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Sita Sings the Blues - Quick Review

Sooooo….this is awkward.

I want to start off by making clear my stance on this DVD is that you should buy it. Go right out and purchase it any which way you can.

My second point is that not only is this a movie the venerable Roger Ebert reviewed glowingly on his blog a year ago but you can go on the film’s website and watch it for free.

Like Roger, I didn’t really have a strong passion...

There isn’t much to recommend The Strip, a new indie movie that opened in select theaters last weekend. The comedy about minimum wage employees at a strip mall is practically begging for comparisons with the cult hit Office Space but actually comes across like a less funny Employee of the Month. The Strip would be guaranteed a spot in the dustbin of late-night cable if it wasn’t for a surprisingly touching performance by Dave Foley. Foley plays the middle-aged manager of Electri-City, an electronics store in a desolate, possibly Californian strip mall. His character is a caricature at best, but there are flashes of genius in Foley’s performance. When an Electri-City employee violently shakes one of Foley’s collectible snow globes, Foley becomes flustered by the unexpected chaos. “Why don’t we wait for this to settle,” he says, apparently needing the flakes to settle down before he can think clearly.

Oh, Dave Foley. So great in "Kids in the Hall." So spectacular in "News Radio." So should've gone on my list of the decade's biggest flame-outs. Dude's got 64 screen credits during the Aughts, and not a damn one of them worth a damn. What the hell, man? It's cool to take risks and all with indie flicks, but brother, you gotta read the script before you sign on. You guys remember Suck from earlier this year? No. Of course you don't. No one saw it. How about Uwe Boll's Postal? Maybe you remember the trailer, but I'm sure less than three of you actually saw the film, and all three of you belong in the crazy-pants hospital.

This here trailer is for The Strip, a movie that's actually in theaters now, if you can believe it (if you don't want to believe it, please be my guest). It's a...

Actor Dave Foley realized something recently while shooting "Death Comes to Town," a new eight-part miniseries premiering Jan. 12 on the CBC with his comedy troupe, the Kids in the Hall. "We've been working together for 25 years this year," says Foley, who also starred in "NewsRadio" and "A Bug's Life." "It's disturbing to me that Monty Python only started 15 years before us." Foley jokes that the secret to the Canadian troupe's longevity is that its members find one another more funny than annoying. The last time Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson appeared onscreen together was for 1996's "Brain Candy," which Foley calls a "horrible experience." Foley says the troupe, along with "Brain Candy" director Kelly Makin, learned one major lesson before embarking on this new venture: "You shouldn't go into production at a time when you all hate each other. That was a bad decision on our part with 'Brain Candy.

Funnyman Dave Foley wasn't laughing as he limped through the pain of a smashed toe on his new film The Strip.

The A Bug's Life star broke his big toe while moving a patio umbrella by the side of a pool a week before he was scheduled to start shooting - and had no chance of letting the injury heal in time.

Foley says, "I got up to move one of the patio umbrellas to shade my daughter and the 40 pound concrete base fell off of it and right on my big toe. My big toe exploded and it split it in three.

"When we were shooting the movie and every time I was walking I was re-breaking all the bones in my toe because you're supposed to stay off it. But they were very nice to me. They had a wheelchair for me to sit in every time I wasn't on camera and I would put my foot on ice. Even today it still hurts sometimes."...

What can I say ... we've got a major weak spot for Canadian cult comedy icons The Kids In The Hall here and like to keep an eye out on whatever they may be up to.  These days that's mostly Death Comes To Town but they've got a quality work ethic, those Kids, so that certainly aint all.

Take Dave Foley, for instance.  Foley is currently starring in indie comedy The Strip, an ensemble piece following the employees of a low grade electronics shop in a suburban strip mall.  Going in to limited release tomorrow, we've got an exclusive clip of The Strip along with the trailer below.

It's a typical day in the work life of five employees of the low-end electronics chain, Electri-City. Bound by the constraints of suburban life, the ¼ mile of the strip mall and tedium - they, like everybody else, dream of something more.

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Check out all the images, get the code to embed the video in your site and read more about the film in "The Strip" group. Jameel Khan directs, writes and produces the comedy which stars Dave Foley, Rodney Scott, Billy Aaron Brown, Federico Dordei, Jenny Wade, Cory Christmas and Noreen DeWulf. Catch it in theatres on December 4th. The Strip is a character-driven comedy dissecting the lives of five employees of a low-end electronics chain called, Electri-City. The ensemble of colorful, yet grounded, characters takes us deeper into the monotonous world of working at a strip mall. Bound by the constraints of suburban life and a ¼ mile of strip mall, they, like everybody else, dream of something more...

Woo-hoo! It’s the end of the world -- again -- as Roland Emmerich knows it, and I feel fine. Oh, there can be no question that this is crap, but will 2012 (opens in the U.S. and the U.K. on November 13) be glorious crap? I think it might be. I hope it might be. I’m dreading it, but I’m kinda looking forward to it, too. Does that make sense? I’m not particularly looking forward to the apparently sexist claptrap of Women in Trouble (opens in the U.S. on November 13; no U.K. release date has been announced), but I will delighted, as always, to be proven mistaken about the film. But then I’ll have to go off on a rant about misleading trailers... The Strip (opens in the U.S. on December 4; no U.K. release date has been announced) sounds like it might be more sexist claptrap,...

Actress Noureen DeWulf has joined "The Back-Up Plan," an Escape Artists' produced comedy for CBS Films. She joins Jennifer Lopez and Alex O'Laughlin in the story which tells of a single woman who wishes to have a baby through artificial insemination.   Things get complicated when she meets the man of her dreams. The film is also known as "Plan B."   DeWulf, known for roles in films including "American Dreamz," "Americanizing Shelley" and the upcoming "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" starring Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner. She recently completed "The Strip," directed and written by Jameel Khan and can be seen in "The Goods, Sell Hard" with Will Ferrell, Jeremy Piven, Josh Brolin, Ving Rhames and Ed Helms.    ...

Independent comedy specialist John Swihart is doing the music for New in Town, a romantic comedy starring Renée Zellweger and Harry Connick Jr. The film is directed by Jonas Elmer, a Danish filmmaker who makes his first Us film after a couple of succesful Danish comedies, including Gone with the Fish. The script tells the story about a businesswoman from Miami who tries to adjust to her new life in a small town in Minnesota. John Swihart's previous film scores include Napoleon Dynamite, Employee of the Month and The Brothers Solomon. He recently finished work on the score for The Strip, a comedy starring Noureen DeWulf and Dave Foley.

Dimension Extreme sent us the latest DVD details and artwork for the upcoming film “Feast 2: Sloppy Seconds” by director John Gulager (Feast) and starring Jenny Wade (The Strip, Pushing Daisies), Clu Gulager, Diane Goldner and Martin Klebba as Thunder. Synopsis: It’s morning and the nasty flesh-eating monsters from the night before have moved on to feast on the inhabitants of a nearby town. Those lucky enough to have survived the night join a twisted group of locals including a girl-biker gang from Hell and a tag-team of ass-kicking midgets whose only goal is to stay alive! Bonus Materials: Commentary By Director John Gulager Deleted Scenes DVD Basics: Price: $19.97 Street Date: October 7, 2008 Catalog Number: 81553 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running time: 96 minutes Languages: English Dolby 5.1 Subtitles: English [...]...

Dimension Extreme released this kick ass new movie poster for the upcoming film “Feast 2: Sloppy Seconds” by director John Gulager (Feast) and starring Jenny Wade (The Strip, Pushing Daisies), Clu Gulager, Diane Goldner and Martin Klebba as Thunder. Synopsis: The monsters have made it into a small neighboring town in the middle of nowhere and the locals have to band with the survivors of the bar’ slaughter to figure out how to survive. Stay tuned to Toxic Shock TV for the latest “Feast 2: Sloppy Seconds” movie news and posters.