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Current Staffers:

Joey Tedesco
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Twitter: @CartoonPalooza
Latest Articles: Aladdin: The Return of Jafar, The Cat in the Hat, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, The Last Airbender, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.
Suzie McGinney
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Twitter: @blockbusterchck
Latest Articles: Minority Report, Masters of the Universe, The Fifth Element, Snakes on a Plane, Tomorrow Never Dies.
The Wily Badger
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Website: Blogging with Badger
Twitter: @wilybadger
Latest Articles: Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Tron Legacy, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
Albert
Email:
Twitter: @agonybooth
Latest Articles: Interview with Michelle Goodeve, Degrassi's Ms. Avery, RiffTrax: Plan 9 from Outer Space LIVE! Nashville 2009, Family Ties - "A, My Name is Alex", Degrassi Junior High - "Eggbert", Best Worst Movie (2009) Review.
Forums Moderated: News & Announcements, Questions, Feedback, Tech Issues & Mod Actions, Recap Submissions, Everything Else.
Sofie Liv
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Twitter: @RedSuitCaseXxX
Latest Articles: Sofie's Journey to a Fantastic World, The Phantom of the Opera, Transformers, Doctor Who - "Love & Monsters", Five Arguments in Favor of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
Liam Barrett
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Twitter: @CAFR
Latest Articles: King Ralph, American Pie, Hot Fuzz.
Ed Harris
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Website: Ed's Pop Culture Shack
Twitter: @edharris1178
Latest Articles: Franchise Evolution: Beverly Hills Cop, Franchise Evolution: King Kong, John Travolta: Staying Employed, Death Proof, Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold.
Forums Moderated: Movies, Specific Films & Franchises.
Favorite Movies: The Godfather, Caddyshack, Lethal Weapon, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Darkman.
Favorite TV Shows: Cheers, Whose Line is it Anyway?, Reno: 911, Tales From the Crypt.
Favorite CDs: The Long Road Home: The Ultimate John Fogerty/Creedence Collection, George Carlin: What am I Doing in New Jersey?, Jeff Foxworthy: You Might be A Redneck If...., Steve Martin: Let's Get Small.
A fan of less than great cinema since childhood, Ed divides his time between writing scripts, working an actual paying job and subjecting himself willingly to some of the worst films society has produced.
Fear Fan
Email:
Website: Terror Obscura
Twitter: @TheFearFan
Latest Articles: Wes Craven's New Nightmare, Godzilla 1985, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, Top 10 Vampires, A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child.
Film Renegado
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Twitter: @TheFilmRenegado
Latest Articles: Delta Farce, Top Cat: The Movie.
Full of Questions
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Latest Articles: Harper's Island, Holes, Suspect Zero, Se7en, The Ring Two.
Michael A. Novelli
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Twitter: @MichaelANovelli
Latest Articles: Atlas Shrugged: Part I, Commentary Track: Degrassi High "The All Nighter", Mendopiece Fanfic Theatre "Mr. Mendo vs. Scott Pilgrim", The Last Unicorn, Pink Lady's Great Motion Picture / Japanese Spider-Man.
Forums Moderated: The Agonizer, Everything Else.
Favorite Movies: My Boyfriend Is Type B, Starchaser-Legend Of Orin, The Prince Of Egypt.
Favorite CDs: MM..FOOD.
Favorite Foods: Cheeseburgers.
Favorite Beverages: Soda, Kahlua and Creams.
As perhaps the only man alive who thought Freddy Got Fingered was a good movie, Michael has long been able to withstand even the worst cinema around. Even Cannibal Holocaust! A descendant of Edgar Allan Poe, he wrote his first novel, Kingdom Rattus while deployed to Iraq in 2008, and is hard at work on his next one. As the Agony Booth's self-appointed head interviewer and only Scientologist, he has only two things he wants from life: for Kingdom Rattus to make him a millionaire, and to interview James Remar. He began work on the Booth's first video series while deployed to Afghanistan...
Ryan Lohner
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Latest Articles: Crash, The Golden Compass, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - "Over a Barrel", Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - "H.A.T.E.", Delgo.
Forums Moderated: TV.
Favorite Movies: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
Favorite TV Shows: Babylon 5, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Desperate Housewives, Prison Break.
Favorite Books: The Demolished Man, The Stars My Destination, Three Kingdoms.
Ryan lives in Sparta, New Jersey, a quaint little burg without much for kids to do except go to the movies. Thus began a lifelong love affair, as even back then he grew to love examining why a film worked, or didn't. He is a member of the Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society, and currently studying for a Master's Degree in Library and Information Science. His hobbies include running, piano, and annoying people with that damn lowercase forum user name.
Sursum Ursa
Email:
Twitter: @JillABearup
Latest Articles: Avatar: The Legend of Korra, 10 Things I Hate About You, Labyrinth, Stuff You Like vs. the Disney Princesses, Beauty and the Beast.
Cecil Trachenburg
Email:
Website: Good Bad Flicks
Twitter: @GoodBadFlicks
Latest Articles: Shark Night 3D, DOA: Dead or Alive, Pieces, Double Dragon, Spice World.
Favorite Movies: Clerks, JCVD, Haute Tension, American Psycho, Battle Royale, Equilibrium, Oldboy, Saw, Eurotrip, Black Christmas, The Descent, The Terminator, Bad Channels, Robocop.
Favorite CDs: Sky Eats Airplane.
Favorite Books: All I Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger, Xombies, Pilgrimage To Hell, Generation X.
Favorite Foods: Hot Wings, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Pies.
Favorite Beverages: Mountain Dew Whiteout, Ecto Cooler.
Stan Ferguson
Email:
Website: Thoroughly Manly Musicals
Twitter: @Stan_I_Am
Latest Articles: Mega Python vs. Gatoroid, Moulin Rouge, Mamma Mia!, Captain America, Tommy.
Born in the Yukon to a family of Grizzlies, Stan was raised on a diet of show-tunes and compact cars until he was finally released upon an unsuspecting public who went on not suspecting anything and still do not suspect a thing to this day.

Inactive Staffers:

Evan Waters
Latest Articles: Dungeons & Dragons, Day of the Dead 2: Contagium.
Torgo's Hand
Latest Articles: Hudson Hawk (1 segment), Gigli (1 segment).
Favorite Movies: Dawn of the Dead, Dr. Strangelove, The Third Man, Sword of Doom, Young Frankenstein, Memento, The Killer, Bringing Out the Dead, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, A Christmas Story.
Favorite TV Shows: Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Critic, SCTV, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Father Ted, The Wire, Farscape.
Favorite CDs: Revolutionary Vol. 1, Revolutionary Vol. 2, MTV Unplugged in New York by Nirvana, Hot Rocks 1964-71, Roots, Seasons in the Abyss, Enter the Wu-Tang, Conquering the Throne.
Favorite Books: Mike Nelson's Death Rat!, American Psycho, America (The Book), Nothing's Sacred.
TorgosHand is an occasional contributor to mega reviews and screen captures/captions.
It is believed that he resides somewhere in southeastern Connecticut working as a cook.
When he isn't scouring video shelves for wretched "movies", or trying to convince his co-workers to switch to a Soylent Green purveyor, TorgosHand enjoys gaming, travelling, and boxing.
Kevin Podsiadlik
Latest Articles: Star Trek: The Next Generation - "The Last Outpost", Star Trek: The Next Generation - "The Battle", Space Mutiny.
I've been a writer on the web for just about as long as there's been a web, writing mostly about pro wrestling in the 1990's and lately branching out into whatever catches my fancy. Sometimes (as a product of the golden age of the video arcade) I go by my initials, "KJP".
Rori Stevens
Latest Articles: Quest for Camelot, Casino Royale (1 segment), Hudson Hawk (2 segments), Moonwalker.
Favorite Movies: Being There, Hoffman, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Edward Scissorhands, Beauty and the Beast, Labyrinth, Man on the Moon, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Arthur.
Favorite TV Shows: Cirque du Soleil - Nouvelle Experience, Doctor Who, The Critic, SCTV.
Favorite CDs: Earth Wind & Fire: Greatest Hits, Dr. Demento's 30th Anniversary Collection.
Favorite Books: Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers.

Miss Stevens came to the Agony Booth in the process of looking for reviews of Trail of the Pink Panther and has since established herself as (among other things) a notoriously devoted Peter Sellers fan, a Michael Jackson deconstructionist, and an all-round critiquer. She has delusions of success as a writer but has a day job just in case.

"Sapphire" credits whatever success she has as a Boother to her love of the whimsical, eccentric side of cinema - while others might blanche at the madness of the films she's helped recap, she dives in every time.

Jessica Ritchey
Latest Articles: 10,000 B.C., Southland Tales (1 segment), Ghost, Casino Royale (2 segments), Hudson Hawk (2 segments).
Favorite Movies: Singin' in the Rain , The Red Shoes , Hatari! .
Favorite TV Shows: Mystery Science Theater 3000, Hill Street Blues , Karen Sisco .
Favorite Books: Sleazoid Express, The Time Out Film Guide , The New Biographical Dictionary of Film .

Born in Western North Carolina, Juniper was discovered in a filthy shack in the lovely Blue Ridge Mountains, speaking a made up language to a tattered rag doll, her only companion. Her social skills have improved little in the intervening years. She is currently making flailing efforts at being a freelance writer. One of history's supreme procrastinators she plans on writing a book about it someday.

Sarah O.
Website: My LiveJournal
Latest Articles: Full House - "The House Meets the Mouse (Part II)", Jem - "Journey Through Time", Full House - "The House Meets the Mouse (Part I)", Jem - "One Jem Too Many".
Rebecca Nuñez
Latest Articles: Armageddon (1 segment).
Mark M. Meysenburg
Website: Mark's home page
Latest Articles: Knight Rider - "Trust Doesn't Rust", Knight Rider - "Good Day at White Rock", Knight Rider - "Deadly Maneuvers", Knight Rider - "Knight of the Phoenix", Mister T - "U.F.O. Mystery".
Favorite Movies: The Ten Commandments, Star Wars (Ep. IV, V, and VI), The Lord of The Rings trilogy, Dead Alive.
Favorite TV Shows: Mythbusters, Dirty Jobs, Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Favorite CDs: Hoodoo Gurus, The Rainmakers.
Favorite Books: The Dark Night Returns, Science and Technology in World History, an Introduction.
Mark teaches at Doane College, a liberal arts college in Crete, Nebraska. Most of his teaching involves computer science, but Mark also occasionally teaches mathematics and the history of science; he has also been known to offer three week courses on the worst movies ever made.

Mark's bad movie obsession was kindled in the early 1980s by the Medved brothers, then fanned to full flame by late-night showings of Plan 9 from Outer Space. Who could have predicted the long term effects of satin-pajama-clad, mincing alien menace?

Mark's other interests include homebrew beer and wine, and practicing and teaching martial arts.

Arya
Latest Articles: The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Twilight, Meet the Spartans, The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising, Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (3 segments).
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Number One
Latest Articles: Star Trek (TAS) - "The Infinite Vulcan", Enterprise - "Two Days and Two Nights".
Number One was created by two computer geeks using a Memotech MX512, some wrinkled old copies of Hustler and a wind machine. She enjoys propping her breasts up with pink lamé and empowering naive, socially inept sci-fi nerds.

Actually, the latter of those two sentences is sort of true.

D.R. McLeod
Website: The Wizard Diaries
Latest Articles: Hulk.
Favorite Movies: Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Transformers, Spaceballs, Spinal Tap, My Neighbor Totoro, Blazing Saddles, Clerks.
I really don't have much to say about myself here. If you really wanna know me, talk to me. I'll answer.
Keith McPhatter
Latest Articles: KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park.
Ms. Avery
Website: The Degrassi Digest
Latest Articles: MacGyver - "Thief of Budapest", MacGyver - "Pilot".
Jordon Davis
Latest Articles: Space: 1999 - "Breakaway", Family Ties - "Karen II, Alex 0", The Adventure of the Wrong Santa Claus, Mister T - "Cape Kennedy Caper", Mister T - "Mystery of the Stranger".
Forums Moderated: In the News, Do-It-Yourself Recaps.
Favorite Movies: Powder.
Favorite CDs: White.
Favorite Books: Salt.
B.A. Political Science, SUNY Albany - 1991
Master of Public Administration, University of Georgia - 1993
Juris Doctorate, Emory University - 1996

Admitted:
State of Georgia - 1996
State of New York - 1997

Winner:
Fields Medal (with Laurent Lafforgue and Vladimir Voevodsky) - 1998

R.G. Quimby
Website: Snarky Two-Shoes
Latest Articles: Are You Afraid of the Dark? - "The Tale of the Final Wish", Return to Oz, Are You Afraid of the Dark? - "The Tale of the Dark Dragon", Labyrinth, Are You Afraid of the Dark? - "The Tale of the Long-Ago Locket".
Jason Sartin
Website: Primary Error
Latest Articles: Casino Royale (1 segment), The Fantastic Four (1 segment), Gigli (1 segment).

Unlike many other recappers, Jason wasn't introduced to the fold by seeing Exorcist 2 or anything. He's just a random internet cynical humor guy or something. (Wow, we don't have many of those.)

Jonathon Pernisek
Latest Articles: Hudson Hawk (2 segments), The Fantastic Four (1 segment).
Ivan Druzhkov
Latest Articles: Southland Tales (3 segments), Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (1 segment).
Bear
Website: This Bear's Lair
Latest Articles: Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (1 segment).
Favorite Movies: Aliens, Field of Dreams.
Favorite TV Shows: Battlestar Galactica.
Born in NYC, but saw "The Fog" when I was in High School and the California Coast looked so cool in that movie that I headed west when I was 17 and have been out here ever since. I have three passions, hiking (mainly in Yosemite but anywhere interesting), four wheeling in my trusty Jeep and movies, both good and bad.
Amanda Wells
Latest Articles: The Skydivers, Casino Royale (1 segment), Climax! Mystery Theater - "Casino Royale", When Time Ran Out..., Armageddon (2 segments).
Favorite Movies: Casablanca, Laura, The Odd Couple, The Thin Man Collection, Rio Grande.
Favorite TV Shows: The Office, Mystery Science Theater 3000, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rockford Files, Magnum PI, Gunsmoke.
Favorite CDs: Merle Haggard Box Set, The Cream of Clapton, Cowboy Junkies Studio.
Favorite Books: The Island at the Center of the World, Down the Great Unknown, The River of Doubt, Murder on the Orient Express, The Millionaires, As Time Goes By, The Big Four.

If I was a bad movie, I'd find it much easier to write about myself than I do at present. My main interests outside of really bad movies is playing music. I've played guitar for 15 years, performed before far more people than I'm really comfortable with and am currently having fun listening to my 5 year old son bang away on his new starter drum set. Yes, drummers are so hard to find, I had to resort to making my own.

When not playing music, I also like to work in my yard and many gardens, try new recipes (never would have thought that would happen), research my genealogy (I get to be related to the beheaded king and queen of France!) and read history books primarily about natural disasters and personal tales. And when I'm not doing any of that, then I'm spending time with my great family.

The first movie I remember going to the theater to see was The Black Stallion which we were late to the beginning of and as we were waiting for it to begin again and rewatch it (is that even legal?) we got dragged away by my dad and sister who insisted we come watch Airplane! with them in the other theater. Oh, and I cried so hard at the end of Oh, Heavenly Dog! that my sister had to call my mom to come pick me up. As a kid, I never had a Big Wheel. I still want one.

LaShawn Wanak
Website: Cafe in the Woods
Latest Articles: The Women, Southland Tales (1 segment), Xanadu.
Favorite Movies: Lord of the Rings, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Brazil, Daughters of the Dust.
Favorite CDs: Anything by XTC, Phil Keaggy or Over the Rhine.
Favorite Books: The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle, The Otherland Series by Tad Williams, Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart.
Favorite Beverages: Tea.
When not burying her face in a book or wiping snot off her preschooler, LaShawn can often be found hunched over her laptop, churning out short stories and cackling madly. She likens bad movies to fried twinkies--greasy, fattening, full of empty calories, and very, very addictive.
The Fili
Latest Articles: Elektra, Zoom: Academy for Superheroes, Alone in the Dark.
Favorite Movies: One, Two, Three, Sunset Boulevard, Blues Brothers, Cyrano de Bergerac, Harvey, Casablance, Memento.
Favorite TV Shows: Firefly, House M.D., Doctor Who, Lost, Battlestar Galactica.
Favorite CDs: Billy Joel Ultimate Collection, The Blues Brothers Complete, Wise Guys - Wo der Pfeffer wächst.
Favorite Books: City of Dreaming Books, Terry Pratchett's Discworld, Philip K. Dick's Short Stories, Faust I, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal.
Hi, my name is Matthias, I am a student of English and German, and may one day even get to teach these (if my university ever works out how to run a B.A. system). I live in a medium-sized German town few have ever heard of, and have only recently discovered the joys of suffering through horrible movies, describing them in every little... okay, let's forget about the joy and make that therapeutic effect.

Dan Laurikietis
Website: My Myspace
Latest Articles: Batman Forever.
Dan is an actor, playwright, theatre director and writer of dubious literature. In order to feed his many substance dependencies, he also teaches high school drama.

He lives in Northwest England with his fiance Lauren and his dog Molly.

In his spare time Dan likes to squander his cash on books with pictures in them, DVDs and video games.

He wishes he was more bohemian.

Sillstaw
Latest Articles: Southland Tales (1 segment), Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (1 segment).
Favorite Movies: Singin' in the Rain, American Beauty, Manhattan, Run Lola Run, Back to the Future 1-3.
Favorite TV Shows: Arrested Development, Sports Night, The Twilight Zone (50s/60s), Whose Line is it Anyway?, Fawlty Towers, Breaking Bad.
Favorite CDs: Spiderland, Straight Outta Lynwood, (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, New Sacred Cow, Jimmy Eat World, Dirty.
Favorite Books: Microserfs, Making Movies, In the Blink of an Eye, Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age at the American Film Institute, Perfume.
Sillstaw joined the Agony Booth after finding the recap for Trail of the Pink Panther. An aspiring filmmaker (aspiring in the sense of "occasionally shoots video"), he likes watching movies to learn about form, style and other film-school pretenses. He is currently in the Witness Protection Program for an incident involving flowers and industrial chemicals that would make for one hell of a movie.
Zac Smith
Website: My Livejournal
Latest Articles: Factory Girl.
Favorite Movies: Heavenly Creatures, Blue Velvet, Battle Royale, The Lord of the Rings, Velvet Goldmine.
Favorite TV Shows: Farscape, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, South Park, Summer Heights High, The Chaser's War on Everything.
Favorite CDs: Transformer, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia, Electric Warrior, The Velvet Underground & Nico.
Favorite Books: Breakfast of Champions, Lolita, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Survivor, The God Delusion.
I was born in 1987 to a criminal psychologist and an Australian immigrant. In 2008 I published my first recap for the Agony Booth. I believe that about sums it up.
Steve Pratte
Latest Articles: Casino Royale (1 segment), Hudson Hawk (2 segments), The Fantastic Four (1 segment).
Favorite Movies: Star Wars series, Alien series, RoboCop, Lord of the Rings series.
Favorite TV Shows: Trailer Park Boys, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Mythbusters, The Office (BBC), Home Movies, Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist.

An IT peon in the Midwest with potentially too much time on his hands and an affinity for Bollywood.

I was first exposed to the glories of Crap Cinema when I was in high school and saw Mystery Science Theater 3000 for the first time. I've never been the same since.

I happily serve The Booth as a moderator for a few forums and occasionally contribute material to the Mega Reviews.

Jake Cremins
Latest Articles: Southland Tales (1 segment), Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (1 segment).
Favorite Movies: Notorious, Klute, Solaris (1972), Mulholland Dr., House of Games, Game of Death II, Playtime, The Ninth Configuration.
Favorite TV Shows: Strangers With Candy, Mission: Impossible, The Golden Girls.
Favorite CDs: Post (Björk), Sonic Seasonings (Wendy Carlos), second toughest in the infants (Underworld), Horses (Patti Smith), Hungry for Stink (L7).
Favorite Books: The Crying of Lot 49, Red Dragon, The Essential Ellison, Jude the Obscure, Every Night, Josephine!, Less Than Zero, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, The Sheep Look Up, Ballroom of the Skies.

In ninth grade, Jake devoted a website to Exorcist II: The Heretic. Believe it or not, years later this actually helped him get an unimaginably glamorous job on the bottom rung of post-production for a show airing on ESPN. Dreams do come true!

In between organizing tape libraries and labeling things, Jake also works as an editor for the occasional zero-budget independent production. He was also a film critic for the now-defunct Movie Gurus website.

Richard Murphy
Website: Britannia Rules?
Latest Articles: The Ladykillers, Get Carter, The Avengers.
Jack Spencer, Jr.
Latest Articles: Heidi Montag's "Higher", I Know Who Killed Me.
Favorite Movies: Jaws, Die Hard, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, My Dinner With Andre, Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn, Phantasm, Casablanca, Tremors, Citizen Kane, Alien, Aliens, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.
Favorite CDs: Led Zeppelin by Led Zeppelin, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath by Black Sabbath, Tapestry by Carol King, Jim Croce Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits, Let It Be by the Beatles.
Favorite Books: Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton, Beast by Peter Benchley, The Shining by Stephen King, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction by J. D. Salinger, Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.
Jack Spencer Jr has lived in New York State his entire life at various points along the Thruway like an incontinent who has to stop at every rest area. He spent much of his youth reading books, watching television shows and movies. After high school, he became more aware of films on the extreme ends of the cinematic bell curve, both the excellent, such as Jaws, Citizen Kane and Casablanca, and the turgid, like Plan 9 From Outer Space, Robot Monster, and Jaws: the Revenge. When not writing recaps or posting on the forums with all the je ne sais quoi of a monkey flinging chocolate-frosted marshmallows at people, he's staring at the ceiling where he's tacked up a helpful note: "Get back to WORK."
David Bowgett
Website: The Cave of Caerbannog (on hiatus, but returning soon...)
Latest Articles: The Fantastic Four (1 segment), Gigli (1 segment).

While my website may have fallen off this Earth due to a negligent host and my own time constraints, rest assured I still keep my eyes on what the world of horrid films has to offer, and am still yet to have my say on a few of them!

Martini Shark
Latest Articles: Timecop, Surviving Christmas, The Stewardesses 3-D, Ghost Rider, Boat Trip.
Amber Meadows
Favorite Movies: Paranoia Agent, Shaun of the Dead.
Favorite Books: Watership Down.
Mark "Scooter" Wilson
Website: About Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Latest Articles: The Greatest American Hero - "Here's Looking at You, Kid", The Greatest American Hero - "The Hit Car", Toomorrow, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, The Day the Earth Stood Still.
Favorite Movies: Superman, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , Go, Il Mostro, The Fellowship of the Ring, Episode V, Bedrooms and Hallways, Spirited Away.
Favorite TV Shows: Doctor Who, Bleach.
Favorite CDs: Home Made Kazoku, Santana, Third Eye Blind, Rob Thomas, Take That.
Favorite Books: Jumper, The Secret History, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the Shadow, The Quincunx.
Favorite Foods: Meat.
Mark is a history guy, a graphics guy, a guy for whom wryly cynical assessments of popular culture are the scallion cream cheese on the toasted everything bagel of life. He spends his time teaching modern history at Brooklyn College, pondering the ancient Romans at the CUNY Graduate Center, and conjuring maps and illustrations for ungrateful bankers at various Manhattan monoliths. Readers are welcome to guess at reasons why he's nicknamed Scooter, with the proviso that all such submissions are guaranteed to be rather more interesting than the truth. Mark lives in the Midwood section of Brooklyn with a happy-go-lucky, flop-eared dog named Chiyo who is probably, at this very moment, waiting patiently for her walkies.
Kyle Palkowski
Latest Articles: Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (1 segment).
Favorite Movies: Hudson Hawk, Q: The Winged Serpent, Men at Work, They Live, Superman: The Movie, Somewhere in Time, Dawn of the Dead (1978), Jake Speed, Maximum Overdrive, The Stuff, Invasion U.S.A. (1985), Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, The Lethal Weapon Series, The It's Alive Trilogy.
Favorite Foods: Pizza, Buffalo Wings, French Fries, Olive Garden Breadsticks.
Favorite Beverages: Apple Juice, Coke.
An eccentirc, nerdy B-movie junkie and Goodwill store donation attendant who lives in Wisconsin, land of cheese,and fireworks. I deal with sweltering summers and winters that make Milwaukee look like the other, smaller Canada. Has been described by others as "a big kid." I have an interest in designing DVD covers, and have done a few for VHS-to-DVD transfers. Discovered the agony booth when looking for more on Mitchell, and became a memebr a couple days later. Single and looking, ladies!
Gareth Basset
Latest Articles: Wild Wild West.
Rafael Antonio Cabrero
Latest Articles: Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (1 segment).
Favorite Movies: Star Wars, Lilo & Stitch (don't ask why), Saved!, Latter Days, My Cousin Vinny, Over the Hedge, Monsters, Inc, Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-o-Rama, They Call me Macho Woman, Spider-Man, Iron-Man, Let's Go To Prison, among others.
Favorite TV Shows: Ugly Betty, Caso Cerrado (have a weakness for court shows, and this one adds a Jerry Spriger-esque flair to the mix), Judge David Young, Judge Mathins, Judge Joe Brown, Family Guy, American Dad, Law & Order, Babylon 5, Deep Space 9, Mind of Mencia, Penn & Teller: Bull...., Justice League, Ben 10, the older Dexter's Laboratory, Kids Next Door, The Powerpuff Girls, The Flinstones (I prefer the Spanish dub), Pinky & The Brain, Animaniacs, Air Emergency, Seconds from Disaster,.
Favorite Books: Honor Harrignton Series, John Adams, Diplomacy, 1632 Series, among others..
Favorite Foods: Anything.
Originally from Puerto Rico, I got interested in the world of bad movies thanks to a late night job in college that gave me the opportunity to watch Joe Bob Brigg's Drive-in Theater. Joe Bob introduced me to gems such as Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-o-Rama, and They Call Me Macho Woman.

I went back to Puerto Rico in 1995 and remembered kindly, but firmly showing a friend the errors of his ways, when after wasting $5.50. (And to think they now cost twice as much!) sitting through Armaggedon he ahd the had the gumption of commenting that the movie was quite realistic. When I bumped into this website, and read the Armaggedon and Godzilla recaps, I knew this was the place to drop by periodically in this wild and wooly world of the Internet. In fact, the Armaggedon recap was a 13-page expansion on the arguments I used after that fateful Saturday afternoon.

After years sitting on the sidelines reading the recaps and participating in the forums, I was honored, when Jet asked me to help out recapping Battlefield Earth. I was surprised how funny I could be and have begun slowly contributing to the site.

I am not well-versed in pop culture, but I am a history buff (especially military history), a news junkie, and a bit of a sci-fi fan. I hope I can bring that viewpoint in my recaps.

Well I think I have bared enough of my soul for all of you. I hope you enjoy my recaps.

Lewis "Linkara" Lovhaug
Website: Atop the Fourth Wall
Latest Articles: Batman #147: "Batman Becomes Bat-Baby".

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