Musical Montage: Dr. Lucien Sanchez “One Track Lover”
2004’s Garth Merenghi’s Darkplace was full of brilliant and hilariously weird sequences but one of the best occured in the sixth and final episode when the episode turns into an 80s music video for the synth jam “One Track Lover”.
Up to Speed: Silicon Valley Season 6
The sixth and final season of Silicon Valley starts tonight (10/27) on HBO and HBO has a recap of Season 5 to get you back Up to Speed on what happened to the Pied Piper gang last season.
Musical Montage: Weird Al “Spy Hard”
Channeling classic Bond themes like Thunderball, Weird Al delivered the title track and opening sequence to 1996’s spy spoof, Spy Hard.
Musical Montage: Eminem “Without Me”
Channeling comic books and parodying TV and pop culture, “Without Me” is one of the most memorable music videos by Eminem and arguably his biggest hit of all time.
Movie of the Month: Last Action Hero
Celebrating it’s 25th anniversary this month, the Everything Action crew is watching the insanely meta Arnold Schwarzenegger classic Last Action Hero for this month’s movie commentary.
Action Hero of the Week: MacGruber
Simultaneously America’s greatest and worst special agent, the legendary MacGruber returns from his faked death to stop international terrorist Dieter Von Cunth from detonating a stolen nuclear warhead.
Musical Montage: Foo Fighters “Everlong”
One of the Foo Fighters’ signature songs, Everlong featured a music video by director Michel Gondry that paid homage/parodied the Evil Dead movies as Dave Grohl and drummer Taylor Hawkins both have Sam Raimiesque nightmares.
Musical Montage: Bob Rivers “I Am Santa Claus”
Prolific Pacific Northwest DJ Bob Rivers specialized in parody songs during his decades long career and he specifically put out five albums of Christmas parody songs, one of which featured the Black Sabbath spoofing “I Am Santa Claus”.