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October 6
Special Event: Fall 2024 Anime Season / Summer 2024 Wrap-Up
The last few shows for Summer 2024 are wrapping up, so time for the quarterly update post!
Initial impressions, reviews, and [more inside]
October 3
Special Event: iRiffs: ZARDOZ
MST Club presents! Some years ago Rifftrax piloted a means by which people could record riffs for movies themselves that they'd sell through the site, a program that they called iRiffs. It appears that iRiffs can no longer be found on Rifftrax site searches, but Google can still turn up the pages, and they can still be bought. That is how I purchased this riff of ill-advised Sean Connery vehicle Zardoz, produced by a group known as FilmRoasters. I don't know if FilmRoasters is still active, but they have a Youtube channel, which the address filmroasters.com redirects to. The most recent videos on the Youtube channel are six years old. I don't know how old the Zardoz riff is, but if it's six years old that would put its release at around 1998. FilmRoasters appears to be comprised of Eric Vinyard, Brandon Bates and Wes Allen.
October 1
Special Event: US VP Debate 2024: Battle of the Dads
September 26
Special Event: The Mads Are Back: Night of Shorts 1
MST Club presents... the first of the many popular short compilations that "TV's" Frank Conniff and Trace Beaulieu have riffed for their Dumb Industries series. It's one of their longer bits at an hour and a half. The nine shorts riffed are: Are You Listening?, How Friendly Are You?, an episode of Mighty Mister Titan, Office Etiquette, Halloween Safety, More Dates for Kay, Health - Your Cleanliness, Danger! Poison and The Cautious Twins. First riffed in October of 2020. [more inside]
September 10
Special Event: Presidential Debate #2: KamaDonic Boogaloo
Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are set to meet in Philadelphia [at 9 p.m. Eastern/6 p.m. Pacific] on Tuesday for their first — and perhaps only — debate before the November presidential election. [CBS] ... How to Watch Harris-Trump Presidential Debate Online Without Cable [THR] [more inside]
September 5
Special Event: Rifftrax: SOLO, a Star Wars Story
MST Club Presents! The Rifftrax to a certain Star Wars backstory movie. A nobody smuggler called Han Solo teams up with a walking carpet to carry out a heist. Directed by Ron Howard! The riff was released on December 21, 2018.
August 25
Special Event: All Elite Wrestling presents ALL IN: London (2024)
Last year, the upstart wrestling promotion that started on a bet upped the ante by booking themselves into England's largest stadium, and wound up putting on the largest-attended show in three decades.. Now AEW returns to Wembley Stadium, with a main event pitting their current champion on a giant hot streak against literally one of the best wrestlers alive. [more inside]
August 22
Special Event: Rifftrax: NIGHT OF THE LEPUS
MST Club presents! That killer rabbit movie. From Wikipedia: "Widely panned by critics for its silly premise, poor direction, stilted acting and bad special effects, the film's biggest failure is considered to be the inability to make the rabbits seem scary." Of note, the Rifftrax site warns that the movie contains violence against rabbits. I don't know if that's just simulated or actual violence, although if it were the latter I'd imagine people would be rightfully up in arms. Notably contains DeForest Kelly, Star Trek's Dr. McCoy. Riff was released back in February 2014.
August 15
Special Event: RiffTrax: READY PLAYER ONE
For a change we're doing a "Just The Jokes" riff. The way these work, you use your audio player of choice to play the MP3 of Mike, Kevin and Bill along with the movie of your choice. Follow Mike's directions on when to start the file, then listen for "Disembaudio," their distinctive synthesized voice, to speak a line of dialog at the same time as a character in the movie. If Disembaudio speaks slightly early, pause the audio file for just a moment, and if the movie's early, pause it momentarily instead. Or alternatively, you can use the free Rifftrax app to do the syncing for you on your smartphone. Rifftrax got their start doing Just The Jokes riffs like these 18 years ago as an end run around releasing commentary on movies they didn't have rights to, and while these days they tend to focus on movies that they can legally mix their riffs directly into, they still release new ones from time to time. As for the movie, Ready Player One is a big ol' pandering mess that they managed to get Steven Spielberg to direct. Much of it is set in a virtual world where every 80s and 90s media property owned or licensed by Warner Bros can all interact, making it a special kind of crossover hell. I realize that sounds like Space Jam: A New Legacy, but that was actually three years after this movie. The riff was released October 18, 2018.
August 1
Special Event: The Mads Are Back: THE CREEPING TERROR
MST Club presents! While one of the absolute worst movies ever to be featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000, The Creeping Terror isn't nearly as well known as Manos "Everyone Loves Torgo" the Hands of Fate, or Monster "Couldn't Think of An Ending" A Go-Go, or any of the Coleman Francis trilogy. This is a shame though, as The Creeping Terror features absolutely the most ludicrous headline monster of any MST'd movie, essentially a carpet with vacuum cleaner hoses attached to it, that eats victims by apparent dint of them actively crawling into its mouth. MST3K tackled the Terror while both Frank Conniff and Trace Beaulieu were still at Best Brains, so this is a second trip through this film for both of them. Riffed December 12, 2023, and available either standalone (for about $12) or part of a collection of nine other MST-featured items (70 bucks).
July 26
Special Event: LIMPICS!
DUMMM DUMMM DEE DUMPTY DOODLE, DUM DUM DUM DEEDLE DUMPLING DUMPITTY DUMPTY DOOOOOOO (Paris 2024) [more inside]
July 25
Special Event: Rifftrax: OUIJA SHARK
MST Club presents... and yes, that's the title, Ouija Shark. The site tell us it's from the people who brought us (groan) Jurassic Shark. Riff first released on May 24, 2024.
July 11
Special Event: The Mads Are Back: Night Of Shorts 16
The Mads have been doing this for four years now, and the show begins with a roll of wellwishers! The before-show, and after-show Q&A, have special guests Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, Mary Jo Pehl and Felicia Day! The shorts this time out seem to all be from Coronet Films: How QUIET Helps a School (1953), Boy and Girl of BRITIAN (1976), CITY PETS: Fun and Reponsibility (1953), Rumpelstiltskin (1949) and Understanding Your Ideals (1950). The riffing premiered just two days ago, July 9, 2024.
July 10
Special Event: 2024 Tour de France
From Florence, Italy to Nice, France, the 2024 Tour de France is underway with significant milestones racking up as the peloton reaches the halfway mark of the greatest cycling race in the world. [more inside]
July 5
Special Event: Wimbledon
The 2024 Wimbledon Championships is a Grand Slam tennis tournament that is currently taking place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, England.
July 4
Special Event: Rifftrax: Undefeatable
MST Club Presents! Oh wow. Cynthia Rothrock plays Kristi Jones, who seeks to avenge her sister's death at the hands of a character I'm just going to call a "crazed martial artist." It was made in 1993, which figures. Here's a Youtube video of the climatic fight, at about three minutes long. Again I say, wow. The riff premiered June 2024, just about two weeks ago.
July 1
Special Event: Summer 2024 Anime Season / Spring 2024 Wrap-Up
Initial impressions, reviews, and [more inside]
June 30
Special Event: AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door (2024)
Once is an event, twice is a coincidence, and the third time is a new institution in professional wrestling. Tonight, the talent rosters of All Elite Wrestling and New Japan Pro Wrestling, which have already gotten comfortable with each others these past few years, will once again battle, this time sharing the stage with visitors from World Wonder Ring Stardom (NJPW's sister joshi promotion), and Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. Yours truly will have difficulty posting during the show because I'LL BE THERE LIVE. [more inside]
June 21
Special Event: Stanley Cup Finals: Game 7!
An improbable Game 7, as the Edmonton Oilers come back from a 3-0 deficit to force a reckoning in Florida [more inside]
Special Event: Euros 2024: Group Stage
So what if we're halfway through Matchday 2 already? [more inside]