Charisma Carpenter

Voodoo Moon
$14.98
Voodoo Moon (Kevin Van Hook, 2005)

Oh, why do I never learn? I should check the directors on movies before I watch them. This is my fourth Kevin VanHook movie, and each time I subject myself to another one, I ask myself why in the world I would do such a stupid thing. VanHook is the American equivalent of Uwe Boll, but without the in-place settings Boll gets from the videogames he desecrates when making them into movies. Which, arguably, makes VanHook's movies even stupider. And while Voodoo Moon is the best of the four VanHook movies I've seen, it's still an execrable mess of a movie that should never have seen the light of day.

The movie centers around Cole (Resident Evil's Eric Mabius) and his sister Heather (Charisma Carpenter of TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer), the only survivors of the destruction of the town where they were born by a... warlock? demon? depends on which summary you read. In any case, the bad guy, Daniel (Rik Young of that really bad Beowulf adaptation) is still around, and Cole has been battling him over the ensuing twenty years while Heather has been growing up and trying to make her way as an artist. The final battle approaches, however, and Cole enlists Heather's help, along with that of a number of other people he's helped against Daniel over the years--a cop (Jeffrey Combs), a biker (John Amos), a housewife (Jayne Heitmeyer), a hotel owner (Dee Wallace), and some others whose careers we never find out, in order to make sure Daniel stays put once and for all. In order to do that, they all need to convene on the ruins of the town where it all began--which lay deserted until the county decided to make a reservoir out of it.

I can usually find one aspect of a particularly bad movie that makes it worse than it would otherwise be, even when the movie didn't have any potential in the first place, and in the case of Voodoo Moon, it's the acting. Mabius is flat as a board. Carpenter shows a good part of the reason why both Buffy and Angel were such terrible shows. Wallace sounds as if she's on Xanax throughout the entire film. Combs, well, Combs has always been popular because he's such a bad actor that he usually transcends that and achieves a kind of mentally-deficient brilliance, but not here (though he does provided some much-needed, if unintentional, comic relief). The only half-decent actor here is Amos, and it seems as if VanHook was standing over his shoulder every time the camera wasn't rolling giving him lessons in overacting.

This is not to say that other aspects of the film are any better. The script is hideous, taking dribs and drabs from a number of other flicks that were overused even when they appeared in those other flicks. (Did we really need another ghostly chase through a New Orleans graveyard?) VanHook's direction is as uninspired as ever, though at least the subject matter isn't as tremendously stupid as it was in, for example, Slayers. The settings are stock, the events are stock, it's all just derivative tripe. Avoid like the plague. *

Josh Kirby...Time Warrior: Planet of the Dino Knights
$3.98
The "Josh Kirby...Time Warrior" series is made for teens, but amusing for adults who enjoy bad movies. This is the first part of a series which finds fourteen year old Josh traveling through space with a crazy old scientist, Irwin 1138, and his plastic companion, Prism, who has fiber optic hair which glows any time they are near a part of the nullifier. What's the nullifier? It's a machine that can destroy the universe; since its parts are hidden in six different times, Josh, Irwin, Prism, and Azabeth Siege (a.k.a. the love interest) fly hither and yon trying to find the pieces before the evil Dr. Zoetrope can.

This episode happens to take them to eleventh century England, where the protagonists ally themselves with a blacksmith against an evil prince who has a tyrannosaurus rex to aid in his domination. (Seriously.) Fortunately Josh is able to lure a triceratops to the village with apples where he is able to saddle it and ride it into battle, foreshadowing the next episode, which is, sadly, sold separately.

This is a completely ridiculous series, but is amusing in the same way "Land of the Lost" is: anything combining time travel, spacecraft, dinosaurs, an evil prince, a renaissance fair, and an incinerated bicycle has to have some entertainment value, and this does if you watch it with the right mindset.

See Jane Date
$6.99
I bought this DVD because I am a fan of Charisma Carpenter. However the picture quality was not good and I wasn't sufficiently involved in the drama. This DVD is no more than an inoffensive distraction for a quiet sunday afternoon.......

Playboy Magazine June 2004 Charisma Carpenter ("The Angel Star" Sheds Her Wings And Her Cloths)
$65.85
Excellent issue was the sentimental issue released when I graduated High school!

This issue celebrates there Playmate of the Year,Carmella Decesare.an exotic brunette who was a favorite of many of my friends.
Hiromi Oshima,the busty asian model,is Miss June,and remained a favorite for years(HOT!)
The real draw is Charisma Carpenter from the Tv series,"Angel" who is a gorgeous babe with an incredible body shown off to full effcet in this excellent pictorial.
Both of her loveliest sides are shown to there FULL effect,and I must say,she certainly does not disapoint!
What a babe!

God,I love this magazine.