We’ve got a lot of cool stuff on display right now on the Wall O’ Cool, check it out: campy sci-fi in the classic Donovan’s Brain, in which, and I quote:

“Dr. Patrick Cory has a hideous hobby–he keeps brains alive! So when the brain of W. H. Donovan falls into his possession, bringing him back becomes his obsession. But the cunning cranium has its own agenda–to control the doctor’s mind through telepathic messages…”

I just wanna give a shout-out to the marketing guy who came up with the “cunning cranium” bit. Awesomecakes. Trivia: This film also stars Nancy Davis, who would later be First Lady Nancy Reagan.

Other cool stuff on our sci-fi-themed shelf are a couple of Star Trek spoofs. First up is Free Enterprise, in a 2 disc “Five Year Mission Extended Edition”. Starring Eirc McCormack (Will & Grace) and Rafer Weigel (I Am Sam) as two young filmmakers trying to hawk a movie called “Bradykillers” about a serial killer who goes after victims Marcia, Jan, and Cindy. In the course of events, they meet their screen idol, William Shatner (playing himself, and poking fun at his own image). The two young men revere him in their fantasies as a shadowy fairy godfather figure, and are alarmed at the reality of man that they meet. Here’s a taste:

The other Star Trek spoof is Star Wreck, a Finnish film made by a group of friends and Star Trek fans. Seven years in the making, and apparently the seventh in a series, this full-length movie finds the crew of the starship C.P.P. Kickstart stranded on 21st century Earth after saving the world from an alien race. Captain Pirk, Commander Dwarf and Commander Info must wait until the technology is invented for them to make their escape back to the future without screwing up the past. Good times. Here’s a trailer for the Imperial Edition DVD, which is what we have:

If campy sci-fi isn’t your bag, there’s a quartet of Clint Eastwood films: Pale Rider, The Outlaw Josie Wales, Dirty Harry and Magnum Force. For you fans of more thought-inspiring films we have Life Is Beautiful, Joyeux Noel, The Story Of The Weeping Camel, My Beautiful Laundrette and a fascinating-looking documentary about a Hollywood scandal hidden for over 70 years called Girl 27. Other titles worth mentioning are The Hotel New Hampshire, which any Wes Anderson fan should enjoy (it’s the first thing I thought of when I saw The Royal Tennenbaums), Key Largo, Auntie Mame, a Pam Grier one-two punch of Foxy Brown and Sheba Baby and Robert Altman’s incredible Nashville.

So come on in and check it out, folks. We really do have something for everyone.

That’s right, the beloved director of such films as Ran, Sanjuro, Yojimbo, Dreams, The Hidden Fortress, Rashomon and The Seven Samurai would be one hundred years old today if he were still alive. We don’t actually have any of those titles, so I will instead distract you with this dazzling display of cinematic treasures we’ve just uncovered.

Monty Python fan? We’ve got you covered with all 14 zany crazy volumes of Monty Python’s Flying Circus! Also, Monty Python And The Holy Grail, The Meaning Of Life and Terry Gilliam’s mind-bending Brazil. And speaking of mind-bending and Terry Gilliam, how’sabout the Criterion Collection version of Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. Yup, we got that.

Music fans may be interested in Tenacious D: The Complete Masterworks, The Clash: West Way To The World, The Essential Clash or maybe Pink Floyd: The Dark Side Of The Moon, a 2003 release that takes an in-depth look into the creation of one of rock’s timeless recordings.

Maybe you want to get your 80s on: The Breakfast Club, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Fletch and the sequel Fletch Lives, Animal House and one of my all-time favorites: The Blues Brothers.

But wait, there’s more! Rob Zombie’s House Of 1000 Corpses, the two-disc super special edition version of Se7en, Army Of Darkness, Soylent Green, Logan’s Run, The Andromeda Strain (a movie that terrified me when I saw it as a youngster) First Spaceship On Venus/Voyage To The Prehistoric Planet (double feature) and the mother of all crappy movies: Plan 9 From Outer Space (includes The Ed Wood Story with Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Ed Wood’s wife Dolores Fuller and even Vampira herself!).

Want more? Good! Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson and Lauren Bacall smolder in Key Largo, Charlton Heston does what he does best in Ben Hur, Jack Nicholson chews it up in Five Easy Pieces and Chinatown, Paul Newman broods in Hud and The Hustler and Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn and Omar Sharif star in the sweeping epic Lawrence Of Arabia in a two-disc super-special limited edition.

Not finished just yet, but I’m getting there: Fan-favorites Die Hard, The Road Warrior and Fight Club, plus The Last Of The Mohicans and the classics The Conversation (later remade as Enemy Of The State) and High Noon starring Gary Cooper. A couple anime’ titles: Amon Saga and Appleseed, a tongue-in-cheek look back at “educational” films of yore in Social Engineering 201 (which touches on classic 16 mm films shown to schoolchildren from the 1940s to the 1970s like It Must Be The Neighbors and What To Do On A Date), and finally, a blaxploitation triple feature: Bad Azz Muthaz featuring Black Punisher (Jim Brown), Tattoo Connection (Jim Kelly) and Kid Vengeance (Fred Williamson). Ohhh yeah.

There’s a lot more than that, but my typin’ fingers hurt, so come on in and take a look at the Wall O’ Cool and see what strikes your fancy.