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Surge of Power: Revenge of the Sequel
USA 2016
produced by Vincent J. Roth, Antonio Lexerot, Victor Stone for Lexerot Entertainment
directed by Antonio Lexerot
starring Vincent J. Roth, John Venturini, Eric Roberts, Nichelle Nichols, Robert Picardo, Mariann Gavelo, Michael Diamond, Sean Rogers, Linda Blair, Gil Gerard, Frank Marino, Antonio Lexerot, Joshua Carlson, Jack Larson, Noel Neill, Shannon Farnon, Reb Brown, Detria Qtpye Baker, Lou Ferrigno, Eric M. Cooper, Carl Ciarfalio, Joseph Culp, Michael Gray, Alex Hyde-White, Eric Allan Kramer, Jay Krymis, Jesse Garon, Justin Kurtis, Eric Moran, John Newton, Kristian Norberg, Dan Poole, Mike Hicks, Mitchell Johnson, Douglas 'Lefty' Leferovich, Murray SawChuck, Vasily Shepelin, Rishi Shukla, Rex Smith, Victor Stone, David Tapia, Larry Thomas, Rebecca Staab, Jay Underwood, Andre Vassilenko, Adrian Velazquez, Brandon West, Stephen Wong, Bruce Vilanch, and as themselves: Tony Arias, Karan Ashley, George Balgan, Little Bear, Rita Bliss, Nicholas Brendon, Derek David, Ken Davitian, Antonio Drijas, Deborah Dutch, Colin Fallesen, Fenella Fielding, Kathy Garver, David Gillentine, Oscar Goodman, Richard Hatch, Rebecca Holden, Herbert Jefferson jr, Alonzo 'Turf' Jones, Kato Kaelin, Sean Kenney, Walter Koenig, Murray Langston, Lillian Lobb, Lou Mastrangelo, Mary Mastrangelo, Paul McGann, Eddie Mekka, Mark Hall Patton, Jeff Rector, Sam Renke, Chris Saldana, Charlie Schlatter, Geoff Schumacher, Frank Scinta, Tim Searcy, Marina Sirtis, Austin St. John, Austin Stoker, Heidi Thompson, Dawn Wells, Francine York, Lloyd Ziel
story by Vincent J. Roth, screenplay by Vincent J. Roth, John Venturini, Antonio Lexerot, music by Ken Fix
Surge of Power
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Metal Master (John Venturini), main nemesis of Surge (Vincent J. Roth),
gay superhero of Big City, is out of jail, and on a mission to walk the
straight and narrow, which includes getting on the good side of his
parents (Linda Blair, Gil Gerard) again, who could never fully forgive his
gay lifestyle (or life of crime), and making up with his childhood friend
Surge - but somehow that's all thrown out of the window when he stumbles
upon supervillain Augur (Eric Roberts), who happens to need a henchman
with Metal Man's magnetic powers as he's to mine him some Celine-Dionium,
the rarest mineral of them all, and he supplies him with all sorts of
devices to deceive Surge, too. But Surge is not one easily deceived, and
with a bunch of new friends (Mariann Gavelo, Sean Rogers, Michael
Diamond), he has soon found out about Metal Master's scheme, and star
female impersonator Frank Marino tells him he has to microwave the
Celine-Dionium to make it worthless - which is of course easier said than
done and almost destroys the Boulder Dam, but Surge has defeated Metal
Master before, so he figures he's up to the task. Augur however is a
supervillain much more powerful ...
Nichelle Nichols and Robert Picardo play the female and male forms of
Surge's mentor. Also, this were the final acting roles of Noel Neill and
Jack Larson, who played Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen on the 1950's Adventures
of Superman TV show.
Now this movie is pretty much a superhero comicbook fan's dream come to
life, not only for its many many guest stars from the scene - most of whom
have at least one punchline - but also as its makers understand superhero
comics rather intimately, much more so than all the overblown big budget
Hollywood adaptations with their mock seriousness, as this movie is
colourful, exaggerates wildly, is intentionally campy, funny in all the
right places, spiked with some rather well-conceived effects, and it has
just the right devil-may-care attitude. And somehow (maybe for all of the
above reasons), the gay theme works very well within the context of the
movie, to ultimately raise the question: Why are not more (mainstream)
superheroes gay?
Anyways, if you like your superheroes on the funny side, this one's for
you!
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Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to -
a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle,
all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to
the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
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