OCTOBER MOVIE CHALLENGE (10/25 - 10/26)

Challenge Totals to Date:

Movies Watched Today: 2
Total Movies Watched: 66
Total First Time Views: 17
Amount raised: $607.20 

 
Today's showcased SCARE-A-THON Charity:
 
ST. MARTIN DE PORRES’ HOUSE OF HOPE, sponsored by Sheila Ralston

To showcase your charity, send an email to drach101@gmail.com with your pledge amount and the charity's website!

OCTOBER MOVIE CHALLENGE (10/24)

Challenge Totals to Date:

Movies Watched Today: 1 (but it's a doozey)

Total Movies Watched: 64
Total First Time Views: 17
Amount raised: $588.80

Today's showcased SCARE-A-THON Charity:

YOU CARING - AMY THE DOG'S TRAINING, sponsored by Dawn "Sam" Alden

To showcase your charity, send an email to drach101@gmail.com with your pledge amount and the charity's website!

OCTOBER MOVIE CHALLENGE (10/23)

Challenge Totals to Date:

Movies Watched Today: 5
Total Movies Watched: 63
Total First Time Views: 16
Amount raised: $485.10

Today's showcased SCARE-A-THON Charity:

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, sponsored by Christine Thom and Whit Spurgeon

To showcase your charity, send an email to drach101@gmail.com with your pledge amount and the charity's website!

OCTOBER MOVIE CHALLENGE (10/22)

Challenge Totals to Date:

Movies Watched Today: 4
Total Movies Watched: 58
Total First Time Views: 13
Amount raised: $446.60

Today's showcased SCARE-A-THON Charity:

THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY, sponsored by John Pata

To showcase your charity, send an email to drach101@gmail.com with your pledge amount and the charity's website!

OCTOBER MOVIE CHALLENGE (10/21)

Challenge Totals to Date:

Movies Watched Today: 5
Total Movies Watched: 54
Total First Time Views: 13
Amount raised: $415.80

Today's showcased SCARE-A-THON Charity:

SEASCOUTS CHICAGO - SHIP 5111, sponsored by Drew Martin

(You can donate directly to their PayPal account by sending to purser@ship5111.org)

To showcase your charity, send an email to drach101@gmail.com with your pledge amount and the charity's website!

OCTOBER MOVIE CHALLENGE (10/20)

Challenge Totals to Date:

Movies Watched Today: 4
Total Movies Watched: 49
Total First Time Views: 13
Amount raised: $352.80

Today's showcased SCARE-A-THON Charity:

SMART – START MAKING A READER TODAY, sponsored by Patrick Mathewes

To showcase your charity, send an email to drach101@gmail.com with your pledge amount and the charity's website!

OCTOBER MOVIE CHALLENGE (10/18 - 10/19)

Challenge Totals to Date:

Movies Watched Today: 8
Total Movies Watched: 45
Total First Time Views: 10
Amount raised: $324.00

Today's showcased SCARE-A-THON Charity: 

DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS, sponsored by Kevin Theis and Siri Buurma


To showcase your charity, send an email to drach101@gmail.com with your pledge amount and the charity's website!

OCTOBER MOVIE CHALLENGE (10/17)

Challenge Totals to Date:

Movies Watched Today: 3
Total Movies Watched: 37
Total First Time Views: 10
Amount raised: $266.40

Today's showcased SCARE-A-THON Charity: 

LCC K9 COMFORT DOGS, sponsored by Mark Matzke


To showcase your charity, send an email to drach101@gmail.com with your pledge amount and the charity's website!

OCTOBER MOVIE CHALLENGE (10/15 – 10/16)

Challenge Totals to Date:

Movies Watched Today: 5
Total Movies Watched: 34
Total First Time Views: 9
Amount raised: $202.39

Today's showcased SCARE-A-THON Charity: 

THE INNOCENCE PROJECT, sponsored by Fawn Krisenthia

To showcase your charity, send an email to drach101@gmail.com with your pledge amount and the charity's website!

OCTOBER MOVIE CHALLENGE (10/13 – 10/14)

Challenge Totals to Date:

Movies Watched Today: 4 
Total Movies Watched: 29 
Total First Time Views: 5 
Amount raised: $143.55 

Today's showcased SCARE-A-THON Charity: 

ACT ONE ARTS INITIATIVE, sponsored by Becca M. Engle

To showcase your charity, send an email to drach101@gmail.com with your pledge amount and the charity's website!

OCTOBER MOVIE CHALLENGE (10/11 – 10/12)

Challenge Totals to Date:

Movies Watched Today: 12
Total Movies Watched: 25
Total First Time Views: 2
Amount raised: $123.75

Today's showcased SCARE-A-THON Charity:

UNITED WAY OF GREENBRIER VALLEY, sponsored by Sheila Ann Jordan

To showcase your charity, send an email to drach101@gmail.com with your pledge amount and the charity's website!

A special salute to the Music Box Theatre  and their Music Box of Horrors for their annual 24-hour cavalcade of mayhem and madness on the big screen, where fans are surrounded by other folks who GET IT. Congratulations on a decade of debauchery - looking forward to the next!

OCTOBER MOVIE CHALLENGE (10/9 - 10/10)

Challenge Totals to Date:

Movies Watched Today: 4
Total Movies Watched: 13
Total First Time Views: 2
Amount raised: $64.35

Today's showcased SCARE-A-THON Charity:

MO MONEY FOR PIGS, sponsored by April Atwood

To showcase your charity, send an email to drach101@gmail.com with your pledge amount and the charity's website!

OCTOBER MOVIE CHALLENGE (10/6 - 10/8)

Challenge Totals to Date:

Movies Watched Today: 3
Total Movies Watched: 9
First Time Views: 2
Amount raised: $43.65

Today's showcased SCARE-A-THON Charities:

GRAMEEN FOUNDATION, sponsored by Alan Ball

AND

THE FRIENDS OF CHILDREN, sponsored by Jeff Cummings

To showcase your charity, send an email to drach101@gmail.com with your pledge amount and the charity's website!

 

OCTOBER MOVIE CHALLENGE (10/4 - 10/5)

Challenge Totals to Date:

Movies Watched Today: 2
Total Movies Watched: 6
First Time Views: 1
Amount raised: $29.10

Today's showcased SCARE-A-THON Charities:

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY, sponsored by Christine Thom

AND

THE COMIC BOOK LEGAL DEFENSE FUND, sponsored by Whit Spurgeon

To showcase your charity, send an email to drach101@gmail.com with your pledge amount and the charity's website!

OCTOBER MOVIE CHALLENGE (10/2 - 10/3)

Challenge Totals to Date:

Movies Watched Today: 3
Total Movies Watched: 4
First Time Views: 1
Amount raised: $14.55

Today's showcased SCARE-A-THON Charities:

 TRILLIUM PERFORMING ARTS, sponsored by Sheila Jordan

AND

THE TIME COMMUNITY THEATER, sponsored by Gavin Schmitt

To showcase your charity, send an email to drach101@gmail.com with your pledge amount and the charity's website!

OCTOBER MOVIE CHALLENGE (10/1)

Challenge Totals to Date:

Movies Watched Today: 1
Total Movies Watched:1
First Time Views: 1
Amount raised: $4.85

Today's showcased SCARE-A-THON Charity: REACH COUNSELING, sponsored by John Pata

To showcase your charity, send an email to drach101@gmail.com with your pledge amount and the charity's website!

SCARE-A-THON 2014: PICK YOUR POISON

WELCOME TO SCARE-A-THON 2014!!!!!

It's that time of year again. After a brief sabbatical, the Doc is back at it, watching as many scary movies as possible during the month of October to raise funds and awareness for a charitable cause. In the past, we've raised thousands of dollars for Season of Concern, AmeriCares, and The Friends of Children. However, this year, I'm trying an experiment: Rather selecting the beneficiary of our efforts, it's up to YOU to choose where your hard-earned dollars go.

Whether it's a high-profile entity (American Cancer Society, ALS), a local support house for women and children, a favorite arts organization, animal rescue, or your friend's Kickstarter, here's that oft-needed push to do something good for someone else with no ribbons or ice bucket videos required. Plus, you will also be raising awareness about your particular cause, as I will be posting links to the organizations' respective websites right here on the daily H101 blog posts and as well as on Facebook.

My usual donation suggestion is 10 cents ($0.10) per film, but you can go as high or low as you like. For the price of a jumbo pack of Halloween candy, you can make a huge difference in someone's life.

Mmmmm, philanthropy tastes delicious...

Fool's Views (9/1 – 9/30)

"You don't think AC's losing his touch, do you? Oh, shhh, here he comes..."

Howdy, folks!

Yep, the whole month of September has come and gone with only 14 flickers taken in. Chalk it up to a hectic performance schedule and a renewed commitment to physical fitness – funny how when you’re putting in up to three hours sweating it out, there are fewer left in the day for the Views. Luckily, a number of DVD screeners, two platelet donation sessions, a group outing to the multiplex, the continued blessing that is Turner Classic Movies, the Kryptic Army, and a trickling of random flicks filled out the bill. That said, considering I’ve built up a head of steam for the upcoming October Challenge, I think it’s only right to have taken it a little easier this month – things are about to get keeeeeerazy up in here.

As always, feel free to leave your two cents worth – we’ll make sure you get some change back.

Enjoy!

LUCKY BASTARD (2014) DVD review

Lucky Bastard (2014) d. Robert Nathan (USA)

Fading porn producer and director Mike (Don McManus) runs the “Lucky Bastard” website, which arranges and records the sexual exploits of their devoted male fans with adult film professionals. Against her better judgment but in need of cash, sexy starlet Ashley St. Clair (Betsy Rue) is cajoled into pairing off with eager amateur “Dave G.” (Jay Paulson) for a bout of interweb wank material. Unfortunately, Dave turns out to be a little too eager both in and out of the bedroom – he surprises his co-star by revealing her real name and then prematurely loses the crew from his pink submarine. Emotions run high and devil-deals are made, all captured within the hidden-camera laden lair, but as the crime scene footage that opens the film makes clear, there is no “happy ending” in store for anyone.

PIECES OF TALENT (2014) movie review

Pieces of Talent (2014) d. Joe Stauffer (USA)

Charlotte (Kristi Ray) is an attractive twentysomething trapped in her small town, paying the rent by working as a waitress at the local titty bar as she dreams of a career as a film actress. Her drunken, chain-smoking mother (Barbara Weetman) living with her (not the other way around) demeans these fantasies, and given Charlotte's string of failed local independent auditions (her resume consists of “a few music videos”), it seems unlikely she will ever see her name in lights.

One night, the young would-be starlet strikes up a friendship with a bedraggled misfit photographer after he is beaten up for shooting inside the club. When he regains consciousness, David Long (played by “David Long,” a pseudonym for co-screenwriter Dustin Lewis) reveals that he is a filmmaker, and he thinks Charlotte would be perfect for his next project. We quickly learn, however, that David is a bona-fide wackjob whose idea of art has some nasty and twisted edges, the type that snag and rip and rend flesh from the bone.