QUICKIE: BATMAN (1966)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, for obvious reasons everyone is clamoring to rent and watch Batman Begins. 

Even the Tim Burton version of Batman is getting rented a lot, as are it's super lame sequels.

It happens. Watch, next week those terrible Mummy remakes will be in high rental demand. 

And for the record, I loved the new Dark Knight flick, though flawed. Maybe I’ll go into my problems with it down the road. 

Here’s my heads up:

The 60’s Batman TV show with Adam West is NOT available on DVD or VHS.... 

BUT the wonderful theatrical film spin-off of the Batman TV show is.

So if your kids or something are too young for the new movie (and trust me, it’s an ‘adult’ film) make em watch the hilarious 1966 flick where the Capped Crusader and his trusted teen flunky Robin take on The Catwoman, The Joker, The Penguin and The Riddler all wonderfully played by Lee Meriwether, Cesar Romero, Burgess Meredith and Frank Gorshin. 

It’s worth it just for the moment when Batman is forced to use the bat-shark-repellent on a dangling rubber fish with it’s mouth wrapped around his leg.

NEW RELEASES - JULY 22, 2008

Autumn Hearts

Celine: Her Life Story

China Rises

Death Valley

Earth: The Biography

Heartbeat Detector

High and Low (Criterion)

Iggy and the Stooges: Escaped Maniacs

Last Winter

Pete Kelly's Blues

Philosophy of a Knife

Round Midnight

21

Turn the River

Vampyr (Criterion) 

TELEVISION:

Comedy Central's TV Fun House

Jack Benny: Laugh Out Loud 

LA Ink - Season 1

Las Vegas - Season 5

Robot Chicken: Star Wars

Shark Week: Ocean of Fear

Spaced: The Complete Series

NEW ARRIVAL DVDS / CUSTOMER REQUESTS:

Earthlings

The Miracle Fighters

The Mummy (1932) Special Edition

The Mummy Lives

The Mummy's Kiss

EGYPT ME! I WANT MY MUMMY BACK!

Last Saturday, at Rocket, we had an event celebrating Mummy movies.  

This was a trivia quiz I made up for everyone who attended. 

See how well you do!

1. Which of these comedy teams did NOT make a Mummy movie?
   

a) Abbott and Costello

b) Martin and Lewis

c) The Three Stooges

d) Wheeler and Woolsey

2. What kind of leaves bring Kharis the Mummy to life in the Universal Mummy movies of the 1940’s?

a) maple

b) mulberry

c) sycamore

d) tana

3. Who defeats a Mummy in BUBBA HO-TEP?

a) Ronald Reagan

b) The Beatles

c) Elvis Presley

d) James Dean

4. What goddess destroys Im-Ho-Tep in the 1932 film THE MUMMY?

a) Isis

b) Hera

c) Juno

d) Hecate

5. Who played the Mummy in the Hammer film version of 1959?

a) Peter Cushing

b) Christopher Lee

c) Kiwi Kingston

d) Boris Karloff

6. What animated film features a group of skeletons with Beatle haircuts singing “It’s the Mummy?”

a) SCOOBY DOO IN WHERE’S MY MUMMY

b) MAD MAD MAD MONSTERS

c) ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS MEET THE MUMMY

d) MAD MONSTER PARTY

7. Who plays the Mummy in the 1999 film THE MUMMY?

a) Brendan Fraser

b) Kevin J. O’Connor

c) The Rock

d) Arnold Vosloo

8. ORGY OF THE DEAD featured a mummy and a werewolf forcing a couple in a graveyard to watch strippers dancing. Who wrote this famous cult epic?

a) Ed Wood

b) Bela Lugosi

c) Criswell

d) Billy Wilder

9. In THE MONSTER SQUAD, how does the squad dispose of the Mummy?

a) they burn him

b) they shoot him with a spear gun

c) silver bullet

d) they unravel him

10. What recent zombie film begins with film students making their own Mummy movie in the woods of Pennsylvania?

a) SHAUN OF THE DEAD

b) DIARY OF THE DEAD

c) DAWN OF THE DEAD

d) RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD PART 4

answers: 1 b, 2 d, 3 c, 4 a, 5 b, 6 d, 7 d, 8 a, 9 d, 10 b

We Want Our Mummy!

ROCKET VIDEO EVENT!

Come to Rocket Video for MUMMY’S DAY on Saturday, July 19th from 1 – 3 pm celebrating the re-release of Universal Studios’ MUMMY movies on DVD as well as honoring the 40th anniversary of the death of make-up genius Jack Pierce.

Writer/director SCOTT ESSMAN will be on-hand signing DVDs and his new book on Pierce and Rocket manager Jeff Miller will be signing copies of his book THE HORROR SPOOFS OF ABBOTT AND COSTELLO.

Other guests attending will be (schedule permitting): Constantine Nasr, Michele Burke, Bill Corso, Kevin Haney, Greg Nicotero, Bob Burns, Tom Burman and Perry Shields.

A bust of Boris Karloff as the Mummy will be on display and there will be screenings of special Mummy clips as well as Essman’s new documentary on Pierce. Essman and Miller will conduct a discussion of all Mummy movies from 1932 to the present.

Plus trivia quiz with prizes, giveaways and lots of surprises!

Rocket Video is located at 726 N. La Brea Avenue in Hollywood.
Call (323) 965-1100 for more information.

NEW RELEASES - JULY 15, 2008

Asylum

The Bank Job

College Road Trip

Daniel (Lumet 1983)

Dead and Gone

Heavy Metal In Baghdad

Houdini

Maid In Sweden (1971)

Meet Bill

My Blueberry Nights  (Wan Kar Wor)

Penelope

The Possession of Joel Delaney

Roxy Hunter and the Secret of the Shaman

Shotgun Stories

Shutter

The Skull (1965)

Step Up 2

Student Bodies (1981)

Superhero Movie

Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jelopies

Traffic (Tati 1971 ) - Criterion

Voice

X - The Man With the X-Ray Eyes

The Year My Parents Went on Vacation

Zero Population Growth (1971)

 

TELEVISION:

Birds of Prey - The Complete Series

Dallas - Season 9

Evening Shade - Season 1

Reno 911 - Season 5  

BLU-RAY:

The Fifth Element

 Walk Hard

NEW ARRIVALS AND REPLACEMENT DVDS:

A Beautiful Mind

A Bug's Life

Red Sonja

Zebraman

ROCKET ON TV

Yo

The last couple of weeks Rocket Video has been featured on this TV show call The Movie Mob

On a channel called The Reelz Channel (?)

I play this loser named Rocket Video Store Guy

I'm one of the 'mob', reviewing movies and trailers from upcoming flicks on line.

If you feel like it, I guess you can watch some of the reviews on line

here's a review of Get Smart

I'm also one of the reviewers of Wanted and Hancock. 

To stay on it, I have to get votes (people vote on line for their favorite 'Mob Member')

It's a nice little gig for me, I wanna keep it

And we get to keep promoting Rocket Video

So if you have some free time feel free to vote for me

http://www.reelzchannel.com/moviemob

-sweeneyrules

NEW RELEASES - JULY 8, 2008

Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq

Baby, It's You

Batman: Gotham Knight

Blood and Wine

The Busy Body

Chop Shop

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Leonard Cohen: Under Review 1978 - 2006

Mon Oncle Antoine (Criterion)

National Geographic: Dogtown - Second Chances

The Ruins

Sleepwalking

Stop-Loss

Tracey Fragments

The U2 Phenomenon

Welcome to Amish America

TELEVISION: 

Cannon - Season 1, Vol. 1

Jake and the Fat Man - Season 1, Vol. 1

Monk - Season 6

Psych - Season 2

Wild Wild West Season 4

BLU-RAY:

Batman Begins

NEW ARRIVALS & REPLACEMENT DVDs:

American Nudes Vol I

American Nudes Vol II

Before Sunset

The Color Purple 

Gaza Strip

Girl with the Pearl Earring

The Mummy (1959)

Never Die Alone

O. Henry's Full House

Resevoir Dogs/Bad Lieutentant

Slogan

Star Wars Episode One: Phantom Menace

REPLACEMENT VHS:

Aladdin and the King of Thieves

Gladiator

When the Cat's Away