Mystery Science Theater 3000 Pinball Peril (Based on Taito’s “Polar”) RELEASE DATE: September 8th, 2021 EMULATOR: Visual Pinball 10.6 or higher, PinMAME 3.3 or higher ARTIST(S): Mark Paulik (based on JPSalas’s “Polar” table) HARDWARE: Windows PC with an Intel i5 Quad-Core processor with a Nvidia GTX 960 or higher graphicsContinue Reading
It’s nearly Thanksgiving and we’re doing something only a couple of websites have done: watch every episode of “Mystery Science Theater 3000” (dubbed “MST3K” for short) and rank each one. I’d love to sit here and pontificate about the show’s history and how great it was…but 1) you’ve heard itContinue Reading
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 Season 12, Episode 6 “Ator, the Fighting Eagle” Available on Netflix GRADE: A- If Cave Dwellers (AKA Ator, the Invincible) taught us anything, it’s that nothing much matters in an Ator film. He can beat John Saxon bearing two swords or none. He can defeat giantContinue Reading
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 Season 12, Episode 5 “Killer Fish” Available on Netflix GRADE: C+ A bunch of thieves steal jewels and then dump the loot into a lake to collect 2 months later after the fuzz gives up their search. To make sure nobody within the crew double-crosses eachContinue Reading
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 Season 12, Episode 4 “The Day Time Ended” Available on Netflix GRADE: A- WARNING: This review contains spoilers about a surprise guest star. If you don’t want to have this spoiled for you, leave now. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. From producer Charles Band comes…whatever theContinue Reading
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 Season 12, Episode 3 “Lords of the Deep” Available on Netflix GRADE: B+ Lords of the Deep was one of about a half dozen “underwater adventure” movies that came out at virtually the same time. The series of films saw either saw human beings plagued byContinue Reading
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 Season 12, Episode 2 “Atlantic Rim” Available on Netflix GRADE: B+ The Asylum is clearly trolling. They’ve taken hits for their trolling. Yet, they have a following. These are the guys who produced all the Sharknado films we’ve come to know and…accept, I guess. They’ve alsoContinue Reading
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 Season 12, Episode 1 “Mac and Me” Available on Netflix GRADE: A When Mystery Science Theater 3000 returned with 14 new episodes in 2017, fans were overjoyed but cautious. Even with the words, “THE RETURN” tacked on to the title of the show, was it trulyContinue Reading
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 Season 11, Episode 9 “Yongary” Available on Netflix GRADE: A When you think “Kaiju”, you don’t think of the UK or Denmark…hell, even South Korea seems unlikely because North Korea would just launch a bunch of missiles at the ocean in retaliation. But, we got “Gorgo”Continue Reading
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 Season 11, Episode 8 “The Loves of Hercules” Available on Netflix GRADE: D+ Like your Hercules films with sumptuous, lavish visuals? Yes? How ’bout if they added in some Jayne Mansfield? All right…we’re doing good so far! What if we threw in Jayne Mansfield’s dopey then-husbandContinue Reading