REMINDER!! Tonight at Midnight!
Midnight Friday February 10th at the Landmark Sunshine Theater The urban legend known as ‘The Father’s Day Killer’ began some years after the demise of serial rapist/murderer Chris Fuchman. Since the 1970s, the use of contraceptives has tripled in North America alone and a generation of fathers fell asleep with the covers pulled tight, buttocks [...]
Redemption Involves Ass Kicking And Asking Big Questions
Ma-Yi Theater Company in association with Vampire Cowboys presents “The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G” If you don’t know the Vampire Cowboys, you’re depriving yourself. The pioneers of geek theatre are back remounting last year’s downtown hit in a midtown venue, written by the Sith Lord himself, Qui Nguyen, and fantastically directed by Robert Ross [...]
The reviews for GUP #1 are pouring in.
Resident comic guy Josh Weisbrod’s first published work GUP made an epic splash on the indie comic scene recently. Comic Book Resources says… “Weirdness… weird… it has a weird charm to it.” Josh’s response… “Yeah weird is pretty much what I was going for, as long as you enjoy feeling weird”
Who leaves the crusts?
Check out the new T-Shirt company An Infinitude of Tortoises by one of my favorite customers… some weird, wild, and great stuff! Make sure to search for “leaves the crust” for the answer. An Infinitude of Tortoises: • Something to Delight, Offend, And/Or Mystify Almost Everyone! • Stuff Unlike Other Stuff! • Transcendentally nerdy high [...]
Kre-O Sentinel Prime Review
When I was a kid, I was really into LEGO, even more than I was into action figures. As the years went on, though, I noticed the sets were declining in quality, mostly due to the amount of effort they were funneling into the Star Wars sets. As a result, I got more and more [...]
Forbidden Planet has MOLD!
New on the shelves at Forbidden Planet this week is the sci-fi, horror, comedy hybrid MOLD! Available at our web-store and on the center counter of the NYC store. It’s the 1984. Reagan’s War on Drugs is struggling to produce the desired results. So a secret government project is underway to create a new weapon to [...]
Magic the Gathering Dark Ascension Giveaways and More
Today is the official release of the new Magic the Gathering set, Dark Ascension. To celebrate we’re selling the first booster packs of this block, Innistrad, at a cool $2.75 per booster pack on today’s DAILY DEALS (valid in-store and online). We’ll also being giving away Dark Ascension product all weekend! As of this writing there’s [...]
Troma’s NYC Father’s Day premiere FEB 10th
The newest slice of sleaze from Troma premieres Midnight Friday February 10th at NYC’s Landmark Sunshine Theater. Astron-6′s twisted tale of father rape and revenge may just be another drop in the bucket of Tromatic insanity, but compared to the Sunshine’s usual mundane midnight fare of Goonies and Princess Bride - Father’s Day is gonna [...]
Thursday Jan 26th VHS Trailer Show 3 @ 92Y Tribeca
This Thursday January 26th at 8PM the 92Y Tribeca Theater host their 3rd VHS Trailer Show! Some of us refuse to let go of our VHS tapes. One reason is that they have become a treasure trove of trailers for movies that time forgot. Being forced to scan past them each time you want to [...]
New and Notable- Daredevil by Mark Waid HC Volume 1
As I mentioned on our Twitter feed this past weekend, Wednesday the 25th is the official release day for the first collected HC of, hands down, my favorite mainstream superhero book since All Star Superman. No hyperbole, no guff. It’s that good. That being said, if you’d like to follow my recommendation for this book [...]
Return of the Living Dead Tarman Action Figure In Stock
New from Amok Time and in stock now at Forbidden Planet NYC, it’s the TARMAN Deluxe action figure!
Danny Bonaduce vs VHS
Come out to the Spectacle Theater on Saturday at Midnight and hang with Lunchmeat’s Josh Schafer! LUNCHMEAT is extremely proud to present one of the most amazing and obscure shot-on-video flicks ever to be laid to tape!! This SATURDAY, JANUARY 21st, at the hour of MIDNIGHT hoist your keister off the couch and get on [...]
The Weekly Pulse – January 12th, 2012
Man-o-man, is this week ever a big one! Tons of new comics, plus some toys and some graphic novels thrown in!