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After being temporarily cancelled by Fox, Matt Groening and the team behind Futurama decided to release four movies straight to DVD. The first, and until now only one of them is “Bender’s Big Score”. Bender “Rodriguez” himself finds the best-fitted introduction: “We’re back, baby!”
After a short intro to subliminally (well, not so subliminal actually) show how stupid Fox was to cancel them, the movie quickly sets up some important basic story concepts. Hermes gets his body crushed after a limbo contest, Fry has a tattoo of Bender on his behind for some reason, and Bender’s “mind” gets taken over by evil scamming aliens after trying to watch Roborotica, and these same aliens trick Hubert Farnsworth into “selling” Planet Express to them. For free. And if all that wasn’t bad enough, Lisa falls in love with a guy named Lars, making fry sad and of course, angry. Yes, that’s a lot of things to keep track of. But it gets so much more complicated. As it turns out, the tattoo on Fry’s butt holds the key to time travel. Not too shabby, eh? From here on, story-wise, all hell breaks lose. I’m not even going to try to explain it, because that would take more time than I have to write, and you have to read this review. Just know there will be lots of unexpected twists, confusion, and a lot of explanation along the way. (more…)

Two horny best friends, two totally screwed-up cops, one geek committing ID-fraud, booze, and of course, hot women! That’s the recipe for “Superbad”, directed by Greg Mottola. Got it? Okay, I’m going to get into a little more detail here. Seth (Jonah Hill) and Evan (Michael Cera) are two unfitting boys who’re nearing the end of their high school years. While both of them secretly fear losing their best friend when going to college, they seem a hell of a lot more concerned about having sex with the girls of their dreams, Jules (Emma Stone) and Becca (Martha MacIsaac), who just happen to frequent the very same school as they do. Not surprisingly, all previous attempts to get closer to them, if there were any at all, have failed miserably. But hope is just around the corner! Jules plans a huge goodbye-party for all the graduates, and through lucky circumstances Seth and Evan are not only invited, but also given the honorable task to buy liquor for the party. This is where Fogell (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), the geek, comes into play. Some uberleet friend of him was able to fake his ID, raising him to legal booze-buying age, and subtly renaming him „McLovin“. When he tries to shop at the local store, it’s coincidently robbed, and the cops to show up (Bill Hader and Seth Rogen) take Fogell for a ride in their police car. No, not for convicting him. But because McLovin “is a bad-ass name”. From there, the real quest begins. (more…)

It seems like the typical crime story: Ruthless gangster versus obsessed cop. But few films manage to execute that formula as well as “Heat”.
Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) is the leader of a small crime syndicate in Los Angeles. But although they might be ’small’ in personell, they pull off extremely lucrative heists. After they’ve robbed a money transporter and shot its three inmates, Lieutenant Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino) is engaged catch them. But the deeper he gets into the investigation, his seemingly professional goal becomes a more and more personal. He wants to bring down Neil McCauley at all costs. His obsession gets so out of hand, he doesn’t have a moment of time left for his wife Justine (Diane Venora), threatening to destroy their marriage. Meanwhile McCauley finds a new girlfriend for himself. Eady (Amy Brenneman) feels it’s true love, although McCauley’s motto is quite clear: “Don’t let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.” But does he really have the mental strength to just walk away from her when things get risky? And will Lt. Hanna be able to take McCauley down and save his marriage? I recommend you watch the movie to get the answers. (more…)