PLAYING HOUSE Season 3, Episodes 1 & 2 “Cookie Jar” / “None of Your Business” AIR DATE: June 23, 2017 GRADES: B+ / B+ How does the third season of the story of the ins and outs of the bond between two of the greatest female friends since Lucy and Ethel begin? With Maggie beating…
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 Season 11, Episode 9 “Yongary” Available on Netflix GRADE: A When you think “Kaiju”, you don’t think of the UK or Denmark…hell, even South Korea seems unlikely because North Korea would just launch a bunch of missiles at the ocean in retaliation. But, we got “Gorgo” from the UK and “Reptillicus”…
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 Season 11, Episode 8 “The Loves of Hercules” Available on Netflix GRADE: D+ Like your Hercules films with sumptuous, lavish visuals? Yes? How ’bout if they added in some Jayne Mansfield? All right…we’re doing good so far! What if we threw in Jayne Mansfield’s dopey then-husband Mickey Hargitay as Hercules? What?…
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 Season 11, Episode 7 “The Land That Time Forgot” Available on Netflix GRADE: B+ Famed character actor stars in “The Land That Time Forgot”, a not-too-terrible adventure flick where Germans, Britains and Americans work together when they somehow find themselves on an island full of prehistoric beasts and primitive cavemen. No,…
IRON CHEF GAUNTLET Season 1, Episode 6 “The Gauntlet” AIR DATE: May 21, 2017 GRADE: — Here we are at the finish line for the first season (and, hopefully, the LAST for a long while) of “Iron Chef Gauntlet”. All the other chefs are gone and there’s one remaining who will run tonight’s “Iron Chef…
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 Season 11, Episode 6 “Starcrash” Available on Netflix GRADE: B+ “Starcrash” is the only film I’ve seen which has David Hasselhoff and Christopher Plummer in its cast and doesn’t involve natural disasters while Hasselhoff runs through a burning building in bell bottoms while attempting to rescue his boss (presumably played by Plummer)…
IRON CHEF GAUNTLET Season 1, Episode 5 “Five Ingredients” AIR DATE: May 14, 2017 GRADE: — Last week, we lost Chef Nakajima which, in my opinion, destroyed all of what this show had going for it. This week, there’s a twist: two chefs will go home and the winner of today will face off against the…
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 Season 11, Episode 5 “The Beast of Hollow Mountain” Available on Netflix GRADE: A- If you wanna look on the bright side, “The Beast of Hollow Mountain” is kinda like Marvel’s “The Avengers” in that both films take forever to get to the good part. But then, unlike “The Avengers”, this film continues…
IRON CHEF GAUNTLET Season 1, Episode 4 “Classic Combos” AIR DATE: May 7, 2017 GRADE: — Welcome back to the Iron Chef Gauntlet recap series at Matt’s Entertainment! When we last left The Stadium de Kitchen, Chef Nakajima had beaten his second opponent in a row, knocking Chef Gulotta out of the game. Who’s next on the chopping…
TANKED Season 12, Episode 3 “Shark Byte” AIR DATE: May 5, 2017 GRADE: — This week’s edition of Tanked is a nice breath of fresh air because it doesn’t involve celebrities and focuses, instead, on what the guys and gals at ATM did before they were mixing it up with the rich and famous. NEW…
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 Season 11, Episode 4 “Avalanche” Available on Netflix GRADE: B- We’ve seen 60’s camp and we’ve been through 80’s awfulness…so what’s left? The 70’s! Rock Hudson and Mia Farros star in “Avalanche”…and I feel compelled to mention that Steven Franken from last week’s experiment, “The Time Travelers” returns here as “McDade”,…
IRON CHEF GAUNTLET Season 1, Episode 3 “Sweet and Savory” AIR DATE: April 30, 2017 GRADE: — When we last left The Other Kitchen Stadium, Chef Nakamura and Chef Sawyer got into a fight to the death over bananas with Nakamura standing tall at the end of it with the best combo of bananas and…
TANKED Season 12, Episode 2 “Kevin Smith’s Tor-tally Awesome Tank” AIR DATE: April 28, 2017 GRADE: — Welcome back to our recap of Animal Planet’s Tanked! This week sees the guys visiting the filmmaker/comic book writer, Kevin Smith. Let’s see what goes down… LOS ANGELES, CA Kevin Smith’s Mansion The boys roll up to Kevin…
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 Season 11, Episode 3 “The Time Travelers” Available on Netflix GRADE: B- Ever wanted to go forward in time to an era where mankind has survived the apocalypse and progressed to living in a swag cave with a bunch of nightmarish android slaves, a spa full of naked women and “love…
IRON CHEF GAUNTLET Season 1, Episode 2 “Nose to Tail” AIR DATE: April 23, 2017 GRADE: — Last week saw Chef Nyesha Arrington getting sent home in an upset after a fierce Lobster Battle. Six chefs remain. Also, Wo Fat is still dead, much to Alyssa’s chagrin. Let’s see what happens this week! To remind…
