The weekend’s here. You’ve just been paid, and it’s burning a hole in your pocket. What’s a pop culture geek to do? In hopes of steering you in the right direction to blow some of that hard-earned cash, it’s time for the FRED Weekend Shopping Guide – your spotlight on the things you didn’t even know you wanted…
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While there are certainly flashier characters from the original trilogy, like Darth Vader or Boba Fett, the true mark of just how impressive Hot Toys’ handling of the Star Wars license is turning out to be is their eerily pitch-perfect take on Obi-Wan Kenobi (Sideshow/Hot Toys, $219.99). From the perfect likeness of Sir Alec Guinness to the expertly tailored Jedi robes, this is the definitive 1/6-scale version of the venerable master. And because we’re gluttons for more, there’s no need to be content with just the figure itself, because they’ve plussed it with a swappable right arm that includes an in-built LED lightsaber that turns your display up to 11.
Pixar. Listen. Why do you want to make me cry? You’re absolutely brutal with the feels, and you know exactly what buttons to push. And you push them all with Inside Out (Walt Disney, Rated PG, 3D Blu-Ray-$39.99 SRP). From happy to sad and all the emotions in-between, which is rather fitting, as that’s what this film is all about, showing the interior emotional workings of 11-year-old Riley. And I’m not going to spoil any more of it, because if you haven’t seen it already, you should. Bonus materials include the Lava short, the brand new Riley’s First Date short, featurettes, and more.
As a new Pixar film hits theaters, that also means we get a brand new tome chronicling the artistic journey from concept to final picture with The Art Of The Good Dinosaur (Chronicle Books, $40 SRP), featuring loads of artwork and insight. And, in a first, a companion book has been crafted for the short subject that runs before the movie with The Art Of Sanjay’s Super Team (Chronicle Books, $24.95 SRP).
And because we’re not quite done with Pixar yet, they’ve helped to craft the perfect gift for budding filmmakers eager to have a journal in which to chart the progress of their own creative project’s journey with The Animator’s Sketchbook (Chronicle Books, $18.95 SRP), which contains discrete sections on Concept, Story, Color Script, Characters, and Worlds with plenty of room to doodle and design with helpful words of encouragement and visuals for inspiration along the way.
I’ll admit, I got swept up in the emotional wave of celebrating October 21, 2015 – the “future” date Marty and Doc (and Einstein & Jennifer) traveled to in order to do something about Marty & Jennifer’s kids. So, yes, bring on a brand new Back To The Future: 30th Anniversary Trilogy box set (Universal, Rated PG, Blu-Ray-$49.98 SRP), which supplements all of the bonus materials from the last release with a brand new bonus disc featuring a Doc Brown short, a documentary on the restoration of the original DeLorean, 2015 commercials for Jaws 19 and hoverboards, and more.
The now-yearly specials are certainly building anticipation for a new feature-length adventure while managing to be fun-filled romps in their own right, and that’s certainly what last year’s Toy Story That Time Forgot (Walt Disney, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$14.99 SRP) is, as out heroes are deposited into an 80s action toy world full of delusional peril. Bonus materials include an audio commentary, the animated opening for the fictional cartoon Battlesaurs, featurettes, a karaoke video, deleted scenes, and more.
Whenever a new home theater technology arrives on the scene, there comes a home video release of a beloved property that’s meant to be the perfect showcase for said technology. With Dolby’s new Atmos sound technology, designed to make the viewer feel sonically immersed in the world they’re watching, the first television series to embrace it is HBO’s flagship show, Game Of Thrones. So what does that mean? That means we get brand new Atmos versions of Game Of Thrones: The Complete First Season and Game Of Thrones: The Complete Second Season (HBO, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$79.99 SRP each), packaged in lovely new steelbook cases featuring magnetic house sigils for the Starks and the Lannisters. Bonus features carry over from the previous releases.
While it seems this is the millionth release of the film on various media, you know in your heart of hearts that you’ll be purchasing Monty Python & The Holy Grail: 40th Anniversary Edition (Sony, Rated PG, Blu-Ray-$19.99 SRP) because you have always, and will always, purchase another edition of this film whenever the design to lob another one at fans. Which is often. And you know it’s true, and you know they know it. So buck up, and fork over the cash for this new edition, which includes all of the bonus features from the last edition, plus an all-new 30-minute Q&A with the Pythons who aren’t yet dead, hosted by John Oliver.
You have a lot of gadgets, gear, and gizmos to be carting around with you as cold descends on the land, so why not face the elements with all of your stuff safely stowed about your person with the SCOTTeVEST Hoodie Microfleece (Thinkgeek, $44.99), a hoodie which packs 10 pockets and a whole lot of warmth.
As someone who owns the vintage Making Ghostbusters, which explored the production of the original film, I was waiting for the day when someone would come along and offer up an updated and expanded look at the creation of the franchise as a whole, incorporating both films, the animated series, comics, video games, and more. Ghostbusters: The Ultimate Visual History (Insight Editions, $50 SRP) does just that, while also being one of those books that incorporated reproductions of actual ephemera, including Gozer temple plans, the Ghostbusters’ business card, VFX notes, a Stay-Puft Marshmallows sticker, and much more.
You’d think there’d few variations left to mine in going meta on the slasher flick genre, but The Final Girls (Sony, Rated PG-13, Blu-Ray-$30.99 SRP) manages to do it with a wink and heart, as a group of teen friends are mysteriously transported into an 80s cult film, Camp Bloodbath, that starred the late mother of one of the kids. Once inside the film, they must try and survive all of the tropes. Bonus materials include an audio commentaries, alternate endings, deleted scenes, featurettes, and more.
Yeah, well, don’t try and make sense of the Terminator timeline. By the time we’ve reached Terminator: Genisys (Paramount, Rated PG-13, 3D Blu-Ray-$52.99 SRP), the continuity is just a confusing mess of who did what when and for why and how does that huh whatever. So, really, the way to approach the return of an elder Arnold Schwarzenegger to one of his most iconic roles is just to take it at face value and ask, “Is it an enjoyable flick on its own merits?” And it mostly is. In an odd, kitchen sink kind of way. But, that’s fine. Just don’t try to make too much sense of it all. Bonus materials include a batch of behind-the-scenes featurettes.
There are a lot of elaborate hoo-has on what is ultimately a straightforward straight shooter, which is ultimately the strength of Nerf’s N-Strike SharpFire Blaster (Nerf, $15.99 SRP) – it’s a Nerf dart pistol that shoots pretty darn accurately. And, when you’re locked in heated backyard conflict, sometimes that’s just what you need.
Oh, Jurassic World (Universal, Rated PG-13, 3D Blu-Ray-$49.98 SRP). You are such a goofball of excess. While Jurassic Park took the premise of resurrected dinosaurs somewhat seriously, World decides to go full meta B-movie with the whole affair, in the age of Sharknado. I mean, Chris Pratt has a raptor gang. Which is not to say this isn’t all enjoyable. It’s just that it’s pure popcorn, b-movie enjoyable. Bonus materials include deleted scenes and featurettes.
Didier Ghez is a brilliant illuminator of the often unexplored corners of the art and artists behind the Disney films, and he’s brought that the unique and wonderful skill to They Drew As They Pleased: The Hidden Art Of Disney’s Golden Age (Chronicle Books, $40 SRP), which explores the works of a quartet of Disney’s first concept artists as the company’s horizons broadened rapidly in the 1930s.
PBS’s In Their Own Words is a unique spin on the biodoc format, which as the title suggests relies heavily upon quotes from the subjects themselves to guide the narrative, through archive footage and extensive interviews with intimates. Give a trio of cultural luminaries a spin, with episodes focusing on Queen Elizabeth II, Muhammad Ali, and Jim Henson (PBS, Not Rated, DVD-$24.99 SRP each).
I suppose every comic actor should get their chance to stumble into a redeeming dramatic part, and Jason Segel gets his portraying author David Foster Wallace in The End Of The Tour (Lionsgate, Rated R, Blu-Ray-$24.99 SRP), about a road trip during which he’s interviewed by journalist David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg). Bonus materials include an audio commentary, deleted scenes, interviews, and featurettes.
It got a disastrous blink-and-you-missed-it theatrical release, which is a shame, because Aardman’s Shaun The Sheep Movie (Lionsgate, Rated PG, Blu-Ray-$34.99 SRP) is a lovely, delightful little kid’s film that doesn’t feel like a kid’s film. It’s brill. Bonus materials include a flock of featurettes and more.
Sadly, it was our enjoyment of bombastic action flicks like Bad Boys 1 & II (Sony, Rated R, Blu-Ray-$26.99 SRP) that fueled the power and enduring pap of Michael Bay, as the seemingly innocuous purveyor of popcorn became the mad blowhard of endless awful pop culture bastardizations. But these two relics of a more innocent age are now packaged together in a 20th anniversary edition, loaded bonus features.
There’s nothing like the restoration of a pair of kitschy old-school genre films to make a cinephile go all warm and fuzzy, which is exactly the internal reaction generated by the restoration of the Vincent Price & Agnes Morehead thriller The Bat and Roger Corman’s A Bucket Of Blood (The Film Detective, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$14.99 SRP each).
Back when a pair of ideological rivals could have intellectual bareknuckle debates on the airwaves, the two greatest heavyweights were William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal. However intellectual it was, though, their verbal sparring, which began during ABC’s coverage of the 1968 Democratic and Republican Conventions, definitely laid the groundwork for the uncivil cesspit of television discourse we have today. To see exactly what I’m on about, check out the excellent documentary Best Of Enemies: Buckley Vs. Vidal (Magnolia, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$29.98 SRP).
I would probably have not given a tie-in book to the show Vikings the time of day if I hadn’t discovered it was written by author, historian, and all-around great bloke Justin Pollard, which automatically elevated The World Of Vikings (Chronicle Books, $35 SRP) into a book worth checking out, as it deftly weaves the historical truth behind the drama into its background on the production.
Very few sitcoms have gotten the high definition treatment, and particularly not one that goes back over 10 years, but now you can snag That 70s Show: The Complete Series (Mill Creek, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$149.98 SRP) looks pretty darn good, even more so because it’s presented in anamorphic widescreen. Certainly worth checking out, , as it’s also loaded with bonus materials, including new-to-Blu-Ray featurettes, in addition to the materials from the original DVD releases. Groovy.
A powerful look at an all-too-brief life, Matt Shepard Is A Friend Of Mine (Virgil Films, Not Rated, DVD-$19.99 SRP) is a documentary that revisits the events of the tragic hate crime that took his life, but more importantly uses photos and rare footage to celebrate his life.
Starting in a small Pudding Lane bakery and eventually engulfing the city of London, the disastrous events beginning September 2, 1666 are dramatized in The Great Fire (PBS, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$34.99 SRP), a star-studded affair that brings the events to life, from the actions and reactions of the common man right up to King Charles II.
The main problem with the modern quasi-sequel Vacation (Warner Bros., Rated R, Blu-Ray-$44.95 SRP) is that it has a mighty big family truckster to fill, and never quite manages to make enough of an impression that you’re not constantly thinking back fondly on the original, when Chevy Chase was at the height of his power and all of the creative powers behind the scenes were pure brilliance. So, yeah, while this is an affable trip down holiday road with Rusty Griswold and family, it just further reinforces how remarkable the original was. Bonus materials include featurettes, deleted scenes, and a gag reel.
Listen to a rocking set as Martha Davis & The Motels celebrate the legendary LA club’s 50th anniversary with The Motels Live At The Whiskey A Go Go (Vesuvio, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$29.98 SRP), featuring almost 20 tunes plus a clutch of bonus features.
SwaySway and Buhdeuce fly their rocket van from their Nickelodeon animated series into brand new comic book adventures in Breadwinners #1: Journey to the Bottom of the Seats (Papercutz, $7.99 SRP), which is just as bonkers as the show itself.
This weekend’s turn off your brain and hop on the rollercoaster low-budget action flick is Operator (Alchemy, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$24.99 SRP), as a city devolves into chaos, sparked by the kidnapping of a 911 operator’s daughter and estranged police officer husband. And it also has Ving Rhames in it. Because Ving Rhames.
So there you have it… my humble suggestions for what to watch, listen to, play with, or waste money on this coming weekend. See ya next week…
-Ken Plume
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Wow. 
While I’m still wary, I admit that my position on the upcoming Peanuts movie has softened considerably, to the point that I’m now actually looking forward to seeing it. A large part of the impetus for that change of heart can be found in the pages of 
The folks controlling the mighty Carson archive have dipped back into the vaults for the next batch of The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson: Featured Guest Series (Carson Entertainment, Not Rated, DVD-$19.99 SRP each), each volume of which devotes an entire disc just to episodes featuring a specific luminary. The second three volumes in the series spotlight 
It’s been a crime of Biffian proportions that we’ve been without a proper book celebrating the making of the Back To The Future Trilogy, but now we’ve been gifted with two must-have volumes. First is the unauthorized, wholly candid We Don’t Need Roads, and the second is the officially sanctioned 
I think we’re all in agreement that NERF has pretty much gotten their whole NERF dart thing pretty well sorted when it comes to their various NERF guns. So how do they put a new variation on their delivery system? Howzabout a slingshot? With a pullstring release, the single-fire 
The key to measurement is accuracy, so the 
It’s raining Rickles, as Time Life has gone and delivered 
Featuring all 107 episodes completely unedited, 
Based on the WWI memoir of Vera Brittain and starring Alicia Vikander and Kit Harrington, 
Have you ever wanted to see the three films of the original trilogy summed up in a dozen words with a dozen vignettes, all constructed out of felt? OF COURSE YOU DO. And that’s just what Star Wars: Epic Yarns delivers in the most delightful way in its trio of books, for 
And if that weren’t enough unbelievably cute Star Wars for you, then there’s also the special edition boxed release of Jeffrey’s Brown’s 
You know, if it weren’t for Adam Sandler’s half-hearted performance, 
Combining comedy, drama, short films, commentary, music, animation, and a highbrow sensibility, PBS’s 
Few shows in recent memory have been as visually and artistically creative as Pen Wards Adventure Time, so it’s only right that fans can snag 
And speaking of the current renaissance on Cartoon Network, you should also definitely pick up 
When a trained military dog is sent from Afghanistan to the U.S. and the family of his killed-in-action handler, the titular canine, 
As his latest big screen adventure hits and the current actor portraying him has voiced his desire to move on, now’s the prefect time for 
Time and distance have done little to make 1999’s television fantasy miniseries event 
I find her music disarmingly infectious and her live shows ridiculously energetic, and that’s all on display in her massive arena shows, captured on 
We’ll probably never get a Pirates Of The Caribbean TV series, so the closest we’ll come is the pirates a-plenty series 
Because the success of The Fault In Our Stars means that every thing that author John Green wrote will get a green light, his 
If you’d expect George Miller’s visually memorable Mad Max: Fury Road to have an equally eye-popping book packed with the film’s visual development artwork, your expectations would be met with 
While the film may have been DOA at the box office, there’s no denying that there’s enough Guillermo del Toro visual flair and attention to detail there to justify 
From their turn-of-the-20th century rise in power to their height of control in the 50s, 
In 1946, Salvador Dali and Walt Disney began collaborating on an animated film. Postwar difficulties at the Disney studio eventually derailed the project and it was shelved, but it was revived decades later by Walt’s nephew Roy. The story of its origins, development, and revival are detailed in 
A streamlined relaunch of the venerable franchise, 
Frank Zappa was bizarre. His music was bizarre. But both were eminently compelling. See for yourself in the newly-recovered 
Patience has been rewarded for fans of Hayao Miyazaki, as his brilliant animated classic 
A cult cult classic, 
Leave it to Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman to do for the spy genre what they did for superheroes in X-Men: First Class by injecting a bit of vim and vigor into their adaptation of 
There’s a special kind of joy to be found when cracking open and becoming invested in a book a part of you knew always should have existed but finally does. 
Celebrate America’s birthday with the most comprehensive restoration and stunning presentation of a musical classic with the high definition debut of 
Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy return with a brand new batch of short form hilarity with 
He still lives in a pineapple under the sea, but 
Every month brings a new clutch of iconic films given the high definition treatment by movie mavens at Criterion, with June’s must-have titles being Terry Gilliam’s 
Over the past year, Paramount has been providing a boon to coompletionist fans of beloved TV shows by releasing complete series megasets from their rather deep catalogue of classics. The latest programs to get the uber-massive treatment are 
Another month brings another sterling entry in Disney’s remastered and expanded Legacy Collection of soundtrack re-releases, with the latest being the film that out a creatively and financially shaky post-war Disney studio back in the black, 1950’s 
I do enough traveling that I’m always drowning in cords and desperate to find the perfect combination of cords to streamline my terribly complicated existence. Thankfully, Thinkgeek has a pair of nifty items that have now made their way into my travel bag. First is the 
Existing in the period between the departure of William Hanna & Joe Barbera and the short run from the legendary Chuck Jones, 
Chris Vance returns as the titular high-octane deliveryman in the second season of 
Liam Neeson further cements his reputation as a man not to be trifled with in 
Inspector Edmund Reid (Matthew Macfadyen) continues his struggle to tackle the seedy underworld of Edwardian Whitechapel in the 3rd season of 
Listen, I wouldn’t have pined for them, but both Tarsem Singh’s 
The folks at Mill Creek open up the Columbia vaults for another batch of reasonably-priced catalogue releases, with James Mason & Helen Mirren in 
Get your reality fix this weekend with a pair of powerful documentaries, the first of which is director Robert Kenner’s 
I was wholly unaware that Joan Rivers hosted her own syndicated daytime talk show in the late 60s out of New York City, so it was with keen interest that I dove into 
Promoting the then-recent It’s Hard album, 
Finally getting a proper official release from the band’s archive, 
It’s a slight, toss-off little comedy, but 
No one will ever mistake it for Citizen Kane, but there’s a certain affable charm to David Spade’s performance as the titular schlub searching for his parents in 
Even though outside success means that the days of Adam, Blake, and Ders are probably numbered, enjoy the merry misadventures of 
Mash together the world’s most famous cat & mouse combo with the globe-trotting adventurer Jonny Quest and you get the direct-to-video original feature 
Keep the kiddies occupied over the long summer holidays with Nickelodeon’s 3-disc 
I have been counting the days until the high definition 25th Anniversary edition of the 
If there’s one thing this gadget crazy future we currently live in has taught me, it’s how to tie a sailor’s knot. No. Scratch that. What I meant to say, is that it’s taught me that you can never have to many USB ports, and that’s where Thinkgeek’s ridiculous 
By the time we reach the third volume of 
About 5 years ago, I became aware that a documentary had been made about an artist I held dear to my heart – the underrated, underappreciated Harry Nilsson. I received a promo copy at the time, and found the documentary to be a comprehensive, enlightening overview of a brilliant artist beloved by friends and fans (including the likes of The Beatles) who happened to be a very flawed human being whose excess led to a far too early death. The doc floated around the festival circuit for the past few years, but 
I know a lot of you are probably waiting for next year’s Blu-Ray release of the entirety of season 4, but for those who can’t wait, 
It’s been almost a year since the Blu-Ray Ultimate Editions of the first two films were released, but the rather long wait has brought us the just-in-time for Deathly Hallows: Part 1 release of 
It’s been 6 years since their first textbook, America, but Jon Stewart and the writers behind The Daily Show return with their follow-up 
I didn’t think a film about Jack Kevorkian starring Al Pacino would be something I would watch, let along think was remarkably good, but 
Every few months like clockwork, I’m guaranteed that a delightfully fun read will land on my doorstep, for that is what the periodic arrival Charles Schulz’s masterpiece has become. We’re now up to 
Scholastic has opened up the vault and provided a pair of releases perfect for entertaining your kids on those dark, cold Fall & Winter nights. Seasonally, they’re releasing 
It’s awkward to think about all of the families he was creating while 
For anyone who feared that their favorite TV show, left partially-released on DVD, would never see those final seasons, Shout Factory has proven themselves a savior, as their latest batch of TV releases testifies – Titles like 
If you weren’t quick enough to grab the complete first season when it was available – or just want a cheaper alternative for a few episodes – the 4th volume of episodes from the first season of 
Try as they might, and as good as Jackie Earle Haley is in the role of Freddy Krueger, the remakagining of 
I am clearly not the audience for 
The visual style was based on the artwork of Charles Addams, so there’s plenty to be said for Hanna-Barbera’s take on 
I thought one sequel was pushing it, but the fact that we’re now on 
Seeking to make sense of over a month of madness, everyone’s favorite intensely opinionated comedian returns with 
A pair of classy shows make their way to high definition, with the highlight being the release of David Suchet as the titular detective in 
I personally can’t stand the man or his reality series, but there are plenty of fans out there who will probably dive right into the 
While it’s not the Blu-Ray editions that everyone (me included) was hoping for, the new special editions of the Back To The Future trilogy are worth a look see. The original 
I’ve got hundreds and hundreds of slides and negatives from years of pre-digital photo archives. That being the case, I’m always keen on new and easier ways to try and digitize this wealth of images – including a nifty slide/negative scanner that Thinkgeek offered, and I featured a few months back. Well, now they’ve gone and begun offering a newer, spiffier 
Another catalogue classic making its way to high definition is the director’s cut of 
Also hitting Blu-Ray is David Cronenberg’s surprisingly accessible 
Uber-curmudgeon Victor Meldrew returns in the 
It’s not quite as incisive as it could be, but Oliver Stone’s 
When all hell breaks loose in a small town, are you going to call the police? No. The FBI? No. The military? Of course not! Ninjas? THEY DON’T HAVE PHONES!! No, the person you’re going to call to sort it all out is B-movie legend Bruce Campbell – and that’s just what the small town of Gold Lick does in the fun little goof 
It’s certainly not their finest hour, but I sort of kind of dig the better aspects of 
It’s by no means a disaster, but it certainly would have been nice if Bernie Mac’s final film were better. 
The Blu-Ray catalogue express pulls up to the station with another carload full of titles, this time straight from Fox. Getting the high definition treatment are the much-requested 
It’s no Pixar, but there’s a simple pleasure to 
There’s nothing especially upsetting or horrific or even interesting about 
It’s not the best looking CGI animated flick, but my nephew certainly likes the off-kilter tale of 
Long before the lackluster Masters Of Horror, another anthology series sought out horror masters for a slightly better clutch of stories – 
It’s a saccharine, fluffy mess, but I’m sure there will be plenty of sales for the newly-arrived-in-high-definition 
It can be plodding, but Spike Lee’s 
No longer a full season set, fans will have to make do with only the first 19 episodes in 
If you want a crash course in pretentious cinema, look no further than the world-struck-blind-by-a-plague-and-devolves-into-chaos-but-Julianne-Moore-isn’t-blind 
They may be on the simple side, but that’s exactly what you’d hope when putting on one of the 4 DVDs (comprising 32 episodes) in the 
Shout Factory picks up the ball after Universal walked away following the release of the first season with 
We still don’t have the original 60’s series (I want it more than a hula hoop), but we get another Alvin & The Chipmunks themed episode collection, 
Yeah, I tried. Still don’t like 
The crew of the Planet Express return in the 2nd of the 4 direct-to-DVD adventures that manage the rare feat of resurrecting a show with not only the same level of quality of the original run, but above and beyond it. 
If you were to transplant Grosse Point Blank to Belgium, you’d wind up with 
If I have one disappointment with the soundtrack album to Pixar’s 
I’ve spoken many times of my Anglophilia, and my fascination with the oftimes bizarre and eccentric history of England. With that in mind, it’s understandable that I dug right in to 
The History Channel’s dramatic recreations of classic wartime aerial combat makes their high-flying return with the complete second season of 
I don’t know why exactly it is that it seems the bulk of today’s kiddie flicks compare unfavorably to the classics of yesteryear. Maybe it’s that manufactured sheen that it all seems to have – CGI is a sterile tool, and it adds a cold, uninvolved feeling to modern children’s films. Case in point is 
If I had a time machine, somewhere on “to do” list would be to travel back just a few short years to when people like Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg proclaimed 2-D animation a dead artform and slap them over the head with a copy of the film 
I’m all for goofy, well-written fun in kids shows, and 
Genre-bending shows are always a gamble on network television, as viewers are usually slow on the uptake and executives are quick to lower the axe. Occasionally, one slips through the cracks and is given some legs – such as 
Despite the hokey kitsch value the success of the Broadway musical version has brought it, 
If you were to take that early 90’s HBO staple Dream On and transport it to Showtime and reinvent it as an edgy dramedy about a sex and drug addicted author (David Duchovny), you’d have 
If you were to ask Roland Emmerich to remake Caveman, the result would be 
Ignore that abysmal Roland Emmerich flick, and delve into the real pre-history with