The results of the 2011/2012 Weirdcademy Awards are in, and you, the weird movie voting public, have selected the following honorees as your favorites: Weirdest Short Film: “Snowballs,” dir. Harmony Korine. Weirdest Scene: The “rainbow pee” sequence from The Oregonian Weirdest Actor: Steve Little, The Catechism Cataclysm Weirdest Actress: Amy Groening, Father’s Day And… drum … Continue reading AND THE WINNER IS… →

You can still vote for the Weirdcademy Awards for one more week! (Since you can vote once every 24 hours, that gives you 7 chances to swing the vote). The races have turned into popularity polls, with partisans of various obscure films stuffing the ballot boxes for their candidates—but these are cult movies, and that’s … Continue reading WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE →

Don’t forget to vote in the Weirdcademy Awards poll. It’s been invaded by partisans of some of the more obscure films (partly at our request, it’s true). This is the opposite of the problem we expected, that the movies with better distribution would easily win over the lesser known movies. Father’s Day, Maximum Shame and … Continue reading WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE →

Don’t forget to vote for the Weirdcademy Awards!  Currently, surprise candidate Andy Lau (Detective Dee) is leading for Weirdest Actor; Leslie Pulsipher is rightfully running away with Weirdest Actress for being menaced by Muppets in The Oregonian; Melancholia‘s montage is barely beating The Oregonian‘s rainbow pee for Weirdest Scene; and The Tree of Life holds … Continue reading WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE →

Here’s what we got next week: we’ll report on the high-octane sci-fi racing anime Redline (2009), struggle with the question of whether every boomer’s favorite psychedelic nightmare kiddie movie Willa Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) is “weird” or not, and Alfred will down the second in his”Boris Karloff’s Final Six Pack” series with House of … Continue reading WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE →