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February 6th, 1974. The world was introduced to John Boorman's surreal sci-fi action epic Zardoz. Following a falling out to a United Artist produced Lord of The Rings adaptation, Boorman wrote, produced and directed his own high fantasy inspired science fiction film about a post apocalyptic, "Wizard of Oz"-esk universe of immortal god-like beings encountering a brutal executioner, played by Sean...

May 22nd, 1998. Warren Beatty's political dark comedy Bulworth hit the theatrical campaign trail after Beatty's eight year absence from the silver screen. Following the mild disappointment of Dick Tracy, Warren Beatty came back with a biting take on the racial hypocrisy of Clinton era Democrats and the endless empty promises from politicians. While it barely made it's budget back and ended up fail...

December 13th, 1985. The board game adaptation Clue sleuths its way into theaters with a wild marketing campaign, multiple endings and a star studded cast. Unfortunately, Clue's multiple ending gimmick would confuse audiences, receive middling reviews and ended up suffering in the box office. However, that's not where the mystery lies with Clue . Rather, the mystery of Clue comes from it's lasting...

February 5th, 1999. The Mel Gibson action comedy Payback was released to the public after a bitter dismissal from director Brian Helgeland over the creative direction of his neo-noir feature. Helgeland looked to create a dark, gritty adaptation to the 1962 crime novel, "The Hunter" till the executives at Paramount and WB forced the project to be a silly crime comedy. Retooling a bleak action featu...

April, 1981. Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate was re-released into theaters off the initial disastrous release back in November, 1980. For the last two years, Cimino's western epic had been in the crosshairs of critics and Hollywood executives alike. Seemingly everyone wanted Cimino's head on a pike after Heaven's Gate fell flat upon it's initial November release. In due time, not only will Cimino's...

November 19th, 1980. Michael Cimino's controversial western epic Heaven's Gate was released to the masses. Prior to it's release, Heaven's Gate was garnering criticism and scorn from industry insiders, colleagues in the film industry and average Americans alike for the scandalous behind the scenes reports from it's production. Animals getting mauled and killed, 10+ hour work days for every minute...

It's hard to believe it now, but Mike Myers' The Love Guru was supposed to be a return to form for the SNL alumnus. Myers had been busy lending his acting talent to voice the beloved green ogre Shrek before The Love Guru' s release, with his last major live action role being the dreadful adaptation of Dr. Seuss's The Cat In The Hat playing the title role. With Wayne's World and Austin Powers far i...

September 10th, 2010. Joaquin Phoenix's surreal "mockumentary" I'm Still Here was released to a completely unprepared crowd not ready for the bizarre trip they're about to witness. Blurring the lines between fiction and reality, the coke filled satire caused more head scratching than praise upon it's release. Fading from the public conscious in the following years, I'm Still Here 's lasting legacy...

November 24th, 2010. Two pop music icons from the present and the past, Cher and Christina Aguilera, co-starred in a musical for the ages. Burlesque entered the box office and was on course to make a significant amount of money...if it wasn't for the stacked competition released at the same time. For those unlucky enough to miss this clash of pop champions, Burlesque attempts to fuse a jukebox mus...

October 18th, 1991. Cool As Ice, the Vanilla Ice acting vehicle no one wanted, dropped into theaters to almost critical hatred. By the time of release, the oversaturation of Ice's skills (or lack there of) was reaching critical mass, causing a massive backlash to Ice's ascent to stardom. At the same time, Vanilla was dealing with court cases, terrible musical project and one very violent Suge Knig...

February 18, 2005. The day that changed actor, comedian and professional wildcard Jamie Kennedy's career forever. The release of Son of the Mask , the sequel to the 1994 Jim Carry comic book adaptation, was met with a swamp of negativity. Critical reception was rock bottom with critics slamming Kennedy's performance in review after review. Box office returns were worse than anticipated, not even m...

May 27th, 2015. An FBI sting operation took place in a small hotel room in Zurich, Switzerland. Nine FIFA officials were arrested and indicted on corruption charges. Just a few weeks later, on June 5th, the FIFA biography United Passions graced ten lucky theaters in the United States. After earning under $169,000 at the box office off of it's $32 million dollar budget, FIFA faced not just box offi...

November 7th, 1997. Paul Verhoeven, director of Total Recall , Robocop and Basic Instinct , releases his sci-fi satire Starship Troopers to the masses. Adapted from Robert Heinlein's 1959 novel of the same name, Verhoeven's Starship Troopers twisted Heinlein's original by turning the jingoistic messaging in the original novel and sent it to it's natural end, a fascist utopia built for endless war...

March 28, 1986. A small Canadian BMX production enters the box office race, a race this little film was not ready to take on. While failing initially to qualify for box office success, RAD! grew a cult following from the growing, pre-X Games BMX scene. This week, stand up comic and one half of the Better Off Drunk podcast Steve Pocaro joins Liam as the two discuss college fraud allegations, nice C...

January 6, 2006. Happy Madison productions releases their gaming stoner comedy 'Grandma's Boy' to a theatrical audience that would rather sit in late 2000s X-Box Live lobbies than go see it in theaters. Failing to earn any spare change in the box office, the crass stoner comedy gained a cult following through VOD and DVD, earning back their budget and then some through DVD sales. While some find '...

Christmas Day, 2006. Alfonso Cuaron's dystopian sci-fi thriller 'Children of Men' was released during the most wonderful time of the year. It's bleak look into a future where humans are unable to procreate due to a zero percent fertility rate won critics' favor, ending up in the Oscars race the following year. Considered one of the best films of the 00's, 'Children of Men' initial run couldn'...

February 1, 1980. Penthouse's pornographic Roman epic Caligula gets released in the United States through indie playhouses and art house spaces. The year prior, Bob Guccione's magnum opus was released in his home country of Italy and was met with shocked viewers and authoritarian action from Italian officials. Caligula toed the line between pure pornography and mildly interesting exploitation, ear...

December 13th, 1996. Sci-Fi satire Mars Attacks! blasts off into theaters, coming as closes as second place in the weekend box office rankings. Tim Burton's dark take on '50s drive-in alien invasion features proved to be a risky venture from Warner Brothers who put in $70 million dollars into the Topps' trading card brand adaptation. Unfortunately, it didn't pay off as the competition from the fol...

July 28th, 1995, Universal Pictures released Waterworld , the Kevin Costner led post apocalypses feature film which was set up to become a massive disaster from day one. Starting pre-production all the way back in the early 1990s, Waterworld would go from a simple $60 million dollar budgeted action film to a nightmare production which shot the budget up to $175 million dollars. That leap in budget...

On July 29th, 1983, Colombia Pictures released Krull , their attempt at the space opera genre Star Wars made popular and profitable back in 1977. By the early 80s, every studio had rushed out their very own Star Wars -esk franchise starter, only to crash, burn and be forgotten years and decades after their releases. Krull was unfortunately one such attempt, an action adventure pulled straight outt...

August 10, 2001, Warner Brothers released Osmosis Jones to the United States. The legendary gross out comedy duo, The Farrelly Brothers worked with animation directors Piet Kroon and Tom Sito to bring the buddy-cop adventures of Ozzy & Drix to the silver screen with...mixed success. While critics adored the animated buddy-cop action comedy, the same critics didn't have a single nice...