All the great film franchises end up in outer space: Ghoulies; Friday the 13th; The Fast and the Furious; Leprechaun. Did I say "great"? Scratch that: When a movie series resorts to being set in space, you can pretty much bet that installment is gonna suck like a black hole. And when a franchise isn't a hot commodity to start with, the "let's take it to outer space" premise generally doesn't help. Such is the case with Gamera: Super Monster (aka Space Monster Gamera and Super Monster Gamera),...

When I was fourteen in 1995, I wanted to go see the original Mortal Kombat movie like there was no tomorrow. My mom wasn't down with that. We were visiting my aunt at the time, and my older cousin Ken was tasked with taking me to basically any other movie. Ken worked at Radio Shack and played Dungeons and Dragons. When I was about six, he let me borrow his G1 Sunstreaker Transformer. I'd always thought Ken was the coolest. (This page contains an affiliate link. If you choose to purchase after...

It took a motorcycle accident to motivate me into making this video of my curated retro gaming collection. I trashed my bike, and I'm lucky to be alive. (It was a freak occurrence, and thankfully no one else was involved.) Call me a quitter, but I'll never ride again. I should have listened to my wife. Now that I'm ambulatory, I feel like I have a new lease on life, and I'm not putting things off any longer. Producing this tour was a footnote on a long list of stuff I've wanted to do. In a...