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Rerun THE LAST BROADCAST By Chris La Vigna ( @Chris_LaVigna ) Filmmaker David Leigh (David Beard) is our narrator of questionable reliability in THE LAST BROADCAST... The tropes and visual language of found footage and mockumentary films have long surpassed being seen as simple gimmicks, and have evolved into being considered their own subgenres, and rightfully so. We’ve seen countless films use the stylized look of found footage—The amateur handheld camera work, the jump cuts and naturalistic dialogue-- to effectively deliver scares. From THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and CLOVERFIELD to the PARANORMAL ACTIVITY and V/H/S series, it’s come a long way. And when it comes to mockumentaries or pseudo-docs, the appeal isn’t even just limited to horror genre; two of the most beloved comedy series on TV in recent years, THE OFFICE and PARKS AND RECREATION, used the conceit of a documentary crew filming their main characters to create a sense of intimacy with their viewe...

You Should Be Watching YOUR PRETTY FACE IS GOING TO HELL By Chris La Vigna ( @Chris_LaVigna) Slacker demon Gary Bunda (Henry Zebrowski) and his co-worker Ben (Ben Bladon) are doin' a Party Hole thang. You wouldn't understand. Life is Hell, right? That’s a sentiment we can all generally get behind, especially when it comes to our jobs, which seem to consume the majority of our existence on Earth. Well, what if the afterlife proved to be just as monotonous, mind-numbing, and (literally) soul crushing as your office job, with all those co-workers you hate and that supervisor that pisses all over you? That’s the premise of the Adult Swim show YOUR PRETTY FACE IS GOING TO HELL, a workplace comedy about demons working in the pits of Hades, taking Satan’s orders to get more souls. The show wrapped its fourth season in early 2019, and in the interest of promoting it to get it some more eyeballs and possibly help secure a fifth season, allow me to dive into all the...