The Wall O’ Cool has been restocked with a bunch of awesome titles! Come on down and check it out…they will go FAST.
Entire shelf of Disney titles: Mulan, The Lion King, Enchanted, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Finding Nemo, and lots more!
Other fun titles from my childhood : Black Beauty, The Last Unicorn, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Harry and the Hendersons, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Goonies, War Games and Time Bandits.
Creepy stuff: Poltergeist, Jaws, 30 Days of Night, Creepshow, The Devil’s Rejects, Lord of the Flies and Twilight (it creeps me out how popular that series is).
TV!! Project Runway Season 7, Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1, HBO presents Dane Cook’s Vicious Circle and the first season of Ally McBeal (brand new copy!!).
Other cool stuff: Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me, Whip It, The Last Holiday,Dog Day Afternoon, Chasing Amy, Passenger 57 and so much more!!
There is also a shelf I like to call, “Bad Ass Chicks with Guns”, featuring talent like Pamela Anderson, Pam Grier, Angelina Jolie and some other chicks that will shoot ya before you can blink. Not necessarily Oscar material…..but fun!
Brave the muggy weather and come on down to Market Street before all the cool stuff gets sold!
(Don’t worry…we have other cool stuff too!)
In brainstorming for the best blog post idea ever, I came across the radically mind-banteringly fascinating gun-dungaree skip hoppin’ idea of picking 5 notable movies we’ve received in the store this week. 5 flavors for 5 days, Monday through Friday or Sunday through Thursday (whatever you like, french fry).
First film. Say Anything. That’s right. Anything you want. This pretty picture features John Cusack as Lloyd Dobler, an average day teen, chillin’ in Seattle, graduating and all that. College is surely on everyone’s minds, sept for Lloyd, whose main concern regards asking out the super smart and popular Diane Court. Featuring that one scene and directed by Cameron Crowe, this movie helped set the 80s as the decade for teenage tomfoolery. Fun fact: when Lloyd drives down 45th, he passes the Guild 45th theater which happens to be playing another Cusack flick, Tapeheads. Reality just got pretty crazy in this mud!
Second film. 12 Monkeys. Originally not conceived as a TV biopic based around the casting dilemmas behind a fictionalized 1960s pop group, 12 Monkeys was eventually adapted by Terry Gilliam as a futuristic sci-fi thriller where a virus has killed millions and survivors such as Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt must live underground. A bunch of stuff happens. Fun fact: Director Gilliam gave Bruce Willis a list of “Willis acting clichés” that he was refused to use during filming (such as the “steely blue eyes look”).
Third film. Memento. Directed by one of my favorites, Christopher Nolan, this film is a crazy ride where Guy Pearce repeatedly loses his short-term memory, relying on sticky notes to remember just what the hell he’s been up to. Throw in some mystery and murder and you’ve got yourself a fascinating driller (drama-thriller… insanely clever, i know). Fun fact: Christopher Nolan originally wanted Alec Baldwin for Guy Pearce’s roll. Let me tell you, it’s a good thing they didn’t have any costumes fitted for the character beforehand… Because Alec Baldwin is pretty large and Guy Pearce isn’t. Okay, not funny. Moving on.
Fourth Film. White Chicks. Directed by Kenan Ivory Wayans, this film features his brothers Shawn and Marlon as two kind of crappy FBI agents who are told to go undercover in an abduction case by disguising themselves as the daughters of a tycoon (hence, “white chicks”). What could possibly go wrong? Fun Fact: The original title of the movie was called the Miltons, in attempts to showcase a more direct spoof of the Hilton family.
Fifth Film. No. Fifth TV Show. No. First TV Show. The Kids in the Hall: Season 1. A wonderous sketch comedy show anyone my age should recognize from reruns on Comedy Central, this Canadian sketch comedy show originally aired in 1988 under the guise of Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels. Most of the sketch comedy is wild and out there, reminiscent of Shakespeare, with most female roles being commandeered by the all-male cast. Great late 80s/early 90s comedy. Fun fact: The name of the troupe comes from comic personality Sid Caesar, who, when telling a joke that didn’t go over well, attributed it to “the kids in the hall”.
Can’t quite explain why the website was acting up yesterday, but everything seems to be back on track! My only guess is the internet took some time out to enjoy the sun. Yes, summer’s finally starting to poke it’s head through. Likewise, we hope you’ll poke your head through our celebrity-cardboarded windows, or maybe even the door, and see our line of spring-summer delights! Might I direct your attention to the Wall O’ Cool, where we’ve got TV delights such as Strangers with Candy and Full House. Get your classics with Ben Hur and The Bridge on the River Kwai. Hitchcock it up with Frenzy and The Birds. Get your Dunst on with Jumanji, or Batman your way around Newsies. If you like to engage in Risky Business, perhaps you should Kill Bill or throw a Bachelor Party. You could always tell yourself, It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time. Also, Se7en!