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Review by Mike Heronime

Nobody told me about this movie.  I never saw a trailer for it.  I never saw it listed in theaters.  No commercials.  No reviews.  Nothing.  The fact that a movie about the true story of physical evidence of alien life has somehow escaped my attention makes me think "possible conspiracy to conceal the truth."  Conspiracy or not, it's definitely a crime that this wildly entertaining movie isn't getting more props.

Alien Autopsy is the true story about two guys from England who come to the United States to try to make a fast buck.  They're chasing down vintage Elvis content to resell when they come across a guy with black and white film footage of an Elvis performance.  They buy the footage cheap and a little while later, the guy that sells them the footage comes back to them with another proposition.

So, one of the two friends goes with this guy to his Florida home to find out what he's got that is so great.  There he screens a film made by the guy while he was in the military during WWII.  It is a film of a government run alien autopsy.  Apparently, the military had acquired a dead alien in New Mexico (Roswell) and were cutting it open to learn more about it and they grabbed this guy because he was a military cameraman and had him shoot the whole thing.  Twelve copies of the film were made and as a result of typical government efficiency, he ends up in possession of one of the copies.  Now, (which in the movie is 1995) he wants to sell it to this British wheeler dealer for $30,000.

The Brit doesn't have the money so he borrows $30,000 from a Russian gangster who loves crop circles and is interested in acquiring a copy of the film.  The Brit does the deal and gets the film.  Only one problem.  Ever since they opened the film canister in Florida, the film has been deteriorating.  By the time the  Brit gets the film, it appears to be completely ruined.  He freaks because he is sure that the Russian is going to kill them.  So these two guys do the only thing they can do.  They get their friends together and stage an alien autopsy and film it.  The Russian falls for it.  The boys are in the clear.

That's when they get the bright idea to show the film to other people.  One thing leads to another and all of a sudden, their film is being watched and accepted as the real McCoy on television stations all over the world.  The whole time, they are on the brink of being exposed as frauds.  But somehow luck stays on their side throughout the whole ordeal.

This story is fascinating because it's true.  Hysterical because it's so crazy.  And entertaining because it's so surprising.  If you are one of the few people that have seen this movie, pat yourself on the back.  And tell a few more friends about it.  If you haven't seen it yet, do yourself a huge favor and go rent it tonight.  And if you know anything about this movie that everyone else should know, please leave a comment for the rest of us.

Review by Mike Heronime

When the last season of Lost ended, we couldn't figure out what we would do with our Wednesday nights so we decided to re-watch the last three seasons of Lost before tonight's premier of Season Four.  We watched a couple of episodes each Wednesday until we got to January and then mapped out how many episodes we had left before January 31st.  In January, we watched about 4 to 5 episodes each week.  Last night we watched the last two episodes of Season Three in our final preparation for Season Four's commencement (God, we sound like such dorks).

Like so many others, we have been captivated by the mystery of Lost.  With every new story thread it's easy to doubt that the creators of the show are following a central plot.  Or that they even know themselves what the answers are to their web of questions and puzzles.  It's not hard to believe that Lost's creators aren't even sure how this whole crazy thing is going to end yet.  And then, when you pour over the episodes again, you see how all these things are connected, even if you still don't know what they mean.

Near the end of Season Three, you start to imagine that you're so very close to learning the answers to the secrets of Lost.  Hanging out with the Others revealed so  much, but in typical Lost fashion, raised so many more questions.  And with a stroke of genius, they feed us a flash-forward which totally turns everything upside down again.  Then comes the promotions for Season Four.  "Lost is now Found," they say.  "All your questions will be answered," they promise.

Tonight's episode does what Abrams and Lindeloff and company have done so well for the last three seasons.  It convinces you that you know what everything means, and then Jack walks in on Hugo and Hugo apologizes, "I shoulda gone with you instead of Lock."  Whoosh!  What happened?  How did Hugo end up off the island if he went with Jack?  What's Charlie talking about?  Is Hugo crazy?  And if Jack's not crazy, what's Kate's problem?  The flash forwards are amazingly effective as story telling devices.  Maybe even more so then the flash backs.  That might be the biggest surprise yet.  Every season, nearly every episode, these guys rewrite the rule book, spin their story in a new direction, introduce new characters and new story threads, create new devices, and of course, new mysteries.

Tonight's season premier of Lost is just like all of the other episodes.  It's unexpected.  Exciting.  Perplexing.  Mesmerizing. And satisfying in it's ability to leave you wanting moe.  So much more.  Here's to a new season of Lost.