Now I may be dating myself a little bit here but if any of you were around during the second season of The Real World which took place in Los Angeles you might remember this scene.

By the way, that season to me was the best one ever.   It included Aaron and Dominic and that psycho country boy John.   And of course there was David, the comedian, and Tammy, who later married an NBA player Kenny Anderson.

Anyway, this is probably the funniest moment from that show.  It’s when David was ripping Tammy’s clothes off and at first she was laughing but then comes raging into his room and screams out “It wasn’t not funny!”

This is one of the first times I’ll ever recommend a movie that I fully admit I don’t really like.  I mean if you flat out ask me if this is a good movie I’ll will 100% of the time tell you “no.”   And yet it’s one of those movies that I’ll leave on if there’s nothing else on TV.   Usually in those scenarios I leave on movies like Weird Science or Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.  But Empire?  It’s not even good!  Yet I think you need to see it.

This is a typical John Leguizamo later in his career movie.   In fact I don’t even think this movie made it to the theaters.  Might have been made for HBO.   In short,  A successful South Bronx drug dealer (Leguizamo)  turns his back on his roots and gives money to a Wall Street broker to invest for him.

Unfortunately the broker isn’t exactly who he thought it would be.   Then, drama or should I say hilarity ensues.   The banker is played by Peter Sarsgaard and Denise Richards is in this film as well.   Like I said.  It’s really not good but it’s worth a watch.

A trailer  after the jump…..

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I first saw Edward Hermann in the movie Overboard as a rich snob who played husband to Goldie Hawn.   I was amazed at how much I couldn’t stand him but knew that he was a memorable face.  Of course you guys might remember Edward in the movie The Lost Boys where he played the head Vampire.

All tolled, Hermann has 118 credits on IMDB so the guy definitely deserves a spot on our website.   For the last 5 years or so Hermann’s mostly appeared in TV movies as well as bit parts on television shows.

But here’s to remembering his work in the 80s.  Edward, you rocked back then.  A clip of Hermann after the jump….

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As you know we’re tremendously big fans of Dexter on this website.  And while I think this season was probably the most disappointing, the show always makes up for it in the end.   And now at least we’re set up for what appears to be an amazing unraveling next 1-2 seasons.

But frankly, Season 4 will always take the cake as far as finales go.  Seriously, I still get goosebumps watching this moment.  It’s been about a year since I’ve seen it and I’m pretty sure it’ll get me every single time.

In fact I’ll go as far to say this may have been the best finale of any show ever.   Yup, I said it.

For the life of me I have no idea why I like the movie Hangin’ with the Homeboys so much.  Maybe it’s because Mario Joyner wears a crazy red trench coat.  Maybe it’s because it was way before John Leguizamo really annoyed me.   Maybe because it’s a simple movie based in New York City.  For whatever reason though, I think you should take the time to so it.

Put simply, two African-Americans and two Puerto-Ricans (though one pretends to be Italian) go out on the town on a Friday night.  They will be forced to get to know each other, and even worse, learn to like each other as friends.

Bottom line.  This is a dumb movie.  It’s completely stupid.  Yet it’s completely entertaining and worth watching if you wind up seeing the same crap over and over on your movie channels.  Take it for a spin.  You got nothing to lose.

A dumb scene after the jump

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I feel like it’s been a very long time since Christian Slater has been in the spotlight.  Save for some voice overs when’s the last time you really saw this guy in a significant role?  It’s funny because looking at is IMDB profile he’s got plenty of stuff in post production but I don’t think any of these will be major movies.

I mean he was on The Office in 2010.  And he was the star of Hollow Man II!  Seriously though I think he last major movie was Very Bad Things which was in 1998.   Wow.  Could that be true?  14 years?  I sure hope not.   I kind of miss him.

Anyway, I want to bring up a classic flick he was in a while back called Gleaming the Cube.  It’s a skater movie from the late 90s with the following storyline:

Brian’s adopted brother is killed when he discovers that the shop he works in sends weapons to Vietnam instead of medications. To the police it looks like suicide, but Brian knows better so he skates off to investigate the murder himself.

Eh, it’s a fun movie.  Check it out.  Trailer after the jump….

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Remember that bumbling lawyer from the movie My Cousin Vinny who could barely utter a word to the jury?  That’s Austin Pendleton.   Pendleton is the perfect actor if you need some guy that has this weird, goofy undertone to him.   He always plays these characters that both creep you out and make you laugh at the same time.

I’m not sure how else to explain it.    Austin had a pretty good movie run from the late 80s up through the year 2000.  Now he does mostly small spots on television and the occasional voice over or two.

But most of us all know him from My Cousin Vinny.   Anyway, I just wanted Austin to know that we dig his work.  And with over 120 credits to his name, others obviously appreciate him as well.

A clip of Austin after the jump

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Before there was Jersey Shore and before the absolute tornado of reality crap came onto the scene, there were bits of reality TV that were absolutely hilarious on MTV.   Take for example the series “Sex in the 90s.”  Anyone remember that?

Well for all you youngsters out there, MTV did a segment that featured these two totally trashy guys from….most likely New Jersey or Staten Island and they were called the “Dog Brothers.”  Essentially they were guido types who would harass women and get laid a lot.   The even had a car called the Sin Bin.

Bottom line?  They were awesome.   If you haven’t seen this clip then you’re in for a treat.

I’m so amazed that I haven’t put this movie up here until now.   Fact is, I completely forgot about it.  It’s not that I even forgot about the movie, it’s more the name, Real Men.  You’d think it was a TV show or something.   Anyway, this was one of my favorite “dumb” movies as a kid and I highly recommend you all take a peek at it if only for the performance of John Ritter.  He’s great in it.  Anyway, here’s how the movie goes down:

A womanizing CIA agent and an insecure insurance agent are paired together to make sure a deal goes through with aliens for the future of mankind.  Basically,  James Belushi is the CIA agent and finds Ritter who is a bumbling working man.  Essentially he kind of uses Ritter as a decoy of sorts or what ever the hell it is.  I have no idea.  I just remember the movie is very very funny.

Trust me guys.   Check out the trailer after the jump….

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Here is yet another actor who unfortunately passed away that we never got a chance to put on this website.  His name is Maury Chaykin.   You surely will recognize him.  Maury always played a somewhat heavy set type of a guy who was either one of two things:  either really nice or really mean.   He had that kind of a face.

But Maury usually nailed all the roles he was in.  In particular I liked him as the bad guy in Twins (a pretty small part) and his role as a lawyer in Mystery Alaska.   He was a solid character actor and it’s too bad in 2010 he passed at only the age of 61.

Let’s check out a clip of Chaykin after the jump….

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