft, and providing a humorous running commentary.

This week I have a movie I've promised to review for a while now. I finally got to it. It has a surprisingly all star cast (Fred Ward, David Warner, Clancy Brown, Julianne Moore, etc.), and is actually a pretty decent film. PLUS the review has a quick cameo from the Nostalgia Critic shot at ConBravo 2012, so everything is pretty awesome there. What movie is this, you ask? Why its...

CAST A DEADLY SPELL

THE DUNWICH HORROR (Warning! Readers Advisory!)

Welcome back, friends, to the Summer of Lovecraft. For the next three months I'll be reviewing movies and books based on the work of HP Lovecraft, and providing a humorous running commentary.

This week, its a direct to TV film for SyFy. And it was directed by everyone's favourite Transmorphers director/writer, Leigh Scott. Oh dear. Deary, deary me. Oh, but Jeffrey Combs is in it. So that's something! Get ready, kids, this is...

THE DUNWICH HORROR

MONSTER BRAWL (Better Off Read)

This is a short review, and it is out of order with the rest of the week...but its about a film that I saw and just *HAD* to talk about. Do you like monster movies? Cheesy B- and Z-grade flicks? Do you like wrestling? Ever wanted to see what would happen if a vampire and a mummy got into a smackdown? Well look no further, my friends, because I have just the movie for you! This is...

MONSTER BRAWL

HP Lovecraft's "NECRONOMICON"

Welcome back, friends, to the Summer of Lovecraft. For the next three months I'll be reviewing movies and books based on the work of HP Lovecraft, and providing a humorous running commentary.

We have entered into the "quality" phase off Lovecraft films: The movies that were never made for the big screen. Direct to VHS, direct to TV...oh yeah. So which one did I pick this time? Why, a movie that turns HP Lovecraft into a pulp hero. A film called...

HP LOVECRAFT'S: "NECRONOMICON"

From Beyond (Warning! Readers Advisory!)

Welcome back, friends, to the Summer of Lovecraft. For the next three months I'll be reviewing movies and books based on the work of HP Lovecraft, and providing a humorous running commentary.

We missed a week as I got my schedule synched up with that of stage actor Leeman Kessler, who will be joining the Chasing the Muse team for the next 10 weeks in the role of none other than Howard Phillips Lovecraft himself! But oh, friends...what a movie we have for you today.

It is none other than another acclaimed Lovecraftian adaptation by director Stuart Gordon, starring Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton. That's right, my friends, this week we're looking at...

FROM BEYOND

Review- Re-Animator (Warning! Readers Advisory!)

And thus it begins, The Summer of Lovecraft on Warning! Readers Advisory!. 7 movies and 4 books based on, and adapted from, the works of that master of pulp horror and general douchebaggery, HP Lovecraft. In the weeks to come I will review such seminal works as From Beyond, Necronomicon, Dunwich Horror, Dagon, Cast a Deadly Spell and In the Mouth of Madness. Additionally, I will review all four of Charles Stross' The Laundry novels, chronicling the adventures of British secret agent and tech support guru, Bob Howard, as he faces off against the forces of the Mythos.

But how are we to begin this week? Why, with that least Lovecraftian of Lovecraft films, a little Jeffrey Combs number called...

RE-ANIMATOR

 

Warlock (Better Off Read)

Well, this is unexpected. This is my longest episode yet...probably because I decided to shove in some amusing education and context for the film. With that said, I quite enjoy this movie, and I hope that by watching this review you can understand its manic joys as well.

That film, my friends, is called:

WARLOCK

Clerks: The Animated Series (What We Watched)

Wow, two What We Watched episodes in two weeks! *AMAZING*!

This time, I polled you, the viewers, asking to pick what I was going to review this week. And the answer?

CLERKS: THE ANIMATED SERIES

Snoogins.