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The Midget Mafia Of Atlantis Demands A Woman-On-Woman Cage Match

Supermodel Kathy Ireland descends into a netherworld of tinsel hair and woman-on-woman brawls to the death, in Alien From L.A., which may be schlockmeister Albert Pyun's masterpiece. And then the squeaky-voiced Kathy gets drugged and sold to the local mob boss. Maybe I missed the explanation for why Atlantis — a Blade Runner-knockoff dystopia built around a crashed spaceship at the center of the Earth — has a super-Mafioso in Kabuki makeup? The gangster, incidentally, is played by Deep Roy, best known as the Oompa Loompas in Tim Burton's Willy Wonka and the pig-brained ventriloquist's dummy Mr. Sin, from Doctor Who.

4:30 PM on Fri Mar 21 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
2,094 views, 9 comments

Latest by adminslave: @kungfo: "Oh Mikey, Oh MikeyIt's you that I likeyYou're a bitchin dream (he he he)With those baby blue thingsAnd the stuff that you wearAnd your shoes are really choice" more »

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Captain America Teaches English Lessons -- With His Fists

The Red Skull sounds like Tweety Bird with a fakey Italian accent in this awesome clip from the original live-action Captain America movie. All the Skull wants is some English lessons, but instead Captain America kicks his ass, only to wind up strapped to a silly-looking Nazi rocket. The scene ends with the obligatory villain self-amputation, one of my favorite action-movie cliches. With Marvel working on a new Captain America film, this is the perfect time to celebrate the little-known original, with another clip after the jump. More »

11:40 AM on Wed Feb 27 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
3,476 views, 21 comments

Latest by joetato: @ArchieOogley: Actually I found the scene where Ned Beatty is interviewing Cap to be hilarious. Ned Beatty's character is driving a VolksWagen and using a Sony tape recorder to interview Cap after he has just escaped from his day more »