Website Archive, 1998-2016

These are the articles which appeared on the original incarnation of the website, from 1998-2016. I’m still battering these into a coherent format, updating internal links, images, etc. so these may be somewhat broken, or not go where they are supposed to. Browse at own risk, and don’t come crying to me if you somehow end up on the hellish, hand-crafted HTML version of the original content.

See also:
Articles by theme
Blog archive, 1997-2004

1998

The Trash City World Cup, Part 1 - June 10
The Trash City World Cup, Part 2 - June 11
The Trash City World Cup, Part 3 - June 14
The Trash City World Cup, Part 4 - June 20
The One Pound Fiftieth Element - July 24
What’s in that dark cloud overhead…? V98 review - August 26
That Damn Show - September 21
Flesh & Blood: Book One - October 10
Damp Squibs on Fireworks Night - November 7

1999

The name’s McLennan… James McLennan - April 18
Trash City Xmas Xuote Xuiz - December 17

2000

Incredibly Bad [Culture] Show - January 14
Incredibly Bad Film Show: Paradise - January 15
Incredibly Bad Film Show: Devil Fetus - February 17
Incredibly Bad Film Show: Lair of the White Worm - April 4
Porn Free - June 14
Gladiators, ready! - July 21
Incredibly Bad Film Show: Panther Squad - August 19
Incredibly Bad Film Show: Supergirl - August 20
War of the Robots: Robot Wars vs. Battlebots - September 20
Been There, Dome That - October 16
Bodies of Evidence - October 26
Incredibly Bad Film Show: Bug Buster - November 16
The Heroic Trio vs. Charlie’s Angels - December 16

2001

Incredibly Bad Film Show – Apocalypse Soon: Left Behind and The Omega Code - January 2
Radical Desire - January 12
Rage in the Cage XX - January 18
Incredibly Bad Film Show: The Story of Ricky - February 6
1st Phoenix Film Festival - February 20
Jim-Bob Goes to the Drive-In - March 10
Session Wrestling - March 15
Why PayPal Sucks - March 20
More on Why PayPal Sucks - March 20
Incredibly Bad Film Show: Knockout - April 6
Meet the Peeps - April 27
7th Los Angeles Film Festival - April 30
Summer Fun at the Multiplex - May 7
How I managed to piss off Jimmy Saville…or possibly Paul Merton - May 17
Have I Got ____ For ___ – The [Censored] Tapes - May 27
None Dare Call It… Conspiracy Con 2001 - June 1
Cereal Killers - July 11
A Semi-Demi-Quasi-Pseudo Autobiography - July 31
Death Becomes Her – Love, Death and the Internet (And Interesting Combinations Thereof) - September 3
Look Back in Ange…Apathy - September 13
Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Series) - October 29
Incredibly Bad Film Show: Battlefield Earth - December 6
When Good Directors… GO BAD!!! - December 16

2002

2001: Cinematic Hits and Misses – The Year We Didn’t Make Contact… - January 4
Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! The Joy of Jerry Springer - January 14
It’s the End of the World As We Know It… - March 12
2nd Phoenix Film Festival: AMC Arizona Center, April 5th-7th, 2002 - April 12
The Truth About… Conspiracy Con 2002 - June 1
In the Flesh: The infamous Body Worlds exhibition - August 7
How I Spent My Vacation, Part 1: Sex, Drugs and Clogs ‘n’ Grolsch - August 10
How I Spent My Vacation, Part 2: Drowning in Berlin - August 15
Against Copyright - August 31
How I Spent My Vacation, Part 3: The Hills Are Alive… - September 2
How I Spent My Vacation, Part 4: On a Swiss roll - September 16
Hooray for Hollywood - October 6
Incredibly Bad Film Show: 9 Deaths of the Ninja - November 6

2003

24: The First Season - January 2
2002: Cinematic Hits and Misses - January 22
It Came From Tokyo: Japanese Movie Posters - February 2
Impact Zone Wrestling: Invasion, February 2003 - February 9
Monsters, Inc. – The World of Very Large Vehicles - February 12
Impact Zone Wrestling: Assault, March 2003 - March 15
3rd Phoenix Film Festival - April 21
It’s a Baseball World After All… The growing global appeal of the US national sport - April 21
Web of Conspiracy Con 2003 - June 8
Raising Arizona Wilder - June 16
Burlesquefest 2003 - June 25
Incredibly Bad Film Show: Thunder and Mud - September 9
Independents’ Day: the other California recall candidates - October 21
HAARP-ing On - December 21

2004

2003: Cinematic Hits and Misses - January 8
Why Ticketmaster Sucks - January 18
Contemplating Suicide: The Suicide Girls Burlesque - January 23
Stomping Midgets - February 4
The Numbers Game - February 9
It Came From Tokyo 2 (Via Boston…) - February 14
Spike and Mike’s Sick & Twisted Animation Show: 1998-2004 - February 21
4th Phoenix Film Festival - April 7
Cauliflower Alley Club Reunion, 2004 - April 25
“It hurts – but only for a second” – High Impact Wrestling - September 13
2004: Cinematic Hits and Misses - December 29

2005

2004: Cinematic Hits and Misses - January 15
The Lance Catania Interview: searching for the Holy Grail of terror - October 12

2006

2005: Cinematic Hits and Misses - February 2
Anapola Muskadiz Interview - May 15
Mark Duffield interview - October 26

2007

2008

Twilight’s Last Gleaming - November 22
Incredibly Bad Film Show: Lifeforce - November 23
24: Redemption - November 24
Random thoughts from nowhere in particular - November 30
Repo! The Genetic Opera - December 6
Speed Kills: But It’s Extremely Profitable - December 8
TV Dinners: The Best TV of 2008 - December 14
Incredibly Bad Film Show: The Thing Below - December 27

2009

TC’s Ten Best Films of 1999-2015 - January 1
TC’s Ten Best Films of 2008 - January 4
In Praise of Narwhals - January 17
Incredibly Bad Film Show: The Terror of Tiny Town - January 25
The Death of Laserdisc - February 1
Who’s the Boss - February 9
Badass to the Bone - February 15
The Middle Ages: Sanitized for your Protection - March 9
Incredibly Bad Film Show: Talaash - March 21
The Days of Swine(Flu) and Roses - May 3
Incredibly Bad Film Show: Shock Treatment - May 19
Eye… Eye Who Have Nothing… - May 24
A Moving Experience - June 29
Incredibly Bad Film Show: The Mystical Adventures Of Billy Owens - July 19
Torchwood: Children of Earth - July 27
Is pro wrestling art? - August 31
Listen to the Band: The Charles Band Full Moon Horror Roadshow - October 5
Incredibly Bad Film Show: Swing Vote - October 18
Phoenix Fear Film Festival 3 – the ‘close, but no cigar’ movies - November 22
Incredibly Bad Film Show: Kinky Killers - November 22
The 10 Greatest Monty Python Sketches of All Time (plus one) - December 18
Avatar: or, Earth First – we can rape the other planets later - December 25
11 Hours in Middle-Earth: The Lord of the Rings marathon - December 27
The top 10 films of the 00’s - December 27

2010

Incredibly Bad TV Show: Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura - January 2
TC’s Ten Best Films of 2009 - January 30
Incredibly Bad Film Show: The Creeping Terror - February 18
The Art of the Remake - March 1
Wrestlemania 26: An eye-witness review - March 29
Going Home: A Temporary Return to Scotland - April 19
Spartacus: Blood and Sand – Xena for adults…? - April 19
Border-ing on the Surreal… - May 16
In Support of Ethical Piracy - July 19
One Missed Call: The TV Series - August 16
Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1954: The BBC TV adaptation - August 21
Torrenting. You’re Doing It Wrong - September 27
Google (not necessarily-so) Instant Search - October 2
TV Dinners: The Best TV of 2010 - October 30
The Rocky Horror Glee Show - November 1
Ten Years in the USA - November 28
Dead Channels: UK vs. US TV Zombies - December 7

2011

Incredibly Bad Film Show: Dr Who and the Daleks - January 3
TC’s Ten Best Films of 2010 - January 17
Uwe for Boll-ywood: The Competent (and other) Films of Uwe Boll - February 28
Thank you, Jessica Hahn - March 28
Forbrydelsen: Something rotten in the state of Denmark. And it’s good. - April 29
Kindle Surprise - May 24
Incredibly Bad Film Show: Blood Red Moon - June 27
Incredibly Bad Film Show: Final Detention - September 18
My Journey Into The Hell Of Amazon Customer Support - October 4
“You c—!” The Ten Best Cinematic Uses Of The Ultimate Taboo Word - November 7
TV Dinners: The Best TV of 2011 - November 25
Jason Halek, Website Vandal - December 22

2012

TC’s Ten Best Films of 2011 - January 1
Incredibly Bad Film Show: Los Canallas - January 3
Rammstein Live: Mein Herz Brennt - May 21
Tentacle Bento And The Futility of Censorship - May 21
Hitman: Absolution, and The Boy Who Cried “Rape!” - June 9
The Death Of Copyright - June 26
Revolting Cocks: Someone, somewhere, wake me up - July 16
Against Democracy - November 6
TV Dinners: The Best TV of 2012 - December 27

2013

TC’s Ten Best Films of 2012 - February 17
Incredibly Bad Film Show: Witchcraft X, Mistress of the Craft - September 16

2014

TC’s Ten Best Films of 2013 - January 6
Incredibly Bad Film Show: Rescue Force - March 6
Unlawful Killing – the Princess Diana conspiracy film - March 13
Kindle Surprise: Women, by Charles Bukowski - December 23

2015

Incredibly Bad Film Show: Manos, Hands of Fate - January 5
TC’s Ten Best Films of 2014 - January 27
Kindle Surprise: The Demon-Haunted World, by Carl Sagan - January 28
Kindle Surprise: Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens - March 2
Kindle Surprise: Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea, by Chelsea Handler - April 20
Kindle Surprise: Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier - May 18
The pros and cons of holiday cruises - November 15
Kindle Surprise: Little Bee, by Chris Cleave - November 16
Kindle Surprise: Perdido Street Station, by China Miéville - December 13
Kindle Surprise: God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, by Christopher Hitchens - December 26

2016

TC’s Ten Best Films of 2015 - February 6
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart - April 25
My quadrennial election rant - November 8