Repost: Alien (April 18th at the Capitol Theatre)

[ALIEN screens Saturday April 18th at midnight at the Capitol Theatre.]

Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.

The CWRU Film Society reviving the original ALIEN cues - owww! - flashbacks to my college film society back at Syracuse University. Yes, I went to college out of state; it didn't help in the job market after all, if you were wondering.

Back in my undergrad days seemed like the Syracuse University student film society practically played ALIEN as often as they could. Typically in heavy rotation with whatever else was deemed college-cool in the 1980s, usually stuff scrounged up from the catalog of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Werner Herzog. The hipster programmers did enjoy the gory and the grotesque.

Alien (April 4th at the CWRU Film Society, Strosacker Auditorium)

[ALIEN screens  Friday April 4th at 7:00pm, 9:30 pm, and midnight at the CWRU Film Society, Strosacker Auditorium.]

Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.

The CWRU Film Society reviving the original ALIEN cues - owww! - flashbacks to my college film society back at Syracuse University. Yes, I went to college out of state; it didn't help in the job market after all, if you were wondering.

Back in my undergrad days seemed like the Syracuse University student film society practically played ALIEN as often as they could. Typically in heavy rotation with whatever else was deemed college-cool in the 1980s, usually stuff scrounged up from the catalog of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Werner Herzog. The hipster programmers did enjoy the gory and the grotesque.

Reading Roundup: 'Damn Right I'm From Cleveland' and 'Alien: The Illustrated Story'

Reviews by Bob Ignizio

Damn Right I'm From Cleveland by Mike Polk Jr. (Gray & Company Publishers)

If you're going to live in Cleveland, you might as well have a sense of humor about it. Comedian Mike Polk Jr. certainly does. He's the guy responsible for those “Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism” videos. He's also the author of one of the finest pieces of bathroom reading material to come out in 2012, Damn Right I'm From Cleveland. I don't mean that as an insult; as Polk himself readily admits, this is barely a real book. It's basically just a collection of short essays and cheap visual gags tailor made for reading a few pages at a time.