Stupid For Movies is a weekly live streamed web show airing on Ustream every Thursday at 8 PM PDT. Created by Mike Rotman (Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show, Politically Incorrect With Bill Maher), the show is hosted by LA Film critics Mark Keizer and Wade Major (IGN’s The Digigods). Each week Keizer and Major discuss the best and worst in movies, including reviewing the latest movies to hit the theater, recommending DVDs to “Buy, Rent or Burn”, and talk news with special anchor Chad Vader.
Rotman was kind enough to invite myself and my photographer (AKA: boyfriend), Stuart, down to the Streamin’ Garage studio, named for the fact that it literally is a converted garage, to view an episode taping. Though the show does run live, episodes of the show are then converted and uploaded to blip.tv (a job Rotman does himself, a bit of which we witnessed as we spent some time with him post-show).
We were greeted with offerings of wine, cheese, and pizza. They were short wine glasses, so Stuart had his in a glass with a stripper emblazoned across the front of it. “We have a different food each week,” explained Rotman. “Jaime (Fox, head writer on Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show) brought pizza this week. I’ve made chili, we’ve done pasta. I’m vegetarian, so we stay vegetarian.” The secret to his vegetarian chili is Morning Star Farm Crumbles, by the way.
We were then ushered into a modestly-sized yet perfectly dressed studio, where hosts Keizer and Major were already getting into makeup and wired up for sound. “I came from television so I try to do a division of power so that everything works and it’s not just everyone running around,” said Rotman of the impressively run set. “Everybody knows what they’re doing. But as we add more shows, we’ll all get to try out different things. That’s the hope. So that everyone can be creative and help come up with the shows.”
