“What’s it all about?” Just ask Alfie, he has plenty to say on the subject. Come check out the romantic misadventures of a swinging London Casanova. “Know what I mean?” In Seen It, we discuss movies about youth: in Austin, in the 60s at camp and in the hood.
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Back To The Future 2
Fire up your Delorean! Strap on your hoverboard! Something something jigawatts… We’re watching Back to the Future II, a movie that for some inexplicable reason Matt and Craig haven’t seen yet. In Seen It, we discuss Jackasses, Strangers and men with variable degrees of breakable-ness.
The Great Silence
If you like your westerns without a lot of jibber-jabber, we give you The Great Silence, which features a character named Silence who is, you guessed it, silent! This also features German madman Klaus Kinski. Strap in Basement Dwellers, this one is a bumpy ride. In Seen It, we discuss flies, Hobbits, horses and the […]
Day Of The Dead
October continues here in the basement, so get ready for madness, gore and undead horror with George Romero’s Day of the Dead! But in the midst of all the chaos, you do get to meet a nice fella named Bub, so it’s not all bad. Happy Halloween! In Seen It, we flee from poltergeists, lagoon […]
The Devil’s Rain
Happy October! Down in the basement we’re serving up a whole heap of Satanic mayhem with The Devil’s Rain. A movie with William Shatner AND John Travolta?! Hard to believe, but it’s true. In Seen It, we scare the pants off of ourselves by discussing horror: funny vampires, dangerous cabins and a movie about Australian […]
A Picture That’s Worth 5×200 Words
A couple of weeks ago, the Isthmus, Madison’s free weekly assigned me to do a quick 200 word review of Jafar Panahi’s “Taxi” which was showing at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. I submitted the review and have been rewriting it in my head ever since. 200 is not that big of a number, […]
She
Don’t let the dull title fool you, this one is a lot of fun. What’s standing in the way of immortality? Why only miles of unstable glacier, murderous cave dwellers and of course, She Who Must Be Obeyed! It’s 1935 and we’re going on an epic adventure called She. In Seen It, we discuss films […]
Tale of Zatoichi: Blind Swordsman
Have you heard? There’s a stranger in town. He’s a skilled masseur, he’s blind and he carries a sword. He’s Zatoichi, blind swordsman! In Seen It, we discuss drivers of taxis, players of pianos and a little Greek letter called Pi.








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